LA PINE — Taft entered Tuesday as the No. 1-ranked team in Class 3A baseball, but La Pine was not intimidated.

The Hawks remained unbeaten with an 8-5 nonconference win and dealt the top-ranked Tigers their first loss of the season.

“I was a little bit worried, because they (La Pine’s players) had seen pitching, but not pitchers like this,” La Pine coach Bo DeForest conceded.

The Hawks (4-0 overall) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning against Taft, which had outscored opponents 67-11 in its first six games. La Pine starter Angelo Roes allowed two runs in the top of the third inning — the only runs he allowed in four innings of work — before the Hawks retook the lead with three runs in the home half of the fourth.

Roes helped his own cause with two hits and two RBIs, and Jake Farnsworth also batted in two runs. Adam Plant pitched two innings of relief, allowing two runs, and Wyatt DeForest closed out the seventh inning, giving up one run. DeForest also doubled and accounted for an RBI, and Giroux Gerhart went 2-for-3 for La Pine.

“This was a big win for us,” Bo DeForest said.

Also Tuesday:

Baseball

Valhalla (Calif.) 5, Mountain View 2: EL CAJON, Calif. — Four pitchers combined to limit Valhalla to three hits, but 11 issued walks and a pair of Mountain View errors allowed the host to escape with a nonconference win. Ryan Martini led the Cougars (0-6) with two hits and an RBI. Charlie Borla collected a hit and drove in a run, while Cason Anderson, B.B. Logan and Jayson Kinyon singled for Mountain View.

Sandy 10, Redmond 4: PENDLETON — The Panthers used two runs in the top of the third inning to trim a three-run deficit to just one, but Sandy plated four runs in the fourth and another in the fifth to claim the win at the Buck’s Spring Classic. Andrew Mckague led Redmond (4-4) with three hits. Kyle Simpson had two hits for the Panthers, and Henry Chambers drove in a run.

Bonita Vista (Calif.) 8, Summit 1: EL CAJON, Calif. — Logan Peterson had two hits, but the Storm were outscored 7-0 over the final three innings in a nonconference loss. Drew Steelhammer and Hayden Love each had a hit for Summit (1-4), and Dylan Anderman had an RBI.

Crater 11, Ridgeview 1: CENTRAL POINT — The Ravens gave up seven runs in the first inning on their way to a loss on the first day of the Crater Tournament. Ridgeview (1-4) had three hits as a team, one apiece by Ben Gunnels, Ryan Wellman and Evan Hockett.

Bend 9, Grants Pass 1: GRANTS PASS — Cole Frey hit a first-inning grand slam to lead the Lava Bears to a Crater Tournament win at Grants Pass High School. Marshall Davis got the start for Bend (2-1) and went three innings to help Bend kick off the three-day tourney with a victory.

Softball

Barlow 6, Bend 0; Bend 6, South Medford 5: MEDFORD — The Lava Bears (3-5-1) salvaged a split on the final day of the North Medford Spring Break Invite.

Ridgeview 11, Southridge 5; Ridgeview 21, Crook County 3: REDMOND — Natalie Hill went 2-for-2 and was the winning pitcher as the Ravens opened the second day of the Redmond Spring Break Invitational with a win over Southridge. Marley Sargent was 3-for-3 with a double for Ridgeview. Against Crook County, Allicite Frost allowed three runs in the first inning but held the Cowgirls scoreless the rest of the way. The Ravens (5-1) pounded out 15 hits, highlighted by Taylor Smith, who was 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs, and Lorena Vasquez, who had two hits and three RBIs.

Crook County 15, Corbett 10; Ridgeview 21, Crook County 3: REDMOND — Emma Lees went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs to lead the Cowgirls to a win over Corbett in their first of two games at the Redmond Spring Break Invitational. Abby Dalton was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and Ashley Owens went 3-for-5 with two triples and four RBIs. Against Ridgeview, Lees had two hits, including a double, and an RBI for Crook County (6-4), and Berkley Puckett had a hit.

Lincoln 7, Redmond 1; Madras 12, Redmond 11 : REDMOND — Kiki Fierstos scored the Panthers’ lone run against Lincoln in the fifth inning, hitting a triple and coming home on a ground-out in a Redmond Spring Break Invitational matchup. Against Madras, Fierstos and Ondriah Oyloe both had two-run home runs for the Panthers (2-6).

Scappoose 18, Summit 0; Cascade 14, Summit 12 : REDMOND — The Storm rallied from a 9-1 deficit against Cascade and evened the score 12-12 in the top of the seventh inning, but the Cougars hit a two-run walk-off home run in the home half of the inning for a Redmond Spring Break Invitational win. The bottom three hitters in the Storm lineup scored seven of 12 runs for Summit, which was held to just two hits versus Scappoose. Grace Dealy had two doubles, including one in the seventh inning, and Ashley Compton scored three runs for the Storm (0-5).

Madras 21, Cascade 11; Madras 12, Redmond 11: REDMOND — The White Buffaloes got busy with their bats, piling up 36 hits in two wins at the Redmond Spring Break Invitational. Jiana Smith Francis blasted a pair of three-run homers and finished with eight RBIs in Madras’ five-inning victory over Cascade. Also in that game, Arysta Pineda and Lizzie Steuart had three hits apiece. Against Redmond, the Buffs’ Niyallee Cochran was 4-for-4 with a home run, Steuart was 2-for-4 with a homer, and Pineda went 4-for-5. Jalaney Suppah hit a three-run double and finished with four RBIs as the Buffs (4-3) won their third straight game.

Cascade Christian 5, La Pine 3; Toledo 3, La Pine 0: MEDFORD — Kiah Toepfer and SueAnn Marsh each had a triple for La Pine against Cascade Christian on the second day of the North Medford Spring Break Invite, but the Hawks were done in by a three-run fifth inning by the Challengers. La Pine’s Josey Hawkins allowed just two earned runs against Toledo, but the Boomers’ Mikayla Retherford held the Hawks (2-4) scoreless and struck out nine La Pine batters.