SAN ANTONIO – After Calallen took the first game in its best-of-three, fourth-round series with the Boerne baseball team last week, the series shifted to San Antonio for Games 2 and 3 last Saturday.
The Greyhounds had to win to stay alive in Game 2 and they did to send it to a winner-take-all Game 3.
BHS and Calallen battled tooth and nail in that final game as Wildcats coach Steven Chapman pursued history.
Calallen scored the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh and held on for the 2-1 victory over the Greyhounds to end the BHS season and make Chapman the winningest coach in Texas high school baseball history with 1,116 wins.
Calallen won the first game, 12-6, Boerne took the second game, 3-2, and the Wildcats closed it out in Game 3, 2-1 to leave Boerne at 33-5 for the season.
Game 2
Both Games 2 and 3 were anybody’s for the taking and the winner of both of Saturday’s games only won the contest by a single run.
Boerne claimed its only game of the series in Game 2 and scored the winning run in the eighth after the contest went extra innings.
In the first, Rashawn Galloway was hit by a pitch and then his courtesy runner Jaxon Baize scored on a Riley Pechacek double for the 1-0 lead.
Calallen tied it in the second with a single run but the Hounds retook the lead in the fifth after Connor Shill doubled and moved to third on a Max Garcia sac bunt before scoring on a Kalob Sanchez RBI single for the 2-1 advantage.
The Wildcats tied it again, this time in the seventh with a hit batter, a walk and a couple of singles and had the chance to take the lead but had a runner thrown out between third and home after he stopped between the bases and got involved in a rundown before getting tagged out.
Boerne made them pay for that base-running mistake in the eighth after Cam Johnson started off the inning with a double. He stole third and then against a drawn in infield, Pechacek hit a high chopper to the shortstop that allowed Johnson to score the winning run from third for the 3-2 victory and even the series at 1-1.
Tyler Garritano pitched a great game even though he didn’t get the win. Garritano went 6 innings and gave up 3 hits and only 1 earned run. He fanned 6 and walked 1 and hadn’t started on the hill since before district started.
Sanchez threw the final 2 frames and was the pitcher of record when the Hounds ended it so he gets the win after yielding a hit and a run.
Game 3
The Wildcats scored first in Saturday night’s Game 3 at the Northeast Sports Park.
A double, a wild pitch and a sac fly allowed Calallen to take the early 1-0 lead in the second frame.
It stayed that way until the fifth when Hutson Hendrix got things going for the Hounds and reached on a single.
Connor Shill moved the runner to second with a sacrifice bunt. Jaxon Baize went in to courtesy run for Hendrix and then Kalob Sanchez hit a grounder to shortstop and the throw was off, allowing Baize to score and Sanchez to move to second. Sanchez stay stranded at second and but the Hounds had tied it at 1-1.
After neither team scored in the sixth it went to the seventh. With one out, Calallen’s Terik Hickmon singled and then Tres Vasquez tripled to right field, allowing Hickmon to score from first and give the Wildcats the 2-1 lead.
There was only one out in the inning with Hickmon at third but the Hounds didn’t allow any more runs after they came up with a ground out and a strikeout to end the frame.
That sent it to the bottom of the seventh and Boerne needed a run to tie or two to win it but went down in order with two strikeouts and a flyout to left to end it.
Landon LeStourgeon started on the bump and went 4.1 innings and tossed 75 pitches. He reached his pitch limit of 110 for the week since he also threw in Game 1 and received a standing ovation when he left the game.
On Saturday, LeStourgeon gave up 3 hits, 1 run, fanned 7 and walked just 1. Xander Cloudy entered in relief and threw the final 2.2 innings. Cloudy gave up 2 hits, 1 run and sat down 3 batters.
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