KHS Sophomore

vs Humble

Apr 28, 2005

Kingwood's Sophomore baseball Coach Kelly Mead led his team to the District 22-5A championship with an 18 to 9 victory over Humble.  Derek Draeger hit his fourth homerun of the season while driving in 4 runs in a 2 for 3 night that included a double and a base on balls.  Facing an umpire with a tight and changing strikezone, Kingwood used 11 walks, 6 hits and 6 Humble fielding errors to score the 18 runs.  Conor McGinnis and David Tittle each had a double and one RBI and Travis Crane and Ryan Grundy singled.  Eric Stover scored 4 times with 3 bases on balls.  Jordan Raney added 4 RBI's on 2 ground balls and a bases loaded walk.  Austin Ebow had 2 RBI's on a sacrifice fly to right field and a ground ball.  Corey Grillet started the game on the mound giving up 5 runs on 4 hits, 3 walks and one strikeout.  Coming in the game in relief in the third inning, Travis Crane got the win pitching 1-2/3 innings.  Crane gave up 4 runs on 5 hits, 2 walks and 2 strikeouts.  Closer Michael Oros entered to pitch the 5th and final inning, striking out 2 and yielding only one hit.