By CHAD MATCHETT
Special to The Leader
The Cooper Family Dentistry Rangers held off the Watts Home Improvement Diamondbacks 10-9 Thursday night at Dupree Park, keeping the Rangers’ hopes alive for a championship.
The Jacksonville Youth Baseball program’s 15-under division is running longer than the rest of the leagues after so many rainouts early in the season and because first place won’t be decided until the final game.
The league’s two top teams, the Rangers and the First Arkansas Bank Cardinals, are locked up in a tie that currently goe through several layers of tiebreakers.
The Rangers and Diamond-backs meet again Saturday morning, but Thursday’s win by the Rangers guaranteed the final makeup game with the Cardinals will be needed.
The Cardinals and Rangers are 2-2 against each other, with each winning by six runs. A Rangers win Saturday would cancel a third tiebreaker, as both would be 4-1 against the Diamondbacks. A loss to the Diamondbacks Saturday would still require the final makeup game to be played. A win by the Rangers would leave them tied with the Cardinals in overall league record, but holding the head-to-head tiebreaker. A win by the Cardinals would give them the outright championship.
