Sports

Two Clarendon High School athletes will run in the State Track Meet this spring after outstanding performances in the Regional competition.

Sophomore stand out runner Madi Benson is the current 2A Region 1 Regional Champion in the 800m run. She claimed the Regional Championship in Canyon at WTAMU and will run on May 2 at the Mike Myers Stadium on the UT campus in Austin at approximately 5:20 p.m.

Benson’s time of 2:25.71 topped the field by less than a second. Elliot Frausto ran the 800m and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.48. Benson also ran the 400m dash finishing seventh with a time of 1:04.80 and the 1600m run taking the eighth spot with a time of 5:50.03.

Kaleb Bolin ran a good race in the 400m and finished third with a time of 49.99. He got the wildcard to advance to the State Meet and will run May 3 at 5:00 p.m.

The Bronco mile relay competed in the regional meet and finished 13th in the prelims with a time of 3:38.13. Those running the relay were Bolin, Kaleb Mays, Shane Hagood and Brice Wagner. Mays was a runner in the 100m and finished ninth with a time of 11.41 in the prelims. Bryce Williams ran the 800m and placed 12th with a time of 2:11.04. Wagner ran the 200m and was 14th in the finals with a time of 23.58. Lyric Smith competed in the high jump taking seventh place with his best jump of 6’.

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By Sandy Anderberg

Senior Jared Musick was on the mound for the Broncos in their win over Wellington last week. The Broncos scored 17 runs on eight hits. Fellow seniors Easton Frausto and Harrison Howard were able to knock down two home runs in the game that accounted for five of the Broncos’ runs.

Musick pitched for three innings posting five strikeouts and no hits or runs. Another Bronco senior, Levi Gates stepped in for a bit in the fourth before Howard took over the duties on the mound to finish the game. Howard collected two strikeouts and allowed one run.

The lone runs in the first belonged to the Broncos when Gates hit a single which allowed Frausto to score and Mason Allred grounded out to score Musick.

After a three and out by Howard, the Broncos came to the plate with runs on their minds. With Mason Sims on first, two batters struck out, Frausto earned a walk that brought up Musick who got things rolling with a single to left field. Howard and Gates each then knocked down singles that scored Sims, Frausto, Howard, and Musick. Allred reaches base on an error and Bryce Williams doubled on a fly ball to center to score two. Grant Haynes hit a fly ball to left field at his at bat to advance Williams to third. The Broncos would go on and score three more runs with a double from Shane Hagood that scored two runs before Frausto slammed a home run that brought home Hagood and left the bases empty.

Another run in the third gave the Broncos security they needed to take the game. Howard put the final runs on the board with his homerun that scored Frausto and Musick.

The Broncos are currently at 12-1-2 and leading the district race with one district game remaining before post-season play.

They will travel to Floydada to face Forsan in a warm-up game on Friday, April 26 beginning at 5:00pm.

By Sandy Anderberg

Elyza Rodriguez and Tandie Cummins earned homeruns last week in the Lady Broncos’ 17-1 win over the Booker Lady Kiowas that helped the Lady Broncos win the district title at 263-1. They are preparing for post-season play.

Rodriguez struck first in the third inning with the score at 4-0. Cummins claimed her homerun in the sixth to bring home Rodriguez to go up 14-1. Cummins and Rodriguez were strong at the plate as the duo hit a triple apiece in the fifth inning that scored three runners. In the game, Cummins posted a homer, one triple with 4 RBIs and three runs, while Rodriguez slammed a single along with her homerun and accounted for three runs and two RBIs.

Kennadie Cummins was on the mound for four innings and claimed the win throwing nine strikeouts and allowing only two hits and no runs. T. Cummins took over in the fifth and allowed one hit, one run, and no strikeouts. K. Cummins racked up two stolen bases and T. Cummins added one.

All of the Lady Broncos were solid at the plate. Elliot Frausto collected a single, two doubles, and one RBI, and Gracie Wilkins finished with two doubles, one triple, two RBIs, and three runs. Laney Rummel posted a single, a double, and a triple, while Bayleigh Bruce added a double, one RBI, and one run. Maloree Wann helped with one RBI.

