Sealy

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.

Both Sealy Tiger track teams earned first place at the Area Championship hosted at T.J. Mills Stadium last Wednesday. 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 soccer team lost a 2-0 lead over the Splendora Wildcats within 4:13 in the final minutes of regulation and was eliminated in the regional semifinals in its first fourth-round appearance in program history by a 3-2 score last Tuesday evening at Cy Park High School.

The Sealy Tiger baseball team closed the first round of play within District 24-4A with a 5-0 win over Navasota last Friday at Aubrey “Mutt” Stuessel Stadium and improved its record to 4-1. Sealy’s senior starting pitcher Rhys Reichardt allowed only two hits and struck out eight Rattler batters over the course of his complete-game shutout.

Greater Sealy Little League action is in full swing and there were Muckdogs, Hot Rods and Tigers running wild April 8 at Mark A. Chapman Park. PHOTOS BY AMANDA LUKSHA