The Dragons faced Round Rock HS at Dell Diamond on Friday afteroon at 1:00pm. It was a back and forth affair with SLC holding a 4-3 lead going into the bottom of the 7th. Two base hits to lead off the inning gave them runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs. An attempted sacrifice bunt turned into disaster for SLC as no one covered 1st base and the ball was thrown away scoring the runner from 2nd. With the score now tied at 4, the next batter was intentionally walked to load the bases with no outs. The infield and outfield were brought in to try and cut off the runner at home. A shallow pop up to left was not deep enough for the runners to advance. The middle infielders returned to normal depth to try and turn a double play to get out of the inning and into extras. A ground ball was hit to shortstop (Patrick) and was fielded cleanly..over to 2nd for one out, but the runner at 1st was called safe. It was a bang, bang play and could have gone either way. The run scored from 3rd and the game was over.
Patrick played the 6th and 7th innings and made 3 nice plays in the field. It seemed after he came in, every ball was hit to short. Unfortunately he struck out in his only at bat in the 7th inning with 2 runners on base with just 1 out.
The second game paired SLC with Judson HS. The Dragons got up early and never looked back taking a relatively easy 10-1 victory.
Patrick started the game and played the first 5 innings. He made several good plays in the field, one in particular going deep in the hole at short and throwing the runner out at 1st. At the plate, he had a single and RBI, and two deep fly balls to left...one of which was a warning track shot that turned into a long out. The weather for both games was incedible...sunny, a light breeze and 88 degrees.
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