Boerne High won two of three district games last week and stayed in the hunt for a playoff spot as the regular season winds down this week.
The Hounds split with Pieper last week and lost the first game 3-0, but bounced back to beat them Friday, 3-2 in extra innings. On Saturday, BHS whipped Wagner, 13-3.
Boerne improved to 9-5 in district (16-11 overall) and is fighting for a playoff spot with New Braunfels (9-4), Pieper (9-6) and Kerrville Tivy (8-5) going into the final week of district. Unfortunately, two of those teams will get left behind and out of the playoffs.
BHS plays Wednesday at New Braunfels and the Hounds will host Friday’s game, 4:30 p.m.
BHS 13, Wagner 3
After taking a 3-0 lead in the first, Boerne scored 6 runs in the second to secure the win on Saturday. The Hounds added 3 in the third and another in the fourth.
BHS had 10 hits, all singles. Ronnie Scarbrough had a big game at the plate and hit 2 singles, collected 5 RBI and scored twice.
Cale Francis plated 2 runs and Colton Shaver walked twice, singled and scored 3 runs, while Jackson Grimes took 2 walks, drove in 2 runs and scored once and Josh Kory singled and picked up 2 RBI.
Scarbrough tossed 3 innings and picked up the win, while giving up 2 hits, 2 runs and 1 walk to go with 1 strikeout. Braden Ramirez threw 2 frames and struck out 3 and didn’t give up a hit.
BHS 3, Pieper 2
The Greyhounds needed to win Friday’s game to split their series with the Warriors, and they came through in crunch time. Boerne scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth with a walk-off single.
With two outs and a runner at third, Eli Srp singled up the middle to bring in Colton Shaver to end it.
Shaver singled to start the inning and moved to second on a sac bunt by Jackson Grimes. Shaver then advanced to third on a fielder’s choice ground out to put the winning run at third.
Srp took a ball on the first pitch and then hit the second offering back up the middle to end it.
Both teams scored 2 runs in the third after the Warriors hit a 2-run bomb for the 2-0 lead.
In the bottom of the third, the Hounds loaded the bases. A walk to Jake Perez brought in a run and then Shaver hit a sac fly to left to score EJ Goolsby from third after the tag and it was 2-2 with runners at first and second, but the Pieper defense held tough and didn’t allow another run in the frame.
It stayed there until the eighth inning when the Greyhounds won it.
Grimes started on the hill and went 5.1 before leaving with 98 pitches. He gave up a hit, 2 runs, 5 walks and struck out 7.
Kepa Kanae entered in the sixth and retired the two batters he faced. Shaver closed it out by throwing the final two frames and picked up the win after he struck out 4 and walked 2 and didn’t give up a run.
Pieper 3, BHS 0
Runs were hard to come by Tuesday when the Pieper baseball team hosted the Hounds.
In fact, there were only 3 runs scored and they all came in the third inning by Pieper and that was the difference in the game.
Not only were runs hard to come by, but hits were also elusive for the Greyhounds after they only recorded 2 base knocks and were shutout for the first time in district play.
Josh Kory doubled and Ronnie Scarbrough singled to account for their two hits, while Otis Skubal walked twice and Jackson Grimes also took a walk to account for their base runners.
Warriors’ pitcher Aiden Shreve fanned 13 BHS batters, while reliever Gibson Palombo struck out 3 as the two combined for 16 strikeouts.
Eli Srp started on the hill for Boerne and went 3.1 innings and gave up 5 hits, 2 earned runs, 4 walks and struck out 4.
Kepa Kanae and Colton Shaver both went 1.1 innings in relief and didn’t give up a hit or run. Kanae fanned 1 and Shaver struck out 3.
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