Joshua baseball pitcher throws perfect game; Colleyville Heritage survives early scare

BASEBALL

JOSHUA 3, MESQUITE POTEET 0

Matt Haley tossed a perfect game and struck out 13 batters as the Owls took Game 1 of their Class 5A Region II bi-district baseball series at Crowley.

Game 2 is 7 p.m. Friday at Poteet (19-11-1).

Andrew Bell reached on a two-out error in the first inning and Ethan Wood came across to score. The Owls (20-9) tacked on two more in the second with an RBI double from Toney Smith, who scored on a sacrifice from Wood.

Haley threw 80 pitches and 60 for strikes. He recorded a strikeout in each inning and struck out the side in the sixth. At one point, he had struck out five consecutive batters.

COLL. HERITAGE 10, RYAN 4

The Raiders gave the No. 2 team in 5A an early scare with a 4-4 tie through 2 1/2 innings, but the Panthers scored one in the third and added five more in the fifth to win a 5A Region I one-game playoff and advance to area at Dallas Baptist.

Ryan jumped on Heritage (30-2) early with two runs in the top of the first before the Panthers scored four runs in the bottom half when A&M signee Logan Britt led off with a single and scored on a double from the potential No. 1 draft pick in Bobby Witt.

Witt scored a batter later on an RBI single from Baylor signee Nick Balsano.

Jakob Berger grounded into a fielder’s choice and Colby Kroutil singled in a run.

Dylan Bivins and Parker Last drove in runs in the third to tie the game, but Chandler Freeman belted a lead-off home run for the Panthers to make it 5-4 in the bottom of the third.

Berger singled in another run and Witt drove in two more in the fifth.

Heritage will await the winner between South Hills and Burleson in the second round.

This story was originally published May 1, 2019 at 10:30 PM.