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Leopards leap ahead of BH Eagles
By Mike Finley
Baytown Sun Published May 21, 2004 HOUSTON — This one was over almost as quick as it began.
La Grange scored eight runs in the top of the first inning as the Leoparsd beat Barbers Hill, 11-4, at Langham Creek High School thiursday night in the first game of a best-of-three Class 3A regional playoff baseball game.
Game 2 is scheduled for 7 p.m. today, also at Langham Creek.
The Leopards, now 27-1 on the season, scored the eight runs on nine hits, including a two-run home run by Chase Anderle.
Sophomore Bailey Glandt was the victim of La Grange’s wrath, giving up all eight runs before turning things over to another sohpomore, Octavio Carmona, who did a credible job in holding La Grange scoreless in his part of the first, second, third and fourth innings. He did give up two runs in the fifth and one more in the sixth.
Freshman Derek Hulsey pitched a scoreless seventh for the Eagles.
Homer Bailey, who has signed to play at the University of Texas and is considered in some circles as the top pitching prospect in the nation going into this summer’s major league draft, was the winning pitcher, giving up one run and two hits while striking out nine.
But he is likely not to forget Michael Padgett.
Padgett, a sophomore, hit a leadoff home run in the first inning and had a likely homer stolen from him in the third when Jacob Kozelsky made an at-the-fence catch, then showboated a bit, holding the ball as Padgett rounded second.
He ran off the field laughing. Kozelsky will be La Grange’s starting pitcher in the second game of the series.
Down 10-1, the Eagles scored twice in the fifth. Nathan Gaines and Chase Barrera singled and scored on Jose Carmona’s double to right center. He was thrown out trying to stretch it to a triple.
Barbers Hill, now 23-5, and co-champions in District 22 3A, finished its scoring in the sixth. Aaron Bazan, the ace of the Eagles’ pitching staff who will face La Grange in Game 2, singled and scored on Bryan Penn’s triple.
“We wanted to win but realistically we wanted Homer to throw as many pitches as possible,” Barbers Hill Coach Gil Stalbaum said after the game. “He threw 65 pitches so we’ll see him, I’m sure, if we go to a third game.”
On not pitching Bazan in the opener, Stalbaum did admit he had second thoughts in the first inning.
“But we’re going to try to win the second game and then outscore them in the third game,” Stalbaum said.
Baytown Sun Published May 21, 2004 HOUSTON — This one was over almost as quick as it began.
La Grange scored eight runs in the top of the first inning as the Leoparsd beat Barbers Hill, 11-4, at Langham Creek High School thiursday night in the first game of a best-of-three Class 3A regional playoff baseball game.
Game 2 is scheduled for 7 p.m. today, also at Langham Creek.
The Leopards, now 27-1 on the season, scored the eight runs on nine hits, including a two-run home run by Chase Anderle.
Sophomore Bailey Glandt was the victim of La Grange’s wrath, giving up all eight runs before turning things over to another sohpomore, Octavio Carmona, who did a credible job in holding La Grange scoreless in his part of the first, second, third and fourth innings. He did give up two runs in the fifth and one more in the sixth.
Freshman Derek Hulsey pitched a scoreless seventh for the Eagles.
Homer Bailey, who has signed to play at the University of Texas and is considered in some circles as the top pitching prospect in the nation going into this summer’s major league draft, was the winning pitcher, giving up one run and two hits while striking out nine.
But he is likely not to forget Michael Padgett.
Padgett, a sophomore, hit a leadoff home run in the first inning and had a likely homer stolen from him in the third when Jacob Kozelsky made an at-the-fence catch, then showboated a bit, holding the ball as Padgett rounded second.
He ran off the field laughing. Kozelsky will be La Grange’s starting pitcher in the second game of the series.
Down 10-1, the Eagles scored twice in the fifth. Nathan Gaines and Chase Barrera singled and scored on Jose Carmona’s double to right center. He was thrown out trying to stretch it to a triple.
Barbers Hill, now 23-5, and co-champions in District 22 3A, finished its scoring in the sixth. Aaron Bazan, the ace of the Eagles’ pitching staff who will face La Grange in Game 2, singled and scored on Bryan Penn’s triple.
“We wanted to win but realistically we wanted Homer to throw as many pitches as possible,” Barbers Hill Coach Gil Stalbaum said after the game. “He threw 65 pitches so we’ll see him, I’m sure, if we go to a third game.”
On not pitching Bazan in the opener, Stalbaum did admit he had second thoughts in the first inning.
“But we’re going to try to win the second game and then outscore them in the third game,” Stalbaum said.