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Ballinger Merkel

Bearcats

Badgers M

The Merkel (TX) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's home tournament game against Ballinger (TX) by a score of 16-13.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ballinger	1	0	0	5	0	5	5	16	11	3
Merkel	5	0	2	0	0	3	3	13	15	5

Final score provided by C. Ellison.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Ballinger (24-25)

Ballinger has not entered stats for this game.

Merkel (24-25)

Merkel

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	3B	HR
	Team Totals	.405	41	37	13	15	12	2	1	1
3	Payson Prieto (Jr)	.500	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
4	Eli Delgado (Jr)	.500	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0
5	Trey Alexander (Sr)	.600	5	5	2	3	2	0	0	0
6	Kaden Blubaugh (Jr)	.500	4	4	1	2	4	0	0	1
7	Rayson Houston (Jr)	.000	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Jason Alaniz (Fr)	1.000	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
10	Bronson Lloyd (Jr)	.000	5	5	1	0	1	0	0	0
12	Easton Malone (Fr)	.500	5	4	1	2	3	1	1	0
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	.500	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	0
24	CJ Walcott (Sr)	.500	5	4	3	2	0	0	0	0

Merkel

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	ROE	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	11	3	2	2	7	.463	.595	1.058
3	Payson Prieto (Jr)	0	1	2	0	0	0	.750	.500	1.250
4	Eli Delgado (Jr)	0	1	0	1	0	1	.500	.500	1.000
5	Trey Alexander (Sr)	0	2	0	0	0	2	.600	.600	1.200
6	Kaden Blubaugh (Jr)	0	0	0	0	0	2	.500	1.250	1.750
7	Rayson Houston (Jr)	0	1	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000
8	Jason Alaniz (Fr)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	3.000
10	Bronson Lloyd (Jr)	0	3	0	0	1	7	.000	.000	.000
12	Easton Malone (Fr)	0	2	1	0	0	3	.600	1.250	1.850
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	0	1	0	0	1	2	.500	.500	1.000
24	CJ Walcott (Sr)	1	0	0	1	0	0	.600	.500	1.100

Merkel

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	4
4	Eli Delgado (Jr)	1
5	Trey Alexander (Sr)	1
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	1
24	CJ Walcott (Sr)	1

Merkel

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.808	26	20	1	5
4	Eli Delgado (Jr)	.333	3	1	0	2
5	Trey Alexander (Sr)	1.000	2	2	0	0
6	Kaden Blubaugh (Jr)	1.000	2	2	0	0
7	Rayson Houston (Jr)	1.000	2	1	1	0
10	Bronson Lloyd (Jr)	.667	6	4	0	2
12	Easton Malone (Fr)	1.000	3	3	0	0
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	.833	6	5	0	1
24	CJ Walcott (Sr)	1.000	2	2	0	0

Merkel

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	L	W%	APP
	Team Totals	10.00	1	.000	1
3	Payson Prieto (Jr)	5.25	0		1
8	Jason Alaniz (Fr)		0		1
11	John Smith (Jr)	21.00	0		1
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	14.00	1	.000	1

Merkel

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	11	16	10	7	7	44	36
3	Payson Prieto (Jr)	4	3	6	3	5	5	22	17
11	John Smith (Jr)	1	5	5	3	0	1	9	9
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	2	3	5	4	2	1	13	10

Merkel

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.306	.432	2	1	158	7
3	Payson Prieto (Jr)	.176	.364	1	0	85	2
11	John Smith (Jr)	.556	.556	0	0	31	2
15	Mayson Prieto (Fr)	.300	.462	1	1	42	3

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Game Story

Texas High School Baseball - Ballinger edges Merkel

March 1, 2025: Merkel, TX 79536

The Ballinger Bearcats (Ballinger, TX) baseball the host Merkel Badgers (Merkel, TX), 16-13 in Saturday's non-league challenge.

The Bearcats now own a 3-3 record. They take the field next when they travel to Winters for a non-league challenge on Friday, March 21.

With the defeat, Merkel drops to 5-2 on the year. The Badgers travel to Grape Creek (San Angelo, TX) to clash with the Eagles in a 3A Region I District 6 challenge on Tuesday, March 4. The Eagles go into the challenge with a record of 1-0. Grape Creek won 13-0 in their recent non-league challenge against Midland Texas Leadership Charter Academy (Midland, TX)

Ballinger @ Merkel Baseball Game Info

Sat., Mar. 1, 2025 @ 2:30p

The Merkel (TX) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's home tournament game against Ballinger (TX) by a score of 16-13.

Rankings & Records

Ballinger (24-25)

TX	Section	State Div.
555	143	68

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
16-8-1	5-0	7-3	7-2-1	2-3	.660	1.000	216	134

Merkel (24-25)

TX	Section	State Div.
607	152	78

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
11-11-1	4-8	4-6-1	3-5	4-0	.500	.333	165	175

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Ballinger	.8	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.6	2.0	8.6	9.5	1.3
Merkel	2.1	.9	1.2	1.1	.8	2.1	.8	-	7.2	7.4	2.5

Team Stat Comparison

Ballinger		Merkel
.320	Batting Average	.308
.418	On Base Percentage	.443
.360	Slugging Percentage	.403
.953	Fielding Percentage	.874
1.000	Win Loss Percentage	.500

Team Leaders

Ballinger		Merkel	National Avg.
#9 Tate Riley.500	Batting Average	#4 Eli Delgado.472	.239
#6 Cade Strube.529	On Base Percentage	#12 Easton Malone.570	.379
#9 Tate Riley.625	Slugging Percentage	#4 Eli Delgado.556	.302
#14 Aven Ochoa1.000	Fielding Percentage	#9 Kayden Diaz1.000	.860
#5 Bryce Lopez1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#11 John Smith1.000	.532

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Ballinger	0-1		Merkel	1-0

Date	Away	Home	Result		Date	Away	Home	Result
4/8/25	Bangs	Ballinger			2/28/25	Bangs	Merkel	(W) 5-4
4/11/25	Ballinger	Bangs	(L) 7-5

Record Breakdown

Ballinger (24-25)		M Merkel (24-25)
16-8-1	Overall	11-11-1
5-0	League	4-8
7-3-1	Non-League	2-0
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
0-1	Common Opponent	1-0
7-3	Home	4-6-1
7-2-1	Away	3-5
2-3	Neutral	4-0
1-2	Playoff	0-0
16-8-1	In-State	11-11-1
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0