Baseball/Softball Recap (5/5): Carroll ace strikes out 15, Keller wins in the 11th inning
Baseball
Southlake Carroll 3, LD Bell 0
LSU commit Griffin Herring shut down 15 batters and Ben Tryon hit a solo home run as the Dragons eliminated the Blue Raiders in a one-game bi-district playoff game on Thursday at Carroll.
The Dragons (25-8) will await El Paso Americas or San Angelo Central in the second round. Those two teams will play a doubleheader on Friday in Andrews.
Herring struggled to find his zone as a Bell batter led off the first two innings by reaching base. However, he still managed to keep the Raiders scoreless.
After hitting the game’s first batter, Herring retired the next three and picked up two strikeouts. After issuing a pair of walks in the second, Herring struck out a batter looking for the third out.
Bell (15-12-3) starting pitcher Cameron Harvath matched Herring nearly pitch for pitch through the first three innings while also keeping the Dragons scoreless.
Harvath gave up two-out singles in the first two innings, but was able to limit the threat. The same came in the third when Ethan Mendoza singled to left that set up Carroll with runners in scoring position and one out.
Harvath got a grounder right back to him for the second out and Hudson Knight made a nifty grab at second to get the force out to first that ended the frame.
Carroll finally scored in the bottom of the fourth when Nick Jones and Clark Springs led off with back to back singles. The Dragons scored when a pitch went to the back stop and then Tyson Drake sent a high fly to right field and Brady Miller scored after tagging up from third.
Herring got in the groove from the fourth on. He struck out the side in the fourth and fifth innings. Tryon hit a 1-0 pitch over the right field wall to give Carroll a 3-0 lead in the fifth.
Herring retired the side in the sixth.
Brayden Pasley led off the Bell seventh with a single to left center and reached second with no outs. Meanwhile Herring was nearing his 110 pitch limit. After a pair of strikeouts, Herring was sitting at 108 pitches and finished off the final out with his 15th strikeout.
Keller 3, FW Paschal 2 (11)
Zach Makarewich’s single to left scored the walk-off run in the 11th innings as the Indians beat the Panthers in Game 1 of their 6A Region 1 bi-district series at Keller.
Game 2 is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Paschal.
Niko Pecskovszky led off the 11th by reaching base on a Paschal error and after Jackson Hill was intentionally walked with one out, Makarewich hit the first pitch he saw.
Ricky Saldivar (RBI) and Julian Minor (3 for 4, RBI) helped Paschal (20-10) take a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth. Keller (19-6), which finished as the No. 1 area 6A team, tied it on a two-run homer from Ty Zahradnik.
Keller starter Keever Vincent went 4 2/3 innings, allowing eight hits, two runs and striking out six. Nick Robb allowed two hits in 5 1/3 innings with six strikeouts. Zahradnik pitched in the 11th and struck out one.
Paschal starter JP Hinojosa allowed four hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innnings. Nico Vasquez allowed two hits in four innings.
Dallas Jesuit 4, Arlington 3
Jesuit scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth to beat the Colts in Game 1 of their 6A Region 1 bi-district series at Jesuit.
Game 2 is 7 p.m. Friday at Arlington.
Highland Park 2, Cleburne 0
Preston Gamster hit a two-out two-run double in the third and the Scots held off the Yellow Jackets during Game 1 of the 5A Region 2 bi-district series at Highland Park.
Game 2 is 7:30 p.m. Friday at Cleburne.
Castleberry 7, FW Diamond Hill-Jarvis 1
The Lions opened the game with a four-run second to beat the Eagles during Game 1 of their 4A Region 1 bi-district series at Castleberry.
Game 2 is 5 p.m. Friday at DHJ with Game 3 to follow if necessary.
Gabriel Romero and Isaiah Garcia led the Lions with two RBI apiece. Romero needed just 85 pitches to throw a complete game while allowing seven hits, one run and striking out five.
Softball
Flower Mound Marcus 11, Arlington Martin 0 (5)
Faith Drissel threw a four hitter and struck out six as the Marauders beat the Warriors during Game 1 of their 6A Region 1 area round series on Thursday at Marcus.
The two teams will play Game 2 at 7 p.m. Friday at Workman Complex in Arlington.
Marcus (23-10-1) only scored in two innings, but both were big. The Marauders tacked on five runs in the second and six in the fourth.
Hailey Vela singled in a run and Oklahoma State signee Haidyn Sokoloski hit a two-run triple to right to give Marcus a 3-0 lead. LSU commit Tori Edwards capped the second with a solo homer to center.
Martin (18-9) had runners in scoring position the third after an Izabell Astran double, but Drissel got the next batter to fly out. Drissel then retired the side in the fourth.
After Martin got the first out in the fourth, Edwards smacked her second homer of the game to extend the lead to 6-0. After a walk and error, an Alexa Hanish single made it 7-0. Vela singled in another run and a Martin error pushed it to 11-0.
Drissel then retired the side in the fifth with a pair of strikeouts.
El Paso Eastwood 6, Keller Timber Creek 0
Eastwood pitcher Miranda Guillen no hit the Falcons during Game 1 of their 6A Region 1 area round series in Odessa.
Game 2 is 10 a.m. Friday.
Game 3 will follow if necessary.
Guillen struck out 12 batters. Timber Creek pitcher Nicole Stuhr was able to limit Eastwood to a single run through six innings until a five-run seventh. Stuhr finished with six strikeouts.
Melissa 19, Alvarado 3 (5)
Melissa scored 19 runs on 18 hits to beat Alvarado during Game 1 of their 4A Region 2 area round series at Irving.
Game 2 is 6 p.m. Friday at Irving.
Abby Tatum (2) and Jacey Power (1) drove in runs for the Indians (22-6-1).