Tigers split pair

The Tigers baseball team hit a bump in the road to their title aspirations when Alamo Heights scored big early and held off late to put a 7-6 loss on the tab. In the next game with Veterans Memorial DS was able to walk their way to an 11-2 win.

The Alamo Heights Mules balked early and kicked hard. DS ace, Brandon Arvidson took the mound and before he could take a deep breath he was touched for six hits and six runs, including a three-run homerun. They would add one more in the second before he settled down to shut AH out the rest of the way but unfortunately the damage had been done.

Dripping Springs fought back in the fourth when they used five walks and Taylor Tracey's 3-run homer doing the major hurt in the 4-run inning. Later in the seventh, a two-run single by Mason Ashlock could not quite close the gap. Getting the rest of the team's seven hits were Tracey, Ashlock, Theo Howard, Sam Agajanian and Aiden Perry.

There is an adage in baseball that one can figure a run scored for every walk received. Pretty close in the VM game. DS would turn their eight walks and two hit batters into eleven.

Jaxson Conover took the mound and too was met with some pretty good bats by the Patriots. They would touch him for eight hits in the first four innings but only two runs because the Tiger outfield of Tracey, Arvidson and Howard chased down five well-hit balls with potential extra-base qualities. Conover finished strong with five of the last six outs being strikeouts. Ryland Mahoney and Travis Mora finished up with an inning each. Staff gave up only two walks.

Hits were not that needed to score. DS scored one in the first, three in the second and third and climaxed with four in the sixth, all greatly aided by walks. Nico Ruedas had two including a double in the first that led to his scoring. Aiden Perry had two while Wyatt Leschber stroked a double, Ashlock a triple and Ayden Dennis a single.