Martin - 15  vs  Cedar Hill - 5

Game Summary
Despite temperatures in the fifties and howling winds, the Warrior freshmen team handled the Cedar Hill Longhorns without a snag.  In the top of the first inning Daniel Garcia had a stand up triple and scored when Kyle Blackwell grounded out to the short stop to put the first run on the board.  Josh Bragg retired the Longhorns in order in the bottom of the first.  Hunter Reinhardt got the second inning off with a bang when he scored on an in the park home run.  Jay Hiller walked and pinch runner, Ian Johnston scored with two outs when Trevor Slocum hit a single to left field.  Cedar Hill was once more scoreless.  During the third the Warriors were able to add 4 runs with singles by Blackwell, Reinhardt, Chase Jensen and Eric Jeske.  Tanner Hapeman and Hiller were both able to reach with their second walk for the evening.  During the bottom of the third the Longhorns scored three runs and would have scored a fourth run if the defense hadn’t made a play at home with awesome precision.  A Longhorn hit a ball out to deep left field and a runner was trying to score from first when leftfielder, Jeske fired the ball to his cutoff man, Slocum who threw to Jensen who zipped it into Garcia at the plate who got the tag down for the second out.  Cedar Hill failed to score any more runs that inning.  The Warriors once more came out slugging away in the fourth.  Dylan Rucker got a triple and Jensen and Hapeman had singles.  The Warrior batters once again showed patience at the plate and racked up walks by Reinhardt, Hiller, Slocum, Garcia and Blackwell.  Martin was able to add 6 runs to their total making the run rule a possibility and with the ghastly weather all the fans were hoping for an early conclusion to the game.  The Longhorns added two runs in the bottom of the fourth making the score 13 – 5 after four innings of play.  In the fifth inning Jensen hit his third single for the night and Jeske took the 10^th Warrior walk.  Both Jensen and Jeske crossed home when Hapeman hit a hard fly ball that the right fielder could not handle once the ball got up in the swirling winds to make the score 15 – 5 going into the bottom of the fifth.  The Warrior hopes of a run rule rested on closer, Johnston who faced four Longhorns striking out 2, giving up one hit and holding the Longhorns scoreless.  This win brings Bragg’s record to 5 – 0, the team’s overall record to 16 – 1 and our district record to 8 – 0.

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