Here is a roundup of Thursday’s baseball and softball action in and around Calhoun County; will be updated
BASEBALL
Alexandria 3, Jacksonville 0
Moody 8, Munford 3
Oxford 10, Glencoe 0
White Plains 4, Ohatchee 2
Andrew Allen looked strong in his season-opening outing and followed it with an equally strong first start in a combined three-hit shutout of Jacksonville with two other pitchers Thursday, 3-0.
Allen, who struck out all three batters he faced Saturday, worked the first four innings against the Golden Eagles and allowed two hits and struck out seven. Tripp Patterson and Ian Cartwright followed him to the hill and gave up one hit over the final three innings.
Jacksonville’s Dakoda Willingham and Will Greenwood held Alexandria to three hits, but the Valley Cubs manufactured two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth. They broke a scoreless tie with two in the fifth when Canyon Mickler stole home on a double steal and Seth Johnson delivered an RBI double.
WHITE PLAINS 4, OHATCHEE 2: Duke Barnett struck out seven over five innings and Brandon Hahm gave up one hit and struck out four over the last two innings for the save.
Will Caldwell’s sacrifice fly in the second gave White Plains a 1-0 lead. The Wildcats extended it to 3-0 in the third on Cooper Tinney’s RBI groundout and Braxton Curles’ RBI double.
Devin Howell drove in both of Ohatchee’s runs with a two-run double in the fifth that made it 3-2.
OXFORD 10, GLENCOE 0: Payton Watts scattered three hits over five innings and struck out eight for the Yellow Jackets.
Oxford scored its runs in bunches. Hudson Gilman’s RBI double highlighted a three-run second, the Jackets scored three in the third without the benefit of a hit, and Hayes Harrison had a two-run single in their four-run fourth. Harrison had two hits and two RBIs and Caleb Thomas had three RBIs.
Softball
Alexandria 10, Pleasant Valley 0
Cleburne County 8, Oxford 0
Gaston 25, Faith Christian 10
White Plains 13, Handley 4
Jayci Boozer picked up where she left off last season.
Boozer spun a four-hit shutout, struck out 18 and drove in three runs at the plate to lead Cleburne County over Oxford 8-0 Thursday in its season opener.
Boozer, last year’s Class 4A Player of the Year, struck out the side in the first (in order), third, fifth (in order) and sixth. She gave up two singles and pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the third, a single in the sixth and a single in the seventh. She threw 89 pitches, 72 for strikes.
She hit a two-run double in the home first to give the Lady Tigers a 2-0 lead and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
ALEXANDRIA 10, PLEASANT VALLEY 0: Rylee Gattis, last year’s Class 5A Player and Pitcher of the Year, pitched the shutout, homered and drove in four runs to lead the Lady Cubs (5-1). Christian Hess also homered for Alexandria.
WHITE PLAINS 13, HANDLEY 4: Adriana Sotelo and Callie Richardson had RBI singles in a five-run second inning that erased a 3-2 deficit and gave White Plains the lead for good.
Richardson, a first-team Class 4A All-State utility player last season, went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Kristen Rhodes and two hits and two RBIs, winning pitcher Leighton Arnold drove in a pair of runs and Courtnee Masson and Emma Howard each had two hits.
GASTON 25, FAITH CHRISTIAN 10: Meleah Crane went 3-for-3 with five RBIs and Emma Samples and Brooklyn Whitten both had two hits and three RBIs to lead Gaston’s 17-hit attack. Faith got off to a fast start with five runs in the top of the first, but Gaston sent 16 batters to the plate in the bottom of the inning and scored 12 runs. [*** read more]
