FLOWER MOUND – All Austyn Laird was hoping for was to squeeze out a single and maybe scratch out another run to help his team. Instead, the senior center fielder crushed a three-run home run to rally Marcus to a 6-4 win over Grapevine on Thursday in Game 1 of a best-of-3 Class 5A Region [...]
Playoff Roundup: Austyn Laird lifts Marcus to Game 1 win over Grapevine; Marauder softball loses to Keller 3-0
May 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Playoff Roundup: Marcus beats rival Flower Mound in decisive Game 3
May 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
LEWISVILLE – Marcus rebounded from a rocky showing in Game 2 on Saturday to beat Flower Mound, the state’s ninth-ranked Class 5A team, 5-1, in Game 3 of a best-of-3 Region I Quarterfinal series. The Marauders (29-6-1) will face Keller (29-4-1) in the semifinals. No date was set at press time. “Today didn’t start the [...]
Playoff Roundup: Marcus takes 1-0 series lead with win over Jaguars; Guyer drops Game 1 to Cleburne
May 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
LEWISVILLE – Marcus’ Hannah Null struck out 10 in a two hitter to beat Flower Mound, the state’s ninth-ranked Class 5A team, 5-1, in Game 1 of a Region I Quarterfinal playoff series on Friday. Marcus (28-5-1) led by one run through the first five innings but plated three more in the bottom of the [...]
Cross-town rivals Flower Mound and Marcus ready for playoff series
May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Longtime rivals Flower Mound and Marcus play one another in this weekend’s Class 5A Region I Quarterfinals best-of-3 playoff series.And so far, they’re all saying the right things. Neither team, coaches or players, is saying anything bulletin-board or Twitter worthy about their opponent or the match up itself. In fact, some players like Flower Mound’s [...]
Jaguar baseball faces challenging task of dealing with early playoff exit
May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. It was a safe bet that many baseball enthusiasts saw Flower Mound as an easy pick to advance to this year’s Class 5A state tournament. They were the state’s seventh-ranked team; No. 1 in the area and hadn’t lost since March 7. In baseball, 21-straight wins is unheard [...]
Playoff Roundup: State-ranked Flower Mound falls to L.D. Bell in shocking first round upset; Guyer sweeps Saginaw
May 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
GRAND PRAIRIE – As Saturday’s game wore on, there was an inescapable feeling that this was the end of the line for the Flower Mound baseball team. Not only did the game end for the Jaguars — a crushing first-round 10-4 loss to L.D. Bell, who was unranked and the fourth place team out of [...]
Playoff Roundup: Flower Mound dominates Belton in 16-2 win
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Annelise Oswalt pitched a three hitter to lead Flower Mound to a 16-2 win over Belton in Game 1 of a best-of-3 Class 5A area round softball playoff series on Thursday. Oswalt, a sophomore, struck out six in the five-inning run-rule win. Flower Mound (23-8-1) is on an 11-game tear and has outscored its first [...]
Sports Roundup: Marcus cruises to 9-0 win; Guyer softball loses area round opener to Aledo
May 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
IRVING — Sophomore Jack Cushing threw a three hitter on Wednesday and the Marcus offense exploded for 11 hits to beat Irving Nimitz 9-0 in Game 1 of a best-of-three bi-district series. Marcus (28-6) got six full innings from Cushing, who only had a little over four innings of work during District 5-5A play. Nimitz [...]
Sports Roundup: No. 1 Flower Mound dominant in first-round win over Grapevine
April 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
KELLER — Flower Mound, the area’s No. 1 ranked team in Class 5A, pounded out 15 hits to beat Grapevine 12-4 in Friday’s one-game bi-district playoff at Keller Central. The Jaguars (22-8-1) were held scoreless through the first two innings, but plated four runs in the third en route to a comfortable 6-2 lead by [...]
Sports Roundup: Flower Mound remains unbeaten in 5-5A with sweep of Marcus
April 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Flower Mound baseball coach Danny Wallace said his team has yet to talk about its now 19-game win streak. But after Thursday’s 8-4 win over Marcus, he at least admitted to it’s impressiveness. “We don’t talk about the streak, it hasn’t been discussed one time … but when you’ve won that many in a row, [...]
