The Highlanders wore out the bases in the second inning, sending 19 batters to the plate and getting five extra-base hits, including homers by Kyle Walker, his sixth of the year, and Mickey Armstrong (3rd of season), who also doubled in the inning. Armstrong batted three times in the frame. Every TWHS batter reached base at least once in the inning.

Kyle Drabek got the win on the mound, improving to 7-0 for the year and 5-0 in district, going all five innings and striking out seven, while allowing just one hit, a double by Zach Grichor in the third inning.

At the plate, Taylor Davis was 3-3 with a double and two RBIs, Walker 2-3 with a homer and five RBIs, and Armstrong 2-3 with a homer and a double, while Wayne Hrozek and Paul Goldschmidt each collected two hits.

Hrozek had a defensive gem in the second, after Jarred Vasquez had walked. Scott Ondrasek hit a ball to the center-field fence that Hrozek went after and got.

TWHS plays again Friday at home at 7 p.m. against Klein Forest.


Huntsville 2, Oak Ridge 1
Huntsville took advantage of four seventh-inning War Eagle errors to take a hard-fought 2-1 victory at ORHS on Tuesday night.

The War Eagles had taken a 1-0 lead in the second when Thomas Rooke scored on a two-out hit by Dennis Shafer after Garrett Norton had singled.

Kyle Henson, Rooke, Norton, Shafer and Clark Dean had the ORHS hits.

The War Eagles play again Friday at Lufkin at 6 p.m.