NORTH LITTLE ROCK -- Tanner Vaught threw six shutout innings after allowing two Lakeside runs as Texarkana won 8-2 Saturday in the junior American Legion North Little Rock Memorial tournament at Burns Park.
In their season opener, Lakeside took the lead on Carter West's two-run single in the first. Caleb Lloyd and Cameron Dabbs scored after reaching on an error and a single, respectively.
Race Tittle singled later in the inning, but Vaught held the Rams to one hit the rest of the game. Texarkana went ahead with three runs in the bottom of the first off Drew Yarborough, adding two each in the third and fourth. Matt Goodhart drove in two runs and scored twice.
Lakeside continued pool play later Saturday against the Little Rock Eagles. The Rams play one of three Benton teams in the field tonight.
South Alabama
eliminates ASU
TROY, Ala. -- South Alabama's Austin Bembnowski pitched 8 1-3 innings, and the Jaguars scored four runs in the seventh to pull away from Arkansas State for a 7-3 win at the Sun Belt Conference tournament here Saturday.
The loss, their second in the tournament to top-seeded South Alabama, eliminated the eighth-seeded Red Wolves (27-30). After falling to the Jaguars in the first round, Arkansas State defeated Georgia Southern and Georgia State.
South Alabama (37-19) scored in the first off Adam Thrantham,adding runs in the fourth and fifth against Lake Hamilton graduate Cody Jackson for a 3-0 lead. Daniel Martinez and Matt Bolger had RBI doubles off Tyler Zuber in the seventh, Jared Barnes adding a run-scoring single.
Bembnowski held the Red Wolves scoreless until the bottom of the seventh, when Tanner Ring singled and came home on a wild pitch. Zach George had a two-run double in the ninth.
Bembnowski allowed six hits, striking out seven.
Arkansas State freshman Bo Ritter (Lakeside) pitched the last 2 1-3 innings, retiring all seven batters he faced. Jackson went 3 2-3 innings, allowing three hits.
Reddies open D2 WS
with shutout victory
CARY, N.C. -- Colton Lorance, Jordan Taylor and Nick Vanthillo combined to throw a shutout, and Henderson State opened the Division II World Series with a 4-0 victory over Angelo (Texas) State here Saturday.
The Reddies (32-19) advanced to the winners' bracket, where they face the winner of Saturday's game between Catawba (N.C.) and Wilmington (Del.) at 6 p.m.
Henderson got on the board in the board in the first inning on Tadarious Hawkins' RBI single to left field, plating Hunter Mayall. Mayall, the Central Region's most valuable player last weekend, got a run-scoring hit in the fifth, driving in Carlos Rodriguez to double the lead.
The Reddies added one in the seventh when Conner Brackhahn stole third and came home on the catcher's throwing error. Their fourth run was also unearned, Matt Evans scoring on a wild pitch in the eighth.
Lorance (7-4) scattered five hits and a walk through six quality innings. Taylor worked around a walk by striking out a pair in the seventh, and Vanthillo recorded a six-out save, yielding one hit and a walk.
Mayall finished 2-for-4 against Blake Bass (10-3), who threw seven innings for Angelo State (41-17).
Sports on 05/24/2015