The CCA Patriots won their 18th and 19th games this season when they swept a doubleheader against the Covenant Academy Rams in Macon on Saturday. The Patriots needed just 10 total innings to dispatch the Rams, winning game one 17-4 and game two 12-2. The two teams played at historic Luther Williams Field in Macon.
In game one, CCA scored in every inning and were up 11-0 before the Rams ever got on the board. They scored four in the bottom of the fifth. The Patriots came back with six in the top of the fifth to take a 17-4 lead.
Gray McLean was 2-5 with a double and four RBI. Landon Williams was 2-2 with three RBI and two runs scored. Jonah Hall scored three times. Blake Bryant and Clay Phillips each scored twice as well.
Thomas Gentry (4IP, 2H, 4R, 0ER, 1BB, 9K) and Sam Ables (1IP, 1K) took care of the pitching duties for CCA.
Game two was more of the same. The Patriots scored seven in the first then added one run in the second, three in the fourth, and one in the fifth. The Rams scored two in the first and didn’t cross the plate again for the rest of the game.
McLean, Hall, and Mason Spivey had two hits. McLean, Hall, and Jackson Knight drove in two. Bryant and Spivey doubled while Skyler Woods tripled.
Woods (4IP, 3H, 2R, 7K) started and earned the win. Ables (1H, 2BB, 1K) threw another inning in relief.
The Patriots are now 19-1 on the season and have won 12 games in a row. They have three games against Robert Toombs this week – one on Tuesday in Lyons and a doubleheader at Patriot Field on Thursday beginning at 4 p.m.
