AUSTIN — It’s do-or-die time for Reagan.
The Rattlers will play a win-or-go-home Sport 3 on Saturday for the Area IV-6A championship after dropping to Lake Travis, 7-2, in Sport 2 on Friday at Concordia College.
After successful the primary recreation of the collection Thursday 3-2 on a walk-off error, Reagan (31-6-1) had bother producing a lot offense towards Lake Travis senior Kaeden Kent — a Texas A&M signee and the son of former MLB participant Jeff Kent — who scattered six hits and struck out six over two totally different appearances totaling 61/3 innings.
“This was simply one in every of them video games,” Reagan coach Chans Chapman stated. “Their bottom-of-the-order guys bought on base quite a bit, and you may’t let that occur with the blokes they’ve developing on the prime of their lineup. However that’s why you play three video games. (Lake Travis is sweet), and we knew this wasn’t going to be straightforward. We didn’t come into this pondering we had been going to only stroll by means of this tonight. They’ve too good a staff and we’ll play for all of it (Saturday).”
Lake Travis (34-6-3) did all of its scoring over the third and fourth innings.
The Cavaliers scored 4 runs within the backside of the third, loading the bases on singles by Daniel Ripple and Ethan Calder and a stroll to David Ripple earlier than Cole Johnson ripped a two-run single to middle.
Kent’s sacrifice bunt and Dylan Schlotterback’s single put the Cavs forward 4-0.
Reagan produced its two runs within the fourth.
Brennan Greer doubled and Luke Sasser singled to open the inning. Andrew Ermis then introduced house Greer with successful to proper.
Following Jacob King’s sacrifice bunt, Sasser scored on Britton Moore’s groundout.
Ashton Beaird walked and stole second to place runners in scoring place with two outs, however Lake Travis reliever Omar Gonzales got here on and ended the inning by drawing a groundout.
The Cavs answered by placing three extra runs throughout of their half of the inning.
Daniel Ripple and David Ripple each singled, then superior a base on a double steal.
Ethan Calder’s bunt single scored Daniel Ripple, with Johnson getting hit by a pitch to load the bases earlier than Kent smacked a two-run single to proper.
Teagan Peeples, Greer and Sasser drew walks to load the bases with one out for Reagan within the fifth, however Kent re-entered the sport and produced a strikeout and a flyout to get out of the jam.
Sport 3 is at 6 p.m. on the NEISD Sports activities Advanced, and Chapman stated the message to his staff is easy.
“You’ve bought to put all of it on the road,” he stated. “There isn’t a, ‘We’ll get them subsequent time,’ — you’ve bought to win or the season’s over.”
