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Northwest Whifield’s ‘Baby Bruins’ flex muscles with sweep of Heritage

Staff photo by Larry Sullivan II / Northwest Whitfield's Weston Densmore (21) jumps and celebrates with fellow freshman Moe Hibbs (9) after he hit a home run during the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Heritage in the first round of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs. The visiting Bruins won the opener 12-9 and the second game 9-3 to sweep the best-of-three series.
Staff photo by Larry Sullivan II / Northwest Whitfield's Weston Densmore (21) jumps and celebrates with fellow freshman Moe Hibbs (9) after he hit a home run during the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Heritage in the first round of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs. The visiting Bruins won the opener 12-9 and the second game 9-3 to sweep the best-of-three series. Staff photo by Larry Sullivan II / Northwest Whitfield's Weston Densmore (21) jumps and celebrates with fellow freshman Moe Hibbs (9) after he hit a home run during the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Heritage in the first round of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs. The visiting Bruins won the opener 12-9 and the second game 9-3 to sweep the best-of-three series.

By Lindsey Young 8 min read

RINGGOLD, Ga. — When Northwest Whitfield baseball coach David Redmond saw the bracket for the GHSA Class AAA playoffs, he wasn’t, to say the least, happy.

Redmond’s “Baby Bruins” didn’t care that they had to play Region 7 rival Heritage for the second time in two weeks.

Northwest smashed eight home runs — seven coming from freshmen — in Friday’s 12-9, 9-3 doubleheader sweep of the host Generals, who had taken two of three from the Bruins in league play.

Leading the homer barrage was right fielder Smith Browning, who doubled his regular-season total for dingers with four Friday, with fellow frosh Carter Collins, Weston Densmore and Moe Hibbs also going deep for Northwest (18-14) as the Bruins avoided having to play a third game Saturday by closing out the best-of-three series quickly.

Browning finished the doubleheader 5-for-7 with nine RBIs.