RAYMOND – Leading the nation's top-ranked team 2-1 in the fifth inning of the 2015 MACJC Baseball Championship game, Hinds rallied to take the lead and exploded for 10 runs in the sixth to take a 14-3 victory over Northwest Saturday afternoon at Joe G. Moss Field.

Hinds (41-5) won its third state championship in the last six seasons and eighth overall while Northwest (32-15) finished as state runners-up for the third time in the last five years.

The Eagles took a quick 1-0 lead after one, using a leadoff single from Quade Smith and scoring him after a wild pitch and RBI-single to center field from Matt Jones.

Northwest took its first lead, 2-1, after three. Jamell Newson singled, was sacrificed to second and came around to score off Stuart Chick's RBI-single. Chick then came around to score two batters later off James Clark's sac fly.

A three-run fifth put the Eagles back in front 4-2 after five. Casey Echols walked and scored off a wild pitch to tie it at 2-2 before Chance Lunceford's two-out double scored a pair.

The wheels then fell off in the sixth for Northwest. After a groundout started the inning, Hinds strung together six consecutive singles to push ahead 7-2. The Eagles would add seven more runs – all with two outs – to put the game out of reach at 14-2. It took four Ranger arms to get out of the inning.

Needing three runs to extend the game and avoid a run-rule, Northwest got one back on Chick's bases-loaded walk in the seventh but then hit into a game-ending double play a batter later to seal the win for Hinds.

Casey Sutton (6-1) earned the win in 6.1 innings while Jonathan Lindsey (2-2) took the loss after 4.1 innings. 

Northwest will now turn its attention to the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament May 14-17 in Eunice, La., opening play on Thursday at 7 p.m. against host and 2nd-ranked LSU Eunice.