Boerne Champion opened the second round of district baseball on Tuesday by visiting New Braunfels Canyon.
Champion played NBC much closer than in the first round but the Cougars were able to prevail 7-3 to get the sweep over the Chargers.
Champion slips to 12-7 overall and 5-4 in district. The Chargers host Dripping Springs on Saturday, 1 p.m.
In their first meeting, Canyon recorded an 11-0 run-rule victory over the Chargers in five innings but on Tuesday, it was tied at 2-2 going into the fifth inning.
In the first, Jordan Ballin doubled to bring in Aidan Pickett who singled and then stole second before scoring on the Ballin hit.
Pickett scored again in the third and started things off with a single. He stole second again and later scored on a Ryan Brandon single.
Every time the Chargers scored; the Cougars answered in the bottom half of the inning to tie it up but Canyon started to pull away in the bottom of the fifth with a two-out rally.
A triple, followed by a single, double, single and a walk pushed in 3 runs for the Cougars and gave them the 5-2 lead.
In the sixth, Jacob Gresham was hit by a pitch, stole second and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. He stole home and the Chargers had trimmed the lead to 5-3, but NBC had another good inning in the bottom of the sixth and hit a triple to bring in two runs to make it 7-3, which is where it stayed after the Chargers went down in order in the seventh.
Champion finished with 6 hits and Aidan Pickett recorded 3 of the base knocks with singles and he also scored twice. Ryan Brandon hit an RBI single, Jordan Ballin had an RBI double, Aaron Basham singled and Jacob Gresham scored a run.
Cooper Marshall went 4 innings and gave up 4 hits, 2 runs, 5 walks and fanned 6, Basham tossed an inning and yielded 6 hits, 2 earned runs, 2 walks and sat down 2, while Connor Holtorf only needed 8 pitches to retire the side after the defense turned a double play in the sixth and he struck out a batter.
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