Owasso Reporter Sports Wednesday, March 14, 2018 15

Rams sweep Stillwater Tallman delivers in debut

By Christian Favalora
Sports Editor
After back-to-back district
wins, Owasso is in good posi-
tion heading into a stretch that
will see the team play 12 games
in 16 days.
Tuesday night, the Rams gave
Hayden Tallman his varsity
pitching debut and backed him
throughout a six inning, 10-0
run-rule victory over Stillwater.
It was the Rams’ (3-0, 2-0)
second win in two days against
the Pioneers, and the second
successful debut for a pitcher
this season after Nate Acka-
nhausen pitched a win in the
season opener.
Tallman, 17, went the dis-
tance, striking out eight of the
17 batters faced and walking
only two. Afterward, left shoul-
der wrapped in ice, Tallman
said he didn’t have any trouble
settling himself down for his
first varsity start.
“Really, it’s the same stuff I’ve
been doing, just with a differ-
ent atmosphere,” Tallman said.
“I’ve been able to cool myself
down a little bit lately, get used
to it all.
“I just wanted to come out
and do what I do best, which is
to shut ‘em down.”
Tallman, a rangy left, operat-
ed mostly on fastball with some
curveball but had little need for
his off-speed deliveries thanks
to consistent first-pitch perfor-
mances.
“Honestly, I didn’t do well
with command on my curve
ball,” Tallman said. “But I felt
I did well on the 1-2 and 2-2
pitches with fastball.”
He used 80 pitches and
earned the win while Stillwa-
ter’s Caleb Case picked up the
loss.
Case exited in the fourth af-
ter surrendering six runs (four
earned) on six hits. Jarod Dod-
linger spelled him for three
outs but needed 32 pitches. He
ran into a live lineup Tuesday
night. Owasso tagged him for
four runs on seven hits.
Designated hitter Zach Jac-
carino led the Rams, batting
3-for-3 with 3 RBI despite
swinging through a squeeze
Owasso pitcher Hayden Tallman made his varsity debut Tuesday as the
Rams beat Stillwater 10-0 in six innings.  Courtesy Owasso Athletics
play that had the speedy Sam
Thompson bounding toward
him from third base.
Four others had multiple
hits, including C.D. White (2-
4, 3 RBI), Cam Thompson (2-
3), Sam Thompson (2-2), and
Charlie Reuss (2-2).
Owasso scored four runs in
the second inning, two in the
third and four over the next
two frames.
Stillwater had runners in
scoring position three times
but Tallman worked a strikeout
to end the second, third and
fourth innings. He struck out
the last two batters to complete
the two-game, home-and-away
sweep of the Pioneers (0-3, 0-2).
Next Up
Owasso was scheduled to ex-
change home-and-away games
with Bartlesville on Monday
and Tuesday before hosting the
Ram Inviational for three days,
Thursday through Saturday,
March 15-17.
They will then make a return
trip to Florida for an annual
Spring Break outing.
OWASSO 10, STILLWATER 0
Stillwater 000 00x x -- 0 2 2
Owasso 042 13x x -- 1- 13 0
Case, Dodlinger (4) and Driskill Tallman
and Denny. W: Tallman (1-0). L: Case.
2B: S, Skillman (4) O, C. Thompson (2),
White (4, 5).

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OK Lake Levels
Birch: 750.69 Hudson: 619.26
Rejoice Christian’s Dillon Hair pitched five strong innings against Metro Christian on Friday, Broken Bow: 619.51 Hugo: 420.41
March 9.  CHRISTIAN FAVALORA/Owasso Reporter Canton: 1615.40 Keystone: 723.54
Copan: 710.20 Oolagah: 638.09

Eagles fall to 4A champs Metro

Draper: 1187.28 Robert S. Kerr: 459.87
Eucha: 778.12 Sardis: 601.98
Eufaula: 586.52 Skiatook: 714.20
Fort Gibson: 555.17 Tenkiller: 636.80

Hill leads
Grand: 742.76 Thunderbird: 1039.37
Greenleaf: 18.29 Waurika: 951.65

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By Christian Favalora
Moon Phases
Sports Editor

Metro Christian and

Last New First Full
the Eagles slipped to
0-3 on the season.
Brock Henson, Bryce
Sanchez and Cole Hill,
the 2-3-4 batters in this
lineup, all scored in the
first inning.
Henson came around Mar 9 Mar 17 Mar 24 Mar 31
on a throwing error
by Metro’s catcher, Rejoice Christian’s next home game is scheduled for Tuesday,
and Sanchez, who was March 20, against Kansas.  File Photo
plunked on the first
pitch, scored on Garrett which was their first proving.”
Evans’ RBI groundout season with a near-full Rejoice Christian was
to second base. roster. Hill led the way set to travel to Barn-
Hill scored from third Friday batting 1-3 with sdall on Monday and
on a ground ball mis- a triple, run scored, and host Regent Prep on
played at third base, an RBI as the designat- Tuesday before taking a
giving Caden Fryar the ed hitter. week off from competi-
RBI, and Metro’s start- “It’s a fun team,” Hill tion.
ing pitcher dodged the said. “And we all enjoy METRO CHRISTIAN 7,
next 13 batters. each other, we just have REJOICE CHRISTIAN 4
Dillon Hair pitched to clean up some of the Metro 103 030 0 -- 7 6 5
five innings in the loss mistakes. Rejoice 300 000 1 -- 4 4 1
and held onto Rejoice “This is a better team Dunlap, Warren (7) and Evans
Christian’s lead until a than it was a year ago, Hair, Henson (6) and Kimzey.
W: Dunlap. L: Hair. 3B: R, Hill
three-run third inning. and we’re always im- (7).
Metro, the Class 4A de-
fending champion, won
7-4 to improve to 3-3.
Rejoice Christian
plays 2A baseball,
but like the basket-
ball teams, these boys
play about 70 percent
of their games against
teams from larger clas-
sifications.
The Eagles posted a
7-15 record a year ago,