The Carmi-White County baseball and softball teams defeated Edwards County on the road yesterday, baseball winning 5-4 and softball winning 21-7.
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the 1st inning after an RBI Sac Fly by Merick Millhorn, scoring Travor Mason.
Edwards County answered with 3 in the bottom of the 2nd inning, putting the Lions ahead 3-1.
EC held that lead until the top of the 5th inning when Mason tripled down the right field line, scoring Landon Driscoll and getting the Dogs within 1.
Carmi was able to tie the game in the top of the 6th inning on a solo home run by Caleb Seibers, his 3rd of the season.
It was all knotted up at 3-3 heading into the top of the 7th inning, but an RBI double by Mason and an RBI single by Cade Allen put the Bulldogs ahead 5-3 heading into the bottom of the 7th.
The Lions answered with a solo home run to lead off the 7th to cut the Bulldog lead to 5-4, but with the tying run on 1st base, Mason was able to strike out the side to clinch the win for the maroon and white.
At the plate,
Travor Mason went 3-4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored.
Cade Allen went 3-4 with an RBI.
Caleb Seibers went 2-4 with an RBI, a run scored and a home run (3).
Zack Roark went 1-3 with a run scored.
Roark pitched 6 innings, allowing 4 runs on 8 hits while striking out 5.
Mason earned the save, allowing 0 runs on 1 hit with 1 strikeout.
The Bulldogs sweep the Lions on the season, improving their record to 6-10 and 3-3 in the BDC East. CWC will travel to Vienna on Saturday for a doubleheader against the Eagles and Anna-Jonesboro.
For the Lady Bulldogs, they picked up a 21-7 win over their former head coach, Chris Shelton and the Lady Lions.
The bats were hot for CWC from start to finish. The Lady Dogs scored 4 in the top of the 1st inning, 2 in the 2nd, 4 in the 4th, 2 in the 5th, 4 in the 6th and 5 in the 7th.
Carmi totalled 18 hits on the afternoon and despite Edwards County picking up 7 runs and 8 hits off of Audrey Upton, including 3 home runs, the Lady Buldog offense did more than enough to win the slugfest.
At the plate,
Audrey Upton went 4-6 with 2 RBI, a solo home run (3) and 4 runs scored.
Addi Elliott went 2-3 with an RBI and 3 runs scored.
Kassi Milligan went 3-5 with 3 RBI, a solo home run (1) and 4 runs scored.
Alayna Johnson went 1-4 with 2 runs scored.
Mara Serafini went 5-5 with 5 RBI, a solo home run (2), and 3 runs scored.
Caroline Simmons went 2-5 with a run scored.
Mia Evans went 1-5 with an RBI and a run scored.
Kadie Simmons and Alexa Knight both scored runs in the win.
The Lady Bulldogs improve to 9-6 on the year and 5-1 in the BDC East.
They will host Mt. Vernon on Monday before traveling to Eldorado on Tuesday.
