Greenwood banged out 15 hits in four innings to hand Siloam Springs its 10th straight loss on Tuesday in the Lady Panthers' final regular season softball game.
Paxtyn Hayes went 4 for 4 with five RBIs, including a home run, while Kaila Cartwright had three hits and an RBI.
6A-West Conference Softball Tournament
Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
Monday’s games
Game 1: No. 8 Siloam Springs at No. 1 Greenwood, 5 p.m.
Game 2: No. 5 El Dorado at No. 4 Lake Hamilton, 5 p.m.
Game 3: No. 7 Texarkana at No. 2 Sheridan, 5 p.m.
Game 4: No. 6 Russellville at No. 3 Benton, 5 p.m.
Wednesday’s games
Game 5: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, TBA
Game 6: Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, TBA
Game 7: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, TBA
Game 8: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, TBA
Saturday’s games
Fifth-place: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, TBA
Third-place: Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8, TBA
Championship: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, TBA
* All games played at highest seed school. Teams must win one of their first two games to advance to Class 6A State Tournament.
Sidney Bieker and Karter Langston each had two hits and two RBIs for Greenwood, while Bieker scored two runs and Langston crossed the plate three times. Mariah Hamilton also had two hits and scored a run and drove in a run as well.
Greenwood scored seven runs in the top of the first inning and added three in the second, four in the third and two more in the fourth.
Cartwright got the victory in the circle for Greenwood (21-5, 9-2 5A/6A District 1), her 12th win of the season. She allowed only two base runners, giving up a single and a walk to Maranda Guntharp for Siloam Springs (3-17, 2-10).
Rachel Mann was the losing pitcher for Siloam Springs.
Up next
The Lady Panthers received the No. 8 seed for the 6A-West Conference Tournament, which was supposed to begin on Saturday. However, the threat of inclement weather pushed the start of the tournament back to Monday.
Siloam Springs will play at No. 1 seed Greenwood in the opening round at 5 p.m. The winner will punch its ticket to the Class 6A State Tournament and play Wednesday against the winner of Monday's first round game between No. 5 El Dorado at No. 4 Lake Hamilton. The losers of both first round games will also play each other on Wednesday with the winner advancing to the Class 6A State Tournament and the loser's season being completed.
Siloam Springs won at Greenwood 3-2 on April 5, 2016, but since then Greenwood has won the last three meetings 12-0, 16-1 and 16-0. The Lady Panthers have gone 9-25 overall since that milestone victory over Greenwood last year.
Sports on 04/30/2017