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Baseball roundup: Forney overcomes five-run deficit to beat Frisco Liberty in bi-district playoff opener

FORNEY — Forney overcame a five-run deficit with help from a four-run sixth-inning rally, sparking an 8-5 victory over Frisco Liberty in Game 1 of a best-of-3 Class 4A first-round playoff series.

Senior center fielder Cody Tyler laced a bases-loaded triple to right-center to give Forney a 7-5 lead with two outs in the bottom of the sixth. Trey Bedrick hit a double down the left-field line to score Tyler, a Wichita State signee who’ll probably start Game 2 at noon Saturday at Liberty.

Forney junior pitcher Javier Eguia overcame a five-run first inning and allowed only one hit the final six innings for a complete-game victory. The right-handed Eguia retired 13 of 14 batters from the second through fifth innings.

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Making a sixth consecutive playoff appearance, Forney (21-8) used 12 walks, three errors and four hits — three for extra bases.

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Six-year-old Liberty (18-9-2), making its first playoff appearance, took a 5-0 lead in the top of the first with six hard hits. JT Vangelder led off with a triple and scored on a single by Clay Crews. Hayden Parker added an RBI triple, and Liberty led 2-0 in fewer than 15 pitches. Brian Simpson, Jacob Colombo and Justin Crider added RBI singles for a five-run lead.

Forney rallied within 5-4 in the bottom of the second, its only hit a bases-loaded double by Chase Schlebach. Forney had eight walks but had a pair of runners picked off base to stifle a bigger rally.

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David McNabb

In other bi-district games:

Class 5A

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Southlake Carroll 5, Arlington Lamar 0: TCU signee Tyler Alexander pitched a one-hit shutout and struck out 16 as Southlake Carroll (28-4-1) completed a two-game sweep.

Kenny Hill went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs for a Carroll team ranked No. 24 in the nation by MaxPreps.com, and Nic Motley also homered. Carroll outscored Lamar 15-0 in the series.

McKinney 9, Jesuit 7: An error allowed two runs to score during a four-run top of the 10th as McKinney swept District 9-5A top seed Jesuit. Dalton Harris scored the go-ahead run after he started the rally with a leadoff double.

Jesuit did not go down easy. It scored twice and had the tying run at second when the game finally ended after 3 hours, 25 minutes.

Hurst L.D. Bell 5, Flower Mound 3: Sydney Daley doubled and homered as L.D. Bell beat the state's seventh-ranked 5A team to tie the best-of-3 series at one win apiece. Game 3 is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie.

Allen 10, W.T. White 2: Phillip Ingram went 3-for-4 and scored two runs as Allen tied the best-of-3 series at one win apiece. Game 3 is scheduled for noon Saturday at The Colony.

Cory Scheibner pitched a four-hitter and struck out seven for Allen (19-10-2), and Pierce Edwards was 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBIs. It was scoreless until the top of the fourth, when Allen scored six runs.

Plano West 4, Richardson Berkner 1: Preston Betz allowed just one run, and TCU signee Billy McKinney was 2-for-3 and scored two runs as Plano West (19-11-1) swept Berkner.

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Garland Naaman Forest 10, Longview 4: Matt Herrick pitched a four-hitter, struck out nine and went 2-for-4 for Naaman Forest in Game 1.

Flower Mound Marcus 3, Irving Nimitz 1: Nick Lewis threw a three-hitter and struck out eight, and Marcus scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to sweep Nimitz.

Rockwall-Heath 10, Garland Lakeview 0: Heath swept the series, outscoring Lakeview 27-0 in the process.

Lake Highlands 2, Plano 1: Hudson Taylor pitched a three-hitter and struck out 11 as Lake Highlands won to tie the series at one win apiece.

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Ryan Thomas gave up three hits and struck out 12 for Plano. Lake Highlands scored twice in the fourth, then hung on.

Grapevine 4, Hebron 2: Grapevine scored three runs in the top of the seventh to complete a series sweep.

Arlington Martin 7, Keller 6: Martin won Game 1 with a run in the top of the eighth after Keller had tied the score with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. Martin had four extra-base hits, including a home run by Anthony Lyons.

Keller Fossil Ridge 14, Arlington Bowie 0: Kenniel Rivera tripled and homered, and Austin Ingraham doubled and tripled as Fossil Ridge swept Bowie.

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Class 4A

Highland Park 4, Prosper 0: Oklahoma State signee Matt Wilson pitched a two-hit shutout as Highland Park won Game 1.

Frisco Wakeland 7, Carrollton Creekview 0: Austin Gehle and Cameron Yates combined on a one-hit shutout for Wakeland in Game 1. Gehle also went 3-for-3.