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Ash Grove Ava

Pirates

Bears

The Ava (MO) varsity baseball team won Saturday's home non-conference game against Ash Grove (MO) by a score of 7-4.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ash Grove	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	4	6	3
Ava	1	3	0	1	0	2	-	7	7	1

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Ash Grove (25-26)

Ash Grove

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.231	29	26	4	6	4	2
1	Alex Acosta	.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
2	Jaden Shorter	.667	3	3	1	2	1	1
4	Ty Messley	.000	4	4	0	0	0	0
5	H. Heffernon	.500	3	2	0	1	2	0
7	Chase Acosta	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
9	Sawyer Burks	.000	4	4	0	0	0	0
14	Saxton Kinney	.667	3	3	2	2	0	1
15	Kyler Reece	.000	3	1	1	0	0	0
25	J. Jollivette	.000	2	2	0	0	0	0
34	Toby Barnes	.333	3	3	0	1	1	0

Ash Grove

#	Athlete Name	SF	BB	K	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	2	7	1	4	.276	.308	.584
1	Alex Acosta	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2	Jaden Shorter	0	0	0	0	1	.667	1.000	1.667
4	Ty Messley	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
5	H. Heffernon	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.500	.833
7	Chase Acosta	0	0	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000
9	Sawyer Burks	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000
14	Saxton Kinney	0	0	0	0	1	.667	1.000	1.667
15	Kyler Reece	0	2	0	0	0	.667	.000	.667
25	J. Jollivette	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000
34	Toby Barnes	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.333	.666

Ash Grove

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.889	27	18	6	3
4	Ty Messley	.750	4	1	2	1
5	H. Heffernon	1.000	4	3	1	0
7	Chase Acosta	1.000	3	3	0	0
9	Sawyer Burks	1.000	3	2	1	0
14	Saxton Kinney	1.000	2	1	1	0
15	Kyler Reece	1.000	9	8	1	0
34	Toby Barnes	.000	2	0	0	2

Ash Grove

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	L	W%	APP
	Team Totals	2.33	1	.000	1
2	Jaden Shorter	0.00	0		1
14	Saxton Kinney	7.00	1	.000	1

Ash Grove

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	7	7	2	7	8	33	26
2	Jaden Shorter	4	4	3	0	5	7	21	16
14	Saxton Kinney	2	3	4	2	2	1	12	10

Ash Grove

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	#P	PO	SB
	Team Totals	.269	.424	111	1	1
2	Jaden Shorter	.250	.429	72	1	1
14	Saxton Kinney	.300	.417	39	0	0

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Ava (25-26)

Ava has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Missouri High School Baseball - Ava edges Ash Grove

May 9, 2026: Ava, MO 65608

The Ava Bears (Ava, MO) baseball the visiting Ash Grove Pirates (Ash Grove, MO), 7-4 in Saturday's non-league challenge.

The Bears now own a 15-6 record. They take the field next when they host Central for a non-league challenge on Monday, May 11. Ava will clash with a Bulldogs team coming off a 11-4 non-league loss to Waynesville (Waynesville, MO). The Bulldogs record now stands at 0-16.

With the defeat, Ash Grove drops to 23-6 on the year. The Pirates host Jasper (Jasper, MO) to clash with the Eagles in a non-league challenge on Monday, May 11. The Eagles go into the challenge with a record of 12-9. Jasper won 12-4 in their recent non-league challenge against Lockwood (Lockwood, MO)

Ash Grove @ Ava Baseball Game Info

Sat., May. 9, 2026 @ 2p

Ava High School

The Ava (MO) varsity baseball team won Saturday's home non-conference game against Ash Grove (MO) by a score of 7-4.

Rankings & Records

Ash Grove (25-26)

MO	Class
145	15

Overall	District	Home	Away	Win %	District %	RF	RA
25-8-1	1-0	21-3	4-5-1	.750	1.000	302	133

Ava (25-26)

MO	Class
86	16

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
20-7	3-0	12-3	8-3	0-1	.741	1.000	194	96

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ash Grove	2.0	1.1	1.3	.9	1.3	1.8	1.9	8.9	9.1	2.0
Ava	1.0	1.3	.3	.8	.5	1.4	1.3	7.2	7.2	2.0

Head-to-Head

Ava won this month

5/9 @ 2p 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

Ash Grove 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 6 3
Ava 1 3 0 1 0 2 - 7 7 1

The Ash Grove (MO) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's away non-conference game against Ava (MO) by a score of 7-4.
Box score
Ava won this month

5/9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

Ava - - - - - - - 6 - -
Ash Grove - - - - - - - 4 - -

The Ava (MO) varsity baseball team won Saturday's away non-conference game against Ash Grove (MO) by a score of 6-4.
Box score
Ava won last week

5/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

Ava - - - - - - - 6 - -
Ash Grove - - - - - - - 4 - -

The Ava (MO) varsity baseball team won Sunday's away non-conference game against Ash Grove (MO) by a score of 6-4.
Box score

5/9	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ava	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-
Ash Grove	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-

5/10	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ava	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-
Ash Grove	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-

Team Stat Comparison

Ash Grove		Ava
.345	Batting Average	-
.460	On Base Percentage	-
.466	Slugging Percentage	-
.922	Fielding Percentage	-
.722	Win Loss Percentage	-

Team Leaders

Ash Grove		Ava	National Avg.
#2 Jaden Shorter.548	Batting Average	-	.244
#4 Ty Messley.632	On Base Percentage	-	.386
#4 Ty Messley.782	Slugging Percentage	-	.313
#12 Collin Pinkley1.000	Fielding Percentage	-	.859
#15 Kyler Reece1.000	Win Loss Percentage	-	.533

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Ash Grove	3-0		Ava	3-0

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/31/26	Ash Grove	Mansfield	(W) 5-2	4/2/26	Ava	Mansfield	(W) 15-4
4/11/26	Sparta	Ash Grove	(W) 11-1	5/18/26	Sparta	Ava	(W) 11-1
4/14/26	Conway	Ash Grove	(W) 7-1	3/31/26	Ava	Conway	(W) 9-6
5/19/26	Ash Grove	Fair Grove		4/4/26	Fair Grove	Ava
5/20/26	Ash Grove	Fair Grove		4/4/26	Fair Grove	Ava

Record Breakdown

Ash Grove (25-26)		Ava (25-26)
25-8-1	Overall	20-7
1-0	League	3-0
24-8-1	Non-League	17-6
0-3	Head to Head	3-0
3-0	Common Opponent	3-0
21-3	Home	12-3
4-5-1	Away	8-3
0-0	Neutral	0-1
0-0	Playoff	0-0
25-8-1	In-State	20-7
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0