Both games are set for 7 p.m.In Class AA play Wednesday, Unicoi County blanked Pigeon Forge on the road, 5-0, and earned a home date Friday against Knox Gibbs, a 3-1 loser to Anderson County. Anderson County will host Pigeon Forge in the other Class AA sectional.In Class A, University High continued its late-season run with an 8-7 victory over Hancock County and will host a game Friday night with a chance to advance to state. The Junior Bucs will host Rockwood, a 13-3 loser to Harriman, while Hancock County will travel to Harriman on Friday.”I told my kids before the game, ‘I promise you, South is going to bring its best game tonight. It will be the best game they’d played against us all year.’ And it was. But our guys were up to the challenge.”I would much rather win a two-run game at this stage than one by seven or eight runs. I think winning a game like this gives you momentum going into Friday.””This was really good for us,” Lucas Anderson, who was cruising along on a one-hit shutout until an error opened the way for Archer’s bases-clearing triple that changed the complexion of the game with one swing. “I got behind in the count and got the ball up to him a little.”Archer deposited it at the base of the fence, 380 feet away.

It would have been a grand-slam home run in most parks.”He left it up and I just hit it,” said Archer “We just needed to hit the ball a little better. If we had, this game could have gone either way.”Archer had had the only hit of the game off Anderson through the first five innings when Anderson faced just one more batter than the minimum. He also walked a batter who was erased by a double play.The trouble started when, with two outs, shortstop Derek Pfieffer let Tyler Ball’s grounder slide under his glove and into the outfield. Seth Johnson walked and Ben Daniels followed with a single to load the bases and Archer then ripped an Anderson pitch to deep left-center, scoring all three runners.”I had told Daniel Sharp to be ready to face (Stephen) Owenby and Ryan Lockhart,” said Edwards. “I told him I wanted him to go after them.”Sharp came in and did as was told, striking out Owenby to get out of that jam and then Lockhart to start the seventh.

But an error allowed Ben Begley to reach and Kaleb Kitzmiller singled to put runners on first and second with one out. At that point, Mancuso came on and got Reid Mathews to pop out and got Ball to fly out to the base of the hill in right to end the game.An error with the bases full and two outs in the fifth doubled Science Hill’s lead from 2-0 to 4-0 and South coach Anthony Richardson said that was the big play in the game.”He normally makes that play,” said Richardson of his second baseman, “but he said the ball tailed away from him.”But we battled back and had a chance Good luck to Science Hill. If they play well Friday, they should advance.”But Richardson isn’t giving up on his team’s chances to advance, even though it has to play a Farragut team that has been nationally ranked this season.”We battled tonight and we’ll battle again Friday,” said Richardson. “We’re not supposed to beat them, so we’ll go down there loose and be ready to go.”Archer (7-2, 1.40 ERA) will get the start.”He should be fine,” said Richardson.”They’re a great team,” said Archer. “It will be a good challenge for us, but we’ll be ready.”Ball, who had thrown a perfect game in his last outing, was touched for back-to-back doubles down the left-field line by left-handed hitters to open the game. Lance Reed led off with a double and Cory McPherson followed with one of his own to produce the first run.”I got a little lucky on that one (with the wind that blew it fair),” said Reed. “I think they had shaded us to right field, expecting us to pull and we both hit it the opposite way.”Anderson then singled to open the fourth, advanced on Andrew Sims’ single and Daniel Norris’ bunt single filled the bases with no outs.

But Ball got Derek Pfieffer to fly out, scoring the second run, and then got Mancuso to hit into a double play to get out of the jam.Ball pitched all six innings, allowing 11 hits and five runs, three of them earned.”We’ll have everyone available on Friday except Tyler,” said Richardson.For Science Hill, Reed had two doubles and scored three runs; McPherson was 2-for-4 with two RBI; and Anderson and Norris had two hits each.”My back felt fine,” said Anderson. * Q1 sales up despite tough comparatives France * Plans to open 50 new stores this year * Online sales up 31.7 pct to 16.6 mln stg (Adds details) By Rhys Jones LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest pizzadelivery chain, Domino’s Pizza (DOM.L) said first-quarterlike-for-like sales rose 9.3 percent as recession-hit consumerscontinued to order in to save money instead of dining out. Domino’s, which operates the UK and Ireland franchise of theglobal home delivery brand, on Thursday said sales in its 501established stores were up but fell below the 12.4 percentgrowth rate it delivered in the first-quarter of 2008 because ofthis year’s late Easter. “Our underlying trading during the period continued to showgood growth. We are pleased with our current performance andtrading continues to progress in line with expectations,” chiefexecutive Chris Moore said in a statement. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report a pretaxprofit of 26 million pounds ($37.87 million) for 2009. The company, which operates from 563 shops and delivers tosome 3 million homes annually, said it had opened 10 new storessince the beginning of the year and plans to open a further 50outlets in 2009.

Domino’s, which is in the second year of a three year dealto sponsor popular Saturday night TV show ‘Britain’s GotTalent’, said first-quarter online sales rose 31.7 percent to16.6 million pounds, accounting for 23.6 percent of its UKdelivery sales. Shares in Domino’s, which have outperformed the FTSE AllShare Food Producers Index .FTASX357 by over 55 percent sincethe turn of the year, closed at 214 pence on Wednesday, valuingthe group at around 360 million pounds.($1=.6866 pounds)(Editing by Mike Nesbit) France. THOMSON REUTERS, April 23, Diary of Non S&P 500 Corporate earnings for U.S panies to May 07, 2009. S&P 500 Earnings – Monthly[RESF/US]S&P 500 Earnings – Day Ahead [ESTEARN/SP] S&P 500 Earnings – Weekly [SP500/WK] Non S&P 500 – Day Ahead[ESTEARN/] ConferenceCall/Webcast – Weekly [US/CCALLM]ConferenceCall/Webcast – Day [US/CCALL] Meetings – Weekly [US/MEETM] Meetings – Day Ahead [US/MEET] Economic Indicators USTODAYIPO events Dividends [DIV/US] Daily earnings hits & misses [US/EARN] Federal Reserve events[FED/DIARY] NON S&P 500 EARNINGS ** Please Note- The EPS estimate figure is a mean average based on the amount polled. ** Please Note – All times given are in GMT unless otherwise stated ** DATE GMT COMPANY NAME AND PERIOD SYMBOLEPSNo.OFYEAR AGO ESTIMATE EST EPS23 Apr Q1 A T. Cross Co.(ATX.O)0.00 2 N/A23 AprAMCQ1 Acacia Research Corporation(ACTG.O)-0.03 1-0.1023 Apr Q1 Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS.O)-0.46 5 0.1323 Apr Q1 Alaska Airlines(ALK) -0.46 8-0.9723 AprBMOQ1 Alexion Pharma.s (ALXN.O) 0.1415-0.0623 AprAMCQ1 Align Tech.(ALGN.O) 0.00 6 0.0723 Apr Q1 AmSurg (AMSG.O) 0.3916 0.3723 Apr Q1 Anadys Pharma.s, Inc.(ANDS.O)-0.3113-0.2623 Apr Q1 Atheros Comm., Inc.(ATHR.O) 0.0415 0.2823 Apr Q1 Autobytel (ABTL.O) N/AN/A-0.1423 Apr Q1 Avocent CorporationAVCT.O 0.21 4 0.3123 Apr Q1 Bancorp Rhode Island (BARI.O) 0.34 2 0.5023 Apr Q1 Benchmark Electronics(BHE)0.20 7 0.3323 Apr Q1 BJ’s Restaurants, Inc.