Baseball recap: Timberview, Aledo walk off in extra innings, Birdville out-duels Centennial
Mansfield Timberview 8, Granbury 7 (8)
Kelvin Oates doubled to deep right field to drive in Khalil Walker in the bottom of the 8th inning to give Mansfield Timberview an 8-7 win over Granbury in Game 1 of their three-game series on Thursday night at Timberview High School.
Walker also pitched the final 2 2/3 innings to pick up the win for Timberview (20-10-1).
Granbury (23-9) built a 7-3 lead behind a two-run triple by Matthew Walters in the second inning and a double by Ryan Felton that drove in two more in the third.
Cedric Mitchell hit a one-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the first for the Wolves.
Timberview rallied with one in the fifth and three in the sixth. A bases-loaded ground ball to first by Austin Brown was booted allowing two runs to score. Walker followed and tied the game at seven with a sacrifice fly to right.
Game 2 of the series will be at 7 p.m. on Friday at Granbury. If a third game is needed it will be played on Saturday at a time and site to be determined.
Birdville 2, Burleson Centennial 1
Paris Junior College signee Mason Hardwick was dealing Thursday night allowing one hit with 11 strikeouts as the Hawks edged out the Spartans in Game 1 of their Class 5A area round series at Euless Trinity.
Game 2 is set for 7:30 pm Friday at Everman.
Hardwick got a pair of strikeouts in the first two innings and was up to five through three. He was pitching a no-hitter until the Spartans finally got their lone single in the fourth. Hardwick went toe-to-toe with Centennial pitcher Preston Tabor (Dallas Baptist). But the Hawks took the early 1-0 lead in the second when Hogan Shelby’s RBI single to center drove in Alex Showalter, who got on by a fielder’s choice.
Centennial put two runners on in the fourth, but Hardwick worked out of the jam and picked up strikeout No 7. A half inning later and the Hawks put two on only to see Tabor end it with back-to-back strikeouts.
The Spartans tied it in the fifth when a Birdville throw to first was off resulting in a two-base error. But the tie didn’t last long when the Hawks led in the bottom of the inning on an RBI sac-fly to center from Jarrett Shannon.
With the game-tying run in scoring position and the go-ahead run on first in the seventh, Birdville reliever Isaac Phelan ended the game with a strikeout swinging for the save.
Tabor struck out 10 batters in six innings for Centennial.
Aledo 2, Burleson 1 (12)
Sam Sisk’s RBI single pushed the Bearcats to a walk-off victory over the Elks in Game 1 of their Class 5A area round series at Boswell. Game 2 will be back at Boswell Friday at 7 pm.
In a duel between Burleson’s Devin Richerson and Aledo’s Adrian Guzman, the Elks struck first with a 1-0 lead in the fifth on Chris Savage’s RBI single driving in Chris Pritchett.
Down to their final at-bat in the bottom of the seventh, the Bearcats reached base with one out. Bridger Wilson got to first on a dropped third strike and with two outs, scored on Parker Stegall’s RBI double to right on the first pitch.
Guzman reached on an error with one out in the 12th. Zach Harrison singled and Wilson was hit by a pitch to load the bases before Sisk’s heroics.
Richerson went nine innings before hitting his 110-pitch limit and struck out seven.
Guzman struck out six in 5 2/3 innings. Hunter Rudel allowed four hits in six innings and struck out 10.
Mansfield Legacy 5, Azle 3
Arlington Martin 1, Prosper 0
This story was originally published May 13, 2021 at 11:52 PM.
