HSV earns split with Sheridan

SHERIDAN — Andrew Seymour scored all three times he reached base, helping Hot Springs Village earn an American Legion split with an 8- 6 win over Sheridan Monday night.

C. J. Williams had a two- run single in HSV’s three- run first inning, and Seymour singled and scored in the second and fourth. Seymour scored the first of three sixth- inning runs after being hit by a pitch.

Josh Mitchell and J. D. Simmons both had three of HSV’s 16 hits in the first game against Sheridan’s Junior team, but the Yellowjackets scored three sixth- inning runs for a 10- 8 win.

With the second game tied 4- 4, Seymour led off the fourth with a single, took third on Chase Anderson’s hit and scored on a passed ball. The three- run sixth, aided by three Sheridan errors, gave HSV ( 8- 7) an 8- 4 lead.

HSV starter Mark Rucker went five innings for the win, allowing four runs and striking out seven. Mason Chapmond allowed two sixth- inning runs, one earned, before tossing a scoreless seventh.

Seymour, Williams, Anderson and Chapmond each went two for four. Anderson had an RBI double in the second.

In the opener, HSV led 8- 7 after scoring four runs in the fifth and two in the sixth. Chapmond had a sacrifice fly, Josh Mitchell a two- run double and Simmons an RBI single in the fifth. In the sixth, Anderson doubled and scored on a passed ball, and Chapmond singled and scored the go- ahead run on Mitchell’s single.

Mitchell drove in four runs. He and Simmons went three for four, and Anderson, Chapmond, Briar Jackson, Tyler Robertson and Kelton Collins each two for four.

HSV plays Thursday at Bryant, although coach Mark Robertson said the game could be moved to Benton because ofr work in progress at Bryant’s field.

Lakeside AA- Benton

BENTON — Spencer Hecke had three hits, including a triple, and drove in two runs, and four Lakeside pitchers held Benton to three hits in the Class AA Rams’ 5- 2 win Monday night.

Hecke went three for four, and Jon Youngblood went one for two with a double and an RBI. Lakeside ( 10- 11) scored twice in the third to take a 3- 1 lead, made it 4- 1 in the fourth, and 5- 2 in the sixth. The Rams had nine hits.

Hayden Lindsey, Youngblood and Taylor Street pitched the first five innings, Marcus Fisher working the sixth and seventh for the save.

Lakeside plays at Ashdown on Saturday.