Dexter, Bernie win at Arkansas State Playday

By DAR STAFF

JONESBORO, Ark. -- Dexter won one of the four titles at the ASU Playday on Saturday night while Bernie won a consolation title.

The Lady Bearcats beat Trumann, Ark. 25-21, 25-19 in the Silver Bracket final.

After losing to West Memphis, Ark. in pool play Saturday at the Arkansas State University Tournament, the Mules got revenge later in the afternoon as they beat West Memphis, Ark., in a rematch for the Scarlet Division consolation championship.

In pool play, Bernie defeated Bay, Ark., and Cedar Ridge, Ark., before the set back against West Memphis.

Once bracket play started, the Mules lost their first-round game to Mountain Home, Ark., but beat Holcomb to reach the consolation championship to get revenge on West Memphis, Ark. Bernie won 25-21, 25-16.

"We played some good games and some bad games," Bernie head coach Jeff Rodgers said. "We need to be more consistent, but we still went 4-2 on the day, although all of us thought we should have won the division in this tournament."

For the tournament, Kristin Eaves had a team-high 53 kills while Bailey Martin and Krista Armbuster each had 22. Martin only had two attack errors on the tournament.

Sami Palmer had 90 assists and 48 digs.

"Sami Palmer did a good job distributing the ball and she's got great court awareness," Rodgers said.

Bernie is now 9-10-1 on the season.

At the Camdenton Tournament, the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules finished 1-2-2.

Poplar Bluff split with Cole Camp and Rock Bridge before losing to Camdenton, 25-11, 25-11. Following a win against Owensville, 25-23, 25-22, the Lady Mules lost in the first round of tournament play 25-7, 25-10 to Sacred Heart.

BASEBALL: The Campbell Camels had a successful afternoon beating Naylor and Risco in their own Wood Bat Tournament on Saturday.

Campbell beat Naylor 4-2 with Joe Campbell picking up the win on the mound in relief. The Camels scored two runs in the fifth to lift them to victory. Five different Camels had a hit apiece. Cale Weeks went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and Zack Jackson added the teams only other RBI.

For Naylor, Clint Blackwell went 2-for-3 with an RBI and Josh Cullison knocked in a run as well.

Cullison took the loss on the mound, but struck out eight Camels.

Campbell also beat Risco, 8-4.

Joe Campbell took his second win of the day pitching five innings with one earned run and six strike outs.

Nick Small had three RBIs on the day while Weeks and Kyle Matthews each had one RBI. Small was 2-for-3 with a run scored.

Risco got RBIs from Luke Bixler and Ross Carter.

CROSS COUNTRY: Poplar Bluff junior Travis Blalock placed seventh in the Hancock Invitational on Saturday.

Blalock ran a time of 17 minutes, 6 seconds while freshman Jason Keena placed 74th with a time of 20:01.

"Travis ran a good race, he just wasn't strong enough at the end to finish where we would have liked," Poplar Bluff cross country coach Elizabeth Lewis said. "It was a great opportunity to see where he stands amongst the rest of the district and sectional schools to help him with the fine tuning that needs to be done until then."