RUSSELL, Ky.

Sunday, May 07, 2000

RUSSELL, Ky. – And the beat goes on.

The South Point Pointers continued their winning ways as they beat the Russell Red Devils 5-3 Friday for their 15th win in 21 games this season.

The Pointers banged out 11 hits en route to the win led by Dick Weaver who was 3-for-4 with a home run. Shane Fuller was 2-4 with two doubles and Jared Perdue went 2-3.

Patrick Panell got the win with a six-hitter.

Russell scored first with a run in the first when Matt Frazier doubled, Chris Clark reached on an error, and Noah May singled.

South Point tied the game in the third.

Justin Eaches had a leadoff single, stole second, Josh Morrison walked, and B. J. Belville reached on an error as Eaches scored.

Panell helped himself in the fourth as the Pointers took the lead with two runs. Weaver singled, Perdue doubled, and Panell had a two-run single.

Russell came back with a run in the bottom of the inning to make it 3-2.

Tom McClure singled, moved up on a passed ball, Dustin Shafer walked, Evans grounded out, and Frazier was safe on an error as the run scored.

The Pointers lead went to 4-2 in the fifth when Weaver lined a two-out solo home run.

The Red Devils answered once again in the bottom of the inning.

Clark singled, stole second, and came home on Todd Malone’s base hit.

Fuller doubled to start the sixth inning and Morrison had an RBI single as the Pointers got an insurance run.

South Point, 15-6, hosts Jackson at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Division II sectional tournament.

South Point 001 211 0 – 5 11 3

Russell 100 110 0 – 3 6 2

Patrick Panell and Nick Clay, B. J. Belville (4). May, Chris Clark (5) and Chris Clark, Scott Aulen (5). W-Panell. L-May. 2B-South Point: Shane Fuller 2, Jared Perdue. HR-South Point: Dick Weaver. Hitting-South Point: Shane Fuller 2-4, Josh Morrison 1-3, B. J. Belville 1-4, Dick Weaver 3-4, Justin Eaches 1-4, Jared Perdue 2-3, Patrick Panell 1-3; Russell: Matt Frazer 1-4, Chris Clark 1-2, Noah May 1-4, Tom McClure 1-3, Todd Malone 2-3.

Northwest 11, Rock Hill 1 McDERMOTT – The number 13 was definitely unlucky for the Rock Hill Redmen.

Walks and errors led to 13 extra runners as the Northwest Mohawks beat the Redmen 11-1 in six innings Thursday in the Division II sectional tournament game.

"You make five errors and walk eight people, it catches up with you. You can’t put 13 runners on and not expect it to hurt you," Rock Hill coach Wes Hairston said. "You can’t give teams four and five outs an inning. But some of that is youth and inexperience on our part."

The five errors Rock Hill committed led to five unearned runs.

A walk, a throwing error, two more walks, and a two-run single, and an RBI single put Northwest up 3-0 in the first. The Mohawks added another run in the third.

Northwest scored five runs in the fourth and added a run in the fifth on a walk, a sacrifice, a wild pitch, and a base hit.

Rock Hill got its only run in the fifth when Tanner Heaberlin doubled and scored on a dropped fly ball.

The Mohawks got their final run in the sixth to end the game. Rock Hill’s Tyler Virgin tried to prevent the premature end of the game when on a base hit he threw out a runner at home who was on third base, but a bloop single eventually sent home the 11th run.

"Northwest has a pretty good hitting team and their pitcher keeps you off-balance, but we had some opportunities to score and didn’t capitalize," said Hairston.

Rock Hill 000 010 – 1 4 5

Northwest 301 511 – 11 12 1

Josh Harper and Tanner Heaberlin. Montgomery and Hall. W-Montgomery (5-K, 2-W). L-Harper (5-K, 8-W). 2B-RH: Tanner Heaberlin; NW: Hall. Hitting-Rock Hill: Josh Harper 1-3, Tyler Virgin 1-3, Kyle Lewis 1-3, Tanner Heaberlin 1-2; Northwest: Chandler 2-5, Hall 3-3 (3 Runs), Secrest 2-4.