Lassiter Booted from Baseball Playoffs

Wednesday’s Georgia High School Association playoff games ended the seasons for baseball and girls lacrosse teams and the girls soccer teams at and .

Meanwhile, the Lassiter Lady Trojans moved on in soccer, as did the Pope Greyhounds in boys lacrosse, and the Pope baseball team was extended to a decisive Game 3 today in its home series with Northgate.

Pope (23-7) won the first game of its best-of-three baseball series Wednesday, 10-5, but blew a 4-0 lead to lose Game 2, 5-4. Two errors in the bottom of the seventh inning led to the winning run for the Vikings, The Marietta Daily Journal said.

The teams will play at Pope at 5 p.m. today for a berth in the AAAA quarterfinals Tuesday at , which swept Evans in their doubleheader Wednesday.

The Pope boys lacrosse team secured its place in the A-AAAA quarterfinals with a 13-7 win over . The Greyhounds will play Saturday at .

Reaching the AAAAA girls soccer quarterfinals Wednesday was Lassiter, which beat at home, 3-0. Marin Abousaud scored off a corner kick 30 minutes into the game for a 1-0 halftime lead, and Kaitlyn Sterling added a second-half goal, the Lassiter Athletics Twitter feed reported.

The Lady Trojans will host on Saturday.

The rest of the day brought defeat for Northeast Cobb teams:

• Lassiter baseball was swept at home by , 8-4 and 7-4. The Trojans fell behind 6-1 in Game 1 and 5-0 in Game 2 and never caught up. “Great season Lassiter team!” the Lassiter Baseball Twitter feed said. “Thanks for all of your hard work and the great memories. You made us proud!”
• The Lassiter girls lost to , 18-14, in AAAAA lacrosse. The Lady Trojans couldn’t overcome a 10-8 halftime deficit. “Congrats to the Lady Trojans on a season with so many highlights,” the Trojan boys lacrosse team tweeted. “We'll get'em next year!”
• In AAAA girls soccer, Pope lost at home to McIntosh, 3-2, and Kell fell at Whitewater, 5-0.

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