Shelby County Today

April 20, 2016 - After the Timpson Bears varsity baseball team started Tuesdays game with a 1-0 advantage, the Gary Bobcats used a 7-4 hitting advantage, and four Bears errors, to score 11 unanswered runs, and take a 11-1 win. The game was ended at the conclusion of the top of the fifth frame due to the UIL ten-run-rule.

THS scored first when Hayden Smith and Cutter Smith started the game with back-to-back singles. Later in the inning, Hunter Smith singled and drove in Hayden Smith.

In the bottom of the first inning, Cooper Watkins drove home Kenneth Andrews with an RBI single to tie the game. Levi Tanner next walked to load the bases. A costly throwing error soon cost the Bears big and three runs scored to give the Bobcats a 4-1 advantage. More walks and errors saw the Bears trailing 6-1 by the conclusion of the first inning.

A walk by Bear Shane Peveto was the only offense Timpson could get in the top of the second frame. The Bobcats extended their lead to 8-1 after THS started the inning with two errors, and GHS got two walks, and a hit from Cody Lake. Bears short stop Chandler Burgay made a spectacular double play to end the Bobcats at-bat.
Timpson went down 1-2-3 in the top of the third inning.

GHS extended their lead by one run in the bottom of the third frame with a score by Casin Daniels.Burgay started out the fourth inning with a lead off single but Gary's defense stiffened and kept the Bears scoreless during the inning.

Gary used a double by Odom and a single by Tanner Ransom to help score the final two runs of the game, and to gain the final 11-1 advantage.

April 19, 2016 - The Lady Dragons game vs West Sabine has been cancelled for today, April 19th

April 19, 2016 - The Dragon baseball game vs Mt. Enterprise has been cancelled for today. It has been tentatively rescheduled for Thursday, April 21 at 4:00 pm in Mt. Enterprise.

April 14, 2016 - The Joaquin Lady Rams varsity softball team defeated their District 22 2A rivals, the Alto Lady Yellowjackets, by a convincing 12-1 score, last Tuesday, April 12. The game was cut short in the fifth inning due to the UIL ten-run-rule.

Joaquin honored seniors Maddison Andres, Kristen Harvey, Shelby Diven, Katherine Patrick, Annie Tarver, Miranda Prnka and Hailey Cummings before the game. Coach Steven McCann said during the ceremony, "Seniors like these are a pleasure to coach and they make our jobs easy."

Alto jumped out to an early 1-0 lead when they cashed in on their only two hits of the contest in the top of the first inning. The Lady Rams bounced back and tied the game 1-1 when Katherine Patrick reached base on an error, and Hana Bonner drove her home with an RBI triple. Bonner was picked off at home trying to stretch her hit into an inside-the-park-home run.

The Lady Rams used three walks, three hits and a sacrifice bunt to extend their lead to 5-1 in the bottom of the second inning.

Randi Goates added a run to the JHS tally when she scored on a passed ball behind Alto's catcher in the third inning.

Doubles by Lady Rams Lexi Hutchins and Miranda Prnka helped JHS boost their lead to 10-1 in the fourth frame.

Hutchins drove home Bonner and Darby Hughes in the fifth inning to end the game by 'Mercy-Rule.'

The Lady Rams have two games remaining in conference play. They have clinched a post-season birth and will next face the Timpson Lady Bears, at Timpson, on Friday, April 15 at 5 pm.