By Sandy Anderberg
The Clarendon Broncos claimed the Area Championship with big wins over Sudan last week in Floydada. The 18-1-2 Broncos defeated the Hornets 11-10 and 9-2.
The Broncos will take on Ropes in the Regional Quarter Final game in Plainview on Thursday, May 16, at 4:00 p.m. Game two will be played thirty minutes after game one and game three will be played on Friday, May 17, at 11:00 a.m. if needed.
Game one against the Sudan Hornets kept the Bronco fans on edge and it went down to the wire. After a back-and-forth contest, the Broncos earned the win in the ninth inning when seniors Easton Frausto and Harrison Howard went to work.
Frausto connected with a huge double that brought Howard to the plate knowing he had to bring him home. With two outs on the board, Frausto worked to put himself in scoring position at third base. Howard knocked one down the third base line and Frausto was able to get to Homeplate for the score and the win. Overall, the Broncos posted 10 hits in the game and committed four errors.
Howard was on the mound for five innings and Frausto went in for the final four innings. Both pitchers faced 23 batters. Howard allowed one hit, four runs, two walks, and struck out nine. Frausto posted five strikeouts and allowed eight hits, six runs, and three walks.
The Broncos made big hits all game long and earned four stolen bases. Bryce Williams had two singles and two RBIs in the game as did Howard plus a stolen base. Jared Musick posted a single, triple, an RBI, four runs, and one stolen base. Musick was on his game defensively as well and racked up 14 put-outs in the game. Frausto finished with a single, a double, two runs and one solen base, while Levi Gates had a single and one run. Mason Allred had a single, one run, and one stolen base and Shane Hagood helped with one stolen base.
The game two win came a little easier for the Broncos. They had nine runs, nine hits, and committed three errors. Musick got the call and threw for six innings striking out nine. Mason Sims pitched the last inning and had one strike out.
The Hornets earned the first score of the game in the second inning on an error in the field, but the Broncos were able to put two runs on the board in the third. After a Frausto single with one out, Howard knocked down a huge triple to score Frausto. The Broncos were able to get Gates and Allred on base due to Sudan’s back-to-back errors. Bryce Williams was able to put some wood on the ball and get Howard home for a run.
A crucial fourth inning gave the Broncos the advantage they were looking for going up by five runs. Heston Seay slammed a single that brought Sims home and Frausto connected with a triple that scored Seay. Hits from Howard and Allred allowed one more run before the end of the inning. The Hornets scored two runs in the fifth, but the Broncos ran away with it in their next at bat and put two more runs on the board and went three and out against Sudan’s batters in the sixth to secure the win. With Sims on base, Seay reached base on an error that allowed Sims to take third base and score on the next batter for the final run of the game.
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