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Baseball Wins Seventh Straight; Run-Rules CACC

Baseball Wins Seventh Straight; Run-Rules CACC
Box Score
April 7, 2026
Alexander City – The No. 22 ranked Shelton State baseball team rode two big innings to an 18-2 run-rule win over Central Alabama Community College on Tuesday afternoon.
Shelton State (28-10), winners of seven straight games, is 21-3 in its last 24 games and has vaulted back into the Top 25 in all six NJCAA baseball polls. The Bucs have 13 run-rule wins this season.
The Bucs scored six runs in the second inning and piled on eight more runs in the sixth for the lopsided win. Shelton State batted around both innings.
Freshman center fielder Jarret Scott and freshman right fielder Colby Sommer did not of the damage for the Bucs offense on Tuesday. The duo combined for seven hits, seven RBIs and six runs scored. Scott was 4-for-4 with three singles and a triple, three runs scored and three RBIs. Sommer was 3-for-5 with two doubles, three runs scored and four RBIs.
Sommer had a two-run double to highlight the six-run second inning. Freshman catcher Aiden Carrizales drove in the first run when he hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Freshman left fielder Carson Mann had an RBI triple and freshman second baseman William Hamiter added a sacrifice fly.
Central Alabama (16-29) scored single runs in the third and fourth innings to make it 6-2.
Shelton State pushed the lead to 10-2 with four runs in the fifth inning. Freshman third baseman Cray Fite drove home the first run with a sacrifice fly. Sommer followed with a two-run single and Mann chased home another run with an RBI single.
Mann finished with two hits and two RBIs.
The Bucs sent 13 men to the plate in the eight-run sixth in extend the lead to 18-2. Scott and Carrizales had the big blows in the frame.  Scott started the scoring with two-run triple into the left-center field gap, and Carrizales smashed a two-run home run to right-center.  Freshman first baseman Brooks Tunnell, freshman DH Wyatt Howell and Scott added RBI singles. Tunnell later drew a bases-loaded walk.
Scott had two hits and three RBIs in the inning.
Freshman right Jackson Hunter (2-0), the first of seven pitchers used by the Bucs, tossed a scoreless first inning with two strikeouts for the win.
Shelton State returns to conference action this weekend with a four-game series with Snead State. The Parsons (21-14, 13-7 ACCC) are in second place in the conference standings heading into the series. The teams will play on Boaz on Thursday, April 9 at 2 p.m. and Tuscaloosa on Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m.