Top two spots of Region 3-AAAAAA baseball remain in Coweta County after Newnan sweeps Westlake

Mother Nature has been a thorn in the side of Marc Gilmore's first year as the head baseball coach at Newnan High School and tried to dig deeper Tuesday as the Cougars faced the Westlake Lions in a Region 3-AAAAAA double header at Joe Pope Field.
Her mission failed as the Cougars defeated the raindrops to sweep the Lions in the twinbill by scores of 6-0 and 11-0.
Including a 16-1 bludgeoning of the Langston Hughes Panthers Monday evening, the Cougars improve to 11-11 overall and are 8-3 in the region which is good for second place while the Lions fell into third place with an overall record of 11-12 and a region mark of 8-5.
The sweep means that the Cougars will finish no worse than third with a game against the Panthers scheduled for Wednesday night in Fairburn and three games afterward while the Lions will play in Sharpsburg against the East Coweta Indians,
As for the games, the opener was scoreless in the first inning but the Cougars took the lead in the bottom of the second with four runs off Lions starter and loser Tyler Wilcher.
Caleb McElwaney led off with a single, KD Satterwhite reached first after being hit by a pitch and Tyler Davis moved the duo into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt to first for Anthony Marion.
Marino lined a shot into right center field for a an RBI double as McElwaney and Satterwhite both came home.
A walk to Chase Davis followed and Drew Oldham singled to score Marino from third and the final run of the frame came after Brady Barnes hit into a fielders choice.
Newnan added to the lead in the bottom of the third inning as Connor Dunn and Jake Kniedel led off with back-to-back doubles that resulted in one run while an infield error allowed Kniedel to come home with the finally tally of the game.
While Mother Nature eventually conceded by stopping the rain, Cougars starter Sawyer Steele was working on six hit shutout in which he recorded four strikeouts which his team's defense was flawless in the field.
In the nightcap, which was played under partly cloudy skies without any rain, the Cougars were the visitors as the game was originally scheduled to be played in College Park.
The Cougars made for bad visitors as they scored a run in the top of the first as they loaded the bases with one out for Satterwhite who grounded out to the Lions' shortstop as Ty Herring crossed home plate.
Newnan added a single run in the top of the second inning as Justin Groover led off the frame by hitting a 1-1 offering from Lions pitcher Malcolm Boyce over the left field fence for a solo home run.
The "visitors" added a single run in the top of the third inning with two outs as Satterwhite doubled and reached third on a throwing error before coming home on a single by Marino.
In the top of the fourth, the Lions let Boyce down as Oldham and Barnes led off the frame by reaching on fielding errors and coming home when Kniedel grounded out to shortstop.
The top of the fifth became the undoing of the Lions as 11 batters went to the plate and six runs scored as three walks, two wild pitches and a fielding error contributed to the misfortune.
The Cougars accepted the problems of their opponent in the bottom of the frame as starter Tanner Snellgrove retired the side to end the game under the mercy rule.
In five innings Snellgrove held the Lions to two hits while allowing two walks and recording two strikeouts.