P-W teams begin play at 3A-3 regionals at Dover
The Palestine-Wheatley baseball and softball teams headed to Dover this morning to begin play in the 3A-3 baseball and softball regional tournaments, which were postponed from yesterday.
The Patriots, 12-12 overall and 5-6 in the 3A-6 conference, enter the regionals as the No. 4 seed from the 3A-6 conference and will face the Little Rock based Baptist Prep Eagles, the top seed from the 3A-5 conference. That game was scheduled to get underway at noon.
Baptist Prep ran the board finishing unbeaten in the 3A-5 conference this season and brings an overall 13-8 mark into today's regional matchup.
The winner returns on Saturday to face the DeWitt/Dover winner at 10 a.m.
Prior to the regional tournament, PalestineWheatley's Conner Teal was selected to the 3A-6 AllConference team, according to head coach Paxton Crawford.
Teal led the Patriots this season with a .453 batting average.
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The Palestine-Wheatley Lady Patriots softball team earned the No. 3 seed from the 3A-6 conference into today's first round regional games.
The Lady Patriots are scheduled to face Atkins, the No. 2 seed from the 3A-5 conference in a 5:30 p.m. start today.
The winner returns on Saturday to face the CAC/Lamar winner in a 12:30 p.m. semifinal game.
Today's winners automatically qualify for the upcoming Class 3A state tournament.
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The start of the Class 4A East Region baseball and softball tournaments has been pushed back to Saturday because of inclement weather, tournament officials announced Thursday.
All first-round games will be played Saturday starting at 10 a.m. The semifinal, third-place and championship games will be played Monday.
The Class 3A Region 2 baseball and softball tournaments at Walnut Ridge were still set to start today as of Thursday afternoon, although tournament director Jacob Kersey said different scenarios are under consideration depending on field conditions this morning.
The Class 2A North Region baseball and softball tournaments at Carlisle are scheduled to start today, as are the Class 2A Central Region tournaments at South Side Bee Branch.
The Class 1A Region 2 baseball and softball tournaments at Marked Tree were postponed Thursday afternoon. Norfork led Marked
Tree 4-1 in the fifth inning of their baseball game, while Mammoth Spring led Shirley 5-2 in the fourth inning of their softball game when play was halted. The tournament is set to resume today.
Two games were completed in both 1A-2 brackets. West Side Greers Ferry defeated Mammoth Spring 18-2 in baseball and ousted Marked Tree 3-1 in softball.
Forrest City teams failed to qualify for either the Class 4AEast baseball or softball regionals which will be played at Brookland.
Pulaski Robinson wears the top seed from the 4A-5 conference into today's first round regional game against Pocahontas, the No. 3 seed from the 4A-3 conference in a 3 p.m. start time.
The winner returns on Saturday to face the Brookland/Pulaski Academy winner.