Eighth-grader Briggs Berlin and freshman Slade Alexander crushed their first varsity home runs and Hudson Horn went the distance despite some early trouble as the Evangel Eagles completed a sweep of Liberty with a 7-2 victory in an LHSAA Select Division I first-round playoff series Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Evangel Christian Academy defeated Liberty Magnet 7-2 in game two to sweep their first-round series in the Select, Division II playoffs Saturd\u2026<\/p>\n
The 14th-seeded Eagles, who won 9-2 Friday night, will travel to face No. 3 John Curtis in the second round.<\/p>\n
B Todd got things started for Evangel with a two-out home run in the top of the first inning. Liberty took a 2-1 lead in the bottom half of the frame, but Horn was nearly spotless thereafter.<\/p>\n
Alexander tied the game at 2 with his solo home-run in the second inning and the game remained deadlocked until Peyton Houston gave the Eagles the lead for good with an RBI groundout in the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighth-grader Briggs Berlin and freshman Slade Alexander crushed their first varsity home runs and Hudson Horn went the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,14310,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-678648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-hardwall","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\/116427844663183766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678648","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=678648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}