Indian Land baseball gets region sweep over South Pointe, plus all Rock Hill-area scores

The Indian Land Warriors made the most of two hits and took advantage of four South Pointe errors and edged the Stallions 3-1 in a Region 3-4A battle at South Pointe Friday night.

The win completed a three-game sweep of the Stallions during the week and left the Warriors with an overall mark of 9-5 and a region record of 4-2.

Their play this week put them back in the region title picture.

“This team is very resilient,” said head coach Hal Bagwell after the game. “We were 1-2 in the region coming into this week, but our guys put it together and did a great job.”

The bats gave the Warriors big wins in the first two games in the three-game set, but they relied on “small ball” to win the third contest.

“We work on that part of our game every day,” he added. “We did a good job with it tonight.”

The teams traded runs in the first inning. The Warriors got their run in top of the frame when Austin Quinn drove in Reid Kazmierczak, who opened the game by reaching on an error. The Stallions answered in the bottom half. Cole Montgomery singled and proceeded to steal second, third, and home to tie the contest.

Indian Land threatened in the top of the fourth. Quinn walked to open the inning, and after one out, Carter Barrett also drew a walk. The rally died as the Stallions’ Redden Smith retired the next two batters on a strikeout and fly out.

Drew Enders opened the top of the fifth by reaching on a Stallions’ error, and Kazmierczak walked. Both moved up on a sacrifice bunt by Alex Blanchette. When Logan Sulli grounded into a fielder’s choice, Enders scored for a 2-1 Warriors’ lead.

With one out in the bottom of the fifth, Jasiah Torres doubled to right and moved to third on an infield groundout by Maximus Wearing. With two outs Dalton Bucy was hit by a pitch, and the Stallions had runners at the corners. Barrett got out of the jam with a strikeout.

With one out in the sixth, Barrett drew a walk and stole second. After Collin Otte walked, Josh McCall reached on an error. Otte was out at second on the play and Barrett advanced to third. He later scored on a passed ball to make it 3-1.

With one out in the home half of the seventh, Cohen Faile singled and was replaced by courtesy runner Ethan Wilson. The Warriors staved off the threat as Barrett recorded a strikeout and an infield pop out to end the game.

Barrett picked up the win for the Warriors. He pitched a complete game. He allowed only three hits, while striking out six and walking none.

“He was great tonight,” added Bagwell. “We got three complete games this week from our pitching staff.”

Redden Smith took the loss, but turned in a superb effort on the mound. He worked 5.2 innings and allowed only one hit and no earned runs. He struck out three and walked six.

South Pointe fell to 2-7 in region play and 4-9 in all games.

Rock Hill-area baseball scores

Monday

Fort Mill 13, Nation Ford 6

Boiling Springs 8, Clover 2

Blythewood 15, Rock Hill 0

Northwestern 11, Spring Valley 2

Indian Land 10, South Pointe 4

Catawba Ridge 9, Lancaster 5

Hough (NC) 12, York 7

Tuesday

Andrew Jackson 11, North Central 0

Lewisville 11, Great Falls 0

Legion Collegiate 4, Gaston Christian 3

Wednesday

Clover 3, Boiling Springs 2

Nation Ford 15, Fort Mill 0

Spring Valley 6, Northwestern 5

Blythewood 14, Rock Hill 2

Indian Land 13, South Pointe 2

Catawba Ridge 7, Lancaster 0

York 11, Gaffney 0

Andrew Jackson 13, Camden 3

Buford 10, Lewisville 7

Friday

Spring Valley 1, Northwestern 0

Blythewood 14, Rock Hill 2

Clover 13, Boiling Springs 1

Lancaster 3, Catawba Ridge 2

Lewisville 18, Great Falls 2

Baseball region standings

Region 3-5A: 1. Clover 5-1/12-2; 2. Nation Ford 3-2/3-6; 3. Boiling Springs 1-2/9-4; 4. Gaffney 1-2/3-9; 5. Fort Mill 1-4/7-4.

Region 4-5A: 1. Blythewood 6-0/13-1; 2. Spring Valley 7-2/9-5; 3. Northwestern 3-5/6-6; 4. Rock Hill 1-5/3-6; 5. Ridge View 0-5/0-8.

Region 3-4A: 1. Catawba Ridge 7-2/11-4; 2. Indian Land 4-2/8-5; 3. York 3-3/5-8; 4. Lancaster 2-4/5-8; 5. South Pointe 2-7/4-9.

Region 4-3A: 1. Mid-Carolina 3-0/6-2; 2. Chester 3-1/5-5; 3. Fairfield Central 2-2/5-4; 4. Lower Richland 1-3/6-3; 5. Keenan 0-3/0-5.

