Despite their best efforts, the Rockdale Tigers still have not been able to secure that first district victory.
The Tigers (4-10 overall, 0-7 in District 20-3A) dropped a pair of league contests to Jarrell, 10-4 and Academy, 13-4.
The game against Academy Tuesday evening at Tiger Field was delayed for 30 minutes from its original starting time due to rain and the threat of lightening.
Jackson Perry went 2-for-3 on the evening with a pair of runs batted in.
Vincent Flores accounted for the third Rockdale run with an RBI single.
Rockdale Coach Jacob McMurtry shook up the lineup and the batting order and the Tigers grabbed the early lead in the second inning when Tyler Caldwell tripled to centerfield with two outs and was brought home on Flores’ single to left.
The score remained the same until the fifth inning when Academy erupted for five runs, using a walk, three singles and a triple to move around the bases and sent nine batters to the plate. The big blow came on Jake Nichols’ triple to left to plate two runs.
After the Bumblebees added two more runs in the sixth for a 7-1 lead, Rockdale fought back.
Brandon Hernandez opened the bottom of the sixth inning with a walk, followed by Devon Whitsel’s single to left field.
Perry then smacked a double to right-center-field to plate Hernandez and Whitsel to close the gap to 7-3 and then Zac Davis sliced an opposite field single to left to make it 7-4.
The Tigers chased Academy starter Bryson Lawhon in the inning after the big lefthander threw 89 pitches and fanned seven Tigers. Reliever Cole River retired five straight batters to end the game.
The Bumblebees tacked on six insurance runs in the seventh, with Chad Pajeska’s base-clearing double making the score 13-4. Eleven Academy batters came to the plate in the seventh.
Starter Caldwell took the loss for the Tigers in 4 1/3 innings of work and allowing four hits
Against Jarrell on the road Friday, Rockdale blasted out to a 4-1 lead, thanks to a three-run first inning.
The Tigers increased their lead to 6-4 in the top of the fifth, but Jarrell erupted for six runs in the bottom of the inning
Perry went 2-for-3 at the plate, punching out a double and an RBI.
Whitsel also went 2-for-3 with a double.
Springer (1-2) absorbed the loss, allowing four hits while striking out two.
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