Falcons take down Bears in Game 1

Gabriel Pruett
The Orange Leader

SPRING May 02, 2008 11:30 pm

— Extra base hits are common when the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Battlin’ Bears are on the field, it was just uncommon it was opponents to be the ones laying them down Friday.
The Huffman Falcons used 13 hits, seven going for extra bases, to down the Bears 8-4 in Game 1 of the Class 4A Region III bi-district round.
Game 2 will be at LC-M’s Don Gibbons Field at 2 p.m. today with Game 3 to follow if the Bears are able to shake off elimination.
Tom Henk went the complete game for the Falcons (19-6) and held the Bears (22-8) to six hits and retired the final nine batters he faced in order. Henk struck out four batters while not walking a single batter the entire game.
Shane Waddell suffered the loss for LC-M after lasting just 1 2/3 innings giving up five hits with one walk and one strike out.
Tim Barry finished the game for the Bears and allowed eight hits on one walk and four strike outs.
Huffman broke open for five runs in the first two innings on six hits, five of which were doubles.
Two runs in the first came on a two-run double by Blane Hashagen who gave the Falcons a 2-0 lead.
The bottom of the second was much of the same as Huffman scored three more runs on four hits.
Cole Deberry had a one-out double and two batters later Kyle Meadows delievered on a RBI-scoring triple to make it 4-1.
Meadows would make it 5-1 when he scored on an infield single by Jeff Schmidt.
LC-M scored twice in the top of the third as senior Chad Richard laced a two-run double to left field scoring both Phillip Richard and Barry.
Phillip Richard had been hit by a pitch and Barry hit a single.
The Falcons did not take long to answer with a couple runs in the bottom of the third.
Meadows had a RBI triple to score Cole Deberry while Schmidt had a RbI infield single to score Meadows to make it 7-3 Falcons.
It wasn’t until the top of the fifth LC-M got its fourth run as Ben Jones led off with a double and came in to score on a RBI single by Barry.
Huffman closed out the scoring in the bottom of the sixth as Schmidt led off with a single and came in to score when Henk hit a RBI single.