Staff reports

What started as a three-way tie for second place in District 21-5A boys soccer became a slightly clearer picture Tuesday night.

Port Neches-Groves earned its second win over Nederland this season, 2-1, at home to take the season series and gain a game on the Bulldogs. Jason Lovejoy scored his 24th and 25th goals of the season to lead all of Southeast Texas in that category, and Ethan Vincent netted the lone goal for Nederland.

Each team, along with Memorial, was tied for second with 17 points apiece going into Tuesday, but PNG (14-7-2, 7-2-1 in 21-5A, 20 points) gained a game ahead of its archrival Nederland (8-8-4, 5-3-2, 17 points) and pulled within four points of Dayton (17-4-4, 8-2, 24 points), which lost to Cleveland. Memorial (6-7-3, 6-2-1, 20 points) defeated Vidor 2-0 on Tuesday and will host PNG on Friday.

After Memorial, PNG has games at home vs. Barbers Hill on March 19 and at Vidor on March 22 remaining. Nederland will visit Vidor on Friday and host Dayton on March 19.

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In girls soccer, Vidor defeated Memorial 1-0.

 

BASEBALL

Bridge City 1, Hamshire-Fannett 0, 8 inn.

In Bridge City, Jackson Tims singled to center field to drive home Slade Foreman for the only run in an extra-inning, District 22-4A affair.

The Cardinals won despite outhitting the Longhorns 8-1. Peyton Havard earned the pitching win striking out 13 and holding the Longhorns to a single hit in all eight innings.

Jacob Garza scattered eight hits and struck out five for Hamshire-Fannett. Jaxon Bernard and Tims each had two hits, while Cameron Yadon, Sam Carpenter, Havard and Foreman each lined one for Bridge City (8-1-2, 1-0 in 22-4A).

Gage Stark had the lone H-F hit.

Bridge City will play in the Jasper tournament Thursday-Saturday. Hamshire-Fannett (5-4, 0-1) will take on Vidor on Thursday in the West Brook tournament.

 

SOFTBALL

PNG 14, Cleveland 1, 5 inn.

In Port Neches, the home Indians hammered out five doubles, Cameron Niedenthal threw a one-hit gem and Kasidee Sartin and Taylor Dominguez each batted 3 for 3 in a run-rule District 21-5A win over the visiting Indians.

Dominguez drove in three runs and scored one of her own. Sartin batted in a run and scored two.

Niedenthal, Hannah Denman and Sydnee Adams each batted 2 for 3. Denman had an RBI and scored a run, and Adams scored two.

Sadie Shrestha, Maylin Louvier, Niedenthal, Sartin and Denman each hit a double. Niedenthal threw nine strikeouts.

 

 

Barbers Hill 7, Nederland 1

In Mont Belvieu, a four-run fourth inning gave Barbers Hill more than enough cushion to win a District 21-5A opener.

Samantha Landry struck out 15 and gave up five hits in six innings for the Eagles. Makayla Trevino struck out all three of her batters in the seventh.

Nederland (11-11, 0-1 in 21-5A) did not score until the fifth when Avery Lozano came home on a wild pitch. Brittany Taylor, Lexi Eversonle, Hannah Grmbles, Destini Trahan and Harlee Brown each had a hit for Nederland, and Trahan allowed four earned runs on seven hits while walking six, going the distance.

Hayley Freudenberg and Rebecca Miller each smashed two hits for Barbers Hill.

 

Bridge City 16, West Orange-Stark 5

In Bridge City, Abby Anderson batted 4 for 4, Kaylyn Dosch smashed a home run, and the Cardinals (8-5-1, 1-0 in 22-5A) pounded 13 hits in a rout of the Mustangs.

Anderson sent two runs across the plate. Caitlin Denison plated three while batting 2 for 2 and scored two runs, and Dosch went 2 for 3, scoring three runs and driving home three.

Kyndall Harrison drove in two runs on one hit for BC. Ashley Gerrald, Aleah McClanahan, L. Jeffery and Austyn Daniels each had a hit in the win.