Rockwall 4<\/p>\n
Waxahachie 1<\/p>\n
Rockwall\u2019s pitchers held Waxahachie to only two runs in two baseball games as the Yellowjackets took the Class 6A, Division I area playoff series by scores of 7-1 and 4-1.<\/p>\n
The Yellowjackets, who are now 28-8 for the season, advanced to the region semifinals to play 19-7-3 Klein Cain. Cain won its area series, 2-0 and 2-1 over The Woodlands.<\/p>\n
The regional semifinals were to begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cain. Game 2 is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Rockwall. If a Game 3 is necessary it is to be played at 1 p.m. Saturday at Dallas Jesuit.<\/p>\n
Rockwall pitcher Hudson Holt limited Waxahachie to four hits, one walk and one earned run in six innings during the Jackets\u2019 7-1 win. Holt struck out five.<\/p>\n
Dylan Rice struck out three in one inning of hitless relief.<\/p>\n
Holt tripled and drove in a run for the Jackets in that game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
E.J. Menchaca also tripled and had two hits and scored three runs.<\/p>\n
Brent Celis pounded two hits, including a double, and drove in three runs.<\/p>\n
Jake Pickering doubled and drove in two runs.<\/p>\n
Charles Mahaffey and Victor Montanez both singled and scored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan Raley drove in a run.<\/p>\n
Drew Paulino singled twice for Waxahachie and drove in the Indians\u2019 only run.<\/p>\n
Vince Estrada allowed seven hits, two walks and one earned run in five innings of Rockwall\u2019s 4-1 victory. He struck out two.<\/p>\n
Menchaca allowed one hit and no runs in two innings of relief.<\/p>\n
Dylan Cheek drove in two runs for the Jackets in the 4-1 win and had one hit. Holt singled, drove in a run and scored a run. Mahaffey and Raley both singled and scored. Menchaca scored. Montanez drove in a run and Mason Pate tripled.<\/p>\n
Brodie Kelly doubled and drove in Waxahachie\u2019s only run as the Indians finished the season with a 21-14 record.<\/p>\n
Cain needed 14 innings to beat The Woodlands in the second game of their series. Cain scored the winning run on an error.<\/p>\n
Blaine Bullard homered in the first inning for the Hurricanes\u2019 other run.<\/p>\n
Three Cain pitchers combined to limit The Woodlands to eight hits and one unearned run in 14 innings.<\/p>\n
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Midway 5<\/p>\n
Heath 2<\/p>\n
Waco Midway downed Rockwall-Heath 5-4 and 5-2 to claim their Class 6A, Division I area baseball playoff series.<\/p>\n
Midway, now 26-6 for the season, advanced to the region semifinals to play Conroe, which beatKlein Collins 4-2 and 4-2 in Games 1 and 3 of their series. Collins won Game 2 3-0.<\/p>\n
Heath finished the season with a 21-12 final record.<\/p>\n
Midway scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to claim the 5-4 win in the first game.<\/p>\n
Alex Cooley ripped two singles and a double and scored a run to lead the Hawks at the plate.<\/p>\n
Hunter Bulin singled and scored a run.<\/p>\n
Landon Ammerman doubled.<\/p>\n
Maddox Webb and Parker Ivy both had runs and RBIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brady Ladusau scored a run.<\/p>\n
Ammerman, who started on the mound for the Hawks, allowed seven hits, five walks and four earned runs\u00a0 in six innings with seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Brady Quinn homered for Midway and Garrett Wiethorn and T.J. Woodson both doubled.<\/p>\n
Midway pitchers Colt Holmes and Brody Potts limited the Hawks to only three hits in Midway\u2019s 5-2 win. They combined for seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Ammerman recorded two hits and a run for Heath, which also collected a hit from Colten Fiveash. Ladusau scored a run and Cooley drove in a run.<\/p>\n
Heath pitchers Ian Rister and Tyson Barkley combined for eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n
David Litle doubled twice and led Midway with three RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockwall 4 Waxahachie 1 Rockwall\u2019s pitchers held Waxahachie to only two runs in two baseball games as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,6509,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-28953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-local_sports","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","11":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-playoffs","14":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114512171075514057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}