The Alexander City Outlook

Benjamin Russell baseball downs Dadeville

The Benjamin Russell baseball scored in each of the first five innings Monday at Dadeville and beat the Tigers 13-5 in the first game of a two-game set.

Sophomore Jayme Dewberry was 3-for-5 with two triples and three RBIs, and Braxton Betts had three singles and four runs to lead the Wildcats.

After both teams scored three times in the first inning, the Cats touched home three more times in the second to build a lead. Following two walks and a hit batter to start the inning, Betts and Griff Gordon hit back-to-back RBI singles and Darius Reese hit a sac fly to make it 6-3.

Dewberry hit a fly ball to left that got lost in the sun to lead off the third inning, and he advanced all the way to third. Dewberry scored on a fly ball off the bat of Mason Blair to give the Cats a four-run lead.

A run-scoring double by Reese and another RBI hit by Dewberry gave BRHS a 9-3 advantage in the fourth inning. In the fifth, three walks, two errors and two hit batters helped BRHS score four runs to make it 13-3.

Dadeville scored twice in the fifth on an infield RBI single by Cameron Carleton and a wild pitch that allowed Jacob Tidwell to make it home. BRHS’ Riggs Symonds shut down the Tigers in the last two innings to preserve the win.

The visitors scored their three first-inning runs on a hit by Seth Johnston and Dewberry’s first triple. Dadeville tied the game in its half on two bases-loaded walks and a wild pitch. Darius Reese entered the game in the first for starter Gordon and worked 4.2 innings.

Quinn Harrelson started for Dadeville and pitched one-plus inning, before he was lifted for Shakeel Russell. Russell lasted three-plus innings, and Doug Molett closed out the game.

BRHS won the second game behind Dewberry on the mound, 10-4.

Cats split on Saturday

On Saturday, BRHS picked up a dramatic win over Beauregard in the second game of a doubleheader in Alexander City.

With the Cats trailing 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Braxton Betts and Griff Gordon both singled, and Darius Reese walked to load the bases. Seth Johnston then smashed a pitch off the left-center wall to bring home two runners and give BRHS a 6-5 victory.

A Betts sac fly to center scored William Parks, who had doubled, in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game at 1-1.

Beauregard took a 2-1 lead in the fourth, but Parks drew a bases-loaded walk and William Blair scored on a wild pitch in the bottom half to give BRHS a 3-2 lead.

After the Hornets scored three times in the fifth to go up 5-3, Gordon doubled and scored on a Reese groundball for the fourth BRHS run.

Mitchell Luckie tossed the first five innings for the Cats, and Riggs Symonds retired the Hornets in order in the sixth and seventh innings to get the win.

In the first game of the twin-bill, Mountain Brook held BRHS to two hits and defeated the Cats 5-1. MBHS beat Beauregard 6-0.

Tigers score weekend sweep

Dadeville took down Headland 12-2 and Wicksburg 5-2 at HHS.

Quinn Harrelson belted two home runs and drove in seven runs in the Headland victory. Cameron Carleton also had a monster evening, as he tripled and singled twice at the plate and pitched five innings of one-hit baseball, striking out six, on the mound. Headland is coached by Randy Nolen’s son, Seth Nolen.

Against Wicksburg, Walker Bynum homered, singled and finished with three RBIs. Harrelson had two more singles, and Ben Templeton also had a hit. Jody Kelly did not allow an earned run in five innings, and Chris Waldrep pitched the last two to get the save.