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Highlights ’Jackets sting ’Jackets,
5-3
Monitor Staff Reports
KEMP–The hosting Kemp Yellowjackets spotted the Ferris
Yellowjackets a 4-0 lead, and couldn’t quite make up the deficit
in a 5-3 district-opening loss Friday.
Now 7-9 on the season and 0-1 in District 13-3A baseball play,
Kemp’s Yellowjackets were scheduled to host the Crandall Pirates
Tuesday night.
Friday, March 25, Kemp will visit nearby Mabank for what figures
to be a key first-round contest. Mabank dropped its district
opener to Kaufman, 3-2, Friday (see related story below).
Next Tuesday, March 29, the ’Jackets host North Forney and
Friday, April 1, they will visit Kaufman, all scheduled for 6:30
p.m.
With both teams on spring break, Friday’s contest opened at 1
p.m., and Ferris quickly took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first
inning, thanks to some shaky Kemp defensive work (they committed
five errors in the game).
Ferris (7-7, 1-0) added another single run in the top of the
second inning to push its lead to 4-0.
A couple of defensive plays started a turnaround for Kemp – the
first coming when catcher Bradley Steward tagged out Anthony
Arechiga, who was trying to steal home, to end the top of the
second inning.
Monitor Photo/Kerry Yancey
Kemp Yellowjacket catcher Bradley Steward (right) tags out
Ferris Yellowjacket baserunner Anthony Arechiga (17) to thwart
an attempted steal of home plate during Ferris' 5-3 win over
hosting Kemp in the District 13-3A baseball opener for both
clubs Friday. Steward's tag ended the top of the second inning.
The second was a double play by shortstop Cody Benavidez, which
ended the top of the third inning and gave the hosting ’Jackets
some much-needed momentum.
Kemp promptly scored two runs in the bottom of the third to pull
close at 4-2, and they added a third run in the bottom of the
sixth to make it a 4-3 contest.
Ferris managed to push across an insurance run in the top of the
seventh and held Kemp scoreless in the bottom half to secure the
victory.
Ferris had just four hits in the contest, and committed two
errors, while the Kemp bats – essentially silent in the first
two innings – came alive in the third, as Kemp finished with
seven hits.
Kaufman nips MHS
Lion run in top of the 9th wins loop opener,
3-2
Monitor Staff Reports
MABANK–The Kaufman Lions scored a run in the top of the ninth
inning to nip the hosting Mabank Panthers, 3-2, in the District
13-3A baseball opener for both clubs Friday.
Now 4-9 on the season and 0-1 in district play, the Panthers
were scheduled to visit the Ferris Yellowjackets Tuesday
evening. Friday, Ferris edged the hosting Kemp Yellowjackets,
5-3, in their district opener (see related story above).
At 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, the Panthers will host Kemp in
what should be a critical first-round matchup. Next Tuesday,
March 29, the Panthers will host Crandall, and Friday, April 1,
they will visit North Forney for 6:30 p.m. contests.
With both teams on spring break, Friday’s contest opened at 3
p.m., which was fortunate, in that they spent two extra innings
in what turned out to be a pitcher’s duel.
Mabank took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when senior Cameron
Cantrell brought home Ryan Walker on a sacrifice fly, one of
just two RBIs for the team.
It looked like that would be all Panther starter Stephen Caillet
needed, as he pitched a full seven innings, allowing just one
hit, striking out 11 and issuing two walks, plus one hit batter.
That probably would have been the case, as the Panthers notched
six hits in the game – but they also committed six errors.
Monitor Photo/Kerry Yancey
Mabank Panther Garrett Holcomb (left) leaps desperately for
second base as Kaufman Lion shortstop Ryan Pierce comes to
ground after making a leaping grab of a cutoff throw. Pierce was
able to lunge and make the tag to end the third inning of
Kaufman's 3-2 nine-inning win over hosting Mabank in the
District 13-3A baseball opener for both clubs Friday.
The Lions (6-6, 1-0) didn’t get on the board until the top of
the seventh inning, when they scored to tie the contest at 1-1,
but that wasn’t an earned run.
Shortstop Austin Craig took the mound for the Panthers in the
eighth and ninth inning, allowing just two hits and one earned
run, which came in the top of the eighth.
Mabank scored in the bottom of the eighth to keep the contest
tied at 2-2, but the game-winning run in the ninth, again, was
an unearned run.
Walker, Craig, Jake Raney, Hunter Carrico and Caillet (two, one
of them the team’s other RBI) got hits for the Panthers, with
Walker and Carrico scoring.
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