Comfort softball, baseball teams in action

Comfort High was able to get in two games at last week’s Three Rivers Softball Tournament before it was called because of the weather, but the Deer won both to stay undefeated this year.

03/04/2022 04:00 AM

Comfort High was able to get in two games at last week’s Three Rivers Softball Tournament before it was called because of the weather, but the Deer won both to stay undefeated this year.

Comfort defeated Benavides and George West and improved to 9-0.

The Comfort baseball team opened its season Tuesday against Sonora and dropped a close one.

Softball

Against Benavides, the Deer won 16-0 in three innings. They scored 10 in the first and added 6 more in the second.

Comfort only had 5 hits but they took 13 walks and picked up 13 RBI.

Kryssa Zenon doubled and singled, pushed in 4 runs and scored twice, Hope Van Geffen walked 3 times and scored 3 runs, Tori Hernandez turned 2 walks into 2 runs, Brianna Ornelas singled and pushed in 2 runs, Morgan Hansen singled, scored and collected 4 RBI, while Tilly Avalos plated 2 runs.

Madalynn Rodriguez picked up the win on 33 pitches and gave up 1 hit, no runs, 1 walk and she fanned 3.

Against George West, the Deer recorded a 4-0 win. Comfort outhit GW, 7-3, and scored a run in the first, another in the third, followed by 2 in the fourth.

Morgan Hansen doubled and singled, drove in 2 runs, Emma Wardlaw doubled and scored, Hope Van Geffen singled and scored, Madalynn Rodriguez singled, Tilly Avalos singled and scored and Katie Haffner singled, scored, walked and picked up an RBI.

Wardlaw won the game on 62 pitches and gave up 3 hits, no runs, while she struck out 11 batters and walked just one.

Baseball

The Sonora Broncos won Tuesday’s contest, 10-7, to drop the Bobcats to 0-1 to start the year. Comfort is scheduled to play in the Llano tourney this weekend.

Sonora plated a run in the first, but Comfort tied it in the top of the third with a run to make it 1-1.

Sonora answered with 3 runs in the bottom of the third to pull ahead, 4-1.

Comfort scored 3 runs in the top of the fourth and tied it again but the Broncos answered with 3 runs in the bottom half of the inning to pull ahead, 7-4.

The same thing happened in the sixth when Comfort plated 3 runs to tie it for the third time, but Sonora once again broke the tie with 3 runs in the bottom half of the inning for the 10-7 lead.