By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Every starter for Joey's Muffler scored at least one run last Friday night in the season opener for the Bambino 9-10-year-old League team.
In fact, Joey's plated 20 runs to take a convincing 20-3 win over Sanyo.
Dusty Smith and Marlon McShan led the offensive change by scoring three runs each. Four players -- Cadarius Parchman, Corey Robichaud, Charles Anderson and Lloyd Hamilton -- crossed the plate twice.
Hamilton picked up the pitching victory, Hamilton gave up the three runs on just three hits while striking out nine Sanyo hitters.
Joey's put up 10 runs in the first inning and closed out the contest with two in the second and eight more in the third.
Xavier Lewis hit a home run and scored twice to lead Sanyo while teammate Barlow Herbert scored a single run.
Mr. T Auto plated four runs in the top of the fifth inning and then held off Cochran Auto in the bottom portion of the inning to take a 12-10 win Friday in Bambino League play.
Ryan Green homered and scored three times while Devin Green and Larry Smith each scored twice.
Davyan McKinney picked up the pitching victory.
Cochran led 8-1 after two innings before Mr. T Auto scored five times in the third inning to cut that lead to 8-6.
Two runs in the fourth inning tied the game at 8-8 and the four-run, fifth inning put Mr. T in front.
Cochran scored twice in their final at bat before suffering three consecutive strikeouts to end the game.
J. B. Sports got single runs from seven different players Friday and held off Easley Law Firm 7-3 in pitching machine league.
Broderick Johnson, Carlos Rogers, Spencer Morgan, Brandon Johnson, Trenton Steen, Andrea Hancock and Phandes Watson all scored one run.
Easley Law scored all three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Food Giant got two runs each from Cameron Weeks and Malik Avant to put away Giffin's Grins 7-3.
Food Giant plated five of their seven runs in the fourth inning.
Forrest City Bank rallied to score five runs in the top of the fourth inning and then held Title Company in their last at bats to take an 11-10 win as girls' 10-under slow pitch softball opened their season on Friday.
Title Company led 4-3 after one inning and 7-6 after three innings.
Title Company fell behind when Forrest City Bank plated the five runs in the fourth and then scored three before stranding the tying runs at first base when the final out was made.
KiKi Heard and Christina Clark led Forrest City Bank with three runs while Logan Duch scored twice.
Semiko Grady led Title Company with three runs while Katie Davis and Meghan Clark added two runs each.
In other 10-under games played Friday, Dr. Schwartz got at least one run from nine of the 10 starters to put down Food Giant 11-0.
Andrea Hall scored twice for Schwartz.
Taylor Billingsley, Kaitlyn Peterson, Kelsey Ferguson and Ashley Blaylock scored two runs each to lead Steven's past Pizza Inn 12-0.
Walker Insurance held off Southern Furniture 8-7.
Mary Burks led the way scoring three runs and Tejarra McClinic added two runs.
Tatyana Ursery and Whitney Morgan scored twice for Southern.
True Value made led 5-2 early and settled for a 10-8 win over Sanyo.
Nine of True Value's 11 players scored at least one run in the game.
Monday's schedule of youth baseball and softball games were rained out as was the adult men's softball league.
Tonight's schedule, weather permitting, includes the T-Ball, Minor, Bambino (9-10), and the 10-under girls leagues.
The East Arkansas All-Stars AAU basketball team finished third Sunday at the AAU 17-Under State Tournament, played at Little Rock.
The team is comprised of Palestine-Wheatley's Vince Jones, Forrest City's John Scott Carroll, West Memphis' Eric Strickland, Marianna's Rodney Moore, El Dorado's Tony Champion, Camden's Channing Murray and Earle's Aaron Bowles.
In Sunday's third-place game, Moore led the team with 16 points while Jones and Strickland had 15 poits each.
The team is coached Terry Farmer.
CABOT -- The Jonesboro Hurricane is looking to lay claim to yet another Class AAAAA state golf championship today at Cabot's Greystone Country Club.
Twelve teams in all (the top three from each of the four conferences) will compete in the one-day tournament for team and individual honors.
Sawyer Ramsey will represent Forrest City. Ramsey was the only Mustang team golfer to qualify for the state tournament.
As a team, Forrest City finished fourth in the AAAAA-East Conference championships played last week.
Jonesboro, undefeated at 51-0 this season, is led by senior Matt Sullivan, who has a 74.1 stroke average on the year and has earned medalist honors in seven events.
Stephen Cox and Willie Little, both sophomores, also carry 74 stroke averages.
Senior Chris Woodard (77.1) and junior Marcus Huffer (78.8) round out the AAAAA-East conference champion team that tied a school record with an even-par 288 team score at Greystone in the conference tournament.
Little tied for the low round with a three-under-par 69 and went on to win medalist honors on the fourth playoff hole against Tyler Yazza of Cabot.
Cox finished third with a 71, Huffer fifth (73), Sullivan was sixth (75) and Woodard placed eighth overall with a 78.
Parker and JHS are looking for their fourth state title since 1988, but first since 1996.