CONWAY, Ark.-The Red River Credit Union Texarkana Razorbacks improved to 2-0 in the American Legion Arkansas State baseball tournament with another lopsided win.
The Razorbacks (30-2) trailed momentarily but scored 10 unanswered runs during a 10-2 win over Mountain Home Lockerroom on Saturday to move into a winner's bracket quarterfinal game at Hendrix College's Warrior Field.
Patrick Flanagan scattered five hits over 7 2-3 innings for the pitching win. He had three strikeouts, hit one and walked one.
"Flanagan was nails tonight," Razorback manager Dane Peavy said. "I told these guys with the pitch count, it doesn't change anything we're doing. I tell them to be efficient and get ahead. He did a heckuva job of that tonight.
"It was a great offensive effort of getting runners on, getting them over and getting them in."
Texarkana plays Paragould, an 11-1 winner over Jacksonville, at 4 p.m. today back at Hendrix.
After Lockerroom pushed across a pair off Flanagan in the top of the first, the Razorbacks batted around in the bottom of the frame and were never seriously challenged the rest of the way.
The first Texarkana batters had hits, with Matt Goodheart bunting his way on to start things off. Cole Boyd grounded a single hard to left, and Blake Hall, who finished 3 for 5, placed a RBI single down the right-field line.
Will Smith drove in a run with a hit to left, as did Nick Myers, whose single painted the line in left. Beau Burson also had an RBI on a groundout, and Logan Vidrine lined a hit into right-center for the fifth run of the first.
Burson followed a walk and error with a two-out, two-run single in the fifth inning, and Boyd hammered a 3-2 offering into left, after Goodheart had tripled over the center fielder's head, to make it 8-2.
Parker Ribble singled to left with one down in the seventh, and he scored after Vidrine singled up the middle and the relay throw to third sailed over the fence.
In the eighth, Hall lined a triple into the right-center gap and scored on a double-steal after Will Smith walked.
"Last night we just didn't come up with the big hit, Peavy said about leaving 14 runners on base despite scoring 12 runs. "It was one of those things where that's baseball: sometimes you don't get the big hit. Fortunately we were able to put some runs up every inning through the fourth.
"Tonight was a different story; we came up with big hits with runners on. Beau (Burson) had a big hit with two outs to get two runs in, and those were important runs to make it 7-2 because with Mountain Home's offense they are capable of scoring two or three at any moment."
In other games, Bryant topped Blytheville, 12-2; and once-beaten Fort Smith was leading Searcy in another winner's bracket game. Also, North Little Rock eliminated Russellville, 17-7; Rogers edged Benton, 10-9; Conway halted Jonesboro, 15-10; and Little Rock blanked Batesville, 11-0.
The top six teams will advance to next weekend's play with the top two playing in the Mid-South regional in Little Rock.
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Texarkana 500 021 11x - 10 13 0
Jon Martin, Peyton Kendrick (6), Mason Kinder (8) and Brody Ninemire. Patrick Flanagan, Zac Harrington (8) and Cole Boyd. WP-Flanagan. LP-Martin.