Norwood Pirates win Cabool Spring Classic title

It’s been a fantastic start to the spring for the Norwood Pirates’ baseball team as they have outscored four teams, 42-2, and won the Cabool Spring Classic championship this past week.
Against Willow Springs, the Pirates took advantage of seven Bears’ errors in a 9-2 win.
Caden Black picked up the win after giving up just one earned run on five hits with six strikeouts and two walks.
Pierce Lawson tossed one inning and gave up one earned run with three strikeouts and four walks.
Holten Lopez hit a solo home run and led the offense with two RBIs and three runs scored; Lawson had one RBI and two runs scored; Payton McCune had one RBI and one run scored; while Laken Coatney, Wyatt Bolfing, and Black each scored one run; and Carson Vaughan scored twice.
Coatney tossed a no-hitter and struck out 16 in the Pirates 6-0 win over Thayer. He had just two walks in a dominating effort to beat the Bobcats.
Carson Vaughan had two RBIs and two runs scored; McCune and Lawson each had one RBI and one run scored.
In the opener, the Pirates crushed the host Cabool Bulldogs, 15-0, as Lopez would be credited with a no-hitter, four strikeouts and one walk in a shortened three inning game due to the score.
Carson Vaughan, Carder Kelly, Lopez and Black each had two RBIs and two runs scored; Drae Bradshaw and Lawson each had two RBIs and one run scored; Coatney had one RBI and scored twice; Bolfing had one RBI; and McCune scored twice.
In the season opener, the Pirates had a seven-run third inning to beat Hurley, 12-0.
Black tossed four scoreless innings and gave up two hits with two walks. Coatney tossed a scoreless inning and struck out three with one walk.
Bolfing had two RBIs and one run scored; Carson Vaughan and Black both had one RBI and scored twice; McCune, Kelly and Bradshaw both had one RBI and scored one run; and Coatney scored twice.