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The LaGrange High baseball season came to a heartbreaking conclusion on Thursday, falling to Pickens in the second round of the 3A state playoffs. The Grangers ended up on the wrong side of the doubleheader sweep.

 

GAME ONE:

LAGRANGE – 0

PICKENS – 4

 

Game one was a struggle for the Granger offense. The team mustered just three hits with Grady Westmorland, Rob Skinner and Cooper Stephens having one each. 

The Dragons scored their opening two runs in the second inning before adding two more in the third.

Sinjon Lash started on the mound for LaGrange and went four innings before making way for Brandon Bennett, who pitched the final two innings. 

 

GAME TWO:

LAGRANGE – 1

PICKENS – 8

 

The Grangers got off to a good start in game two, scoring the opening run of the contest in the bottom of the first courtesy of a Mason Calhoun one-run double.

The Dragons would respond with a pair of runs in the top of the second inning. It was all Pickens from there as the team added four runs in the fifth inning to take a commanding 6-1 lead.

The Dragons added two additional runs in the seventh inning.

Offense was hard to come by for LaGrange as the team put together just four hits in the contest, with Calhoun, Westmoreland, Stephens and Jackson Bozeman having one each. 

Kayden Sutton was the starting pitcher in game two for LaGrange and went 4 ⅓ innings. Caden Wood and Caleb Allen both got cleanup work for the Grangers on the mound. 

LaGrange will have to replace 14 seniors from this year’s squad as the team now turns the page on the 2025 season.