Baseball: Destrehan, Slidell each sweep a pair of games

Area Prep Baseball Report for Sunday, March 7

Destrehan has been a consistently solid program in recent years, turning out several good pitchers who have and continue to perform well at the college and junior college level.

If early returns are any indication, the Wildcats are a potent squad again in 2021.

Destrehan continued its outstanding start Saturday, sweeping a pair of games.

First, the Wildcats edged Fontainebleau 5-4.

Junior Cole Moran picked up the win.

In the second game, Destrehan shutout Northlake Christian 7-0.

John Carmichael picked up the win, pitching five shutout innings, allowing just three hits while striking out four. Carmichael added two hits at the plate while Caleb Clouatre also had a pair of hits for the Wildcats.

Destrehan (5-2-1) also has a win over Archbishop Rummel, the only loss for the Raiders thus far, with its losses coming to elite teams in St. Paul’s and John Curtis, who have dominated Division I in recent years.

Destrehan will play at East Ascension in tournament play next Thursday at 4 p.m.

Slidell also swept a pair of games, defeating Northlake Christian 10-0 and downing Salmen 9-6 in the Covington Tournament at St. Paul’s.

In the win over Northlake Christian, the game was shortened to five innings by the mercy rule.

Slidell scored a run in the second and added five runs in the third to take a 6-0 lead. The Tigers scored three in the fourth inning and a run in the fifth to put the game away early.

Jay Davis had a double, a triple and three RBI while Matthew Pagano had a hit and three RBI to pace an 11-hit attack for the Tigers. Cameron Weiss had a hit and two RBI and Peyton Strahan had a hit and two RBI.

Trey Flettrich pitched a shutout, allowing just one hit and striking four in a complete game performance.

Against the Spartans, Salmen scored a run in the bottom of the first to take a 1-0 lead before Slidell took the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the third. The Spartans answered with three runs in the bottom of the third to grab a 4-2 lead.

The Tigers took the lead for good in the top of the fourth with three runs to make it 5-4 and added a run in the fifth to make it 6-4. Slidell opened up a 9-3 lead with three runs in the top of the sixth before Salmen scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to complete the scoring.

Youth was served for Slidell.

Strahan, a sophomore, had two hits and two RBI while freshman Brady Johnson had a hit and two RBI. Sophomore Carson Johnson added a hit and an RBI and Davis, a junior, had two hits. Pagano, a senior, also had two hits.

Senior Cameron Weiss picked up the win, going five innings, allowing two runs on six hits. Weiss walked just one and fanned three hitters. Senior Noah Hughes pitched two shutout innings for the Tigers.

Slidell (5-6) travels to Lakeshore Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

Area Prep Baseball Results from Saturday, March 6
Archbishop Rummel 15, Belle Chasse
Archbishop Rummel 7, Catholic (BR) 5
Archbishop Shaw 2, Hammond 1
Barbe 4, Doyle 3
Barbe 13, Northshore 0
Brother Martin 4, East Ascension 3
Country Day 11, Fisher 1
Covington 5, Dutchtown 4
Destrehan 5, Fontainebleau 4
Destrehan 7, Northlake Christian 0
Dutchtown 4, Holy Cross 2
East Ascension 12, Archbishop Shaw 6
East Jefferson 13, French Settlement 6
East Jefferson 15, Maurepas 6
Hahnville 14, Salmen 3
Higgins 25, Helen Cox 3
Independence 15, Tara 4
Jesuit 8, Catholic (BR) 6
Kenner Discovery 12, Booker T. Washington 9
Lafayette Christian 5, Loranger 3
Lakeshore 7, Hahnville 4
Landry 26, Livingston Collegiate 16
Live Oak 6, Doyle 2
Loranger 9, Jena 0
Mandeville 3, Denham Springs 1 (game one)
Mandeville 3, Denham Springs 0 (game two)
Ponchatoula 11, Jewel Sumner 1
Ponchatoula 11, Newman 1
Poplarville (MS) 2, Pope John Paul II 1
Riverdale 10, De La Salle 9
Riverside Academy 12, Patrick Taylor 6
Slidell 10, Northlake Christian 0
Slidell 9, Salmen 6
South Lafourche 14, De La Salle 1
South Lafourche 13, St. Martin’s Episcopal 1
St. Augustine 7, Country Day 0
St. Charles Catholic 12, Claiborne Christian 1
St. Charles Catholic 12, Neville 3
St. James 4, H.L. Bourgeois 3 (game one)
H.L. Bourgeois 6, St. James 3 (game two)
St. Paul’s 3, St. Amant 1
St. Thomas Aquinas 6, Pearl River 1
Sulphur 10, Northshore 4
Warren Easton 13, East St. John 11