BHS sews up win vs. Buttons

A late rally carried the Boerne High baseball team to a victory over visiting Central Catholic Thursday afternoon in non-district action.

The Greyhounds beat the Buttons, 5-3, and scored 4 of those runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. BHS improved to 17-1 overall and has two more non-district games this week before starting league play.

Boerne hosts S.A. Home School on Tuesday and will tangle with Central Catholic again on Friday at its place.

In Thursday’s game, Central Catholic scored all 3 of its runs in one inning. In the top of the third, the Buttons put their first batter on with an error, but the Greyhounds retired the next two batters for two outs in the inning.

After that, Central Catholic recorded a single, a double and another single and pushed in the 3 runs before Boerne could get out of the inning.

The 3-0 lead held until the bottom of the fourth when Cole Phillips singled and his courtesy runner, Max Garcia, later scored to put the Hounds on the board at 3-1.

Boerne completed the rally in the sixth. With one out, Connor Shill singled before Dylan Perez hit a hard liner that the Buttons first baseman got a glove on but couldn’t handle. The ball rolled into right field, and Boerne had runners at second and third.

From there, Cam Johnson hit a deep fly ball to right that allowed Shill to tag and score and move Perez to third to make it 3-2 with two outs.

Kalob Sanchez walked to put runners on the corners, and Rashawn Galloway singled to bring in Perez and tie it at 3-3 and move Sanchez to third.

After a walk to Riley Pechacek, Andrew Poole dropped in a single in front of the Buttons diving right fielder that allowed Sanchez and Galloway’s courtesy runner, Jaxon Baize, to score and give Boerne the 5-3 lead.

Central Catholic still had a chance when the game went to the top of the seventh, but Poole, pitching in relief, got the first two batters to pop up to Perez in right field. On the first pop up, Perez ran a long way to make the catch in foul territory.

The Buttons put a runner on with an infield error with two outs, but Poole fanned the last batter to end the game.

Poole picked up the win and threw 1.2 innings. He didn’t give up a hit, walk or run and struck out 2.

Phillips started on the hill and went 5.1 innings but finished with a no decision. He yielded 5 hits, sat down 7, walked 1 and all 3 runs were unearned.

Galloway finished with 4 of the team’s 8 hits, while Phillips, Poole, Hutson Hendrix and Shill all singled.

Poole picked up 2 RBI and had the game-winning hit in addition to being the winning pitcher. Galloway and Johnson both drove in runs.

Sanchez, Shill, Perez, Baize and Garcia all scored in the game.