AUSTIN — Flatonia baseball faced off with Hawley High School in a state championship semifinal match June 5 at University of Texas' Disch-Falk Field that Hawley won in eight innings by a final score of 4-3. Some early errors from Flatonia helped score runs for Hawley and the Bulldogs hung tough with a late rally and sent it to extras, leading to Hawley scoring in walk-off fashion on a base hit.
“We dug ourselves a hole in that one inning where we made a couple of mistakes on throwing errors,” said Flatonia head baseball coach Shawn Bruns.
“Gave them three runs and that didn't help our pitcher out there. He was pitching on a short rest week and I thought he pitched his butt off for seven innings, then Beck came in and pitched well for his inning and two thirds. Our pitchers did our job, we just didn’t get enough hits. I tip my cap to their pitcher. We just couldn't get squared up on a couple balls when we needed to. It's just a great high school baseball game. They just got a few more hits when they needed to and we didn’t. That’s baseball.”
