An early season Bryan County baseball showdown went the way of Calera as the Bulldogs notched a 2-0 win over Colbert in a pitcher’s duel last week.
The Bulldogs made a pair of first inning runs stand up for the triumph over their southern county rivals.
Logan Bumgarner and Zaiden Craige started the opening stanza with singles and each stole bases to move into scoring position. Hazyn Applegate delivered a one-out hit that plated the first and a Talon Rose squeeze bunt plated the second.
That was all the scoring production that the pitching duo of Bumgarner and Craige would need as they combined on a five-hit shutout. Bumgarner scattered three hits and struck out three over the first four stanzas with Craige notching the save in three stanzas of two-hit relief.
Colbert’s best scoring opportunity came in the first frame as the Leopards notched singles by Remington Graham and Kaden Neill but Bumgarner picked off a runner to help get out of trouble.
The Leopards also got their first two batters aboard in the fifth when Hudson Brigman walked and Braydon Thompson singled but both were left stranded.
Neill was charged with the mound loss, yielding two runs on five hits with four strikeouts in four innings of work. Canon Marr added two frames of scoreless one-hit relief and fanned two.
Silo 8, McAlester 1 (baseball)
The Rebels cruised by the Class 5A Buffaloes as Landon Langley had the big all-around game for Silo.
The senior allowed one run while scattering five hits to pick up the pitching victory while also accounting for two hits, including a triple, and drove in three runs.
Silo rolled to a 3-0 lead but base running miscues cost the Rebels over the middle innings until putting things away with a five-run seventh inning outburst.
Zane Sander smacked three hits and scored twice to pace the Silo 12-hit as- sault along with Langley’s two hits. Jeret House also tallied two hits and drove in a pair. Jory Allen, Sam Mendenall, Aiden McCarty, Cord Standridge and Braden Hill had one hit apiece.
Caddo 4, Calera 3 (softball)
After throttling Calera 12-0 in the season opener just a week earlier, Caddo got all they wanted from the Lady Bulldogs before surviving with their unbeaten record intact on Monday.
Caddo finished with a 9-8 edge in hits but it was scorefor- score in the early stages as each club plated three runs in the first three innings.
Calera had one in the first frame after a Taylynn Conder triple and got two more in the second, capitalizing on three singles and a Lady Bruin error. Kaira Beller, Laynie Paddock and Aaliyah Wesley all had hits to propel Calera to the 3-1 advantage.
It lasted just one frame however as Caddo came alive with singles from Kayden Prince and Lyndee Harless before Jordyn Nichols’ twoout double.
Nichols provided the spark again in the sixth with a leadoff triple and then rode home on a Rylan Peevyhouse groundout.
Jordyn Nicols posted three hits as Prince notched two and Harless, Presley Beck, Brylee Daniel and Kayden Cowan ended with one apiece.
The Lady Bulldog hits were spread among seven players as Wesley notched two. Taibree Melton, Conder, Auhnesty Maytubby, Makenna Owens, Beller and Paddock chipped in one each.