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Lady Horns Force Tiebreaker Game; Flatonia Boys Shut Out Shorthorns

Flatonia’s Cale Janecka fields a ground ball around a Shorthorn base runner to get an out for the Flatonia Bulldogs Tuesday night in Schulenburg. Photo by Stephanie Steinhauser

Flatonia boys 5, Schulenburg 0

The Flatonia baseball team defeated Schulenburg 5-0 Tuesday.

Dayton Cliffe pitched 6.1 innings of two-hit ball with 12 strikeouts and Titan Targac pitched the final two-thirds of an inning.

Targac, Keyshaun Green and Cale Janecka each had two hits. Targac drove in two.

Evan Oeding and Tyson Wagner got the only two hits for Schulenburg, Brycen Schramek and Hunter Schulz combined on the pitching effort for the Shorthorns.

Schulenburg girls 6, Flatonia 5

The Schulenburg softball team held off a late rally by Flatonia to win Tuesday 6-5.

Flatonia and Schulenburg are now tied for the district’s fourth place seed. These two schools will play a tiebreaker playoff game in Weimar at 6:30 pm on Friday, April 22.

Brianna Vavra pitched a complete game six-hitter with 10 strikeouts for the Lady Horns.

Annie Charanza pitched a complete game nine-hitter for Flatonia with seven strikeouts.

Schulenburg’s Tamara Otto had four hits and scored three runs, Kassidy Kubala had two hits and Jordan Sommer scored two runs.

The Lady Horns were up 6-1 before Flatonia scored four runs in the top of the seventh.

Flatonia’s Emma Klozik had two hits, Camryn Smith drove in two runs and Abby Drabek scored two runs.

Fayetteville baseball

The Fayetteville baseball team bounced back from two losses to Mumford last week to defeated Iola 4-0 Tuesday.

Keagan Supak had three hits and three runs, including a triple.

Travis Gully doubled and drove in two. Reid Gross and Parker Vitek also had hits for the Lions.

Gross pitched a complete game three-hitter with nine strikeouts.

The Lions are now 14-4-1 overall and 9-2 in district.

Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association 1A State Rankings

1. Ira – 12-0 (4-0)

2. Nazareth – 9-0 (5-0)

3. D’Hanis – 15-3 (4-1)

4. Abbott – 12-2 (7-2)

5. Dodd City – 10-1 (9-1)

6. Miller Grove – 13-6 (7-3)

7. Fayetteville – 13-4 (8-2)

8. Knippa – 8-2 (6-2)

9. Kress – 12-5 (4-2)