She finished with six strikeouts and fourwalks while throwing 101 pitches.

“Sometimes, it helps a pitcher when theyaren’t quite consistent like she was,” SonjiaCotter said. “She was a little bit (wild), com-pared to how she usually is, and we were sec-ond-guessing ourselves.”

Anderson also credited Mendenhal for hav-ing a bit of extra movement on her pitches.

“It did look like she had a little bit of sink toher pitches that we normally don’t see fromher,” he said. “With the success we’ve hadagainst her in the past, I don’t have an expla-nation why we didn’t do more than we didtonight.”

The Lady Jays finished with nine hits off ofCotter and struck out just once.

Forsyth crushes CraneWith the door open for Stifler to play in the

Class 1 District 8 semifinal round this year,she showed off her healthy hitting stoke.

Stiffler had two hits and two RBIs inForsyth’s 7-1 win over Crane on Tuesday.

A year ago, the door was shut, literally, onStiffler being able to suit up at this stage. Sheneeded five stitches in her right hand when acar door slammed onto her hand earlier thatday. She was not able to play in Forsyth’ssemifinal loss to Clever.

“The car was on a hill and I saw the doorwas going to shut on (a friend’s) leg, so Ireached out to grab it,” Stiffler said. “At first,I thought I was fine. But then I looked at myhand and I was like, ‘Whoa!’ and freaked out.I couldn’t have much movement in my hand

or bend it.“It was devastating. I wanted to play for my

team and couldn’t.”Forsyth (16-10) dominated Crane, jumping

out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning and addinga single tally in the second and four more runsin the fifth.

The Lady Panthers also received two hitsfrom third baseman Sydnee Cotter and a pairof RBIs from catcher Jessica Carley.

Forsyth’s hitters had to adjust from excep-tionally slow pitching on Monday versusSpokane to much faster pitching from Crane.

“It was challenging because it was a big dif-ference,” Stiffler said. “We worked on it inpractice. Coach cranked up the pitchingmachine high so we could get (adjusted) tothe speed.”

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PREP ROUNDUP | Reeds Spring’s Allphin four-time winner while sweeping hurdles races and running a leg on winning 4 x 200 and 4 x 400 relays

STAFF REPORTSBOLIVAR — Hunter Flett’s return

from a hamstring injury saw him claimtwo gold medals as part of the ReedsSpring boys track team’s champi-onship at the COC Small SchoolsMeet on Tuesday.

Flett won the 100 (11.32) and ran aleg on the Wolves’ winning 4 x 100relay (44.34) with Korey Robinette,Colter Whitten and Keenan Haynes.Flett was second in the 200 (23.34)and long jump (19-91/4).

The 4 x 100 relay was two secondsoff its personal record, but still won bymore than two seconds.

Robinette won the 200 (23.00),while Matt Krulic took first in the 400(51.4), Ransom Allphin claimed goldin the 110 hurdles (16.18) and 300 hur-dles (42.16), Gabe Corn won the triplejump (40-101/2) and Garrett Miller fin-ished on top in the javelin (158-2) bymore than 15 feet.

Reeds Spring also won the 4 x 200relay (1:32) with Haynes, Whitten,Allphin and Robinette and the 4 x 400relay (3:35) with Allphin, Corn, NickHaddock and Jarod Cole.

Miller was second in the shot putwith a personal record 44-2.

Corn was second in the high jump

(6-2) to Hollister’s Kyle Kapella (6-4). The Tigers’ Cody Franklin was run-

ner-up in the pole vault (14-6).On the girls side, Hollister’s Lydia

Hoskins won the long jump (16-0).She was seeded at 14-41/2. TeammateMattie Hatfield was second (15-101/4).

The Lady Tigers’ Alexa Bekemeierwon the javelin (95-6) and discus(108-3).

Reeds Spring’s 4 x 800 relay ofMadison Bagg, Rachel Bagg, TammyDraper and Kayla Dahms took second(10:37).

