GENTRY -- The Gentry High School baseball team lost to Pea Ridge on March 29 but trampled Berryville and shut out West Fork on Thursday and Friday.
On March 29, the Blackhawks flew into Pioneer territory. CJ Taylor was on the mound for the Pioneers and allowed only four hits and one earned run, but the Pioneers couldn't get it done with their bats and lost, 2-1, in the league game. Taylor threw eight strike outs in just under six innings.
Gentry's only run came in the bottom of the fifth when Ayden Smartt singled to the shortstop and later made it home when Taylor hit a hard ground ball to third and made it on because of a Pea Ridge error.
Gentry 14
Berryville 1
At Berryville, both the Pioneers and Bobcats picked up a run in the first, but the Pioneers blew open the game in the top of the second with nine runs. Berryville never scored again, but Gentry added another four runs in the fourth.
The Pioneers scored in the second on an RBI single by Tanner Christie, an RBI double by Ayden Smartt, an RBI single by CJ Taylor, an RBI single by Myles McFerron, an RBI single by Josh Cochran, an RBI single by Tanner Shipp and a two-run single by Sean Pierce.
Smartt pitched for the Pioneers and struck out five. He allowed three hits and one earned run.
Gentry 10
West Fork 0
Josh Cochran and Myles McFerron shut down West Fork in five innings of play on Friday in Gentry. Both struck out two. Cochran allowed two hits in his four innings on the mound. McFerron allowed no hits in the final inning of the game.
Ayden Smartt led in RBIs, with two. Wyatt Clark and Zac Adkins each had two hits in the game. Adkins had a single and a double.
Sports on 04/06/2016