Region 4-2A: 1. Andrew Jackson 4-0/12-1; 2. Chesterfield 5-1/8-2; 3. Buford 3-2/8-5; 4. North Central 1-4/1-5; 5. Cheraw 0-1/1-3; 6. York Prep 0-2/3-2; 7. Pageland Central 0-3/0-5.

Region 2-1A: 1. Lewisville 4-0/5-7; 2. McBee 3-0/4-7; 3. Great Falls 0-4/1-9; 4. CA Johnson 0-3/0-5.

Lewisville softball team completes solid week

The Lewisville Lions completed a successful week with a 16-1 non-region road win over the Whitmire Wolverines.

The Lions pounded out 13 hits in picking up the one-sided victory, They erupted for 11 runs in the top of the second to take a 15-1 lead at that point and coasted on from there for their third win of the week.

Sarah Owens pitched a complete game and recorded the win for Lewisville. She allowed only two hits. She struck out six and did not allow a walk as she improved to 9-3 on the campaign.

Abby Furr led the Lions’ attack with four hits and she drove in a pair of runs. Alyssa Rollings added two hits and knocked in three runs, while Jordyn Miller contributed a pair of hits and drove in one run. Savannah Rollins had one hit, which was a double..

The Lions are 14-3 overall and 7-0 in the region.

“We are coming together very well,” said veteran head coach Jerry Thomas. “We had everybody back from last year, and the experience we got has really helped us.”

The Lions are better in every area of the game this season.

“We have more power at the plate,’‘ he added. “We have gotten good pitching, and our defense is much improved from a year ago.”

Thomas knows his team needs to continue improving as the year goes along.

“We need to stay focused,” he said. “We need to keep doing the little things well, and be consistent.”

The Lions next game is on Wednesday of next week when they host Nation Ford.

Rock Hill-area softball scores

Monday

Catawba Ridge 10, Nation Ford 3

Lancaster 11, AC Flora 4

York 15, Chester 2

Legion Collegiate 9, Cannon School 2

Tuesday

Rock Hill 17, Northwestern 6

Fort Mill 13, Clover 3

Boiling Springs 15, Nation Ford 3

Catawba Ridge 15, South Pointe 0

York 5, Indian Land 0

Chesterfield 6, Andrew Jackson 1

Lewisville 23, Great Falls 2

Legion Collegiate 12, Charlotte Christian 2

Wednesday

Indian Land 11, Buford 10

Lewisville 9, North Central 4

Richard Winn 12, Great Falls 11

Legion Collegiate 3, Covenant Christian 2

Thursday

Clover 10, Boiling Springs 6

Friday

Dorman 7, Fort Mill 3

Nation Ford 2, Gaffney 1

Lexington 12, Indian Land 0

Lancaster 15, South Pointe 0

Catawba Ridge 6, York 4

Chester 9, Blacksburg 3

Great Falls 22, CA Johnson 2

Charlotte Christian 4, Legion Collegiate 2

Softball region standings

Region 3-5A: 1. Fort Mill 3-0/7-4; 2. Clover 3-1/7-2; 3. Nation Ford 2-3/7-8; 4. Gaffney 1-3/2-6; 5. Boiling Springs 1-3/7-4.

Region 4-5A: 1. Blythewood 3-0/9-3; 2. Ridge View 2-1/7-1; 3. Spring Valley 2-1/6-5; 4. Rock Hill 1-3/4-11; 5. Northwestern 0-3/0-4.

Region 3-4A: 1. Catawba Ridge 4-0/14-1; 2. Lancaster 4-0/12-3; 3. York 1-3/5-3; 4. South Pointe 0-3/0-5; 5. Indian Land 0-3/4-8.

Region 4-3A: 1. Chester 2-1/3-4; 2. Mid-Carolina 1-1/2-4; 3. Lower Richland 1-1/1-6; 4. Keenan 0-0/0-0; 5. Fairfield Central 1-2/2-2.

Region 4-2A: 1. Buford 5-0/8-4; 2. Andrew Jackson 2-2/8-5; 3. Cheraw 1-1/2-3; 4. Chesterfield 1-2/1-5; 5. North Central 0-2/1-7; 6, Pageland Central 0-2/0–6.

Region 2-1A: 1. Lewisville 7-0/14-3; 2. McBee 2-1/2-3; 3. Great Falls 4-4/4-5; 4. CA Johnson 1-4/1-4; 5. Midlands Stem 0-5/0-5.

This story was originally published April 2, 2022 at 9:44 AM.