Seguin and Champion battled through seven ties or lead changes before the Matadors softball team scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat the Chargers, 7-6.
Champion slips to 8-5-1 overall and 4-2 in 26-5A. It has three games this week and hosts Tivy on Tuesday, visits Buda Johnson Friday to close out the first round and begins the second round on Saturday at NB Canyon.
Seguin scored first in Thursday’s game and pulled ahead 3-0 before the Chargers got on the board in the fourth after Carmen Vela singled and Krista Tarver doubled to bring in Vela and make it 3-1.
Champion had a big inning in the sixth and tied it before taking the lead. Another Tarver double brought in two runs and knotted it up at 3-3. The Chargers added two more runs in the frame and held their first advantage of the game at 5-3.
The lead didn’t hold and Seguin tied it in the seventh with two runs. The first two Matador hitters reached on walks, but the Chargers picked up two outs with pop ups. However, the next Seguin batter doubled to bring in both runners and tie it at 5-5 to send it to the eighth.
Champion put together a two-out rally in the top of the eighth to take the lead, but again it didn’t hold. Lily Ritchie doubled and then stole third. From there, Kassidy Kureska singled to score Ritchie and the Chargers were up 6-5 when the game went to the bottom half of the frame.
Champion was one out away from winning the game but the Matadors put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the eighth.
A Seguin single and a walk put runners on first and second with two outs. The next Seguin batter doubled and the runner at second scored to tie it. The runner at first made it all the way around the bases on the hit and scored on the throw to give the Matadors the win.
It was a tough loss for the Chargers team that outhit Seguin, 13-7, but also committed 5 fielding errors.
Tarver finished with 2 doubles and 3 RBI while Carmen Vela, Ashley Ottmers and Lily Ritchie all doubled as well.
Carmen Vela added 3 singles to her double and scored twice; Gabi Vela and Finley Shanley singled and scored; Ritchie added 2 singles to her double, scored and picked up an RBI; and Kureska singled, scored and drove in a run.
Carmen Vela threw 7.2 innings and tossed 164 pitches. She gave up 7 hits and 5 earned runs while striking out 6 and walking 6.
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