LONDON — Darren McWhorter’s North Laurel Jaguars ran their win streak to three games on Tuesday with a 6-0 shutout win over Southwestern.
The Jaguars (5-2) have outscored their opponents, 19-4 during their recent win streak.
North Laurel received solid pitching efforts from both Blaize Jones, and EJ Allen with the duo combining to scatter six hits.
Jones got the win, tossing four innings while allowing four hits, and striking out five batters. Allen pitched the final two innings, allowing only two hits while striking out two batters.
“We have been playing well the last few games, knock on wood, hopefully we can keep it going the rest of the week and carry that into spring break,” McWhorter said. “Blaize Jones and EJ Allen combined for the shut out. We had 10 hits on the night, but we weren’t able to put anything together early.
“It was a one-run game until the fifth, and we put a big inning together scoring five runs,” he added. “I’m proud of the they this team has been playing.”
North Laurel pushed across a run in the second inning to take a 1-0 lead before adding five insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to out the game away.
Walt Hellard led the way at the plate for North Laurel, finishing with a hit, and three RBI. Chase Keen had two hits, an RBI, and a run scored while Corey Broughton finished with two hits, and a run scored. J. Douglas Gilliam delivered two hits, and scored once while Allen had a hit, an RBI, and one run scored. Andrew Cupp also delivered a run-scoring hit. Noah Rush finished with a hit, and a run scored while Jones scored once.
