Baseball Recap: Hernando Sets Scoring Season-High Against Southaven

Tigers

Team Score (Highest)

03/28/25 @ Southaven	17
03/18/25 vs Horn Lake	15
03/01/25 @ Tupelo	12
03/21/25 @ Horn Lake	11
03/25/25 vs Southaven	10

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hernando). They never let the Southaven Chargers get on the board and left with a 17-0 victory on Friday. The Tigers' pitching crew has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a run in their last four matchups.

Brannan Overstreet made a big impact while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he struck out seven batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Those seven strikeouts gave him a new career-high. He was also big at the plate, going 1-for-3 with one triple and two RBI. That triple marked the first that he hit this season.

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Preston Johnson, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in RBI (three). Another player making a difference was Axton Westmoreland, who scored two runs while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.

Hernando always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .583. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.

Hernando's win was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-7-1. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.6 runs on average over those games. As for Southaven, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 3-12.

Coming up, Hernando will face off against Collinsville at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. As for Southaven, they will be playing in front of their home fans against Evangelical Christian at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Southaven's pitchers better be ready for this one: Evangelical Christian has averaged an impressive 6.5 runs per game this season.