Baseball/softball replay: Mansfield Lake Ridge stays perfect vs. Mansfield Legacy

Game of the night

Mansfield Lake Ridge keeps perfect season alive in defensive battle with Mansfield Legacy

Last year’s 6A state finalist has started its season on the strongest of notes, not losing a single game in its first 21 contests.

Tuesday night’s game against Mansfield Legacy was near the closest Lake Ridge has been to suffering its first loss of the year.

Through six innings, neither team got on the board. Only one runner made it to third base in that span, and no one made it home. Legacy, which fell to 13-9-1, put up a strong defensive fight, but could only hold for so long against the state’s top 6A team.

Natalie Moreaux pitched all seven innings on the mound for Legacy, recording 13 strikeouts. It ultimately came down to two errors in the field that allowed Lake Ridge to get on the board in the top of the seventh. Jordan Householder and Ryan Roberts scored on a bunt from Paris Johnson and fly out from Tia Warsop.

Lake Ridge’s defense held strong during Legacy’s comeback attempt in the bottom of the seventh. The final out came on a strikeout from Avery Hoang — her 10th of the day. The Lake Ridge pitcher did not allow a single run, hit or walk in the game.

Lake Ridge has still only lost one game since April 8 of last year, that game being the state final against San Antonio O’Connor. Its win Tuesday night pushes it in the right direction toward a second consecutive state appearance.

Spotlight

Flower Mound Marcus shuts out Coppell in key district matchup

In a clash between two of the area’s top-10 teams, Flower Mound Marcus proved why it earned the No. 2 ranking in the Dallas area, defeating No. 10 Coppell 5-0.

Marcus was carried by Nick Mazzola, who went 4 for 4 from the plate. He singled in the first, second and fourth and doubled in the sixth. He accounted for a third of his team’s 12 hits on the day while Caden Sorrell and Josh Walton each added two.

Pitchers Logan Boertje and Zach Kirkpatrick combined for the shutout. Boertje earned the win with five strikeouts in five innings, while Kirkpatrick added three more strikeouts in his two innings of relief pitching.

Coppell recorded five hits of its own, but was never able to chip away at Marcus’ early lead.

Tuesday’s standouts

Baseball

Tristian Marker, Denton Ryan: Marker pitched the first five innings of Ryan’s game against Lake Dallas in which his team was able to jump out to a 5-3 lead. He struck out seven batters and allowed just two runs.

Nate Arterburn and Ben Tryon, Southlake Carroll: The third and fourth batters in Carroll’s lineup had a standout night, combining for six hits, seven RBIs and five runs in the 15-0 mercy-rule win over Haltom.

Owen Cassano, Frisco Wakeland: Cassano delivered hits on all four of his at-bats Tuesday night in Wakeland’s rout of Carrollton R.L. Turner. The senior shortstop/third baseman also scored four runs and had four RBIs. Three of his hits were doubles.

Christian Uribe, Arlington Bowie: Uribe went 2 for 3 in his at-bats and drove in two runs on a ground ball to left field in the bottom of the fourth. Bowie defeated Grand Prairie 6-0.

Dalton Dick, Midlothian: In Midlothian’s 15-2 win over Arlington Seguin, Dick drove in two runs on three hits and recorded a walk. After leading just 2-1 at the end of the first, Midlothian put its foot on the gas and pulled away to a 13-run victory by the end of the fifth.

Ryan Ventura, Keller: Ventura’s two doubles brought home five of his teammates en route to an 11-3 win over district rival Keller Central. He also made it home once himself, contributing on more than half of his team’s runs.

Softball

Makayla Cox, Frisco Reedy: The senior pitcher struck out 11 batters in four innings and did not allow a single run, hit or walk. She also went 1-for-2 at the plate, scored one run and had two RBIs.

Delaney Stovall, L.D. Bell: In four at-bats, Stovall brought three runners home and recorded two hits and one run of her own. Her double on a line drive to center field in the top of the first helped L.D. Bell jump out to a 3-0 lead from which Fort Worth Paschal could never recover.

Alina Vogt, L.D. Bell: Vogt had an incredibly disciplined night, walking five times and rounding the bases on four of them. Her four runs were a team-high in the 23-1 win over Paschal.

Claire Schreiner, Kate Piskor and Lauren McIllwain, Frisco Wakeland: Wakeland was a hitting machine Tuesday night, as it recorded 16 hits in the 17-6 win over Carrollton Creekview. Third baseman Schreiner, pitcher Piskot and second baseman McIllwain led their team with three hits each. Scheiner — who had a homerun — also added four RBIs and two runs. Piskor had three RBIs and McIllwain had two and two runs.

Stat sheet

12

Runs L.D. Bell softball scored in the first inning of its 23-1 win over Fort Worth Paschal. Nine L.D. Bell batters walked in the top of the first, allowing them to jump out to a decisive lead. It didn’t slow down from there, as L.D. Bell scored five runs and six in the second and third innings, respectively. Five different batters had two hits each — contributing to a team-total 13. While Paschal brought one runner home in the bottom of the third, it was far from enough to avoid the run rule.

2

Innings it took Southlake Carroll to accumulate 15 runs, which was ultimately enough to force a run rule in the fifth inning over Haltom.

16

Hits by Frisco Wakeland baseball and softball. Baseball defeated Carrollton R.L. Turner 18-0 and did not commit a single error. It scored eight runs in the third inning to bring the game an early end in the bottom of the fourth. Softball beat Carrollton Creekview 17-6 and had a nine-run fifth inning that led to a mercy rule.

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