Any game in any sport is intense when Tioga and Pineville meet. Their softball teams square off today at 5:30 with a berth in next weekend’s Select Division I state tournament on the line.
The second-seeded Lady Rebels are hosting the No. 7 Lady Indians, assuring Rapides Parish will have a team in Sulphur next Friday.
The ASH and Plainview softball teams narrowly missed pulling upsets in quarterfinal games on the road Thursday, each falling by one run as their seasons ended.
In baseball Thursday, Buckeye was cruising with a 4-0 lead in the sixth inning of Game 1 of its homefield Select Division II series against St. Michael’s, but the visitors roared to life. A grand slam in the top of the seventh pushed the Warriors up 5-4, before the Panthers rallied in the bottom half to force extra innings.
Ninth-seeded St. Michael’s pushed across two go-ahead runs in the top of the eighth and held on to stun the eighth-seeded hosts. Game 2 is today at 5 and if No. 8 Buckeye wins, a decisive Game 3 will follow.
Menard dropped a 3-2 Game 1 decision at Catholic-New Iberia Thursday while Pineville was run-ruled in its series opener top-seeded Brother Martin.
ASH is home today to begin its series with Captain Shreve. Tioga goes to New Orleans to play Jesuit.
Baseball regional round series
Select Division I
Thursday’s score: Brother Martin 12, Pineville 0 (5 innings, Game 1 of best-of-3; Game 2 – today, 4:00; if necessary, Game 3, Saturday 11 a.m.
Captain Shreve (9) at ASH (8) – today 6:00, Saturday 2:00, if necessary Game 3 follows
Tioga (11) at Jesuit (6) – today 6:00, Saturday noon, if necessary Game 3, 3:00
Select Division II
Thursday’s score: St. Michael 7, Buckeye 5, 8 innings (Game 1 of best-of-3; Game 2– today, 5:00, if necessary Game 3 follows
Select Division III
Thursday’s score: Catholic-New Iberia 3, Menard 2 (Game 1 of best-of-3; Game 2 – today, 6:00; if necessary, Game 3, Saturday 11:00
Softball quarterfinal games
Select Division I
Tioga (7) at Pineville (2), today, 5:30
Mt. Carmel 3, ASH 2 (Thursday)
Select Division II
Buckeye (6) at Archbishop Hannan (3), today, 6:00
Select Division IV
Menard (7) at Glenbrook (2), Saturday, 1:00
Class C
Claiborne Christian 8, Plainview 7 (Thursday)