Timely hits and strong pitching were the recipe for Colbert as the Leopards held off Caddo, 4-2, in Bryan County Conference baseball action last week.
The Leopards got a stellar mound performance from Tucker Shields, who went the distance while scattering six hits. He allowed no earned runs, struck out four and walked three.
Caddo snagged an initial 1-0 advantage with a two-out flurry in the second inning when Nathaniel Hallmark, Kason Truett and Jake McKay all singled.
Colbert needed only two pitches to get that run back, tying the contest on a Jackson solo home run over the centerfield wall. Bruin starter Jet Rose answered with two straight outs before a walk and was then tagged for a tworun homer by Hokett for a 3-1 cushion.
Rose settled in from there and silenced the Leopard bats over the following two frames. Reliever Boen Proctor was greeted by a Brett Parsons double to begin the sixth and he scored two batters later on a Caddo error to add to the margin.
Shields worked out of a brief jam in the sixth after a Proctor single, coaxing a double play ground ball. He yielded a run in the seventh on a two-out error before getting a game-ending pop out to slam the door on the comeback bid.
Jackson finished with a home run, double and RBI to spark the Colbert offense. They also picked up hits from Braxton Reese, Parsons, Hudson Brigman and Shields.
Caddo tallied six hits, all of which were singles, with McKay, Proctor, Rose, Hallmark, Truett and Kale Brister contributing one each.
Calera Baseball
Logan Bumgarner singled and came around to score on a two-out wild pitch to lift Calera to a 4-3 win over Amber-Pocasset in the 10th innings of the semifinals of the Atoka Wood Bat Tournament last Friday. The tournament final round was cancelled due to rain.
Bumgarner fired seven strong innings on the mound, striking out 10 while scattering three hits but didn’t figure in the pitching decision. Zaiden Craige tossed the final three frames with no runs on three hits to earn the victory.
Calera trailed 3-1 in the seventh but rallied to force extra innings. Craige opened with a single and Talon Rose added a double. Cody Langley’s sacrifice fly narrowed the gap and a Bumgarner ground out tied the game and extended it.
Craige posted two hits, including a triple, while Rose also had two hits for the Bulldogs.
Silo Baseball
The Rebels made an impressive run to the finals of the Cashion Tournament before dropping a 4-2 decision to Class A top-ranked Okarche.
Silo won the opening round 10-5 over the Tuttle Junior Varsity and then dispatched host Cashion by a 13-6 count.
In the opener the Rebels pounded out 16 hits with Zane Sander and Jacob Wright connecting for three apiece. Cannon Atwood, Ty Hatley and Warner Bradley each contributed two hits with Bradley also adding three RBI.
Nolan Northcott fired three solid innings for the pitching victory, scattering three hits and striking out three.
Northcott provided the massive offensive spark in the Cashion game, belting a pair of doubles and a home run in the 15-hit assault. Sander once again accounted for three hits with two apiece from Wright, Atwood and Peyton Scoggin.
Blane Beauchamp earned the pitching triumph by allowing one run and three hits with five strikeouts over five innings.
Silo fell just short against Okarche in spite of Atwood’s strong mound performance as well as two of the team’s six hits. Jacob and Mason Wright each tossed in a hit and run batted in apiece.
