Conroe Loses Battle With College Park 4-1

Friday night at The Diamonds, the Conroe Tigers lost a close battle to the Colleg Park Cavaliers 4-1.  College Park opened the scoring in the bottom of the third inning on a double followed one batter later with an RBI single to make the score 1-0.  In the top of the fourth Kendall Campbell hit a one out double and came around to score on a two out RBI sinlge off the bat of John Foote to tie the game at 1-1.  The Cavaliers quickly took back the lead on a single, FC, and another RBI single to make the score 2-1.  in the bottom of the fifth inning the Cavaliers added another two runs on a base on ball, single and an 2 RBI double to make the score 4-1.  The Tigers put runners on base in the sixth and seventh innings but were unable to push across anymore runs.

Greg Belton was the starting pitcher for the Tigers going 5 iinings, allowing 4 runs, and 7 strikeouts.  Cody Myrick came into pitch in the sixth inning allowing no runs, no hits, and one strikeout.  Offensively the Toigers were led by Scott Tucker who went 2-3, Campbell 1-3, and Foote 1-3 (RBI).  The Tigers will close out the season on Saturday at Ferrell Park at 1:00.  Before the game this years Seniors and their parents will be honored.

New Caney Rallies to Defeat Conroe

The New Caney Eagles rallied to score two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat the Conroe Tigers 5-4 at Adam Dunn Field in New Caney on Friday night.  New Caney started off he scoring in the bottom of the second inning picking up one run off a double, single and a fielders choice to take a 1-0 lead.  In the fourth inning the Tigers responded with a run to tie the game when Greg Belton reached on an error then moved to third on a single by Caleb Kroon.  Belton scored on a double play grounder off the bat of Travis Hogue to make it a 1-1 game.  The Eagles responded with two runs in the bottom of the fourth on a Conroe error, single, sacrifice fly, and another single to make the score 3-1.  In the top half of the fifth inning Scott Tucker led off with a single, followed by a fielders choice by Chris Allen which led to Kroon's second hit of the night, a double to right field to score Tucker.  Kendall Campbell grounded into a fielders choice to score Allen to end the scoring in the inning and tie the game at 3.  In the top of the sixth inning the Tigers went back on the offensive when Foote led off with a single, advanced to third on a error by the Eagles and crossed the pay station on a sacrifice fly by Tyler Davis to put Conroe up for the first time in the game 4-3.  The score remained the same until the bottom of the seventh when Eagles pushed across a run on a sacrifice fly to tie the game and then scored the winning run with two outs on a single to end the game - Final score 5-4.

Belton started for the Tigers going six innings allowing, 3 runs, and 12 strikeouts.  Cody Myrick, who came in to relieve Belton in the seventh, was the losing pitcher going 2/3 of an inning and allowing 2 runs.  Offensively the Tigers were led by Kroon and Foote both picking up two hits on the night and Tucker picked up the other hit.  Kroon, Campbell, and Davis each collected one RBI a piece.

The Tigers now stand 6-19-1 on the season and 1-12-0 in district.  The Tigers travel to College Park to play on Friday night and close out the season with a Saturday game against College Park at Ferrell Park on Senior Night.