Flower Mound Moves to 5A Championship Game With 8-1 Win

F Mound…2 0 0 2 0 1 3 – 8 9 0
Pearland..0 0 0 0 0 0 1 – 1 4 0

Kyle Johnston held Pearland to one run on 4 hits and Sean Wymer went 3-3 with an RBI to lead Flower Mound to an 8-1 win over Pearland and move to the Championship Game on Saturday. Flower Mound had 9 hits in the game but was helped out by 12 walks and 3 HBP. Pearland used 6 pitchers in the game.

Connor Wanhanen was 2-4 and scored 3 runs in the game. Noah Hill was 2-2 and had 2 RBIs on a walk and bunt single.

Notes
*Johnston had allowed only 2 baserunners through 6 innings. He gave up his first walk, 2 hits and 1 run in the bottom of the 7th but was able to finish the game.
*Flower Mound played great defense. Wanhanen made 2 sliding catches in centerfield. Hannah made a hard running catch in right field and Millard and Wymer both made good plays at 3B and 1B respectively.
*Chad Paris scored 3 runs as a courtesy runner for Mitch Andrews. Andrews was 1-2 with 2 BBs. Paris and Wanhanen scored 6 of the 8 runs.

Photo of Connor Wanhanen and Kyle Johnston Courtesy of Donald Boyles.
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