Indians had three-of-a-kind with a trio of four-run innings in victory over Newnan

Coleman Wood scattered nine hits over five innings in East Coweta's 12-1
victory over Newnan. He didn't issue any walks and had four strikeouts.

After clinching the Region 2-AAAAAAA championship earlier in the week, the East Coweta Indians played the role of spoiler Thursday night with three four-run innings as they defeated the crosstown rival Newnan Cougars 12-1 at Joe Pope Field.

The Indians improved their overall record to 25-4 and will finish region play 14-1 with a game at home Friday evening up against the Troup County Tigers (19-10) at 5:45 before hosting Roswell next week in the state playoffs.

Meanwhile the Cougars have an overall record of 16-13 and will finish third in the region with a 10-5 record and will finish the regular season at Central-Carrollton on Saturday before they will have to travel next week to the Northern suburbs of Atlanta to face either Walton or Lassiter.
The top teams in Region 4-AAAAAAA whave region games scheduled for today.

The Indians took a quick lead in the top of the first inning as Devonte Brown and Emilio Morales opened with singles and after two outs, starer Coleman Wood was hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Trevor Gaddy unloaded the bases with a two-run single and Cameron Jackson followed with a two-run double that gave EC a 4-0 lead.

Cameron Jackson had a two-run double in the top of the
four-run first inning for the Indians.

The lead was enough for Wood who retired the first two batters in the bottom of the first inning before surrendering consecutive singles to Wil Wilbanks and Bennett Rowan before getting the third out.

Wood faced the same situation in the bottom of the third inning as he retired the first two batters before Hamilton Schubert singled to left and Wilbanks followed with a single to right before getting the third out.

The Indians gave Wood a larger cushion in the top of the fourth inning with four runs that led to an 8-0 advantage.

Zack Bruce reached on a walk to open the inning and brought Cougars’ starter Jacob Snellgrove to an end as he was replaced by Seth Rainey.

With Brown at the plate, Bruce stole second base after Brown was retired on a strikeout, Morales and Dyal reached on walks to load the bases.

While Darrow was at the plate, Bruce scored on a wild pitch with Morales and Dyal advancing to second and third respectively before Darrow singled to bring Morales home and increase the lead to 6-0.

Wood helped his own cause when he hit a sacrifice fly to center that allowed Dyal to score from third and Gaddy followed with a single to left that scored Darrow.

The Cougars tried to rally in the bottom of the fourth inning after two outs as Eric Russell and Andrew Davis reaching on back-to-back singles before Michael Meason followed with a ground rule double that brought Russell home with the lone Newnan run.

Wood pitched one more inning before he was replaced on the mound by Avery Reynolds who allowed a single to Russell before finishing off the frame with a strikeout, a force play and a flyball.

In his five inning stint, Wood scattered nine hits and had another walk free outing to go with four strikeouts.

The Indians put the game out of reach in the top of the seventh inning with another four-run frame as Brown and Dyal each had two-run doubles.

Reynolds retired the Cougars in the bottom of the seventh inning with h little difficulty with only one baserunner who reached on an infield error.