The baseball teams from Boerne Champion and Comfort High were in action Thursday as they began the final week of the regular season. Their games were pushed back a couple of days because of the recent rain.
Champion lost to Kerrville Tivy and the Bobcats went extra innings with Llano before winning it by a run. The Chargers and Bobcats were back at it Friday in the second game of their series with their opponents.
Boerne Champion
The Chargers were looking for a win in hopes of wrapping up the district title outright, but Kerrville Tivy kept that from happening in Thursday’s game that was played in New Braunfels in order to find a dry field even though Champion was the home team.
Kerrville did what no other team has done to the Chargers this year and that’s keep them off the board. The Antlers posted a 3-0 shutout win to keep their playoff hopes alive, while the Chargers, which has a share of the district title, were looking to clinch the district title outright on Friday.
The Antlers snapped Champion’s eight-game win streak and took advantage of three Charger errors to score two unearned runs. Champion outhit Tivy, 4-3, but the Antlers were able to score a run in the first and two in the fifth.
For more on the game and the results of Friday’s contest between the Chargers and the Antlers and playoff match ups, look in the Wednesday online edition of the Boerne Star.
Champion is 12-3 in district (26-4-1 overall).
Comfort High
The Bobcats were in Llano to take on the Yellowjackets and rallied late to defeat the Yellowjackets in eight innings, 5-4.
Comfort never led in the game until the eighth inning and trailed 4-2 going into the sixth frame. The Bobcats pushed in two runs in the sixth to tie it up and then took the lead in the top of the eighth after neither team scored in the seventh.
Cade Woerner doubled to start the inning and scored on a Matt Kemp two-out single to put the Bobcats on top, 5-4.
The Comfort defense retired the side in order in the bottom half of the inning to secure the victory.
For more on the game and playoff info, look in the Wednesday online edition of the Star.
Comfort is 7-2 in district (20-4-1 overall).
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