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Wildcats take Game 1, 4th-round series continues on Saturday in S.A.

• Game 1 was played Thursday

Game 1

Calallen took Game 1 on Thursday against Boerne High, 12-6. 

The Hounds scored first with three runs in the first inning but the Wildcats scored the next 6 runs and took a 6-3 lead. Calallen had a great sixth inning and scored 6 runs to blow it open and held a 12-4 advantage.

BHS went down swinging and tallied 2 runs in the top of the seventh but the rally stopped there and Calallen took the game, 12-6.

STORY

At this point of the UIL high school baseball playoffs, there are only four teams left in each region, so 16 teams in the entire state.

Most of the remaining squads are ranked in the top 10 and that’s the case in Boerne’s match up with Calallen. The Greyhounds (32-3)

The Greyhounds (32-3) enter the contest at No. 6 and the Wildcats (28-8) are No. 2. Game 1 was held Thursday

Game 1 was held Thursday after the Star’s Friday deadline but look on our website at www.boernestar.com and check out our twitter page at @BoerneStarSport for results.

Game 2 will be Saturday at the Northeast Sports Park, 4 p.m. A third game will follow if needed.

The Hounds have swept every opponent they’ve faced thus far, beating Gonzales in the first round, defeating Sweeny in the second and then rocking Rockport-Fulton in the third round last week with a Riley Pechacek walk off homer to seal the series in the eighth inning of Game 2.

T h e Wildcats have only dropped one game in the playoffs so far and that was last week to Robstown in Game 1, but they went on to win the next two. Before that, Calallen swept

Before that, Calallen swept Raymondville and Crystal City in the first two rounds.

Calallen coach Steve Chapman has 1,114 wins and can become the winningest high school baseball coach in Texas if the Wildcats are able to beat the Hounds this weekend. He needs one to tie and two to get the record. Boerne and Calallen have

Boerne and Calallen have a history that goes way back but the two powerhouses haven’t met in a while because the Wildcats were a 5A and just came down to 4A two years ago.

When they were a 5A school, the Wildcats played BISD’s other school – Champion – in a memorable one-gamer in the regional semifinals at Hallettsville when Calallen was the No. 1 team in the nation.

Champion won 4-3 after Bryce Dorn pitched the game of his life. That advanced the Chargers to the regional finals where they lost to Lake Travis when former Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield was a part of that Lake Travis team.

Before that, Boerne and Calallen met in the regional finals during both the 2004 and 2005 seasons when both were 4A schools and 5A was the largest classification. When the 6A classification was introduced, Calallen went to 5A until two years ago.

With future Texas Longhorns on the team, Russell Moldenhauer and Bradley Suttle, the Greyhounds took the series in 2004 and received a great pitching performance from Austin Jones in Game 3.

The following year, the Wildcats won the series in 2005, and in both cases, the winner of that Region IV-4A finals went on to win the state championship, giving Boerne its only state title in baseball during that 2004 season.

• Game 2 is Saturday, 4 p.m. at Northeast Sports Park

• Game 3 to follow the third game if needed


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