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Primrose Aholelei struck out 17 in a 2-hit, eight-inning shutout that opened a Region XIV softball doubleheader split with Trinity Valley as the Lady Cavaliers won 1-0 before dropping the second game 4-3 Wednesday at BPCC.

Aholelei (23-2) struck out 17 for the second time in less than a week to tie a season high. It gives her 280 strikeouts in 158 1/3 innings on the season and was her 13th game with 10 or more.

Kennedy Cox walked it off with a two-out single that scored Frances Robinson. BPCC had six hits in the game with Dylan Sanay getting the only extra-base hit with a double.

Trinity Valley (20-34, 7-15) got the split with a solo home run in the seventh inning for the game two winner.

Haylee Ladner tie the game for the Lady Cavs with a fifth-inning solo home run. It was her only hit of the game and ninth blast of the season.

Cox was 2-for-3 with a double and Alohilani Napalapalai also had a double for BPCC (34-10, 16-2,) who was limited to five hits in the second game.

MCNEESE 3, ULM 0: The Warhawks couldn’t solve the Cowgirls’ Ashley Vallejo in a non-conference game in Monroe. Kennedy Johnson had two of the hosts four hits as ULM fell to 25-21 on the season. Vallejo (12-7) walked none and struck out four in the complete-game win for McNeese (30-18).

BASEBALL

UALR 8, LA TECH 7: At Little Rock, Byrd High’s Steele Netterville singled, doubled and hit a 3-run home run to drive in five runs but the Bulldogs came up a run short. The Trojans scored seven in the fifth and the game-winning run in the eighth after Netterville’s 3-run blast tied it in the sixth. Phillip Matulia was 2-for-3, Adarius Myers 2-for-4 and Cole McConnell 2-for-5 for Tech (28-14).

BOSSIER PARISH 10-8, NAVARRO 1-3: The Cavaliers swept the Region XIV doubleheader at Corsicana, Texas as Caden Griffin shut down the Bulldogs in the first game and Connor Crowson had four hits and three RBI in the game two win. Griffin shut out Navarro over six innings allowing two hits, walked none and struck out eight. The Cavs scored nine runs in the seventh inning to blow the game open. Justin Breen singled in a run, Cole Ketzner had a bases-clearing double and Simon Grinberg had a 3-run home run for BPCC (36-15-1, 24-12).

Mason Hammonds and Luke Bogan both had three hits and Breen two in the 16-hit second game win for BPCC. Navarro drops to 20-31-1 overall and 14-22 in the region.