Bears Batter Smackover; Fall at Malvern

SMACKOVER - Tate Hall went 4-for-4 with six RBIs as the Woodlawn Bears hammered the Smackover Buckaroos, 16-6, in five innings Tuesday afternoon at Smackover.Woodlawn improved to 20-5 overall with the non-conference win. The Bears are 5-0 in 8-2A conference play.Peyton Wells set the tone early for Woodlawn as he led off the top of the first with a homerun. Hall followed with an RBI single and Hollis Holderfield had a two-run double to put the Bears up 4-0 in the opening frame.The Bucks answered with a couple of runs in the bottom of the first to make it 4-2.Hall had a three-run homerun in the second before Cash Hargis knocked in another run with a double to make it 8-2.Mason Edmonds had a tworun triple in the third before Hall drove in another run with a single and Garrett Weatherford followed with an RBI triple to push the Bears' lead to 12-2. Weatherford and Holderfield eventually scored on an error to make it 14-2.Hall drove in another run with a double in the fourth before Smackover plated three runs in the bottom of the frame to make it 15-5.Ty Motes had an RBI single in the fifth for Woodlawn's final run. The Buckaroos did score a run in the bottom of the fifth but it wasn't enough to avoid the 10run rule.Hall's four hits led a Woodlawn lineup that hammered out 13 hits over five innings. Wells, Weatherford and Motes all had two hits apiece.Motes pitched all five innings for the Bears to get the win. He gave up seven hits without a walk and struck out five.Malvern 4, Smackover 3 MALVERN - Malvern scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth and then held off a Woodlawn rally in the seventh as the Class 4A Leopards got past the Bears, 4-3, in a non-conference play Monday at Malvern.Woodlawn's Peyton Wells and Malvern's Carter Pulley had a pitching duel going on for most of the game.Neither team scored until the fifth when the Bears' Hollis Holderfi...