JOURNAL SPORTS

Bossier Parish hit four home runs in a second-game 8-2 defeat of Trinity Valley Wednesday at BPCC to split the doubleheader of top teams in Region XIV after the Cardinals took the first game 2-0.

Trinity Valley entered the day’s games 6-0 in region play ahead of BPCC and Paris, both 7-1.

The visiting Cardinals got a one-hit shutout in the first game from Alessandra Borjas (9-0). Both of TVCC’s runs came in the sixth inning on a Destiny Menchaca two-out single.

Macie LaRue (13-3) suffered the loss, the first in her last nine outings. The two runs snapped a 35-inning scoreless streak that included four shutouts. TVCC became only the second team to score more than one run on LaRue in a game. She struck out 10 for the third consecutive game of 10 or more, her ninth double-digit K performance on the season.

The BPCC bats woke up in the second-game romp as McKenzie Vestal, Piper Garcia, Taysia Constantino and Skylar Heger all homered. Vestal started it all with a first-inning grand slam and the Lady Cavs never trailed.

After Trinity Valley scored single runs in the second and third innings to pull within 4-2, Garcia sent a line shot over the fence in the bottom of the third for a 5-2 lead.

The Lady Cavs scored three more runs in the fourth as Constantino hit a solo shot for one of her three hits and Heger followed a Bri Deleon single with a drive over the right field fence for an 8-2 lead.

Brielle Moreno (5-2) got the win, allowing just the two runs in five innings on five hits. Rylee Glenn closed out the triumph, retiring the six batters she faced.

Leadoff hitter Madison Ruiz was 2-for-3 as the Lady Cavs finished with nine hits.

BPCC (24-8-1, 7-2) will host Northeast Texas CC Friday in another Region XIV doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.