Desoto County Sports

Saturday sports: Busy baseball, softball, and more weekend

Photo: A Germantown (Madison) runner is tagged out at the plate during the first game of a doubleheader at Lewisburg on Saturday, March 4. (Bob Bakken/desotocountynews.com)

Late Friday, March 3

Prep baseball

  • Lewisburg 8, Saraland, Ala. 5
  • DeSoto Central 5, Cartersville, Ga. 1
  • Archbishop McCarthy, Fla. 10, DeSoto Central 0 

Saturday, March 4

Prep baseball

  • Hernando 12, Cleveland Central 2
  • Hernando 7, Madison Ridgeland Academy 2
  • Center Hill 11, Nettleton 3
    • Center Hill: Taylor – 4 hits, Green – 3 RBIs, struck out 6, Rodgers – 3 runs scored
  • Center Hill 11, Ripley 6 
  • Oxford, Ala. 3, Lewisburg 0
  • Hartselle, Ala. 5, Lewisburg 3
    • Lewisburg: Fesmire – 2 hits, triple; Morris – 3 hits; Sowell – 5 strikeouts, 
  • DeSoto Central 8,  West Forsyth, Ga. 6
    • DeSoto Central: Jaguars score five in the seventh to win. Luke Sides, 2 hits, double, struck out 4 in five innings. 
  • Lake Cormorant 13, Olive Branch 6
    • Lake Cormorant: Brandon Mahfouz: 3-4, 3 RBIs, 5 IP, 2 ER, 7 K. Brayden Moberly 4 RBIs
  • Southaven 11, Independence 4

Prep softball

  • Puckett 6, Hernando 5
    • Olivia Higgenbotham – 4 hits
  • Hernando 7, Clinton 2
    • Hernando: Callie Desmond, double, triple, 2 RBIs. Kate Johnson – 6 strikeouts 
  • DeSoto Central 4, New Hope 0
    • DeSoto Central – Jorja Wheeler throws 1 hitter. 
  • DeSoto Central 2, Saltillo 1 
  • Lewisburg 10, Germantown (Madison) 7
    • Lewisburg: Casey Raggett – 7 strikeouts
  • Lewisburg 8, Germantown (Madison) 7
    • Walk Off single by Alyssa Harville won it in the seventh. Aubrey Williams – 3 RBIs. Emma Abrams – 8 strikeouts
  • South Panola 10, Center Hill 0
  • Mantachie 5, Center Hill 0

JUCO baseball

  • Northwest 7, South Arkansas 1
  • South Arkansas 12, Northwest 8

JUCO softball

  • Northwest 13, Allen County, Kansas 2
  • Navarro, Texas 6, Northwest 4 

Prep archery

NBA G League basketball

  • Austin Spurs 121, Memphis Hustle 109

Bob Bakken

Bob Bakken provides content for DeSoto County News and its social media channels. He is an award-winning broadcaster, along with being a reporter and photographer, and has done sports media relations work with junior and minor league hockey teams. Along with his reports on this website, you will find this veteran media member providing sports updates and high school football play-by-play on Rebel 95.3 FM Radio.

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