EAGLES BASEBALL DAMOND NEWS

Eagles fall to

South San Bobcats 3 to 0

By: Conrado Perez, Jr. – Eagle Pass Sports Central

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The District 29-6A co-leading Eagle Pass Eagles under the guidance of head coach Reynol Mendoza and assistant coaches Henry Silva and Chris Villa ventured to San Antonio, Texas on Friday, April 6, 2018 to battle against the South San Bobcats in a 7:00 PM district diamond matchup. These two former high school baseball power house teams hooked up in yet another low scoring game that stirred up memories of the local and South San old timers of the legendary diamond battles of the 1970‘s even the legendary Texas High School Baseball Hall of Fame inductee former Bobcats head coach Robert Zamora was in attendance at this game.

True to form these two squads battled through three scoreless innings of play at the start of this game where base hits were quite scarce but in the bottom of the fourth the home standing Bobcats supported by the Loyal Bobcats faithful in attendance broke up the scoreless tie with a three run production off of Eagles relief hurler Roly Riza who took over the pitching chores from starting pitcher Rey Rey Mendoza who only went two innings in this game.

The Bobcats tallied their runs on a one out base on balls and RBI double another walk, a wild pitch and another RBI double to take a 3 to 0 lead over the Eagles. That proved to be the only scoring in this game as the Eagles just could not manage to get their usually potent offense going connecting for only four base hits off of the Bobcats starting and game winning pitcher Eric Lerma who only allowed two Eagles runners to advance to scrod base as the Eagles fell by the final score of 3 to 0 which now drops them into a tie for second place in the district race along with Laredo United both sporting a district mark of 7-3 which puts them one game behind the current district leading Laredo Alexander Bulldogs who sport a district record of 8-2.

Score by Innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

EAGLES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

SOUTH SAN 0 0 0 3 0 0 x 3 3 0

Losing Pitcher: Roly Riza Leading Hitters: Isaac Gonzalez 1 for 2, Braulio Rodriguez 1 for 2, Christian Del Bosque 1 for 3 and Rey Rey Mendoza 1 for 3/