Kingwood vs Spring

Apr 15, 2005

The Mustangs completed their two game sweep of Spring on Friday night with a 7-2 win. The victory currently has the Mustangs in second place in the district, one game behind leader Humble, one game up on Beaumont Westbrook and two games ahead of Spring with four games remaining. Mike Ojala was the starting pitcher and held the Lions in check the entire night. The Lions came into the week leading the area in hitting and had four hits the first two innings before being held hitless over the final five innings. Ojala improved his record to 6-1 on the year allowing the four hits, two walks, seven strikeouts and no earned runs. The Lions started the scoring in the bottom of the first with one run on two hits and a Mustang error, but three Ojala strikeouts in the inning kept the damage to the one run. The Mustangs took the lead and never relinquished it with three in the top of the third. With one out, Ojala singled and Kyle Denney reached on an error. Johnny Whittleman singled bringing home courtesy runner Josh Fountain for the first run. Thomas McCormick and Doug Simmons followed with RBI singles to give the Mustangs a 3-1 lead. Kingwood added to their lead in the fourth as Austin Wood doubled and scored on pinch hitter Jacob Edwards single. Spring got one back in the fifth to make the score 4-2 through five full innings. But Kingwood expanded their lead with two more in the sixth. Simmons opened the inning with a double. Wood followed with a double driving home the first run of the inning. A fly ball deep to left center from A.J. Pendleton moved Wood to third and he scored on a fly ball to center off the bat of Kenneth Negron. An insurance run was added in the seventh. Kyle Denney was hit by a pitch leading off. Whittleman reached on an error and the runners moved up on a ground ball from pinch hitter Michael Cvejanovich. Denney scored on a balk by the Spring pitcher giving the Mustangs the final margin of victory, 7-2. Kingwoods nine hits on the evening came from Simmons(2-4) Wood(2-3) Edwards(1-1) Ojala(1-3) McCormick(1-3) Negron(1-2) and Whittleman(1-4).