By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Sanyo blanked Title Company 9-0 Friday night in 10-under girls' softball and stands alone as the only undefeated team in the league at 8-0.
Title Company slips to 7-1 for the year and into second place. Food Giant defeated Southern Furniture 15-5 to stay in third place at 6-2.
Tikeyah Holloway scored three times to lead Sanyo while Erin Marlowe added two runs. Whitney Morgan, Alondra Pritchard, Akilah Norman and Chantal Driver scored single runs.
Food Giant broke a 5-5 tie by scoring five runs in the second inning and went on to cruise past Southern in three innings.
Diamondnique Lacy, Kim Shafer, Megan White, Ariel Norment, Markita Wade and Chastity Phillips led Food Giant in scoring.
Nell Bogard scored three runs to lead Walker Insurance past Mom's 13-10 Friday.
Walker scored five runs in the top of the third and then held Mom's scoreless in the bottom half of the inning.
Courtney Cole and Meagan Pipkin led Mom's with two runs each.
Steven's won its second straight game Friday night, putting away Forrest City Bank 18-12.
Mary Hodges scored three times for Stevens while Alexandra Dooley, Kayla Johnson, Caitlin Hargraves, Denton Trail and Amanda Johnson added two runs each.
Forrest City Bank got three runs each from Ashley Blaylock and Megan Meridith.
Dr. Schwartz improved to 5-3 for the year with an 8-7 win over True Value.
Each team scored five runs in the third inning which left Schwartz leading 8-5.
True Value got two runs in the fifth before their rally fell short.
LaQuasha Moore scored twice for True Value.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Neither Children's Clinic nor Debbie's Flowers were able to gain the upper hand Friday in 12-under fast-pitch softball.
The two teams battled to a 15-15 tie, the second deadlock of the year in the new fast-pitch leagues.
Earlier in the year, Food Giant and Clay battled to a tie in 16-under action.
Children's falls to 0-5-1 for the year while Debbie's is 1-4-1.
Debbie's led 5-1 after one inning and 10-5 after two. Children's tied the game at 10-10 in the top of the third, but Debbie's answered with five runs in the bottom of the inning and Children's got five in the fourth as time expired.
Times-Herald remained undefeated in the 12-under league with an 11-7 win over Crowley's.
In 16-under play Friday, Dr. St. John improved to 6-0 for the year with a 13-11 win over Bonanza, 3-4 for the season.
St. John trailed 11-10 going into the final inning and scored three times to win the game.
Kristin Rodriguez and Loren Andrews led St. John with three runs each.Stacey Gracey and Melissa Fogg scored twice each for Bonanza.
Clay improved to 4-2 by defeating Food Giant 11-9 and McDonald's pushed their season mark to 5-3 with a 16-10 win over Sanyo.
McDonald's scored five runs each in the second and fourth innings which was enough to put away Sanyo.
Casey Qualls scored three times for McDonald's while Sanyo got three runs from Kendra Triggs.
Clay scored five times in the first and third innings to get the win over Food Giant.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Cochran Auto scored single runs in the bottom of the fifth and sixth innings Friday night to edge Rotary Club 6-5 in Bambino (11-12) League play.
The victory leaves Cochran in sole possession of first place in the league standings at 6-1. Rotary, which defeated Cochran earlier in the year, slips to 5-2 and into second place.
Rotary scored a single run in the top of the fifth to lead 5-4 before Cochran rallied for the win by tying the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the fifth with a run by Blake Davis.
Kendall Rucker's one out solo home run in the bottom of the sixth won it for Cochran.
Kyle Ramsey went the distance for Rotary, giving up the six Cochran runs on eight hits while striking out six.
Cochran sent three pitchers to the hill -- Douglas Miller, Kellow Bowman and Justin Cochran.
Cochran led 3-1 after one inning before Rotary took a 4-3 lead in the top of the third. Cochran tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the third.
Davis scored twice for Cochran while Julian Isom and Tyrice Bradley scored two runs each for Rotary.
In other Bambino games from Friday, Vaccaro Lumber used a big nine run, third inning to power past Taco Bell 15-5.
William Malone and Cody Flowers each homered for Vaccaro.
Taco Bell scored all five runs in the bottom of the third inning.
Bonanza got three runs each from Larry Bean, Torey Rogers and Johnnie Jones in a 16-8 win over POPS.
Bonanza plated seven runs in the third inning. Terrence Pendleton hit a three-run, home run in the first inning.
Taylor Glass got six strong innings from Rylan Nimocks in a 7-3 win over Hess Shoes.
Nimocks allowed just two hits.
Wilson Parker scored three of Taylor's seven runs.
Hess got a pair of runs from Torre Hunter.
The Bambino (9-10) League will be in action tonight beginning at 6 p.m., on Fields 5 and 6.
Dr. Beasley ended a six-game slide Friday by defeating Joey's Muffler 9-3 in Minor League play.
Caleb Sugg scored four runs to lead Dr. Beasley, including a sixth inning home run.
Joey's got runs from Matthew Vaughn, Daniel Davenport and Blake Lester.
Both teams are 2-6 for the year.
Taylor-Casbeer ran their winning streak to eight straight games Friday by turning back Farm Bureau 19-0.
Zach Trail led the way by scoring four times, including one home run.
Josh Brock and Akeem Bogart each hit home runs in the win.
Minor league action continues tonight with two games on Field 7.