BASEBALL: LAKE HIGHLANDS WINS 57-0Lake Highlands (Dallas), which had lost its first four games, crushed Samuell (Dallas), 57-0, in five innings. The Wildcats' run total is No. 4 in high school history. The record of 109 has stood since 1928. Lake Highlands batters connected safely 44 times in 68 at-bats.
Michael Ketchmark led the onslaught with 8-for-9 and he drove in 11 runs. Surprisingly, there were no home runs. Samuell was held without a hit.
* Alhambra (Martinez, Calif.) right-hander
Robert Stephenson already has pitched a pair of no-hitters, with 32 strikeouts and just two walks in 14 innings.
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Henry Owens struck out 16 while pitching Edison (Huntington Beach, Calif.) to a 3-2 victory over Vista Murrieta (Murrieta, Calif.) in the finals of the Loara Tournament.
* With a fastball averaging around 95 mph, Owasso (Okla.) star
Dylan Bundy fired a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts during a 7-0 victory over Winter Haven (Fla.).
SOFTBALL: BRANDT FIRES NO-HITTERPasco (Dade City, Fla.) pitcher
Courtney Brandt hurled a no-hitter with 15 strikeouts during a 9-0 victory over Mitchell (New Port Richey, Fla.).
* Fort Worth Christian (Texas) senior pitcher
Kayla English already has 248 strikeouts this spring. She has 1,368 career strikeouts, giving her a good shot at finishing second in Texas history.
HOCKEY: MINNESOTA HAS A CLASSICEden Prairie (Minn.) outlasted
Duluth East (Minn.), 3-2, in the first three-overtime Class 2A state title game. It was witnessed by a crowd of 15,078 and thousands more on television.
* Goalie Chase Schmittou stopped 47 shots to spark
Roosevelt (Wyandotte, Mich.) to a 4-1 victory over Birmingham Brother Rice (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) in the Division 2 state championship game. The champs won despite being outshot, 48-27.
POTPOURRI* Unheralded
Ghierry Vanderkuyp, an athletic 6-1, 190-pound junior from Hialeah (Fla.), sparked South Florida Football Fire to a 28-21 victory over defending national champion South Florida Express to win the Badger Sports Elite 7-on-7 Tournament at the University of South Florida. The top four finishers qualified for the nationals in July.
* Grissom (Huntsville, Ala.) has two girls and one boy on its golf teams whose fathers are local golf pros. The players are senior Tyler McLelland and sophomores Sarah Robertson and Emma Clark.
