Pioneer Baseball Senior Night
The Pioneers battled their rivals, the Gravette Lions, on Monday, April 25th at home for senior night.
The Pioneer baseball seniors and their parents line up behind home plate after the game.
The Gentry Pioneers beat the Gravette Lions 7-1 in seven innings. Gentry scored three runs in the sixth inning on a two-run double by sophomore Tanner Christie and junior Carlos Alvarez. Christie racked up two RBIs on two hits for the Pioneers.
Gravette Lions weren’t able to score a run off of senior Wyatt Clark during his 5 ⅓ innings on the rubber. Clark allowed four hits, no walks and struck out seven.
Pioneers never relinquished the lead after scoring one run in the second.
The Gentry Pioneers scored one run in the fourth inning, and then followed it up with one more in the fifth. In the fourth, the Pioneers scored on an RBI single by Josh Cochran, bringing home senior CJ Taylor.
Gentry has seven senior baseball players and two senior managers. Those players and managers are Zac Adkins,Wyatt Clark, Josh Cochran, Harleigh Green (mgr), Dillon Matthews, Dylan Murphy, Tanner Shipp, and Micah Stout (mgr).
The seniors had the following things to say about life after high school, advice they would leave, and memories they have had:
“I have signed to play college baseball at Lyon college,” Adkins said.
“I plan to bowl and walk onto the baseball team at West Texas A&M,” Clark said.
“The advice I would leave to an underclassman is don’t wait until you’re a senior to try your best,” Cochran said.
“My best memory on the Gentry baseball team is when Murphy brought flash bang hot sauce on the bus and half the team, including myself, about died,” Matthews said.
“My favorite memory is when everyone thought they could handle the hot sauce, but they couldn’t (haha),“ Murphy said.
“Hardwork beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard,“ Shipp said.
“Do ‘tee work’ 24/7 to help with your batting,” Taylor said.
“This year senior night was the hardest I’ve had yet. Not that the other years were easy at all, but I’ve had these kids since they were sophomores. I’m proud of everything they’ve done here in Gentry with their baseball career and how they have grown as young men,“ Coach Justin Ledbetter said.
