After a good start to pool play on Friday, the Pendleton 11/12-year-old all-star team did not have the same luck in its second game on Monday evening at the Little League Softball West Regional.

Team Oregon managed just three hits and two runs and it committed five errors as Team Arizona won the game 7-2 at Al Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino, California. Sauren Garton pitched all six innings for Oregon and struck out eight while allowing seven hits and seven runs, though all runs were unearned.

Faith Broadfoot, Brielle Youncs and Ellie Samford each collected a hit in the game for Oregon, with Broadfoot collecting two RBI and Samford and Jenness each scoring a run.

Oregon scored the first run of the night in the bottom half of the second, when Daisy Jenness began the inning with a walk and Broadfoot followed with an RBI double to center field for a 1-0 Oregon lead.

But the lead was short-lived. In the top of the third, Arizona had back-to-back singles to start the inning and then an error allowed the tying run to score. Later, two more errors and an RBI single pushed across three more runs for a 4-1 Arizona lead.

Oregon added another run in the fourth inning off an RBI groundout by Broadfoot to bring home Samford to make it a 4-2 game.

But again, just as Oregon gained a bit of momentum, Arizona took it right back. In the fifth, two singles and back-to-back errors pushed across three more Arizona runs to make it a 7-2 game.

Oregon finishes its pool play slate with a 1-1 record and now moves on to single elimination bracket play today. The time and opponent were not known as of press time.

Baseball

SPRAGUE 8, PENDLETON 6 — At Portland, the Pendleton 9/10-year-old all-stars lost for the second time at the state tournament, losing a back-and-forth affair to Sprague 8-6 on Monday.

Evan Lehnert and Tugg McQuinn each had three hits in the game, with Lehnert adding one run scored and an RBI and McQuinn scoring a pair of runs. Connor Cook also had a solid day going 2-for-3 with two runs, a double, and an RBI, while Jacob Neistadt and Art Hill each had one hit.

Pendleton scored three runs in the top of the third to take a 3-2 lead when Neistadt hit an RBI single to score Cook and then a pair of Sprague errors brought home McQuinn and Lehnert. Sprague then re-took a 4-3 lead in the fourth before Pendleton tied it up at 4-4 in the fifth on a RBI single by Lehnert.

But Sprague scored four times in the bottom of the fifth to take an 8-4 lead and it never relinquished it.