[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\nAfter being limited to one run and five hits in a 4-1 loss to Plano East to begin District 6-6A play, the offense for the Princeton baseball team came alive in a big way later in the week at a tournament at Richardson Berkner.<\/p>\n
It took a while for the Panthers\u2019 offense to get into a rhythm in their first game. However, Princeton woke up just in time. Plating six runs in the top of the sixth inning, the Panthers rallied from a 3-0 deficit to stun Berkner 6-3 on Thursday, March 5, at Berkner.<\/p>\n
Mistakes by the Rams set the stage for a big inning for Princeton. A walk, catcher\u2019s interference and another walk loaded the bases with one out. A defensive error by Berkner allowed the first Princeton run to cross home plate. Marlon Alvarado made it 3-2 with a bases-loaded walk.<\/p>\n
Felix Martinez then put the Panthers ahead 4-3 with an RBI single. The second run on that play scored on a throwing error. Alvarado scored the fifth run of the inning on a passed ball. Martinez made it 6-3 Princeton after he scored on another Rams error.<\/p>\n
Later in the day, Jaxson Watjen scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning as Princeton earned a walk-off 6-5 victory against North Garland. The Panthers held leads of 2-0 and 5-2 before the Raiders rallied with three runs over the game\u2019s final three innings to tie the score at 5-5.<\/p>\n
Elijah Vega carried Princeton\u2019s offense, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs, including a double. Skylar Barnes and Peyton Wilczynski each collected two hits.<\/p>\n
Princeton made it three straight wins Friday.<\/p>\n
The Panthers exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the first, and that outburst was more than enough for Princeton, which went on to defeat Community 7-1.<\/p>\n
Princeton batted around and sent 13 batters to the plate. Barnes drove in the first run with an RBI single to left field. Two more runs scored on an error a few minutes later for a 3-0 lead. A fielder\u2019s choice by Watjen drove in the fourth Panthers run. Jacob Hovind delivered the biggest blow, a two-run single for a 6-0 advantage. Three batters later, Martinez drew a bases-loaded walk to increase Princeton\u2019s lead to 7-0.<\/p>\n
Watjen also held Community\u2019s offense in check, limiting the Braves to one run and two hits over five innings. He struck out five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princeton batter Brayden Hyatt looks ahead after he contacts the ball during a recent home game against Farmersville.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-199007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}