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Live from The Diamond in fridgid, Buna, Texas....

Buna Junior Brandon Hillin struck out 12, gave up 6 hits and walked none in route to a 3-2 win.  Buna Junior catcher Ryan Sheppard, tattooed a 3rd inning pitch over the left center wall to get Buna back up 3-2.  In all Buna had 6 base hits, struck out 5 times while walking 5 times also.  Hillin worked out of trouble only twice all night.  In the 6th, after a leadoff hit followed by a HBP, Hillin set the next 3 down in order.  The other time came in the 3rd inning, back to back hits to leadoff the inning followed by a sacrifice, put Horns at 2nd and 3rd with 1 out.  Hillin struck out the HF leadoff batter, then got a groundball to first to possibly end the inning, but the ball hit the first base bag and bounced off into short right field allowing both runners to score.  The next batter promptly flied out to right.  Great ballgame if you missed it. 

Hardin-Jefferson knocked off Buna 6-1 in the days first game.  Hardin-Jefferson continued their winning ways by beating Ozen in game 2, 10-5.  In the final game of the afternoon, Ozen out battled Buna in a 6-4 ballgame. 

Welcome to February high school baseball.  Never too pretty until March when district rolls around, the biggest reason for 3 and 4 game tourneys to shake the winters rust off. 

Pitchers duel in Buna at The Diamond, Buna 4-Silsbee 3.  Neither team hit real well tonight, Buna had 3 hits in 20 AB's, Silsbee went 4 for 24 as well.  Buna combo of Hillin (5 1/3) and Clark (1 2/3) combined for 7 K's and 7 BB's, while their counterparts from Silsbee, Skinner (1 2/3) and McDonald (5) walked 7 while striking out 11.  Silsbee tied the game up in the top of the 6th, but Buna was able to push acrossthe winning run in the bottom of the 7th with a base hit by Hillin after Baxter had doubled over the right fielders head.  Both teams played hard and left everything on the field.  If you stayed home, you missed out on a good opening day.

Silsbee 3

Buna 4

Lots of Buna doubters out there.  We will more than hold our own.  Pitching will be strong.  Gotta get the sticks going with 3 starters back from basketball less than a week, still shaking some dust off.  Plenty of underclassmen trying to make names for themselves starting tomorrow night.  Should be a great game, come on out to The Diamond.

I can do it for Buna.  I'll be there for all the games.

From what I hear Coach Willis made a few not so smart moves outside the athletic