Champion baseball squad bounces back to beat Patriots

The Champion baseball team bounced back from last Tuesday’s loss at Alamo Heights and defeated Veterans Memorial at home last Thursday.

Champion beat the Patriots, 9-2, and improves to 12-9 overall and 6-6 in district. They visit Lehman on Tuesday and host Seguin Friday.

Veterans Memorial scored first in the game with a single run in the top of the first, but the rest of the night belonged to the Chargers team that answered with 2 runs in the bottom of the frame, 2 more in the second thanks to an Andrew Frei home run and then the Chargers blew it open with 5 runs in the third for the 9-1 lead.

The Patriots scratched for a run in the fourth and that’s where it stayed as neither team scored after the fourth frame.

Frei hit his 2-run homer in the second and he also scored twice in the game, while Jordan Ballin hit an RBI double and scored once and Josh Bowman doubled and picked up 2 RBI.

Aidan Pickett walked twice, scored 2 runs and also drove in a run, while Ryan Brandon, Evan Kuhl, Cooper Marshall and Jacob Gresham all scored once and Cam Logan singled.

Karson Kaiser went 5 innings on the hill and picked up the win. Kaiser gave up 4 hits, 1 earned run, walked 2 and fanned 4.

Rowdy Miller and Sam Miller tossed an inning each. Rowdy struck out 3 batters and Sam sat down 2 and neither gave up a hit or a walk.