By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Forrest City Mustangs won their second straight game Monday and used another big inning to pick up the come-from-behind victory.
Last week, the Mustangs put together a 12-run inning to put away Osceola 18-3.
Monday, against the visiting Brinkley Tigers, Forrest City collected 10 hits and took advantage of four walks and three hit batters to score an 11-7 win at the Sports Complex.
Bradley Taylor and Marcus Hancock combined to pitch the Mustangs to the win.
Taylor started and lasted three innings before giving way to Hancock in the fourth.
Mark lewis led the Mustangs offensively by scoring three runs on two hits and one walk. Will Harris and Dustin Gore scored two runs each while Brandon Cochran, Danny Flowers, Daffy Norment and Milton Joyner added single runs.
Brinkley opened a 2-0 lead in the top of the first before Lewis singled and scored on Harris' RBI ground out to cut the Tigers' lead to 2-1.
Forrest City knotted the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the second when Gore walked and scored on Taylor's RBI single.
Brinkley regained a 4-2 lead in the third and Forrest City missed a golden opportunity in the bottom half of the inning when they loaded the bases but couldn't score.
The Mustangs did break through in the bottom of the fourth with three runs to take a 5-4 lead.
Lewis was hit by a pitch and Cochran singled. Both would score using a wild pitch and and an RBI single by Harris, who would come around on a ground out by Norment.
The Tigers tied the game at 5-5 in the fifth and then went ahead 7-5 with two more runs coming off a Forrest City throwing error.
The bottom of the sixth proved to be the big inning for the Mustangs.
Trailing 7-5 still, the Mustangs batted around to score six runs, highlighted by Joyner's two-RBI double, to vault into the lead 11-7.
Taylor gave up four of the Brinkley runs on five hits and one walk while striking out two.
Hancock gave up three runs on five hits and two walks while setting down four Brinkley hitters.
The Mustangs improve to 4-5 for the year and stand at 1-1 in the AAAAA-East Conference headed into today's conference matchup at West Memphis.
The varsity-junior varsity twinbill starts at 4:30 p.m.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Palestine-Wheatley Lady Patriots moved to 3-0 for the year Monday with a big 10-1 win over Carlisle at Palestine.
It was the second meeting between the two conference foes this season. P-W won the first game against Carlisle, played last week at Carlisle, 20-4.
The Lady Patriots opened a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, scoring six runs on five hits and two walks.
Andrea Cooper and Beth Varvil drove in two runs each in the inning while Jenny Loewer and Leslie Hoots had one RBI each.
Carlisle picked up its lone run in the top of the fifth inning using two hits and one error.
The Lady Patriots put up four more runs in the bottom half of the inning when Ashley McGraw, Hoots, Loewer and Cooper each crossed the plate.
Cooper finished the game with four RBIs while Varvil had three.
Palestine-Wheatley pitcher Amanda Riffle allowed the one run on eight hits.
The Lady Patriots banged out 14 hits in the game.
The Lady Patriots will travel to Clarendon today for a varsity-junior varsity doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m.
The Gillett Wolves took an 8-3 win Monday over the Palestine-Wheatley Patriots in conference action at Gillett.
The Patriots fall to 0-4 for the year.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Jessica Lewis, Kimberly Hoots, Kanetra Pendleton and Tyeshia McDaniel each scored twice Monday to help the Forrest City Lady Mustangs to an 11-3 nonconference win over Barton's Lady Bears.
Forrest City improves to 3-3 for the year. The girls will travel to Little Rock McClellan today.
Forrest City took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Abby Townsend, Lewis and Hoots each scored. Lewis highlighted the inning with a two-run homer.
Pendleton made it a 4-0 lead in the second before Barton pushed a pair of runs across the plate in the top of the third to trail 4-2.
The Lady Mustangs got a three-run home run from Pendleton in the bottom of the third to cap a six run outburst to lead 10-2.
Pendleton's blast came after Lewis, Hoots, McDaniel, Jessica Long and Leslie Jayroe each singled.
McDaniel added a run in the fifth and Barton scored one in the sixth to set the final.
Forrest City made it a doubleheader sweep by winning the junior varsity game 13-12.
Katie Murry, Natalie Nelson, Rachel Sims, Caronica Randle and Angela Williams each scored two runs while Long, Jennifer Ballard and Amanda Renigar scored single runs.
The Lady Bears broke on top 4-0 in the first inning before Forrest City tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the first, helped by Sims' three-run blast.
A five-run second put Forrest City on top 9-4 and included a two-run homer by Williams.
Barton regained the lead with six runs in the third to lead 10-9.
Long singled and scored in the Lady Mustang third to tie the game at 10-10 before Sims and Williams each cracked solo home runs in the fourth to put Forrest City in front 12-10.
Barton tied it in the fifth at 12-12 before Williams' RBI base hit in the bottom of the fifth inning scored Murry for the game-winning run.
The Forrest City Mustang tennis team opens play today with conference matches at Jonesboro.
The Mustangs return Brittney White, senior Cecil Cole and juniors Clayton Clay and Chris Lamb, the two state tournament singles qualifiers from last season.
Last year's team finished 6-1.
"Cole will help us with his leadership on the court this season," said second-year coach Dwight Lofton. "He is a three-year letterman for the team and has a lot of experience."
Following today's matches, the Mustangs will play West Helena Wednesday and West Memphis Thursday.
The annual Eskimo Two-Man Scramble golf tournament was held last month at Ridgecrest Country Club. Thirty-four teams took part in the event.
The results are as follows:
Championship Flight-First place, Ricky Price and Terry Hutcherson. Second place, Charles and Chris Gabe. Third place, Albert Ramsey and Bill Wright.
First Flight-First place, B. and Jay Lindsey. Second place, Scott Townsend Jr. and Shane Birmingham. Third place, Eddie Fleeman and Kenneth Files.
Second Flight-First place, Tom Johnson and Wayne Sarrett. Second place, Rob Haralson and Shannon Jennings. Third place, Joey Astin and Carroll Astin II.