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SHARYLAND PIONEER POSTS SECOND PLACE FINISH IN MCALLEN ISD TOURNAMENT

Sharyland Pioneer posts second place finish in McAllen ISD Tournament

BRYAN RAMOS

Progress Times | 3/2/2019

PHOTO CREDIT: Diamondback Athletics

The turnaround of Sharyland Pioneer baseball began last year when Head Coach Casey Smith took over the program.

Proof of their 180 came in the form of the team’s first title as winners of the inaugural Sharyland ISD Hardball Classic a season ago.

The Diamondbacks have continued their rise in year two under Smith as they played their way into the McAllen ISD Tournament championship game this past weekend and are looking for a repeat performance in the Hardball Classic.

Sharyland Pioneer opened up pool play of the McAllen ISD tourney with a perfect 4-0 record with wins over Brownsville Rivera (5-3), San Antonio Holmes (11-2), Valley View (5-1) and Orange Grove (13-0), earning their way to the semifinals.

Junior Trey Gonzalez pitched a complete game shutout and surrendered just four hits in the semifinals against the Flour Bluff Hornets and received plenty of run support with four RBIs coming off his own bat. Five different Diamondbacks crossed the plate as Sharyland Pioneer picked up a 8-0 win to advance to the championship game.

Awaiting the Diamondbacks in the final was the Calallen Wildcats, a team Sharyland Pioneer lost to just days earlier by a score of 6-5.

The Diamondbacks jumped out to a 7-1 lead on the Wildcats midway through the fifth inning with their dominance highlighted by a laser throw from right fielder Johnny Lugo to double up a runner sliding into third. The seven runs, however, would not be enough as Calallen’s bats woke up in the bottom of the fifth to score eight runs, some of which were helped by five Diamondback errors.

In their first tournament action of the 2019 campaign, the Sharyland Pioneer Diamondbacks finished second place at the McAllen ISD Tournament and fell in the championship game to a top 25 ranked team in the state.

Now, the Diamondbacks attention shifts as they hope to repeat as champions of the Sharyland ISD Hardball Classic.

Sharyland Pioneer will face Valley View and Port Isabel on the opening day of the tournament and is set to play Ed... Click here to read full article

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