Broncos end season in three games

By Sandy Anderberg

The Clarendon Broncos ended a good season at the hands of West Texas last week.

The boys played three good games in the Bi-Distract round that went the full three games but fell short in the final game of the best two-out-of-three series finishing with a 12-14 record.

The Broncos got a late start in game number one trailing 0-4 after two innings. But they were able to rally back in the third to put runs on the board thanks to singles from Caleb Herbert, Aiden Burnam, and Braylon Rice.

Parker Haynes was in control of the defense for two innings throwing three strike-outs and allowing two hits and four walks. Brentley Gaines took over the duties on the mound and finished the game with two strike-outs, five walks and three hits.

The Broncos came back in the last inning and scored three more runs but ran out of chances giving WT the 5-4 win.

Game two was a different story as the Broncos were determined to not go down in two. With Rice on the mound, the Broncos jumped all over the Comanches and held them to two runs in the opening inning while putting nine runs up at their turn at the plate.

The Broncos played solid offense and stellar defense to get the 16-5 win. Overall, they were able to get eight hits in the win. Rice had the hot hand with three hits that included a double and a triple. Hudson Howard, Burnam, Gaines and Kreed Robinson, and Hayden Moore had hits in the innings.

Coach Aaron Smith went back to Gaines for the pitching spot to start game three. Overall, four pitchers tried their hand from the mound to switch up the momentum and try to stop WT who held a 17-0 lead before the final inning where the Broncos were able to score two runs. In their last at-bat, Howard and Wilkins slammed a double each and Robinson had one stolen base.

With a new AD in charge at CHS, the underclassmen are determined to be strong in the coming season but will miss the seniors.