Baseball recap: Prosper forces Game 3 with Martin, Birdville, Legacy, Timberview sweep area round

Prosper 4, Arlington Martin 3

Prosper scored twice in the top of the fourth inning to take a two-run lead then held off Arlington Martin, 4-3, on Friday night to even their Class 6A area-round playoff series at a game a piece.

The teams will play a deciding Game 3 at 1 p.m. on Saturday back at Hurst L.D. Bell High School.

Martin (23-7-2) played from behind all night. After Proper scored single runs on RBI doubles by Cameron Harpole in the first and Chase Pendley in the second, Martin pulled even in the third.

Logan Myers singled with the bases loaded scoring Cade Weihrich and Luke Spencer. The Warriors had four singles and a hit batter in the inning, but came away with just two runs.

Prosper (26-11) answered immediately when Jackson Juvera lined a triple to right-center to lead off the fourth and scored on a sharp single by Blake McEwan. Pendley tripled in McEwan to give the Eagles a 4-2 lead.

Myers’ sacrifice fly to deep left in the fifth drove in Spencer, who had singled to lead off the inning, which cut the lead to 4-3. The Warriors got a pair of two-out singles in the last of the seventh by Myers and Zach Hudspeth, but a fly out to right ended the game.

Mansfield Legacy 2, Azle 0

Mansfield Legacy took Game 2 of their Class 5A area-round series to sweep Azle on Friday night at Justin Northwest High School.

Legacy (24-10), which won 5-3 on Thursday, scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings.

A two-out single by Raef Wright was followed by an RBI triple by Dylan Schlaegel in the fifth. Griffin Binkley singled with one out in the sixth, stole second and came home on a lined single to left by Hayden Guerin.

Kayden Voelkel pitched the first six innings for the Broncos scattering three hits with one walk and nine strikeouts. Binkley struck out the side in the seventh.

Azle’s season ends at 17-10-3.

Birdville 6, Burleson Centennial 5

The Hawks erased a 4-1 deficit to beat the Spartans and sweep their Class 5A area round series Friday at Everman. Birdville heads the the reigonal quarterfinals for the first time since 2015 to play Legacy.

Jarrett Shannon singled in a two-out RBI in the top of the first inning for Birdville, but Centennial answered with four runs in the bottom of the frame.

Birdville chipped away in the third with an RBI double from Shannon, who scored on Bynum Martinez’ RBI single to cut the lead to 4-3. Will Bush brought home a run with a bases-loaded walk and Shannon drove in his third run to help the Hawks take their first lead at 5-4 in the fourth.

Centennial tied it at 5 and Payton Brooks scored on a wild pitch in the fifth for the game-winning run.

Birdville, which won 2-1 on Thursday, got eight strikeouts from Parker Hutyra. Isaac Phelan, who got the save in Game 1, got the save Friday with two innings, no hits and three strikeouts.

Mansfield Timberview 2, Granbury 1

Andre Williams’ RBI in the top of the seventh pushed the Wolves past the Pirates and complete the sweep of their Class 5A area round series Friday at Granbury.

Timberview clinches a spot in the regional quarterfinals for the first time in program history to take on Aledo, a 2-0 winner over Burleson. Angel Cruz singled in a run in the second.

Granbury tied it in the fourth. The Pirates, who lost 8-7 on Thursday, got a lead off walk in the bottom of the seventh, but Timberview pitcher Kevin Schoneboom got a line out and back-to-back strikeouts to seal the victory. He allowed three hits and struck out 10 batters.

Aledo 3, Burleson 2

Benbrook 8, Iowa Park 5 (8)

Odessa Permian 3, Byron Nelson 2

Byron Nelson 9, Odessa Permian 0

This story was originally published May 15, 2021 at 1:10 AM.