No. 14 Jones scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth, the game-winning single coming off the bat of Brayden Quick (Germantown), to walk-off Nunez 6-5 Wednesday night at Community Bank Park.
Jones moved to 8-1 on the year with a sixth straight win and remained unbeaten all time against the Pelicans in nine meetings.
Trailing 3-0 bottom four, Quick's sac fly scored Chase Russell (Madison Central) to get Jones on the board.
Sanders Ainsworth’s (Madison Central) two-run single down the left field line tied the game at 3-3 in the fifth and Kelan Guidry’s (Baton Rouge, La.) RBI-single up the middle gave the Bobcats their first lead, 4-3, in the sixth.
Logan Coley's two-run single in the top of the seventh helped Nunez (3-4) retake the lead going to the ninth.
Warren Hutchinson (Madison Central) singled to start the inning, Talan Theriot (Luling, La.) had a perfectly executed bunt single to first and both moved up on consecutive wild pitches. After Ainsworth was hit-by-pitch to put the go ahead run on, Dylan Champagne (Prairieville, La.) was intentionally walked before Quick's walk-off single through the left side.
It was Jones' second walk-off win this year after beating No. 3 East Central, 7-5, in extra innings.
Drew Lambert (MRA) tied a career high with six innings pitched, scattering five hits, five strikeouts and three runs. Canyon Reeves (George County) (2-0) entered in a sticky situation in the seventh with two on and one out and was able to hold Nunez to just the one run.
Six Bobcats had multiple hits in a 13-hit attack, with Theriot's three hits leading the way.
