Tigers earn another split week

The Tigers baseball team is having a hard time getting a win streak together in a district that has many evenly matched teams. This race should go down to the wire. The Tigers edged Kerrville Tivy 1-0 but have not been able to figure out the Hays Johnson pitcher as he took his second victory over the Tigers 6-2.

For all but one shining moment Kerrville and DS were mired in a scoreless duel that seemed to be going nowhere fast. Neither team put up a threat. Finally, with one out in the top of the sixth, Nico Ruedas would step to the plate. He laced the first pitch into centerfield and it got all the way to the wall and rattled around. Meanwhile Nico was legging it around the diamond and touching all bases for an inside-thepark homerun with what would be the only run in the game.

Tiger pitcher Jaxon Conover has really developed into a strong #2 arm with his steady accuracy around the plate. He would pitch six innings, giving up 5 hits and striking out seven for the win. Ruedas would step in to shut the door in the seventh, striking out one and giving up one hit. Of the four Tiger hits, Ruedas would add another plus a double by Ayden Dennis and a single by Brandon Arvidson.

It looked as if the Johnson game might be a duplicate of the first 1-0 loss with the same two pitchers going at it with the first three innings being scoreless. However, the fourth would take care of the scoreless streak. Ayden Dennis would leadoff with a double and two outs later, Brandon Arvidson would park one over the fence to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Not to be outdone, the Jaguar pitcher matched the feat in the bottom of the fourth.

The Tigers experienced the two things in the sixth that are fatal in baseball, walks and errors. Four walks, two errors and one hit later, Johnson was gifted four runs. The Tigers did not threaten in any other inning. Mason Ashlock doubled in the second, Parker Cooke also doubled in the fourth and Matthew Schindler singled in the sixth. Arvidson could not get an out in the sixth having given up 5H, 5R, 5W, 7K and a HR. Ryland Mahoney finished the sixth with a run and two walks.