Silo continued its impressive debut in Class 3A baseball last week, remaining unbeaten in District 3A-8 action as well as riding stellar pitching to a three-game sweep for the Coal Mining Classic championship.
The Rebels opened the strong effort with 6-0 and 5-2 wins against Idabel, which was the only other undefeated team in league play. They followed up by downing Warner, 4-2, and cruising by Red Oak for a 9-1 triumph. In the title tilt they shut down Class 4A contender Stigler for a 4-1 victory to improve to 16-3 on the season.
Silo rode the pitching of senior Britton Salsbury to the two-hit shutout of Idabel and followed that up with a four-hit complete game win over Red Oak four days later.
Zane Sander had two hits and drove in a pair in the first Idabel win and they cashed in doubles from Sander and Salsbury in the second victory over the Warriors.
Braden Hill twirled five shutout innings, scattering six hits against Warner to pick up the mound triumph. Sam Mendenall, who closed the game in relief, tallied two hits including a double.
Charlie Gardner posted three hits and drove in two in the Red Oak game as Mendenall and Landon Langley each added two hits.
In the Stigler win, Gardner fired four and one-third scoreless stanzas for the pitching win, striking out seven. Langley finished the contest from there, yielding three hits and fanning four to score the save.
Bryce Vandenburg had the biggest of six Silo hits with a triple and RBI.
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Class 3A’s second-ranked Lady Bruins posted six wins in the rugged Kiowa Invitational, including an 11-1 decision over eventual champ Dale but Caddo had to settle for runner-up honors with a pair of losses to the Lady Pirates.
Caddo blasted Hartshorne (100) and toppled Class 4A’s secondranked Pocola (15-10) before a wild 20-19 loss to Dale, which sits atop the Class 4A rankings.
The Lady Bruins bounced back to eliminate Pocola (1311), 3A top-rated Tushka (15-2) and 3A contender Ripley (11-4). They followed with the triumph against Dale to force an if-necessary matchup in which Dale prevailed 24-12.
Caddo had a home run barrage during the event, pounding out 39 homers in eight games. Jaycie Nichols tallied 14 of those bombs.
The impressive rout of Tushka was fueled by 16 hits in only three innings compared to just two for the top-ranked Lady Tigers. Nichols posted three of the hits on home runs as Caddo notched six long balls.
Presley Beck had two roundtrippers and drove in four in the opening Pocola win while Jordyn Nichols was the hero in the second with a walk off tworun bomb, one of her two in the game. That came after a narrow 20-19 defeat to Dale in which Kadey McKay smashed a pair of homers and drove in six runs.
Jaycie Nichols was once again spurring the charge over Dale in the one Caddo triumph, smacking solo homers in the first, third and fourth innings.
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Class A state contender Caddo notched a pair of impressive wins in three games to claim third place in the Kingston tournament.
The Bruins belted Broken Bow, 10-2, in the opener before a 13-6 loss to Ada. Caddo rebounded however to blank Kingston, 8-0.
Jake Mullens and Ryder Wingfield combined for a fourhit pitching effort against Broken Bow while the Bruins made the most of five hits, including two from Mullens along with two RBI.
Six errors were costly for Caddo in the Ada loss but they came back with a clean outing versus Kingston for the solid victory.
Carson Culbreath went all seven innings on the mound, tossing a one-hit shutout in which he struck out eight.