By: Justin Hargrove, Assistant Athletic Director
Northeast Texas Community College baseball headed to Paris, Texas on Saturday, March 17 to play games two and three of the three game series with PJC. NTCC would be victorious in game two, 6-4, before losing the final game 10-8.
Luke McBride (Nashville, AR HS) got things going in the first when he drew a walk and later scored to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead. NTCC would add to the lead in the third inning when Bryce Yokso (Spring HS) led off with a walk and Sawyre Thornhill (Huntington HS) also walked a few batters later and then Nico Baumbach (Euless Trinity HS) would make them pay with a three-run homerun to put NTCC up 4-0.
PJC would cut into the lead with two runs in the third and then tied the game when they added two more runs in the fifth inning. NTCC would put the game away in the top of the seventh Jett Forrest (Lorena HS) and Cole Modgling (Medina Valley HS) would each score to give the Eagles the 6-4 lead.
Logan Asay (Frisco Wakeland HS) got the start and went four and one-third innings before giving way to the bullpen. Chase Richter (Cypress Woods HS) would pitch in relief before giving way to Chance Bolter (Plano HS) who finished out the game and picked up the win for the Eagles.
In game two, both teams would have big innings to change the course of the game at times with Paris having the big inning in their final at bat to pull out the 10-8 win.
After falling behind 2-0, NTCC would put up seven runs in the third inning to go ahead 7-2. The first six batters reach first base safely and moved around to score in the big third inning for NTCC. Jake Chapman (Boerne HS) smashed a grand slam to drive in four of the seven runs scored that inning.
Paris scratched away at the lead, scoring two runs in the fifth, and one in the seventh to bring the score to 7-5 after seven innings of play. Kade Wood (Atlanta HS) would add the final run for the Eagles when he doubled in the eighth inning and made his way around the bases to score and bring the game to 8-5 NTCC.
Paris would save their big inning for the final inning, scoring 5 runs to make the comeback against NTCC and salvage a split on the day. The Eagles would win two of the three games in the series to get the series win in round one of conference play.
NTCC will be back in action at home on Thursday, March 25th with a double header against Tyler Junior College with game one starting at 1:00pm.
