By KELLY FENTON
Leader sports editor
Cabot’s junior Legion team went 2-0-1 in the North Little Rock Memorial Day tournament but missed out in bracket play.
Cabot opened with a win over Sylvan Hills, but after rallying from a 3-run deficit to Texarkana on Saturday to take a 6-5 lead, they allowed a run in the final inning and time expired on a 6-6 tie.
Texarkana jumped on starter Tyler Erickson for five runs over the first two innings, but Cabot hung in with two runs in the second.
Powell Bryant came within inches of cutting into that lead when his leadoff double in the fourth hit off the top of the fence in left-center. Bryant got picked off, but Cabot scored four in the fifth inning to take a 6-5 lead.
Joe Bryant singled with one out and Matt Evans walked. Andrew Reynolds followed with an RBI single and Erickson was safe on an error. Chase Thompson walked before Matthew Turner put Cabot on top with a two-run single to left.
C.J. Jacoby, who pitched four solid innings after coming on in the second, allowed a triple and a single in the sixth inning to tie it. The one hour, 50 minute time limit expired and a tie was declared. Cabot finished pool play with an 8-5 win over Lakeside on Sunday.
SYLVAN HILLS
Sylvan Hills sent 18 men to the plate in the third inning, scoring 13 of them in a 14-2 pasting of Lakeside on Saturday. Sylvan Hills picked up seven hits in the inning and took advantage of six walks and three hit batters.
Corey Arnold had a 2-run double, Greg Nosal had 2-run single, and Justin Cook, Jake Dillon and Mike Maddox each added run-scoring singles.
Austin Spears was hit by pitches in all four of his plate appearances.
Sylvan Hills scored a run in the first inning on two walks, a hit batter and Jordan Spears’ single, but trailed 2-1 after two.
Eric McKinney pitched three solid innings, allowing two hits, striking out two and hitting three. Cameron Graves pitched a 1-2-3 fourth, fanning two, and Arnold pitched a hitless fifth.
Sylvan Hills’ two losses came to Cabot on Friday and to Texarkana on Sunday.
