Calera and Silo baseball teams each got off to unbeaten starts with the opening of the high school season last week.
The Bulldogs smacked four foes, including three shutouts, to begin the year with a 4-0 record.
Silo, meanwhile, blasted Atoka for a pair of District 3A-8 wins as the remaining game on the schedule was rained out.
Calera
The Bulldogs opened the campaign with a 12-0 rout of Colbert, riding the arm and bat of Jaron Smith, who twirled three shutout innings in which he yielded one hit and struck out five for the victory.
Smith also posted a team-high three hits, including a pair of doubles, as Calera bolted to two runs in each of the first two stanzas before putting it away on the run rule with eight tallies in the third.
Hazyn Applegate notched two doubles as well, driving in three and scoring twice. Devan Walton and Talon Rose had two hits each as Logan Bumgarner, Ryan Dunn, Lex Carlton, Cody Langley and Mathew Sweeney all contributed one hit.
Coach Ricky Teafatiller’s squad blanked Rock Creek, 8-0, with Dunn firing a five-inning no hitter that included 10 strikeouts and four walks.
Langley fueled the offensive charge for the Bulldogs with three hits and two RBI. Bumgarner also pitched in two hits as Smith, Applegate and Dunn all had one.
Calera’s third straight shutout came in a 5-0 whitewashing of Atoka spurred by Applegate’s mound performance.
The Bulldogs finished off a perfect week in a 5-3 triumph against Asher, despite getting outhit 7-4 in the contest.
A three-run fourth inning, which included five walks and an error, helped erase a 3-1 deficit while putting Calera ahead to stay.
Bumgarner yielded three unearned runs on four hits while striking out seven to notch the victory. Carlton followed with three scoreless frames of three-hit relief for the save.
Calera made the most of four hits as Smith smacked a pair of those as Carlton and Gavin Chaffin ended with one apiece.
Silo
Junior catcher Jeret House blasted a pair of three-run homers in a 12-run first inning explosion to lead the Rebels to a 21-0 romp in the opener against Atoka.
Silo pushed across nine more runs in the second inning to roll as 10 different players all produced hits. Charlie Gardner added another home run and finished with two RBI.
In addition to House, Britton Salsbury tossed in a pair of hits and drove in two runs. Zane Sander, Colby Smith, Sam Mendenall, Gardner, Braden Hill, Landon Langley, Cord Standridge and Daxter Thomas each tallied one hit with Standridge and Gardner driving in two apiece.
Smith, Salsbury and Gabe Hernandez each fired one inning on the mound, combining on a one-hitter. Smith struck out two, Salsbury fanned three and Hernandez added one strikeout.
The Rebels cruised to a 13-1 win in just three innings of game two as well, scoring five in the first, six in the second and two more to put it away in the third stanza.
Silo had eight hits in the game as well as capitalizing on five Atoka errors. Hernandez had two of the hits and knocked in a pair of runs. Hill and Mendenall both contributed a hit and drove in three apiece.
Thomas, Bryce Vandenburg, Kelton Teal and Jaxon Baeza also chipped in one hit each.
Gardner, Darren Johnson and Mendenall twirled one frame each on the pitching mound, combining on a two-hitter. Gardner whiffed two batters, Johnson struck out three and Mendenall fanned one.