By the way Weston went about their business of making “short work” of Castor on Tuesday it was easy to see that the Wolves baseball team wanted to make sure that everything went perfect on the special day that their newly renovated on-campus ball yard was dedicated in honor of the schools all-time winningest coach by being named “Mike Staples Field.”

Knowing that the dedication ceremony was set to begin as soon as the game was over, the Wolves crushed Castor 15-0 in just three innings on the strength of four extra base hits of the seven collected and coaxing 10 free passes from Castor pitching. 

Drew Browning got the offensive onslaught started in the first inning by blasting a shot over the left field fence to put Weston up 1-0. Then the Wolves poured it on, scoring seven in both the second and third innings to close out the game due to the “mercy” rule. 

Singles by Liam Weaver and Bryce Zehr following a walk to Sawyer Watkins got things rolling in the second. Browning then walked setting up back to back double by Cole Tolar and Colton Blundell. Another walk to Jase Borders and the third “two bagger” of the inning off the bat of Ty Henderson gave Weston an 8 run advantage after two innings. 

After winning pitcher, Weaver, allowed Castor their only hit of the game in the third, and opened the third inning with a hit, the Wolves then basically walked their way to victory as Zehr, Tolar, Jacob Gill, Borders and Henderson all reached base via a walk of getting hit by a pitch. 

Weston 18 Calvin 2 (Monday): Colton Blundell went 4/4with a double, knocked in 4 runs and scored 3 more while also adding two stolen bases and Drew Browning also reached base four times, including ripping a pair of doubles, scored four runs and added 2 RBI and 2 steals to pace Weston to the four inning victory. Cole Tolar also stroked a “two bagger”, scored three and knocked in three as did Ty Henderson. Bryce Zehr, Sawyer Watkins and Jase Borders crossed home plate twice each while Jacob Gill scored a run and Liam Weaver knocked on in as Weston had 24 batters reach base and all nine either scored or had an RBI. Beaux Oliver picked up the win by firing four hit ball over four innings and allowing only two earned runs. 

Quitman drops Doyline behind Smudricks No-Hitter

Quitman 4 Doyline 1 (Tuesday): It looks as first year head coach Chris Womack has found the “ace” he has been looking for in a first year player. His name is Zach Smudricks, who only a freshman, turned in the most dominating pitching performance of the season in Jackson Parish on Tuesday, by striking out 13 Doyline batters without giving up a single hit. The superb effort is the second in a row for the southpaw, coming on the heels of limiting Choudrant to just 3 hits and no earned runs his last time out. The powerful pitching display was needed too as Conner Moak, Hudson Pullig and Maddox Duck got Quitman’s only hits and scored a run each with Jake Potts adding the final run that improved Quitman’s record to 11-12 overall and 2-1 in District 1B play.

Ringgold walks past Jonesboro-Hodge

Ringgold 17 JHHS 7 (Tuesday): Eleven free passes that included four hit batters led to 9 Ringgold runs that broke open a 6-6 game and saddled Jonesboro-Hodge with the loss that dropped the Tigers fell to 7-7 overall and 2-3 in District 1-1A play. Ringgold improved to 5-9 overall and 2-2 in district. Early on it looked like the Tigers were well on their way to winning their third in the last four games when JHHS posted six runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a 6-1 lead. Free passes were the catalyst for the J-H big inning as well as John LaBlance, Jeramiah Jefferson, and Dakota Knox got hit by a pitch while Jhadarrious Bishop and LaBlance also drew walks. Trey Trosclair and Kamal Cottonham got base hits and Marquis Baker hit a bases clearing double for the big blow of the inning.