Northpoint Baseball Finishes With Winning Record

The Northpoint baseball team closed out its season in the regional tournament, taking a win against Fayette before bowing out to eventual state semifinalist Harding Academy. The team finished with a record of 15-13, including four wins in a highly competitive district.

Split Non-Conference Games, Prepare for Regional

Updated 5/2/17

The Northpoint baseball team split a set of four non-conference games during the final week of the season in preparation for the playoffs, which begin later this week. The Trojans shut out Cordova 5-0 on Senior Night before dropping a 10-0 decision to St. George’s the following day. The team closed out the regular season with a win over Germantown, 9-2, and a loss at Rossville, 5-4.

Northpoint Closes District Play with Walk-Off Win

Updated 4/24/17

Blake Cherry’s two-out double in the bottom of the ninth inning plated two runs in Northpoint’s 7-6 win over Harding on Friday. Dillon Pool picked up the win with three effective innings of relief. Earlier in the week, Harding had picked up 13-5 and 2-0 wins over the Trojans. Northpoint dropped a 10-6 decision to MUS on Saturday to fall to 12-9 on the season. Justin Jones and Daniel Casto recorded pitching wins. The Trojans have a full slate of conference action this week before the regional tournament begins the following week.

Trojans Drop Series to ECS

Updated 4/18/17

Northpoint’s baseball team lost three close games to ECS last week, 7-2, 3-2, and 5-2. The Trojans are now 3-3 in district play with an important series this week with Harding.

SCHEDULING NOTES: The Tuesday (4/18) and Friday (4/21) home games against Harding have been rescheduled as 4:30 starts. There will be no JV games on these dates. Also, the April 29 game, a rescheduled date with Munford, has been cancelled.

Northpoint Baseball Sweeps FACS

Updated 4/10/17

Northpoint ran its winning streak to ten last week with three wins over FACS and a triumph over Tunica. The division-opening wins over FACS came on the road (3-1) on Monday, at Northpoint (3-2), and back at FACS (8-6) on Thursday. Strong pitching and timely hitting proved to be the difference in each game. The Trojans scored early and piled on late in Saturday’s 10-1 win over Tunica.

Northpoint returns to district action against ECS this week with games on Monday at ECS (7:00), Tuesday at Northpoint (7:00), and Thursday at ECS (6:00).

Trojans Run Win Streak to Six

Updated 4/3/17

The Northpoint baseball team made a clean sweep of last week’s games with wins over North Delta, Cordova, Millington, and White Station. The Trojans have now won six straight and have improved their overall record to 7-3 heading into district competition this week. The team will travel to FACS on Monday and Thursday and host the Crusaders on Tuesday. The Trojans host Tunica Academy in non-district play on Saturday.

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Baseball Season Underway

Updated 3/24/17

The 2017 Northpoint baseball season opened over spring break as the team took part in the Lewis Harris Memorial Tournament in Shelby County. The team dropped decisions to Tipton-Rosemark (10-0), Covington (5-2), and Houston (8-5) but also picked up their first win of the season during the week against Rossville (10-0). Myles McCaskill pitched a two-hit shutout in the win over Rossville.

After spring break the Trojans picked up a pair of convincing wins over Germantown (13-3) and Memphis Central (15-0). Daniel Casto and McCaskill earned pitching wins.

Varsity Head Coach: Zach Miller
Assistant Coaches:  Corky Casto, Buster Benton, Jason Holden

2017 Varsity Baseball Schedule

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2017 Junior Varsity Baseball Schedule

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2017 Baseball Roster