The Rockwall-Heath Lady Hawks made a statement in their opening playoff round series against the Sachse Lady Mustangs. The Lady Hawks got the job done with a clean sweep of the Lady Mustangs to become bi-district champs.<\/p>\n
The team was already on a role after Game 1 on Wednesday where they picked up a 12-0 mercy rule victory.<\/p>\n
Alex Pitre threw a complete game shutout in the pitchers circle while striking out seven and Taylor Scott led the team with three RBIs.<\/p>\n
The team was looking to follow that up with another big performance on Day 2 the following night and thats exactly what they did. The Lady Hawks followed up their night one performance with another mercy rule shutout by a 10-0 final score to clinch the series.<\/p>\n
Makenna Burleson got the start on night two and only surrendered two hits while striking out six.<\/p>\n
The Lady Hawks did a majority of their work offensively in the early innings of the game. The team set the tone early with a four run bottom of the first.<\/p>\n
The top of the order loaded the bases with Piper Moore and Jazahia Raymond picking up singles and Taylor Scott drawing a walk.<\/p>\n
It didn’t take long for Anna-Kate Synesael to come through with the with the biggest hit of the game, sending a ball rocketing into right and clearing the base baths while racing around the diamond herself and crossing home plate for an inside the park grand slam.<\/p>\n
Scott drove in two more runners in the bottom of the second with a single to right to make it 6-0 Lady Hawks.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the third, Burleson got in on the action at the plate with an RBI single into center field and Imani Thornton drove in another run on a pop fly to make it 8-0.<\/p>\n
All the Lady Hawks needed was two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to reach the shut out score.<\/p>\n
The Lady Hawks will take on Waco Midway in the area round on next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockwall-Heath Lady Hawks made a statement in their opening playoff round series against the Sachse Lady Mustangs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2351,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2413,2330,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,2327,2321,2525,185,2324,2350,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":["post-684722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-athletic-sports","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-base-on-balls","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-glossary-of-baseball-terms","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-shutout-baseball","tag-sports","tag-sports-events","tag-strikeout","tag-team-sports","tag-turf-sports","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684722","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=684722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}