Brookhaven Sweeps Pair from DFW Post Grad
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas – Dallas College Brookhaven's baseball team swept a doubleheader from Dallas Fort Worth Post Grad, winning 10-1 and 10-8.
In the first game, the Bears scored five runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a 5-1 lead. They scored in each of the next three innings, putting up three in the fourth, to cement the victory.
Peyton Starr was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs batted in. Ray Jaramillo went 2-for-3 with two RBI and two stolen bases. Deven Kirtley homered and drove in two runs. Jacob Vela, Bo Dinscore and Gabriel Garza each had a hit, and Tucker Simpson and Alex Rangel both drove in a run.
Bears starter Tyler Ramage picked up the win, allowing three hits, a run and two walks, while striking out three in two innings. Damien Gamez and Jacob Christian allowed just one hit apiece, while both fanned two in two innings of relief. Aaron McInvale pitched a scoreless seventh inning without allowing a base runner to preserve the win.
Brookhaven (6-21) outhit DFW Post Grad, 9-5, in the opener.
In Game 2, the Bears jumped out to a 6-1 lead after two innings. DFW Post Grad trimmed the gap to two runs with three runs in the fourth, but Brookhaven answered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning to make it 10-4. DFW Post Grad tacked on three more runs in the fifth and another in the seventh to pull within two, but Bears relievers Trevor Rangel and Dane Swoboda closed the door.
Dinscore went 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI and a stolen base. Kirtley was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Luke Batey had two hits in three at-bats, drove in a run, and had a stolen base. Starr homered, and drove in three runs. Hunter Pope, Alex Rangel and Simpson each had a hit. Pope had an RBI and a stolen base. Simpson drove in a run, as did Diego Canuelas.
Jacob Leskovsky picked up his first win on the mound, allowing a hit, an unearned run and a walk, and struck out three in two innings. Kenneth Haynes worked a scoreless third, allowing just a walk, while striking out a batter. Trevor Rangel went an inning and two-thirds, yielding two hits, no runs and no walks, and had a strikeout. Swoboda earned his first save in an inning of work.
The Bears swept the three-game season series from DFW Post Grad.