Defending fall state champ Silo got off to another good start in the 2025 campaign last week with three victories, including a 4-0 whitewashing of two-time Class A state titlist Wright City.
The Rebels also blitzed Battiest, 12-2, and then held off Stuart by a 6-4 count.
Against Wright City, junior Aiden McCarty dazzled on the mound with a complete game four-hit masterpiece. He struck out five and walked nobody.
Silo scored all it would need in the first when Zane Sander doubled and scored on a McCarty single. They added another run in the third after Nolan Northcott’s leadoff double and two more in the fourth frame following doubles by Cannon Atwood and McCarty.
The Rebels claimed a 5-3 edge on Stuart in the third inning following RBI hits from McCarty and Cord Standridge but needed a stellar relief effort from Blane Beauchamp to slam the door on the Hornets.
Beauchamp allowed only one hit in three scoreless frames and struck out five for the save.
Silo pounded out 11 hits in the run rule decision over Battiest with Sander and Standridge both contributing three of those.
Calera Baseball
The Bulldogs reeled off three hardfought wins last week to improve their record to 4-0 on the young season.
Calera edged Wister, 4-3, before toppling Tupelo by a 6-2 count and Coleman, 11-4.
Coach Cody Luman’s club needed extra innings but survived Wister by riding a strong seven-inning pitching outing from Gavin Chaffin, who allowed three runs on seven hits and fanned three but didn’t figure in the decision. Maddux McCullar earned the victory with a scoreless frame of relief as the Bulldogs won it on a Lex Carlton walkoff double.
Zaiden Craige posted a pair of doubles with Hazyn Applegate adding two hits and one RBI.
Talon Rose struck out six and yielded two runs on two hits in the Tupelo victory as Craige spurred the offensive charge once again with a double, home run and three runs driven in. Logan Bumgarner added two hits.
A six-run seventh inning broke open a tight game for the Bulldogs against Coleman as Jaron Varner belted a threerun homer and Demarcus Dunn drove in two with a double. Dunn also was the mound victor, allowing four runs (two earned) while scattering eight hits and fanning seven.
Colbert Baseball
The Leopards opened their first week of action with a solid 4-2 win over Tushka as Colbert made a two-run opening inning surge hold up.
Trevor Jackson began the rally with a double ahead of a walk and two-out hit from Brett Parsons that knocked in both runs.
They tacked on single tallies in the fourth and sixth stanzas that proved to be all the cushion they would need. Kaden Neill fired the first three innings on the mound for the win, allowing no runs on two hits. Isaiah Lopez contributed three frames of relief with Parsons slamming the door in a scoreless seventh.
After belting Turner (10-1), the Leopards took perennial power Fort Cobb-Broxton to the wire in the first game of the Dale Tournament before dropping a narrow 3-2 decision.
Neill twirled six frames, allowing just two earned runs on eight hits but wasn’t able to get quite enough run support with the Mustangs rallying from a 2-0 deficit with a pair of tallies in the fifth and one in the seventh.
Lopez had a big game at the plate with three of the Leopards’ five hits.
Colbert bounced back to eliminate Rattan (8-7) and then fell out of the tournament in a 9-0 loss to Preston.
Parsons showed a clutch flair in the Rattan victory with the walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning. In total, Colbert had seven hits fueled by two from Parker Nesbitt along with a Kenton Ladd double.