Jesuit survived a wild, back-and-forth affair with Plano East to secure a 6-5 win, capping an electric Saturday that saw the Rangers win their third straight to end the 2022 Collin County Invitational with a 4-2 record. The Rangers upended Midlothian Heritage, 10-0, in five innings to start the day as a three-run home run from senior
David Long set the tone and another stellar outing from junior
Luke Isett helped push Jesuit to the victory.
Plano East scored three runs in the top of the sixth to flip the script on the Rangers and take a 5-4 lead heading into the bottom of the frame. A lead-off walk to Long put a runner aboard before junior
Jonah Timmons sent a single to right, allowing senior
Luke May to score on a fielding error to tie the game, 5-5. Senior
Cash Riley forced a two-out walk, moved to second on a wild pitch and then scored on a single to shortstop by junior
Callen Singhania to give the Rangers the lead.
Riley, Timmons and junior
Dominic Migliore each scattered two hits in the nightcap, as freshman
Jake Fults recorded a team-leading two RBI. Migliore also started on the mound, throwing 5.2 innings of work and striking out five before senior
Max Bennison hurled the final 1.1 innigns, allowing two hits, keeping the Panthers off the scoreboard andearning his first win of the year.
Jesuit rallied with two outs in the first inning against Midlothian Heritage, as senior
Jake Storey reached first on a passed ball third strike and senior
Tommy Delaney reached on an infield single. Long took the first pitch of his at bat and launched a deep fly to left that cleared the netting and landed in the parking lot of the David A. Segal Family Aquatic Center to give Rangers a 4-0 lead. Riley laced a triple to center field in the third, scoring May, junior
Weston Okamoto and senior
Jack Sharp before crossing home plate on a wild pitch to give the Rangers a 10-0 lead.
Isett threw a one-hitter in the win, striking out seven batters and only allowing four of the 18 batters faced on base. The junior lefty earned his second win of the week following a complete game shutout win over Little Elm on Monday, and has 13 strikeouts through 10 innings pitched this season.
Jesuit will return to action on Thursday, Mar. 10 as the Rangers will begin competition in the Frisco Tournament of Champions. The team's six-game tournament run will start at Reedy H.S. at 10 a.m. on Thursday against Wylie before continuing at 1 p.m. against Burleson.
