It was all hands on deck during Monday’s tiebreaker game in Fredericksburg between the Comfort and Blanco baseball teams.
Both teams used three pitchers as they went deep into their bullpens to try and win the game. The longtime rivals met to decide which squad would take the No. 1 seed out of 5-3A after they finished the regular season tied and split their two games with each other.
Comfort’s 11-1 win over Llano on Friday, coupled with Blanco’s 11-8 loss that same day to Ingram meant the teams shared the district title at 8-2.
They met Monday to decide seeding going into the playoffs and the Bobcats prevailed with a football-like score of 20-10.
CHS takes the No. 1 seed and opens with Merkel, while Blanco starts against No. 4 state-ranked Wall.
Bobcat coach Bryan Bishop says he prefers to look at it like they are co-champs with Blanco and Comfort is taking the higher seed. No matter how you look at it, it’s Comfort’s first district title since 2019.
Check the Boerne Star for playoff details.
Comfort 20, Blanco 10
Comfort jumped out to a 7-0 lead, but no lead is safe in that rivalry. The Panthers fired back with 5 straight runs in the third and fourth and the lead was trimmed to two, 7-5.
The Bobcats answered with 5 runs in the bottom of the fourth and it was 12-5, but the Panthers responded with a 5-run fifth inning and it was a two-run game again at 12-10 going into the sixth.
That’s when Comfort blew the lid off the game and tallied 8 runs in the bottom of the sixth to kick in the mercy rule as the Panthers ran out of steam.
Both teams knocked out 10 hits and Mason Matt had a solid game at the plate with a triple and double, 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, Augie Diaz de Villegas doubled, took 3 walks and plated 3 runs, while Mason Matter singled, drove in 5 runs and scored 3 times.
Gunner Carpenter finished with a single, 2 walks and 3 runs scored, Matt Kemp hit 2 singles and scored 4 runs, Cade Woerner singled, took 2 walks, picked up 2 RBI and scored 2 runs, Dax Stehling singled, walked, pushed in 2 runs and scored a run, Travis Gwaltney singled and Rhyder George picked up an RBI and scored a run.
Woerner started on the hill and went three innings to get the win. He gave up 3 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk and he struck out one.
Zach Jones tossed an inning and yielded 5 hits, 5 earned runs, 2 walks and fanned a batter, while Owen Schulze scattered 2 hits, 1 run, 1 walk and he sat down one.
Comfort 11, Llano 1
The Bobcats tallied runs in five of their six at bats in last Friday’s home game and won 11-1.
Comfort was up 3-1 and pushed in 4 runs in the third and 4 more in the fourth to bust it open at 10-1 before adding another run in the sixth to kick in the mercy rule.
It was a run-rule win despite both teams knocking out 6 hits apiece.
Three of Comfort’s hits went for extra bases after Gunner Carpenter and Mason Matt both tripled, while Augie Diaz de Villegas smacked a double and drove in 3 runs and scored once.
Carpenter also singled and collected 4 RBI and scored twice, while Matt took 3 walks to go with his triple, picked up an RBI and scored 3 runs.
Matt Kemp singled and drove in a run and Mason Matter singled and walked once, Cade Woerner walked 3 times and scored a run and Rhyder George turned two walks into two runs, while Marcus Zarate plated 2 runs.
Matter went all six innings and picked up the win on 96 pitches. He scattered 6 hits, gave up 1 run, 5 walks and fanned 3.
Comfort 5, Llano 4
Thursday’s game was a little closer and the Bobcats won it in extra 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.
In the sixth, two hit batters and a single from Rhyder George made it 4-3. A passed ball allowed Owen Schulze to score from third to tie it, 4-4.
After neither team scored in the seventh, it went to the eighth where Cade Woerner doubled to start the inning and scored on a Matt Kemp twoout 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 win in a game where Llano outhit the Bobcats 8-6 but committed 3 errors.
Woerner’s double was the only CHS hit that went for extra bases and he scored the eventual game-winning run.
Augie Diaz de Villegas hit 2 singles and drove in 2 runs, Mason Matt walked four times and scored twice, Matt Kemp recorded the game-winning RBI single, Mason Matter and Schulze both scored once, while George singled and pushed in a run.
Carpenter went six innings and was pulled with 103 pitches under his belt. He gave up 7 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks and fanned 5.
Schulze threw the final two frames and picked up the win on 22 pitches. He yielded one hit, no runs or walks and sat down 4 batters.
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