Sometimes a No. 1 seed facing a No. 4 seed has an easy time in their firstround meeting and then there are times when the No. 4 seed puts up a good fight like Buda Hays did in their first round series with Boerne Champion.
Even though the No. 1 seeded Chargers swept the No. 4 seeded Hawks, Champion won by slim margins, 8-4, and 5-3.
However, a win is a win and the Chargers advance to the second round where they’ll play a series with MacArthur.
Champion is 28-6 overall and hosts Game 1 Thursday, 7 p.m. The series continues Friday at the Northeast Sports Park, 7 p.m. and a third game if needed, will take place Saturday at the Northeast Sports Park, 1 p.m.
Game 1 Champion 8, Hays 4
Thursday’s opening game was tied at 4-4 through five innings before the Chargers scored the final four runs of the game for the 8-4 victory.
Jordan Ballin put the Chargers up 1-0 in the first after he scored from third on a wild pitch with two outs.
Champion added 3 more runs in the second all with only one hit after they took advantage of 2 Hawks errors, a walk, a ground-out RBI and an Aidan Smith single and it was 4-0.
The 4-0 lead held until the top of the fourth when Hays cut the lead in half with a couple of runs with 3 singles, a hit batter and a Charger error and it was 4-2.
Hays tied it in the top of the fifth with another pair of runs. Three singles and a double by the Hawks knotted it up at 4-4, but the Chargers responded right away to tie it.
In their very next at bat in the bottom of the sixth, Champion put the game away with 4 runs. The Chargers took advantage of 3 walks, 3 singles and a fielder’s choice to double up the Hawks, 8-4.
Champion’s Aidan Smith (24) makes a catch at first base in their series with Buda Hays last week.
2ND ROUND
PLAYOFFS
CHAMPION VS MACARTHUR
• Game 1, Thursday at Champion, 7 p.m.
• Game 2, Friday at NE Sports Park, 7 p.m.
• Game 3, Saturday at NE Sports Park, 1 p.m., if needed Hays still had to bat in the seventh but went down in order with a fly out, strikeout and a ground out.
The Hawks outhit the Chargers, 8-7, but Champion pushed in more runs.
Quinn Grable has 2 of their 7 hits and he also picked up an RBI and scored once, Jordan Ballin singled, walked and scored twice, Evan Kuhl pushed in a run, Cam Logan singled and pushed in a run, Owen Kuhl was issued 2 walks and scored a run, Garland Whitehead singled and Aidan Smith singled, took 2 walks and picked up an RBI.
Sawyer Smith started on the hill and went four innings. He gave up 5 hits, 2 earned runs, no walks and struck out 5 on 81 pitches.
Austin Garritano faced 5 batters and recorded 2 outs and scattered 3 hits, yielded a run, no walks and sat down a batter.
Jacob Schwope finished it out and pitched the final 2.1 innings and picked up the win. Schwope didn’t give up a hit or run, only walked 1 and fanned 3 batters.
Game 2 Champion 5, Hays 3
The Chargers never trailed in the series and took a 1-0 lead by the third inning of Friday’s game.
With one out, Aidan Smith singled, and his courtesy runner, Patrick Price, made it to third after Andrew Harrison hit a grounder and the Hays third baseman committed an error.
Jordan Ballin came through with a single to score Price and it was 1-0.
Champion opened up a 5-0 lead by the fifth inning after they plated 4 runs. With one out, Ballin singled, Quinn Grable walked and Evan Kuhl singled to load the bases.
Gage Goldberg came up and hit a sac fly to right field and Ballin tagged to bring in their first run of the frame.
A Cam Logan walk, a single by Owen Kuhl and a couple of Hawks errors allowed the Chargers to push in 3 more runs and it was 5-0 before the Hawks recorded the third out.
The Hawks fought back and got on the board in the bottom of the fifth with a sac fly to make it 5-1. A 2-run homer in the sixth cut into the lead even more and it was 5-3 at the end of six frames, but the rally came up short.
Neither team scored in the seventh although both put runner on after they were both hit by pitches.
Champion outhit the Hawks, 8-4, and took advantage of 4 Hays errors.
Ballin swung the bat well and recorded 3 singles, 1 RBI and scored a run, while Owen Kuhl knocked out 2 doubles and a single and collected 3 RBI.
Smith singled, Grable walked and scored a run, Goldberg picked up an RBI, while Logan walked and scored once.
Matthew Booth picked up the win on 94 pitches and went 5.2 innings. Booth yielded 4 hits, 3 runs, 4 walks and fanned 4.
AJ Grizzaffi tossed the final 1.1 frames, didn’t give up a hit, run or walk and sat down 4 batters.
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