Editor’s note — This is the second in a series of stories documenting the senior season of Tattnall Square Academy pitcher DeAndre Smelter. High school sports reporter Jonathan Heeter will chronicle Smelter’s journey from the first pitch of his senior season to the Major League Baseball draft in June, where Smelter is projected by many to be the first Macon native to be selected in the first round out of high school.

FORT VALLEY — It was Cairo’s baseball team that spent the night at a local hotel as part of a two-day road trip. But it was Peach County that played as though it missed bed check.

WARNER ROBINS — Northside first baseman Jake Deason said he and his teammates are seeing the ball well lately. On Friday, the Eagles’ opponents hardly saw it at all.