Weekend scoreboard roundup
A regional scoreboard posted April 13 listed a busy high‑school baseball slate with results including West Plains 3, St. Francis Borgia 2; West Plains 7, Smithville 6; Alton 10, Houston 8; Doniphan 7, Malden 3; and Doniphan 13, Central 9. (ecommnewsnetwork.com)
West Plains and Doniphan stacked two baseball wins each on Saturday, April 11, while Alton added another one-runless split to a packed regional slate. (mshsaa.org 1) (mshsaa.org 2) (si.com) West Plains beat St. Francis Borgia 3-2 in eight innings on April 11, then followed with a 7-6 win over Smithville later that day. The Missouri State High School Activities Association schedule page listed the St. Francis Borgia result and showed Logan-Rogersville next on April 13. (mshsaa.org) (maxpreps.com) MaxPreps said the St. Francis Borgia loss dropped the Knights to 3-10 and lifted West Plains to 7-7, the Zizzers’ fourth straight win. The same recap listed Smithville as West Plains’ next opponent at 2 p.m. on Saturday, matching the second result in the regional scoreboard. (maxpreps.com) (mshsaa.org) Doniphan’s day was even busier. The Missouri State High School Activities Association home page for Doniphan listed two varsity wins at the Malden Invitational Tournament on April 11: 7-3 over Malden and 13-9 over Central of New Madrid County. (mshsaa.org) High School on Sports Illustrated showed Doniphan at 7-8 overall after the Malden game and Malden at 0-12. MaxPreps also listed the April 11 matchup as a Doniphan win and showed it as a non-conference game. (si.com) (maxpreps.com) Alton beat Houston 10-8 on April 11 in another non-conference game, according to both High School on Sports Illustrated and MaxPreps. MaxPreps said the loss left Houston at 7-4 and noted Houston was scheduled to play Plato later that same day. (si.com) (maxpreps.com) The cluster of results came from small-school and mid-size programs spread across southern Missouri, from West Plains in Howell County to Doniphan in Ripley County and Alton in Oregon County. The common thread was volume: tournament play and Saturday doubleheaders compressed multiple games into one day. (mshsaa.org 1) (mshsaa.org 2) That makes a regional scoreboard useful in April, when baseball schedules change quickly and records can swing over a single weekend. On West Plains’ schedule page alone, the team had already logged games in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri before mid-April. (mshsaa.org) By Monday, April 13, West Plains had another game on the calendar at Logan-Rogersville, while Doniphan’s posted upcoming dates included Leopold on April 16 and Neelyville on April 17. The weekend roundup was a snapshot, not an ending. (mshsaa.org 1) (mshsaa.org 2)
