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District 29-5A swept in bi-district


District 30-5A teams won eight of the nine bi-district baseball games that they played against District 29-5A teams last weekend.

The Floresville Tigers were the only District 29-5A team to win a bi-district game last weekend.

After losing an 11-4 decision to the Corpus Christi Ray Texans in their series opener, the 29-5A runner-up Tigers won game two as they downed the Texans, 5-2, in the first game of a doubleheader.

Ray came back to top Floresville in a 9-8 thriller to win the series.

Up 4-1 in the series opener, Ray scored seven times in the seventh inning to blow the game open.

Floresville beat Ray, 5-2, in game two.

Ray built up an 8-5 lead in game three, but Floresville scored three times in the sixth inning to knot the score.

With two outs in the seventh inning, Ronnie Vasquez ripped a run-scoring double for Ray to give them the series victory.

The Texans, 20-5, were to go up against Edcouch-Elsa in a second-round series this weekend.

Corpus Christi King, 30-5A’s fourth-seeded team, trounced the District 29-5A champion San Antonio Harlandale Indians, 9-1 and 12-1, in their series.

In the first game, the King Mustangs scored seven runs in the fourth inning to break open a 1-1 tie.

Abel Peña tripled, doubled, and drove in two runs, while Orlando Salinas hit three singles and drove in three runs.

King began the second game of the series with five runs in the first inning.

They added two runs in the second inning and tallied five runs in the third inning en route to a 10-run-rule victory.

Marcos Castellanos and Abel King each tripled to top King’s hitting.

King, 20-10, was to play Rio Grande City in a best-of-three series this weekend.

The District 30-5A champion Corpus Christi Moody Trojans swept their series, 6-1 and 8-7, against the Eagle Pass Winn Mavericks.

In the series opener, Marcus Cantu, the winning pitcher, scattered seven Winn hits. He walked two batters and struck out eight batters.

Robert Arredondo singled and drove in two runs to lead Moody’s hitting.

The Trojans rallied from a three-run deficit to plate four runs in the seventh inning of game two to win the series.

Alec Martinez, Nathaniel Medina, and Macus Cantu doubled to lead the Trojans hitting.

Moody, 22-1-3, was to face Pharr Valley View in the second round of the playoffs.

In the other bi-district series featuring District 29-5A and 30-5A teams, the Corpus Christi Calallen Wildcats beat the Uvalde Coyotes, 5-4 and 7-0.

Calallen, 18-11-1, was to take on Mission Veterans Memorial in the second round.

James Volz|Leader-NewsMitchell Henderson fires the ball toward home plate. His pitch took place during the second inning of the Uvalde-Calallen baseball playoff game held at Uvalde’s Marvin Kolinek Field on May 6. Henderson, the starting pitcher, gave up seven hits, walked two batters, and struck out six batters through four and two-thirds innings of work.

James Volz|Leader-NewsMitchell Henderson fires the ball toward home plate. His pitch took place during the second inning of the Uvalde-Calallen baseball playoff game held at Uvalde’s Marvin Kolinek Field on May 6. Henderson, the starting pitcher, gave up seven hits, walked two batters, and struck out six batters through four and two-thirds innings of work.

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