All three Jackson Parish high schools hit the diamond this past Wednesday – Saturday in baseball action, with Quitman traveling to Farmerville to play D’Arbonne Woods before both the Wolverines and Weston High Schools took part in the prestigious Trey Altick Spring Classic that featured 41 teams from all over the state at 8 different venues in the Monroe area. Jonesboro-Hodge traveled to Shreveport to play both Woodlawn and Huntington High Schools in doubleheaders. Meanwhile, in softball, Jonesboro-Hodge High School began its ambitious softball schedule by trekking to Monroe to take on Division III Carroll High School in the Lady Tigers season opener.
Tiger baseball wins three of four
In regard to the “boys of summer,” Jonesboro-Hodge High School, under the tutelage of second-year coach Carlos Hicks and first-year assistant Tommy Smith, opened its season by winning three of four games played in a pair of doubleheaders at Woodlawn-Shreveport and Huntington High School.
In the season opener, the Tigers got off to a great start by sweeping Woodlawn by scores of 18-3 and 7-0 as Dakota Knox got the win in the first game and Trey Trosclair pitched the shutout in the nightcap. No offensive stats were available.
JHHS then moved to 3-0 in the early portion of the 2026 season by taking an 11-3 victory over Huntington before dropping their first of the year, 19-9, against the 4-1 Raiders. Trey Trosclair was once again dominant “on the bump” as he fanned 12 Raider batters in the five-inning three-hitter. The Tigers managed just four hits, one each by Trosclair, Kamal, Marquis Baker, and Jeremiah, but coaxed 10 walks off of Huntington’s pitching, and also had three batters hit by a pitch, including Dakota Knox, who got plunked twice. In the nightcap, the Tigers took a 9-8 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth and what turned out to be the final inning, but Huntington rallied to put up 11 runs to take the “walk off” win by the “mercy rule.” Again, JHHS got 4 hits off of Raider pitching with Trosclair, Kamal, John Leblanc, and Jadarious all hitting singles, while the Tigers also got 13 free passes that included having five hit batters.
Wolverines whip D’Arbonne Woods
Hudson Pullig smashed the first home run of the year for Quitman, and both Maddox Duck and Tucker Newton stroked “two baggers” as Quitman dropped homestanding D’Arbonne Woods by a 9-4 margin. Cail King and Ayden Greer got two hits each of the 9 that Quitman rapped out. Zach Smudricks struck out 7 in 6 strong innings of work to take the victory.
On Friday and Saturday, the Wolverines played a pair of strong New Orleans “select school” squads in Division IV Riverside Academy and Division III Isidore Newman in the Trey Altick Classic. The Wolverines found scoring difficult in both games as Isidore Newman had two pitchers limit QHS to just four hits and no runs, while Riverside did even better, holding QHS to just a Hudson Pullig single in another shutout performance. Maddox Duck led the way for the Wolverines with a pair of hits, including a double, while Kace West and Conner Moak got the other two singles against Isidore Newman as Quitman fell to 4-5 on the year.
Wolves win two of three
Weston High School also took part in the Trey Altick Classic, winning two of the three contests played, all in close fashion. The Wolves opened the tourney by beating Family Community Christian School (FCCS)6-5 in the battle between the 7th-ranked team in Class B vs the #3-rated team in Class C. That was followed by Weston dropping a tight 4-3 decision to the #4-ranked team in Division IV among “select” schools in Central Private Academy out of the Baton Rouge area before winning their finale 10-8 over Division II West Ouachita.
Against FCCS, Jase Borders singled home Kolt Keiffer, who had walked to open the top of the 8th inning, and Bryce Tolar pitched two scoreless innings of relief to preserve the victory. Borders and Colton Blundell got two hits apiece of the seven Weston rapped out. Keiffer stroked a double, and both Drew Browning and Kypton Caskey hit singles in the contest that saw Weston race out to a 5-0 lead and have FCCS come back and tie with two runs in the bottom of the seventh, setting up the extra innings heroics.
Weston had the late-game rally table turned on them against Central Private, who won on a “walk-off” single that climaxed a 3-run rally in the bottom of the 7th inning for the 4-3 victory in the sloppily played game that saw the two teams combine for 9 errors. Weston had taken a 3-1 advantage by scoring single runs in the top of the 5th, 6th, and 7th innings after spotting Central Private to a one-run lead in the first inning. The Wolves got 3 hits on the day, including Kolt Keiffer’s second double of the tournament and singles by the “Border boys,” Jas,e and Easton. Ty Henderson was the unfortunate loser after pitching masterfully to hold Central Private down for 6 innings.
In the 10-8 victory over neighboring West Ouachita, the two squads swapped leads four times in the first three innings before the Wolves took control by scoring 7 runs over the last three frames. Colton Blundell led the Wolves by going 3/3 with a triple and scoring 3 runs in the offensive slugfest that saw the two teams combine for 18 runs and 18 hits, while also committing 8 errors. Ty Henderson (3 RBI, RS), Liam Weaver (2B, 2 RBI RS) and Kolt Keiffer (2 RBI) also had a productive day at the plate with two hits each. Beaux Oliver ((2 RBI), Jase Borders (RS), and Kypton Caskey (2 RS) chipped in with a hit each.
Lady Tigers lose season opener
Division III Carroll High School broke open a close game by exploding for 13 runs in the second inning as they took advantage of 8 free passes and three of the 6 errors the Lady Tigers made, while on offense Jonesboro-Hodge failed to get a hit in the 16-0 loss in the seaon opening contest for JHHS that was called after two innings of play per the “mercy rule”.
Upcoming Schedule
Monday, February 23rd
Softball:
JHHS at Lincoln Prep (5:30 pm)
Baseball:
Weston vs Northwood-Shreve (5:00 pm)
Quitman vs Beekman Charter (4:00 pm)
Tuesday, February 24th
Softball:
Quitman vs LaSalle (4:30 pm)
Baseball:
Weston at Choudrant (6:00 pm)