SP Kicks off Summer Season

By Brad Greer

The South Panola Tigers kicked off their 18-game Summer league baseball slate at home Tuesday afternoon by splitting a twinbill against Grenada.

Both teams battled to a 4-4 tie in the opening contest before South Panola blasted the Chargers 13-3 in three innings in the nightcap.

South Panola will host a pair of games next week starting Tuesday with Senatobia followed by Greenville-Weston Thursday. Both contests are doubleheaders and will start at 4 & 6 p.m.
Grenada took advantage of four South Panola errors in the first two innings to take a 4-1 lead before the Tigers began to claw their way back with two runs in the third and one in the sixth that proved to be tying run.

The Tigers scored their first run in the bottom of the first as a DaShawn Lindsay double drove in Morgan Tubbs who had drawn a walk one batter earlier.

Tubbs and Lindsay reached base to lead off the third before Adam Cook blasted a two-run triple to drive in both runs closing the Charger lead to 4-3.

Ethan Burt’s two singles accounted for Grenada’s only two hits of the game as the South Panola pitching trio of Hunter Ivy, Mason Magee and Austin Towles silenced the Charger bats.

Ivy got the starting nod and went three innings, striking out six on two hits and four runs (three earned) while walking one batter. Magee and Towles both fanned three in two innings each on the hill.

South Panola tied the game in the sixth as Matthew Williams singled and later scored on a two-out error. Ivy doubled while Chase Durham and Magee singled  as the Tigers collected six hits in the game.

 In the second game of the night, Grenada pitching issued 12 walks as South Panola scored seven runs in the first and six in the second to win going away.

Hunter Bryant and Williams singled for the only Tiger hits on the game. Jacob Fennell, James Kyle Browning, Williams, Tyler Babb, Ryan McCurdy and Javon Presley all drove in runs for South Panola.

Mason Wilkerson, Tubbs and Cook tossed one inning each on the mound.