The News staff reports

Hat tricks never get old at Nederland, especially those by Meg Sheppard.

The senior earned her third three-goal match in 32 days as the Bulldogs finished their regular season with a 9-0 win at Dayton on Tuesday.

Nederland (19-1-3, 11-0-1 in 21-5A, 34 points) had already clinched the District 21-5A championship and has the bye date Friday. The Bulldogs are waiting to see who clinches fourth place in District 22-5A to set up their 5A bi-district match.

Karrie Faith Anders scored twice Tuesday for the Bulldogs. Destyn Miguez, Jenna Brekel, Hanna Foster and Phoebe Short netted the other goals.

 

PNG 2, Barbers Hill 0

In Mont Belvieu, Breeana Riggs scored the first goal off an Ariel Muller assist, and and Halley Smith headed in the second goal off a Kaylee Landry corner as the Indians (15-3-7, 8-2-1 in 21-5A, 26 points) earned a road victory.

That sets up a game for second place in the district Friday as Vidor (23-4, 9-2, 27 points) visits PNG. The Indians have to win to leapfrog the Pirates.

 

Memorial 2, Cleveland 1, OT

In Port Arthur, the Lady Titans (8-12-1, 4-7 in 21-5A, 12 points) clinched a playoff berth with an overtime win over the Indians. No scoring details were available.

Memorial will visit Dayton for its regular-season finale on Friday.

 

Bridge City 1, East Chambers 0

In Bridge City, Hannah Silveira netted the game’s lone goal 15 seconds in, and the Cardinals finished the season with a win to end the regular season.

Brenda Munguia assisted on the goal.

Coach Lauren Martin cited the offensive efforts of Brinley Bell, Texie LeBlanc and Munguia and defensive efforts of Bailey Turner, Peyton Trapp, Hayley Lyons and goaltender Kaitlyn Lawrence.

 

BOYS SOCCER

PNG 2, Barbers Hill 1

In Port Neches, the Indians (16-7-2, 8-2-1 in 21-5A, 26 points) stayed in the hunt for a district title with one more match remaining.

Grant Pearson and Johnathan Alvarenga scored for the Indians. Jason Lovejoy assisted on both goals.

PNG remained one point behind Dayton, which beat Nederland 2-1 in overtime Tuesday. PNG will close the regular season at Vidor as Dayton (18-4-4, 9-2, 27 points) does the same at Memorial.

Also Tuesday: Cleveland defeated Memorial 3-0.

 

SOFTBALL
Nederland 3, Dayton 2

In Nederland, facing two outs in the seventh, Allysa Collazo hit a one-run single to send Tori Morrison home for the tying score and touched home for the walk-off run on a Hannah Grumbles triple.

Trahan tossed nine strikeouts and was tagged with six hits in a complete-game win.

Collazo and Morrison each had two hits. Destini Trahan, Danielle Richardson and Grumbles each lined one.

Nederland improved to 15-11 and 5-1 in 21-5A.

 

Barbers Hill 6, PNG 0

In Port Neches, the Indians (14-6, 3-2 in 21-5A) were held to two hits in a shutout loss.

Sydnee Adams and Maylin Louvier had the only PNG hits. Barbers Hill pounded 12 hits off Cameron Niedenthal, who struck out three.

 

BASEBALL

LCM 5, Bridge City 3

In Little Cypress, the Battlin’ Bears scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and held on to hand the Cardinals (11-5-2, 2-1 in 22-4A) their first district loss.

A one-run double tied the game at 3 in the inning, and then an error at shortstop allowed two more runs to score.

Max Dileo, who struck out two in the final four innings for the win, went 2 for 2 at the plate to lead the Bears. Sam Carpenter drove in three runs on two hits, and Peyton Havard had two hits as well for the Cardinals.

The runs came off Slade Foreman, who struck out three and allowed two hits in 1 2/3 innings in relief of Logan Hamm (five strikeouts, one earned run on three hits). Bridge City committed three errors.

 

Hamshire-Fannett 5, Silsbee 4

In Silsbee, Kyle Saurage was involved in the tying and go-ahead scoring plays for the Longhorns, both in the sixth inning.

Saurage reached on a fielder’s choice as Taylor Roggenkamp beat a throw to the plate. He then scored on an error by the catcher.

Jacob Garza struck out four in two innings to take the win. Carson Wright, Mason Stark, Roggenkamp and Garza each had a hit.