By Dennen Cuthbertson
WARREN, Ark. (2/26/26) – The Warren Lumberjacks baseball team registered 14 hits offensively and the pitching staff held visiting Rison to two hits in a 13-2 benefit-game victory as its final tune-up before the 2026 campaign gets underway next week.
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All nine starters in the lineup picked up hits for the Jacks with Ren Reep’s three pacing the team. Jackson Denton and Parker O’Neal also had multi-hit games for the team. Reep tossed three hitless and scoreless innings to begin the game, while Huck Williams and O’Neal threw two innings apiece to finish the contest.
Reep sparked the offense early with a one-out triple in the bottom of the first and scored on a sacrifice fly by Denton for the game’s first run. The Orange and Black added another run in the second frame when Aceen Jurado tripled and scored on an RBI groundout by Logan Case. Warren kept the pressure on with three runs in the third inning to stretch the lead to 5-0. Tucker McDiarmid, Reep, and Denton all picked up hits in the inning with an RBI each from Denton and Jude Cathey.
The Wildcats picked up a pair of runs in the fourth inning to get within 5-2, but it proved to be their only fruitful inning of the game. The Lumberjacks quickly got both runs back when Zech Bush scored on a Reep base knock and Ty Hembree crossed the plate on a wild pitch. Warren extended the advantage to 10-2 with three runs in the fifth frame, highlighted by run-scoring singles from Bush and Hembree.
The home team added three more in the sixth inning with Cathey swatting an RBI double down the left-field line and Case recording another RBI on a base hit. Warren scored another on a double play to set what would turn out to be the final score at 13-2.
This benefit game does not count on the regular-season record for either squad. The Lumberjacks open the 2026 season on Monday, March 2 with a home matchup against Dumas. First pitch from the Warren City Complex is set for 4:30 p.m.