Pirates rally for winBranson’s baseball team bounced

back from a 4-2 loss to Ozark onTuesday to down Benton CountyPerforming Arts (Arkansas) 6-5 onThursday.

Down 5-0, the Pirates took the leadin the sixth inning.

Chad Reusch homered while going2-for-3. Seth Cline drove in two runswith two hits.

Winning pitcher Matthew Allisonprovided four innings of scorelessrelief after Benton County reachedReusch for five runs in the first threeinnings.

Reusch had his hitting streak of 10-

games halted against Ozark. ThePirates managed just two hits, singlesby Hayden Gibson and JakeNewberry.

Bryce Burtless allowed seven hitswhile taking the loss.

Panthers bow to GalenaThe Forsyth baseball team dropped

its first SWCL decision in three years,as Galena beat the Panthers 5-3 onTuesday.

Forsyth received RBI-singles fromDylan Jordan and Layn Hurst and adouble from Jett Schanda.

Jake Baker, a College of the Ozarkssignee, pitched two innings of hitlessrelief for Galena. He threw strikes on20 of 24 pitches.

Logan Sorrell was the winningpitcher. He also beat Forsyth duringthe Forsyth Tournament a year ago.

Hurst suffered the loss, despite strik-ing out a dozen.

Wolves put up 14 runs in winThe Reeds Spring baseball team

outlasted New Covenant 14-13 onTuesday.

The Wolves, who had a season-high23 hits, received four hits from CollinCross and three hits apiece from Jake

Fisher, Stone Woodward, JarebGrinder, Collin Briley and BrendanDurham.

Pirates fourth in tourneyBranson’s Luke Steding and Zach

Bliss finished second in singles actionto highlight the Branson tennis team’sresults at the COC Large SchoolsTournament on Wednesday.

The Pirates’ No. 3 doubles team ofMatt Baker and Caleb Snyder also fin-ished second.

Branson was fourth in the teamstandings.

Newell, Tigers net road winHollister baseball team’s pulled out

a 2-1 triumph at Fordland on Tuesday,as Braeden Newell provided a game-winning suicide squeeze bunt in theseventh inning.

Chris Miesmer delivered an RBI-single.

Trey Dorlan gained the win with acomplete-gam effort.

Branson at COC Large MeetNo results were submitted for

Branson’s track team from the COCLarge Schools Meet at Ozark onThursday.

Wolves capture 10 firsts as runaway COC champions

Pat Dailey | Branson Tri-Lakes NewsPPIIRRAATTEESS TTEENNNNIISSTTHHEE VVIIEEWW

Matthew Coleman follows through on a forehand return. Luke Steding follows through on a serve.

Nate Ray reaches to his right for a volley in No. 1 doubles action at the COC Large Schools Tournament on Wednesday.

Matthew Coleman lifts one foot off the ground while making a backhand return.

LLAADDYY PPAANNTTHHEERRSS:: Stiffler posts two RBIs in semifinal victorycont. from 12A

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What’s On Tap Tri-Lakes Area Sports Schedule

Saturday’s GamesPrep Baseball

n Forsyth Tournament @ Forsyth(Gainesville vs. Forsyth, 10:30 a.m) @ Hollister(Aurora vs. Hollister, 10 a.m.)

n Reeds Spring @ Monett, 11 a.m.College Baseball

n AII Tournament @ Lawrenceville, Georgia(C of O vs. Mt. Mercy, 4 p.m.)

Monday’s GamesPrep Tennis

n Class 2 District 11 @ Springfield Kickapoo(Springfield Parkview vs. Branson, 4 p.m.)Prep Baseball

n Forsyth Tournament (semifinals 4:30 p.m.and 7 p.m.)

n Reeds Spring @ Springfield Central, 4:30p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesPrep Tennis

n Class 2 District 11 @ Springfield Kickapoo(Parkview-Branson winner vs. Kickapoo, 4 p.m.)

Prep Baseball n Forsyth Tournament (final, 4:30 p.m.)n Springfield Hillcrest @ Branson, 4:30 p.m.

Prep Soccern Nixa @ Branson, 5 p.m.

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