Sports News 3/8

BASEBALL
The Varsity Baseball team hosted Montgomery Tuesday, March 7th and improved to 7-0 with a 16-8 victory over the Bears. The team fired the bats up with 10 total hits with several multiple base hits including a HR. The Longhorns hosted the LCISD Tournament last week and faced some talented teams. 

BOYS SOCCER
The JV Maroon Boys Soccer team lost 1-0 to Brazoswood. The Varsity Boys Soccer team lost to Brazoswood 6-2. Goals were scored by JP Nava. Assists were had by Evan Elkins & Erik Michel.

The JVBlack Soccer team won over Pearland 3-1 on Saturday, March 4th. Goals were scored by Carlos Villagomez, Assoah Ndomo, & Promise Eke.
The JVMaroon Soccer team lost to Pearland 1-0.
The Varsity Soccer team won over Pearland 3-0. Goals were scored by JP Nava, David Asowata, and Martin Tamez Nunez.
Shoutout to the defense and goalkeeper Miles Fisher who all contributed to the shutout.

GIRLS SOCCER
The girls soccer team competed against the Lady Buccaneers from Brazoswood. The JV girls came up short on a defensive battle losing 1-0. Keyla Fourtol spear-headed the effort and was supported by Heidi Jacko, Nailea Badillo, Carson Yanta and Dani Dunk. The Varsity took the field looking to avenge an earlier 4-1 loss in the first round. The Longhorns fought back from a time 3-1 deficit to tie the game 3-3 sending it to PKs only to get out shot. Scoring for George Ranch was Riley Grafe, Paige Klase and Riley Murray. Assisting on the goals were Jordan Shimaitis and Paige Klase strong contributors during the game were Ceana Hernandez, Taylor Rech and Celeste Ruiz.

The girls soccer program traveled to Pearland on Saturday, March 4 to take on the Lady Oilers. The JV team fought hard but came up short dropping the game 2-0.
Varsity girls dropped their game as well to the Lady Oilers 4-1, with the lone goal coming from Riley Murray. The girls will host the Lady Rams of Elsik in their last home game season Wednesday night.


SOFTBALL
Tuesday night the longhorn JV and varsity softball teams took on the Pearland Dawson Eagles in district play. The JV team won 7-4 behind a strong pitching effort from Alyssa Osadchuck. The leading hitters were Emily Hoefer, Christina Kuczynski, Rebekah Groppe, and Jayden Smith.

The longhorn varsity won a hard fought game by a score of 1-0. London Diller pitched a complete game shut out giving up only 3 hits and striking out 10. Leading hitters were Taylor Pesina who went 2 for 3 and London Diller who drove in the only run of the game.

The Longhorn softball team hosted the LCISD tournament this past weekend and went 6-0. They had wins over Sealy, Cy Creek, Brazosport, Needville, Stratford and Sweeny. They started off by beating Sealy, 12-5. Hitting was led by Kayte Martinez and Taylor Pesina, each with 4 RBI’s. In the 9-3 win over Cy Creek, London Diller got the win pitching. Leading the Horns at the plate were Remme Loos and Reese Scott who both scored 2 runs. Against Brazosport Nevada Dolnik pitched the team to a 5-2 win. She had 9 strikeouts in the 5 innings. Diller led the team at the plate going 3 for 3 with a homerun. Larissa Eversole also hit her first homerun of the season. The Horns had a scrappy 8-4 win over Needville, getting the win was Diller. Lexi Tovar gave up no hits in the Horns 12-0 win over Stratford. Reese Scott and Tovar led the Horns with 2 RBI’s each.
Finishing up the tournament the Longhorns beat Sweeny 6-1. Diller got the win and had 8 strikeouts in the 5 innings. Diller and Pesina led the Horns at the plate. Diller had a 3 Run homerun and Pesina had 2 RBI’s. The Longhorns continue district play versus Brazoswood on Friday at the Ranch.

TENNIS
Congratulations the varsity tennis team on competing hard at the Spring Branch Tournament. Hannah Rosenbaum and Will Blanco brought home third in the mixed doubles draw. Ryan Cao brought home 1st in the boys B singles draw. Also special shout out to Chloe Redies for taking 4th in the girls singles draw, Marc Maciel for taking 9th in the Today’s Stars boy’s singles draw and the doubles team of Jonathan Tan and Jake Berry for taking 5th in the boys doubles draw.

TRACK

The Varsity boys track team competed at the Annual LCISD relays on Friday. The team finished second over all. There were many good performances that day.
In the 1600m run Will Lord runs a season best of 4:45 with a second place finish. In the 3200m run Joshua Triesch finished 2nd 10:16 and Jimmy Olmos finished 3rd with a 10:20. In the 200m Jayson Baldridge win with a personal best and the fastest time in Texas with 21.11. In the 400m Champion Allison wins the 400m with a 47.54 with the fastest time in 6A. in the 110 hurdles
Colton Pounders finished second with a personal best of 15.41 and finished 3rd in the 300 hurdles with a personal best of 39.98.

In Pole Vault the Longhorn vaulters took a clean sweep: taking 1st 2nd and 3rd. Jacob Adair, Robert Platt and Nathan Grayson. Vaulting 15ft for Jacob and Robert and 13ft for Nathan Grayson. In Long Jump Dylan Swain takes second with a personal best of 22ft 5in. In High jump JaMarkus Taylor finished 3rd with a personal best of 6ft 2in. To end the meet the boys 4×4 team took second. Those members were Champion Allison, Avery Veiseh, Colton Pounders and Jayson Baldridge. The Longhorns will be competing at Katy Meet of Champions on Thursday, March 9 at 3pm.