{"id":229805,"date":"2026-04-01T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:16:09","slug":"hooks-and-islanders-tie-4-4-in-exhibition-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229805\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooks and Islanders tie 4-4 in exhibition baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Hooks got back to work at Whataburger Field with an exhibition game against Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi baseball on Tuesday. The game ended in a 4-4 tie against their professional neighbors. This marked the fourth meeting between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The Hooks scored first in the bottom of the second when Pascanel Ferreras hit a 2-run homer to left field. The Islanders responded in the top of the third on a RBI single from Max Towchic putting TAMU-CC down 2-1. In the bottom frame the Hooks extended their lead 3-1 as Joseph Sullivan hit a solo homer.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775024169_690_.jpeg\" alt=\"Islanders baseball at Whataburger Field\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the fourth, Christian Smith-Johnson hit an RBI single to right field and Walker Freeman hit a 2 RBI double giving TAMU-CC their first lead 4-3. Ferreras comes up clutch again for Corpus Christi grounding out to third to bring home Lucas Spence in the sixth frame. That&#8217;s when the game became tied 4-4.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory-Portland grad Walker Janek made his Hooks debut as a designated hitter. The catcher is a top-5 prospect for the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775024169_422_.jpeg\" alt=\"Gregory-Portland grad and Hooks catcher Walker Janek\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>London grad and Islanders pitcher Kade Budd closed the game in the ninth, striking out 2 batters.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775024169_930_.jpeg\" alt=\"London grad and Islanders pitcher Kade Budd\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi&#8217;s Double-A team gears up for the MiLB season opener on Thursday at 6:35 p.m. at Whataburger Field. Corpus Christi hosts the Frisco RoughRiders for a 3-game series. The Islanders will get back to their regular season schedule over the weekend, hosting Stephen F. Austin for a 3-game series at Chapman Field that begins on Thursday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Hooks got back to work at Whataburger Field with an exhibition game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,1816,88843,155,157,156,10498,88846,4459,54259,18827,88844,88845],"class_list":["post-229805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-baseball","tag-christian-smith-johnson","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-exhibition","tag-exhibition-game","tag-game","tag-hooks","tag-islanders","tag-pascanel-ferreras","tag-walker-freeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229805","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=229805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}