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Ballinger Merkel

Bearcats

Badgers M

The Merkel (TX) varsity baseball team lost Tuesday's home conference game against Ballinger (TX) by a score of 11-3.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Ballinger	0	1	5	0	1	4	0	11	-	-
Merkel	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	-	-

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Ballinger (21-22)

Ballinger

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	3B
	Team Totals	.370	37	27	11	10	8	3	1
1	Bryce Lopez	.750	4	4	1	3	4	1	0
2	Trey Matschek	.000	4	4	0	0	0	0	0
3	Carter Arrott	.200	5	5	0	1	0	0	0
4	Martin Quiroga	1.000	4	1	2	1	0	0	0
5	Aiden Zavala		0	0	1	0	0	0	0
7	J. Hernandez	.250	4	4	1	1	0	0	0
8	Zachary Canada		0	0	1	0	0	0	0
11	Nakia Villareal	.667	4	3	0	2	1	2	0
12	L. Busenlehner	1.000	4	2	3	2	3	0	1
24	Kyle Bullard	.000	4	2	0	0	0	0	0
32	C. Busenlehner		0	0	1	0	0	0	0
55	M. Castleberry	.000	4	2	1	0	0	0	0

Ballinger

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	9	7	1	1	5	.541	.555	1.097
1	Bryce Lopez	0	0	0	1	2	.750	1.000	1.750
2	Trey Matschek	0	2	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000
3	Carter Arrott	0	2	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400
4	Martin Quiroga	3	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
7	J. Hernandez	0	1	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500
11	Nakia Villareal	1	0	0	0	1	.750	1.333	2.083
12	L. Busenlehner	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	3.000
24	Kyle Bullard	1	1	1	0	1	.500	.000	.500
55	M. Castleberry	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.000	.500

Ballinger

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	5
1	Bryce Lopez	1
4	Martin Quiroga	2
12	L. Busenlehner	1
55	M. Castleberry	1

Ballinger

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	DP
	Team Totals	1.000	24	20	4	1
1	Bryce Lopez	1.000	1	0	1	1
2	Trey Matschek	1.000	1	1	0	0
3	Carter Arrott	1.000	6	6	0	0
4	Martin Quiroga	1.000	5	3	2	1
10	Leland Dunham	1.000	1	1	0	0
11	Nakia Villareal	1.000	2	1	1	0
12	L. Busenlehner	1.000	3	3	0	1
24	Kyle Bullard	1.000	5	5	0	0

Ballinger

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	W%	APP
	Team Totals	3.15	1	1.000	1
4	Martin Quiroga	0.00	0		1
11	Nakia Villareal	0.00	1	1.000	1
32	C. Busenlehner	31.50	0		1

Ballinger

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6.2	6	3	3	6	6	31	25
4	Martin Quiroga	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	3
11	Nakia Villareal	5	4	0	0	2	4	20	18
32	C. Busenlehner	.2	2	3	3	4	1	8	4

Ballinger

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.240	.387	1	100	1
4	Martin Quiroga	.000	.000	0	12	0
11	Nakia Villareal	.222	.300	0	56	0
32	C. Busenlehner	.500	.750	1	32	1

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Merkel (21-22)

Merkel has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Texas High School Baseball - Ballinger defeats Merkel

March 8, 2022: Merkel, TX 79536

Spectators at Tuesday's league battle between the Ballinger Bearcats (Ballinger, TX) and the host Merkel Badgers (Merkel, TX), saw Ballinger's baseball squad knock off Merkel by a count of 11-3.

Coming up next, the Bearcats play the Forsan Buffaloes (Forsan, TX) in a non-league battle, on Thursday, March 10. Ballinger will attempt to move on its 1-0 season record.

The Badgers now possess a 2-4 record. They take the field next when they travel to Abernathy for a non-league battle on Thursday, March 10. Merkel will play a Antelopes squad coming off a 5-4 non-league win over Ralls (Ralls, TX). The Antelopes record now stands at 2-0.

Rankings & Records

Ballinger (21-22)

TX	Section	State Div.
438	98	55

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
11-7	6-5	5-5	5-2	1-0	.611	.545	149	117

Merkel (21-22)

TX	Section	State Div.
771	169	104

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
7-14	3-8	1-5	3-5	3-4	.333	.273	102	165