Champion hosted Kerrville Tivy on Tuesday for a district baseball game and the Antlers were able to edge the Chargers and snap the team’s four-game 26-5A winning streak.
The Antlers claimed the 3-2 win in Boerne and dropped Champion to 10-6 overall and 4-3 in district. The Chargers continue league play on Friday at Buda Johnson.
Tivy did all its damage early and had its three runs by the third inning in Tuesday’s defensive struggle.
An error, walk and single put the Antlers ahead 1-0 in the top of the first.
A two-run homer in the third opened up a 3-0 lead for Kerrville, but the Chargers answered in the bottom of the inning with a single from Connor Holtorf to score Ryan Brandon, who walked, stole second and scored on the Holtorf hit to make it 3-1.
In the fifth, Jordan Ballin walked, stole second and then scored on a Quinn Grable double and it was 3-2, but that’s where it stayed after neither team was able to score after that.
Champion put the tying run on in the bottom of the seventh after Brandon reached with no outs, but the next three batters went down in order to end the game.
Both pitching staffs played well and combined for 21 strike outs. Tivy used two pitchers, Stormy Rhodes and Sam Letz that combined for 12 Ks, while Cooper Marshall went 6 innings for the Chargers and Aaron Basham tossed an inning and combined for 9 strikeouts.
Grable had the RBI double, Brandon scored, Ballin singled and scored, while Connor Holtorf and Karson Kaiser both singled to account for the team’s 4 hits.
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