Baseball:
Greenbrier East 14
Shady Spring 11
The Spartans had a big offensive game with 18 hits and every run they scored was needed in the slugfest with Shady Spring.
Trailing 6-3 in the third, the Spartans scored six runs in the inning. In the fourth, Eli Green hit a home run that put the Spartans up 8-3, but in the bottom half of the fourth frame, Shady cut the lead to 8-7. But Greenbrier East scored six runs over the next two innings and held off a mini Tiger rally in the last inning.
Zion Detko led the Spartan offense and went 4-5 with two doubles, four runs scored, and two RBIs. Green was 3-5 with a home run, three runs scored, and two driven in. Brady May also had three hits and Gavin Brewster and Ashton Cochran had two hits apiece.
Braden Teaney picked up the pitching victory.
Greenbrier West 3
Liberty 2
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Richwood 15
Greenbrier West 4
The Cavs are off to a 3-1 start to begin the 2025 campaign with their only setback the loss to the Richwood Lumberjacks.
In the game against Liberty, Landen Doss enjoyed himself a good day at the plate and on the mound. Doss went 2-3 with all three RBIs for the Cavs and allowed just six hits in a complete game performance. He struck out five.
West struggled to get much going against Richwood. Brenton Hodge had two RBIs in the game, but the Cavaliers managed just three hits on the day.
Softball:
Greenbrier East 17
Bluefield 8
The Lady Spartans traveled to Bluefield and came back home following a victory that was closer than the final score indicated due to the Lady Beavers hitting the ball well on their end.
Reagan Cline hit an inside-the-park homer in the second inning to put the Spartans up 4-0 and an RBI single from Haley Byars that scored Haylee Heaster put East up 5-0 after the top half of the third inning.
But the Beavers battled back and never quit and had trimmed their deficit to just 7-6 after four frames.
Heading into the seventh, the Greenbrier East lead was just 10-8, but that is when the Spartans dug in, focused, and put the game away. East had just three hits in the inning, including a Kennah Collins’ second triple of the night, but they also took advantage of two crucial Beaver errors and sealed their victory.
East’s Ally Martin continued her hot start to the season by going 4-5 with three runs and three RBIs. Cline (2-4, HR, triple, four runs, two RBIs), Campbell Bundy (2-5, triple, RBI), Heaster (2-3, run, two RBIs), Liz Wooding (2-5, run, triple), Byars (2-3, three runs, two RBIs), and Collins (two triples) all had multiple hits.
The Spartans hit five triples in the game.
Greenbrier West 3
Pikeview 1
Originally scheduled to play on Friday night, the Pikeview Panthers showed up at Greenbrier West’s practice on the Thursday before due to the Lady Panther coach looking at his schedule incorrectly. After getting some umpires to the field, the two teams decided to go ahead and play that evening and it was a Brilee Redden show on the mound.
The junior left-hander struck out 13 batters in the game over seven innings and outdueled Pikeview star pitcher Shelby Maddox who had 11 strikeouts in six innings of work.
Diana Porter led West with two hits that included an inside-the-park homer in the sixth inning that gave the Cavaliers an important insurance run. Redden had an RBI double on the day as well.
