Bulldogs trounce Mountain Pine, 10-2

By Clark Johnson
UCA sportswriting

After not allowing their opponent to take the lead once, the St. Joseph Bulldogs downed the Mountain Pine Red Devils, 10-2, Monday at Curtis Walker Park in the Bulldogs' first conference clash of the season.

The Bulldogs didn’t take long to get their lead started, scoring in the first two innings. Chris Rega kept St. Joseph’s hot streak going with a home run in the third. Mountain Pine managed to scrape two runs in the following inning, but the Bulldogs kept expanding their lead. In the bottom of the sixth, St. Joseph tallied three runs to set the final score at 10-2, sending the Bulldogs to an early conference victory.

St. Joseph earned two of its sixth-inning runs on errors, something Mountain Pine coach Justin Gregory said hindered his team’s chances.


“We made too many mistakes,” Gregory said. “Fielding, throwing, batting, all around made mistakes, and they took advantage of every one of them.”

St. Joseph coach Luke Davis said his team deserved the victory.

“We played good baseball throughout the game,” Davis said. “What really helped us was our base-running. Our guys were always in scoring position, which gave us more opportunities to be creative at the plate.”

The Bulldogs take on Hector Thursday at Curtis Walker Park in Conway.