Just like last week’s second round series, the Boerne Champion baseball team will face another district champion in the playoffs.
The Chargers defeated district champ Southwest last week in a best-of-three series after dispatching the Dragons in three games.
Champion (31-6-1) moves on to face Palmview (26-7-2) in the third round. The Lobos won District 30-5A with a 15-1 record and are 4-1 in the playoffs.
In fact, the four teams left in the 5A-D1 bracket are all district champs. Rouse and Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial are alive on the other side of the bracket.
Palmview dropped the first game of the playoffs to Flour Bluff, 2-0, but won the next two with close scores of 4-3 and 6-4. In the last round, the Lobos swept Rowe, 4-2 and 9-2, and have won four straight.
Chargers coach Ben Woodchick said the Lobos are a lot like his team.
“They play a similar style of baseball,” he said. “They have talent all over the field and have a mix of upperclass leaders that have been here before and some very talented underclassmen.
“They’re experienced on the mound and are returning three of their top arms and they’re all very good.”
Champion has needed all three games through the first two rounds to advance. The Chargers beat Buda Hays and Southwest in three games and dropped Game 2 in both series, winning Games 1 and 3 in both cases to stand at 4-2 in the playoffs.
Last year the Chargers went four rounds before getting eliminated, while the Lobos also went four rounds before they were knocked out by Smithson Valley in three games. Before their series with Smithson Valley last year, Palmview beat New Braunfels in three games.
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