Rose Bud earns early lead, downs Mountain Pine

Rose Bud had seven hits and pushed ahead early as the Ramblers held a prominent lead over the Mountain Pine Red Devils and secured a 10-3 win Monday night.

Thanks to an error in the first inning, Rosebud took the early 1-0 lead. The visitors scored seven runs in the second and coming off of a pair of singles by Caleb Caldwell and Keaton Hambrick, a double by Landon Roberson, an error and another single by Kayden Sherwood.

The Red Devils rallied in the fourth inning by scoring a pair of runs, after Tielyr Sales had a hard single to right that scored Josiah Walpole and Bryce Sales to bring it 8-2 in the bottom of the fourth, then added another run in the fifth.

Mountain Pine’s Kayden Anzaldua scored in the fifth on a sacrifice-fly from Bryce Sales to trim the gap, 8-3. In the sixth inning, the Ramblers scored again on Sherwood’s single scoring one for Kyle Hannah stretching Rose Bud’s lead, 9-3.

Dugan Jones started on the mound for Rose Bud pitching three innings, allowing zero hits and zero runs while striking out six and walking one. Sherwood pitched one inning allowing a pair of runs on a single hit and two walks while striking out one.

Sherwood threw the last three innings for the Ramblers allowing only one hit and zero earned runs while striking out six and walking four. Tielyr Sales entered as a relief in the middle of the second for Mountain Pine and pitched five and two-thirds innings. The sophomore allowed two hits on only one earned run while striking

out five and walking one.

Sales put up the only two hits offensively for the Red Devils alongside two RBIs. Walpole had four stolen bases on the day after two walks at the plate.

Bismarck struggles on road, falls to Ashdown

ASHDOWN — The Lady Panthers and Lady Lions squared off in what was a hotly contested game last Friday.

Ashdown proved to be a little too much for the Lady Lions this time around, picking up a narrow victory on the strength of a well-pitched outing from Angelina McGinn. McGinn went coast to coast with a complete game, allowing 4 hits while striking out 3.

Aleya Hill was 2 for 3 with 2 singles and 2 RBIs, Adaysia Thompson had a bunt single along with a sac fly with an RBI, and Blair Gentry went 1 for 3 with an RBI single.

Audrey Kizzair had 2 singles for Bismarck. Delilah Johnson went 5 innings, giving up 4 runs and 7 hits while picking up the loss.

Bismarck picked themselves back up Saturday as the Lady Lions took both D-Mac tournament weekend wins as they held on for a 3-2 victory over the Murfreesboro Lady Rattlers followed by a 4-0 sweep of the Foreman Lady Gators.

Bismarck plays Genoa Central on Monday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m. Ashdown will host Horatio on Friday, March 22.

Trojans down Razorbacks with big second half

TEXARKANA — Hot Springs may have taken the hour-plus trip to Texarkana on Friday, but it was the Razorbacks who struggled to find the back of the goal at Razorback Stadium.

The Trojans grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first half thanks to a goal from Collin Brown.

The Razorbacks scored one in the second half, but the Trojans added four more goals to take the 5-1 victory. Josue Hernandez and Marcos Ceballos each found the back of the net in the second half with Cristian Jovel picking up a brace with a pair of goals.

The Trojans will travel to El Dorado on Tuesday, March 26 for their next match.