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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Bulldogs start district with 3-2 win Griffin Underwood had a pretty big day on Wednesday. Early in the day, he found out that he was selected to the first team AllDistrict basketball team for District 10-3A. Later that evening, he was the starting and winning pitcher of Pilot Point to start district play and pitch his first live action of the season. Underwood went five innings and gave up one earned run while striking out six and not allowing a walk.
an infield hit and moved to second on a throwin error. Jaden Matthews ran form him as a pinch-runner and moved to third on a wild pitch. David Crees hit into a fielder's choice which came home to try and put the tag on Matthews, but the ball popped free and Matthews was safe at home.
Howe's only other run came in the sixth inning when Caleb Ake had
Griffin went on to strikeout two Bearcaststo pick up his second save on the season.
In the bottom half of the inning, Pilot Point loaded the bases against lefty Matt Griffin. A line drive was driven to right field where Crees The Bulldogs scored in the top of made the catch and fired home to the first inning when Easton Ross Blevins. The ball sailed high over walked, stole second base and came Blevins head and the when the home on a ground out by Quinton runner tried to advance, Blevins Harris. In the second inning, slid and fielded the ball and threw Tanner Stubblefield walked, Nick to Griffin who was covering home Wison singled Stubblefield to third to get the third out. For those and Brennan Ross brought in the scoring in their mind, it was a very run on a two-out single. rare 9-2-1 double play.
Bulldogs go 0-1-2 in muddy GCEC tournament In one of the most rainy and muddy starts to a baseball season in many years, the Howe Bulldogs are just now getting to find some things about about their team that they would have already known weeks ago. With over 10 games cancelled, Head Coach Torrey Ognoskie used the GCEC Classic tournament to learn what he has. In the first game on Thursday morning, Howe's game with Pottsboro was moved to Pottsboro due to their field being less muddy. Starting pitcher David Crees was excellent in bouncing back from a rough first outing against Bonham. He struck out six and walked two over six innings. He gave up just the one run.
The defense was excellent behind him by turning a 6-4-3 (RossUnderwood-Harris) double-play to get him out of a bases loaded jam in the fourth inning, but otherwise Crees sailed along smoothly. An RBI groundout by Caleb Ake plated the 'Dogs only run. With a time limit in tournaments, the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Howe's record ws 3-0-1. Howe took on Elysian Fields later that evening and were handed their first loss of the season, 5-3. Ognoskie went with Josh Griffin to start. He finished as the losing pitcher due to a five-run third inning where the defense made a Continued to Page #10
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