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A baseball lies on the mound.<\/p>\n
Bob Booth<\/p>\n
Special to the Star-Telegram<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH<\/p>\n
Two district rivals playing the second of a two-game series on consecutive nights \u2014 The Fort Worth Southwest Christian Eagles came away with an 8-4 win over the Fort Worth Christian Cardinals Friday at Keck-Horton Field.<\/p>\n
The victory enabled Southwest Christian to gain a split in the series, after Fort Worth Christian had taken a 10-inning, 5-2 triumph at SCS the previous night.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuge win for us tonight,\u201d said Southwest Christian head coach Rusty Beam. \u201cWe needed it for our confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Southwest Christian (19-4) jumped out early, scoring six runs in the top of the first, on just three hits, but used five walks to for a big early advantage. \u201cWe showed a lot patience at the plate in that first inning,\u201d said Beam. \u201cWe wanted to come out and set the tone, and I think we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Max Woerner capped the opening frame with a two-RBI single for the Eagles, the No. 6 ranked team in the Texas High School Baseball (THSB) Large Private School most recent poll.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Christian, the No. 3 ranked team in that same poll, pushed across a run in the bottom of the fourth. Southwest Christian answered with a pair in the top of the fifth. Paul Worlow led off with a double and then the Eagles used three perfectly placed bunts — one a single and other two sacrifices that moved runners — to extend the lead to 8-1.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat execution on those bunts,\u201d said Beam. \u201cGuys did a great job in getting those down. That gave us some added cushion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cardinals mounted a rally in the bottom of the fifth. A Jacob Ward single, and back-to-back walks loaded the bases with no outs. Beam then brought in reliever Brodie Bravomalo.<\/p>\n
Braylen James drilled a two-RBI single followed by a Jaxon Casselberry sacrifice fly that narrowed the SCS lead to 8-4. But Bravomalo limited the damage and then pitched a 1-2-3 sixth and seventh innings to preserve the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnbelievable job by Brodie,\u201d said Beam. \u201cWe had used our closer the night before, and he was not available to pitch in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beam credited his team\u2019s execution in gaining a split.<\/p>\n
\u201cTough game in that 10-inning loss,\u201d he said. \u201cWe did not execute very well in that game. Tonight, we executed our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Christian (15-4-1) standout shortstop Grady Emerson, a Texas signee who is the top-ranked player in the state (and No. 1 nationally), had blasted a pair of solo home runs (first and third innings) in the extra inning contest.<\/p>\n
SCS had won 18 of 19 games entering this two-game series after starting the season 0-2. In the second game of the series, Emerson, in four plate appearance, had a single, a walk and scored a pair of runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously a great player,\u201d Beam said of Emerson. \u201cBut Fort Worth Christian is a very talented team all over. Just so happy we got the split.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not knowing how the rest of district play turns out, determining the district champ could come down to tiebreakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot sure what all the tiebreaker rules are this year, if it comes to that,\u201d said Beam, whose team was a TAPPS DII state semifinalist a year ago. \u201cA lot of baseball left to be played. Just have to wait and see how it all unfolds. Right now we will enjoy this win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baseball lies on the mound. Bob Booth Special to the Star-Telegram FORT WORTH Two district rivals playing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,281912,283276,7372,45486,283275,283277,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-671152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-baseball","tag-fort-worth-christian-baseball","tag-fortworth","tag-high-school-baseball","tag-southwest-christian-baseball","tag-tapps-baseball","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116266421954608626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}