Longview hosted East Texas rival Tyler Legacy during Tuesday night性视界传媒檚 District 10-6A baseball game, and overcame both a first inning deficit and a game-long pitchers性视界传媒 duel in a come-from-behind 7-3 win.
The Lobos leaned on starting pitcher Cole Ramey性视界传媒檚 nine strikeouts over five-plus innings of work, and improved their 2025 season record to 7-13 and district record to 2-3 before they travel to Tyler Legacy for Friday性视界传媒檚 7 p.m. rematch.
The Red Raiders received 10 punchouts from starter Cale Zips over 4.1 frames, but they still dropped their year mark to 11-11 and league mark to 3-4.
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Tyler Legacy earned an early leg up on Longview in the top of the first inning because Garner McKinney reached on a Lobo error and Payne Hotman earned a single with no outs before Zips loaded the bases with a one-out walk.
Nolan Hable then followed with a RBI single that drove in McKinney and Hotman for a 2-0 lead in the opening inning.
Longview性视界传媒檚 lineup then made the most of opportunities with two outs in the bottom of the first to bounce back for their own lead. Drew Flores produced a single, Ramey and Bryson Denning reached base on their respective hit-by-pitch and walk to load the bases, and Javarey Valentine stepped up with a game-changing RBI triple that scored Flores性视界传媒 courtesy runner Dameion Kennedy and Ramey性视界传媒檚 courtesy runner Houston Rowe, and Denning for a 3-2 Longview lead.
Tyler Legacy性视界传媒檚 Zips then hit Longview batter Payton Woods with a pitch, and was later called for a balk that allowed Valentine to travel home the final 90 feet for a 4-2 advantage in the frame.
Ramey faced another Tyler Legacy bases loaded situation in the top of the second, but he learned from the previous inning, and got out of this situation without allowing a run by forcing Hable性视界传媒檚 inning-ending groundout.
The Longview lineup broke through again in the bottom of the third because Ramey drew a leadoff walk and courtesy runner Rowe later came home to score on a Zips性视界传媒 wild pitch to make it a 5-2 home team lead.
Zips bounced back when he struck out the Longview side in the bottom of the fourth. He earned three straight punchouts against Lobo batters Lawson Tubb, Kieffer Doxey and Roman Guidry.
Ramey followed with three straight strikeouts when he faced Tyler Legacy batters Hable, Dallas Wallzer and Noah Felton in the top of the fifth.
Denning then stepped up to the plate for Longview in the bottom of the fifth, and smacked a two-run homer over the centerfield fence to also score Kennedy and grow the game gap to 7-2.
Tyler Legacy responded late when McKinney性视界传媒檚 sacrifice fly drove in Cole Kimmel and cut Longview性视界传媒檚 lead to 7-3 in the top of the sixth, but it wasn性视界传媒檛 enough to prevent a loss.
