GRAVETTE -- Hunter Cole pitched five innings and struck out 10 Lincoln batters in a 12-0 shutout game against the Lincoln Wolves at Gravette on Thursday. The Lions had five hits in the game. Lincoln had two hits and eight errors in the five-inning contest.
Brady Moorman had two of Gravette's hits in the game and one RBI. Mason Dagley had one hit and two RBIs.
The Lions scored two runs in the first inning. Moorman, who got on with a fielder's choice ground ball, scored on a Hunter Cole fly ball to right. Brodie Parsons, who walked, later made it home on a wild pitch.
In the third, Parsons walked and then scored on a Cole double to left. Cole made it home on a Lincoln error. Dalton Bass (also walked) scored on a Dagley ground ball to second. Dylan Gruver also scored on the play. Nick Newbill, who was hit by a pitch, later scored when Kilby Roberts hit a dropped fly ball to center. Dagley scored on a second base error, and Roberts made it home on a passed ball, to put Gravette up, 9-0, at the end of three.
Donny Lemonds and Gruver scored in the fourth on a Dagley line drive to right field. Dagley later made it home on a Moorman single to right.
Cole struck out three of the four Lincoln batters in the top of the fifth and stranded a Lincoln runner on first to take the shutout win in 4 1/2 innings.
Prairie Grove 8
Gravette 5
A big second inning gave the Prairie Grove Tigers the upper hand when the Lions traveled to Prairie Grove on April 3. When the Lions finally tied things up in the fifth at five runs each, the Tigers put three more runs on the board in the bottom of the sixth and shut out the Lions in the top of the seventh to seal the conference win, 8-5.
Gravette scored two runs in the third and three in the fifth and had a total of eight hits in the game. The Tigers had nine hits.
Kilby Roberts led the Lions with three hits and an RBI in the game. Dylan Gruver and Kenton Tajchman each had two and one. Both Roberts and Tajchman had doubles.
Brodie Parsons pitched 5 and 1/3 innings for Gravette, with Trey Nunnally finishing the sixth inning for his team.
Sports on 04/12/2017