Floydada Whirlwinds baseball at Watson Field (Ryan Crowe/FCR)
LAMESA The Floydada Whirlwinds (2-5) took on two very strong baseball teams this past Saturday to conclude the Lamesa Tournament by falling to the New Home Leopards 13-1 and 4A Seminole Indians 24-5.
New Home (7-2) unleashed a powerful attack of slapping three homeruns by Brad Emert, Zach Blizel and Alex Vitales. The Leopards also added a trio of triples and a pair of doubles. In total New Home had 13-hits.
Logan Addison pitched the first three innings of no-hit ball, gave up four walks and recorded seven strikeouts. He was relieved by Ryder Watkins in the fourth inning.
Floydada had a brief 1-0 lead over New Home in the first inning when Andres Mendoza scored from third base on a wild pitch by Addison. The Whirlwinds only hit of the game was a single by Juan Gonzales.
Things were equally tough for Floydada in the second game against 4A Seminole (9-3). The Whirlwinds took a 2-0 lead when Juan Gonzales hit a RBI triple and later scored on a sacrifice grounder by Davian Ramos. Seminole would answer with 11-runs in the bottom of the first inning and added seven more in the second frame to put the game away early.
GAME ONE – SATURDAY
FLOYDADA – 1 0 0 0 0 – 1 1 2
NEW HOME – 1 5 7 0 x – 13 14 0
LP – Donovan Rocha, WP – Logan Addison
records: Floydada (2-5), New Home (7-2)
New Home homeruns – Brad Emert, Zack Blizel, Alex Vitales
Floydada single – Juan Gonzales
Floydada run – Andrew Mendoza
GAME TWO – Saturday
FLOYDADA – 2 0 3 0 – 5 3 2
SEMINOLE – 11 7 6 x – 24 11 0
LP – Javier Santos, WP – Cramer
records: Floydada (2-5), Seminole (9-3)
Floydada stats
Triples – Saul Reyes, Juan Gonales
Single – Ty Henderson
RBI – Reyes (2), Davian Ramos, Gonzales
Runs scored – Gonzales (2), Reyes, Andres Mendoza, Javier Santos
NEXT: Tuesday, March 8, 5pm – host the Crosbyton Chiefs (2-3) at Watson Field. 106.1 FLiP FM will have the radio broadcast.