The ladies continued their dominance at the plate and in the field with a win over Sanford-Fritch at 4-2 late last week. Fritch was able to get on the board first with a run second. It was a battle on the mound as both teams went three and out in the next two innings. K. Cummins got ahold of a pitch in the third and homered on a line drive to center with no one on to tie the game at one all. With only one out left Clarendon’s at bat, Wilkins singled and brought T. Cummins home to go up by one run before the inning ended.

The Lady Broncos were able to take advantage of a little momentum at the plate in the fourth inning. G. Smith got things moving with a single to left field before Bruce took a grounder the other direction to the outfield for a single. A single from K. Cummins put Smith and Bruce in scoring position. Rodriguez was able to muster a single to center that scored Bruce and Smith for the Lady Broncos’ final runs of the game. Fritch would score one more run in the final inning, but it was not enough to overtake the Lady Broncos.

By Sandy Anderberg

The Lady Broncos are currently 23-1-1 in regular season play as they begin to think about post-season play. They held the Lady Hounds off of home plate defeating them 13-0 last week. Kennadie Cummins earned the win against Gruver striking out 13 and allowing only one hit. Cummins faced 16 batters and threw an impressive 45 strikes out of 57 pitches.

The ladies jumped out early to put four runs on the board in the first inning. They were able to score two runs with no outs and put the next two runs up with only one out. The inning ended with a pop-up and a ground-out.

The Lady Broncos would not score again until the fourth inning when K. Cummins doubled on a fly to left field scoring Shelbi Coles and Bayleigh Bruce. Elyza Rodriguez brought Cummins home on a single to left and Gracie Wilkins’ ground ball to second scored Rodriguez and T. Cummins before the end of the inning.

With two outs in the fifth, Bruce hits Coles into home and Rodriguez hits the only Lady Bronco triple that brings Bruce home for a run. Sitting at 10 runs, the ladies were not finished as T. Cummins doubles on a ground ball to left field and was able to score Rodriguez and find home plate on an error by the left fielder. Wilkins turned a single into a home run on an error by the center fielder.

K. Cummins had two runs, singled and doubled, had two RBIs, and one stolen base while Wilkins posted one run, three singles, an RBI, and one stolen base. T. Cummins ended the game with two runs, a double, and two RBIs and Rodriguez had three runs, two singles, one trip, and three RBIS. Bruce made good on one single, two runs, and one RBI and Coles posted two runs as the DH in the win.

By Sandy Anderberg

The Bronco baseball team only needed five innings to take down the Shamrock Irish in a district baseball game last week. The Broncos had a huge 22-2 win at home.

It only took the Broncos eight hits to score the runs. Senior Easton Frausto slammed not one, but two homeruns in the fourth inning. The first came on the second pitch of the series to score a run and the second homerun was a fly to left field that scored two runners. Frausto went on to knock in four runs and as many RBIs and collect four stolen bases in the game.

Mason Sims was on the mound for the first three innings where he allowed one hit, one run and struck out two. Overall, Sims threw 25 strikes in 41 pitches. Frausto took over the duties for the last two innings and had good results as well. He threw 46 pitches in all and racked up 26 strikes in his time on the mound.

The Broncos were on fire at the plate and ran the bases well. The team grabbed a whopping 27 stolen bases from the Irish that gave them the momentum they needed to get the big win. Levi Gates knows how to get it done and finished with five stolen bases and Frausto, Mason Allred, and Brice Williams had four each.

Gates hit one double, one RBI, and collected three runs, while Allred had two singles, an RBI, and accounted for three runs in the game. Sims claimed one single, two runs, and one RBI and Shane Hagood had two runs and a stolen base. Harrison Howard stole one base, had one single and one double, one RBI, and had three runs. Grant Haynes posted one run, one RBI, and one stolen base while Parker Haynes grabbed one steal.