Central bounces back with two tourney wins

Central shored up its defense and bounced back to finish the 20-team Trojan Classic baseball tournament in Chattanooga, Tenn., with a pair of wins Saturday.

The Tigers, who went 2-3 in the tournament and are 8-6 overall, rolled past host squad Soddy-Daisy (Tenn.) 11-2 and rallied past Memphis (Tenn.) Fairley 11-8.

Central, after committing nine errors during two losses Friday, had just one error in Saturday's two games.

"We moved some players around and played much better defensively," Central coach Steve Williams said. "It was good to bounce back."

Jake Welch was the winning pitcher against Soddy-Daisy with five innings of scoreless relief. He allowed five hits, struck out two and walked none.

The Tigers had 11 hits, led by Chris Conrad and Mitch Craft with three apiece. Craft also drove in two runs while Mark Dunaway belted his team-high third home run of the season, a three-run shot.

Against Memphis Fairley, the Tigers trailed 8-1 in the early going before storming from behind.

Chris Daniel, the third of four Central hurlers, got the win with 3 1/3 scoreless innings. He allowed two hits. Seth Hudson earned the save by pitching a scoreless and hitless seventh.

Central had 14 hits, with Conrad, Mark Dunaway, Lucas Presson, Aaron Dohogne and Tyler Blackwell all getting two. Patrick Slattery had a two-run homer.

Girls soccer

Perrville places third

Perryville's failed to defend its Fralish Cup Tournament title Saturday in Carbondale, Ill., but the Pirates did come home with a third-place finish.

The Pirates (7-5-2) couldn't find the back of the net against Springfield (Ill.), who ended Perryville's title hopes with a 2-0 defeat in the semifinals. Kate Lowry made 13 saves in the game.

Perryville bounced back in the third-place game, though. The Pirates fell behind host Carbondale early in the first half, but knotted the score at 1-1 on a free-kick goal by Amber Crites with 18 minutes remaining in regulation. Ashley Riney scored the game-winner with a little more than two minutes remaining in the second overtime. Ashly Hadler picked up the assist, and Lowry added eight saves.

Perryville's Anna Davis and Lowry were named to the all-tournament team. St. Vincent's Caitlin Hoeh was also a member of the 10-player team.

St. Vincent won two games Saturday to finish 2-1 in the tournament. After dropping a 2-1 decision to Springfield (Ill.) Friday, St. Vincent (10-6) started the day with a 4-0 win over Marion (Ill.). Hoeh scored two goals and Joy Donze and Sierra Paulus had a goal apiece for the Squaws. Amanda Carron had two assists and Hoeh and Megan Richardet also had assists. Michelle Herzog recorded the shutout.

St. Vincent scored two minutes into overtime to win their second game of the day 2-1 over Homewood-Floffmoor out of Chicago. Donze scored St. Vincent's first goal and Hoeh scored the game-winner off an assist from Carron in overtime. Hoeh finished with five goals in the three games.

Track & field

Groves stars in meet

Scott City's Loren Groves placed in three events over the weekend during the high school portion of the Kansas Relays in Lawrence, Kan.

Groves was third in the discus (137-1), eighth in the shot put (37-9) and 16th in the 300-meter hurdles (50.06 seconds).

-- From staff reports