Baseball/Softball recap: Aledo run-rules Timberview, Carroll shuts down Permian, Northwest knocks off Monterey
BASEBALL
Argyle 3, Benbrook 0
With a chance to close out a Class 4A Region 1 quarterfinal series Saturday, junior pitcher Evan Brandt threw a one-hit shutout and struck out seven as the Eagles eliminated the Bobcats at Boswell High School.
Argyle (27-9) advances to the regional semifinals for the seventh straight season (not including 2020). The Eagles, who won 13-2 in Friday’s Game 1, will play Andrews next week.
Benbrook’s Devin Jennings allowed a lead-off single in the bottom of the second before striking out a batter and forcing two pop flies. The Bobcats (27-10-1) had a chance to do some damage when they loaded the bases in the top of the third. Devin Bennett hit a two-out single to put three runners on base, but Brandt forced a 1-4-3 double play to get out of the jam.
Lucas Anderson led off the Argyle fourth inning with a walk and Chase Wohnoutka singled. After a hit batter loaded the bases for the Eagles, Colton Roquemore put down a squeeze bunt to score Anderson.
Ryan Hulke followed with a pop fly to center that scored Wohnoutka on the RBI sac fly.
After Bennett’s single in the third, Brandt retired the final 12 Benbrook batters. He threw 89 pitches. Roquemore added a two-out RBI double down the right-field line to extend the lead to 3-0 in the sixth.
Jennings, who is a Richland College signee, allowed four hits with eight strikeouts in six innings.
Aledo 14, Mansfield Timberview 4 (5)
The Bearcats erased a 3-0 first-inning deficit to beat the Wolves in Game 3 to win their Class 5A Region 1 quarterfinal series Saturday at Cleburne.
Aledo (26-9-2), which won 9-5 in Friday’s Game 2, advances to the regional semifinals for the first time since 2015. The Bearcats will face Abilene Wylie, which swept Canyon Randall.
After an error pulled Aledo within 3-1 in the bottom of the first inning, the Bearcats added 10 more runs before the inning came to an end. Zach Harrison singled in Parker Stegall and Adrian Guzman and Nolan Garcia came home on back-to-back Timberivew errors. A Sam Sisk two-run triple extended the Aledo lead to 7-3 with only one out. Sisk scored on the next batter when Max Belyeu got an infield single. Harrison capped the big frame with a three-run triple to left center.
Stegall scored on a dropped fly ball in the bottom of the fifth that ended the game. Timberview (22-12-1) had its deepest playoff run in program history.
Odessa Permian 3, Southlake Carroll 2
Southlake Carroll 11, Odessa Permian 1 (5)
Southlake Carroll bats exploded for 11 runs on 11 hits and Dragons’ pitcher Nate Rusher stymied Odessa Permian in a run-rule win to take the best of three Class 6A Region 1 quarterfinal on Saturday at Lubbock-Cooper High School.
Carroll (26-16) will face Flower Mound Marcus (29-8-1) in the Region 1 semifinal next week.
Rusher allowed four hits and one earned run while fanning six and walking two in five innings.
The Dragons scored three times in the first and fourth innings and put the game away with a five-run fifth.
Gunnar Krug led Carroll with a 2 for 4 day at the plate with three runs batted in and a run scored. Krug doubled in Anthony Llera and Tanner Sumer to give the Dragons a 6-1 lead in the fourth.
Sumer was 1 for 2 with two RBI and two runs scored. Ryan Pehrson went 3 for 3 including a double with an RBI and run scored.
Ethan Mendoza and Max Reyes both recorded triples in the game.
In Game 2, Carroll scored once in the top of the sixth on a Ben Tyron sacrifice fly that drove home Reyes, who had doubled earlier in the inning, to tie the game 1-1.
But Permian (30-10) forced a third game with two in the bottom half of the inning. Carroll got two walks to lead off the seventh and Sumer scored on a Mendoza ground out, but the Panthers managed to get out of the inning.
Owen Proksch pitched well in the loss for Carroll allowing four hits and one earned run while striking out 11 and walking one.
