Sports

The final crop of track and field athletes was whittled down to the tops in Texas following regional championship action across the lone star state last week. Locally, Sealy’s Breanna Brandes (pole vault) and Bellville’s Kirby Marik (high jump) earned second-place finishes at the Region III Championship at Challenger Columbia Stadium in League City last Friday and Saturday.

The Sealy Tiger golf team wrapped up its season at the Region III Championship at the Raven Nest Golf Club in Huntsville as the eighth-place team with a high individual finish in 17th overall. Although head coach Cody Carruthers has taken an individual golfer to regionals every year he’s been in Sealy, this year was the first time the Tigers brought a whole team thanks in part to Ethan Doyle’s first-place individual finish at the district championship in Navasota.

The Sealy Lady Tiger softball team will open its 11th straight postseason trip with a home game against Houston Wheatley Thursday with the first pitch set for 5 p.m. at Sealy High School.

After the Sealy Tiger baseball team started the regular season on a 3-14 skid, it locked in a playoff spot with a 4-0 win over Wharton last Saturday at Aubrey “Mutt” Stuessel Stadium and head coach Dane Bennett said, “We can now call ourselves a playoff baseball team.”

Both Sealy track and field teams captured the top spot in the team competition of the Area Championship hosted at T.J. Mills Stadium and Sealy Junior High last Wednesday, April 14. Sealy athletes earned 10 gold medals and qualified for 37 events in the Regional Championship this weekend at Challenger Columbia Stadium in Webster.

The Sealy Tiger baseball team collected a 15-1 win over Royal to start this week of play thanks in part to a pair of six-run innings and a pair of solid pitching performances from Bass Blundell and Karsen Anderson.

The Sealy Lady Tiger softball team closed its regular season earlier this week with road trips to Brookshire and Bellville Monday and Tuesday and await the beginning of the postseason. Sealy won by run rule over Royal, 15-0 in four innings, but final results from Tuesday’s contest with Bellville were unavailable by press time.

The Sealy Tiger team tennis squad had two representatives advance from last week’s District 24-4A Championships to the regional tournament. Carlos Godoy registered a runner-up finish in the boys’ singles bracket and Cameron Eschenburg and Norman Juarez similarly finished second in the boys’ doubles circuit to punch a ticket to the Region III Championship in Bryan April 26 and 27.