Birdville 5, Mansfield Legacy 4
The Hawks took an early lead then held off the Broncos in the third game of their Class 5A Region 1 quarterfinal series on Saturday afternoon at Dallas Baptist University.
Birdville (25-11-1) will face Amarillo (29-8) in the regional semifinals next week. It will be the Hawks’ first regional semifinal appearance since 2008.
After a two-out single by Griffin Binkley drove in Raef Wright in the top of the first for Legacy, Birdville countered with five unanswered runs in the first three innings.
A double by Will Bush driving in Brian Hanson gave the Hawks a 4-1 lead in the third. Two batters later a RBI ground out by Bynum Martinez plated Bush.
The 5-1 lead for Birdville held until the sixth. The first four batters for Legacy reached in the sixth including Hayden Guerin who lined a single to center to score Kayden Voelkel and Binkley to cut the lead to 5-3.
Following a fly out, Parker Ibrahimi drove Rusch home with a sacrifice fly to left, but that was as close as the Broncos would get.
Isaac Phelan, who came on in relief for the Hawks with none out in the first inning, got the final three outs, fanning the final two.
Brock 5, Wall 2
Brock scored four times in the bottom of the first then coasted to a win over Wall in the rubber game of its Class 3A Region 1 quarterfinal Saturday night at Abilene Christian University.
Brock (25-9-1) will face Littlefield (19-9) in the regional semifinals next week.
Peyton Shaffer was stellar for the Eagles going the distance allowing four singles, two runs (one earned), with seven strikeouts and three walks.
Wall (24-11) scored twice in the sixth, but Shaffer got a comebacker and fanned the final two batters in the seventh.
The Eagles loaded the bases against Wall starter Reece Horton in the first. Jaxon Gleaton followed with a sac fly to drive in Cash Jones, Sawyer Strosnider singled in courtesy runner Eli Potts and a Camden Harris lined triple to right plated Luke Stills and Strosnider.
Tyler Moody drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk in the sixth to cap the scoring for Brock.
Keller 13, Eaton 10
After going down 5-4 in the bottom of the fifth, Keller poured on nine runs in the top of the sixth then held off a late rally to win Game 3 of its Class 6A Region 1 quarterfinal series Saturday at Denton Guyer.
Keller advances to the regional semifinals to take on Coppell, which eliminated Prosper.
Three of the first four Indians in the sixth drew a walk to load the bases. Braden Davis hit a sac fly to center that drove home Gray Rowlett and then Colten Vargas came around to score on the throw that gave Keller the lead for good. A hit batter and another walk loaded the bases again and all three scored on Whit Thoms’ double to left.
Two batters later and a Rowlett triple plated two more for an 11-5 lead. Mike Dattalo capped the big inning off with a two-run single to right.
Eaton made it interesting in the bottom of the seventh with five runs. The Eagles started the inning off with a Nolan Bushko single, Easton Andrews’ RBI double and an Xavier Casserilla walk.
Sterling Seibold singled in a run to cut the lead to 13-7 and Silas Voegely blasted a three-run homer to left. Zach Gonzalez came in for Keller, walked his first batter before getting a pop fly to right that ended the game.
Keller scored a pair of runs in back-to-back innings to grab a 4-2 lead in the top of the fourth, but Eaton went in front 5-4 with three runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Davis drove in four runs while Thoms added three.
SOFTBALL
Justin Northwest 8, Lubbock Monterey 2
A sixth-run inning propelled the Texans to a Game 3 win and helped clinched the Class 5A Region 1 semifinal series Saturday in Abilene.
The Texans advance to their first regional final since 2007 and will take on Aledo next week.
Monterey drew first with an RBI sac fly in the top of the third. Northwest tied it a half inning later on Anna Brummal’s solo home run.
Northwest opened the game with six runs in the bottom of the fifth starting with a two-run double from Alexah Reyes. The Texans added three more runs and finished with four hits in the inning, including three for extra bases.
Abi Young pitched all seven innings for Northwest allowing six hits, two runs, two walks and eight strikeouts.
This story was originally published May 22, 2021 at 2:33 PM.
