Dallas Morning News
By RANDY JENNINGS
Special Contributor

 

GRAND PRAIRIE — Sean Wymer pitched a three-hit shutout to lead 2014 Class 5A state champion Flower Mound to a 4-0 victory over Keller Timber Creek in the opener of a Class 6A best-of-3, bi-district series Thursday at QuickTrip Park.

Wymer (7-0), a TCU signee, did his best pitching in the sixth inning, when he wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam with strikeouts of Timber Creek’s No. 4 and 5 batters. He finished with 12 strikeouts.

“That was classic Sean Wymer,’’ Jaguars coach Danny Wallace said. “The bigger the moment, the better he gets. I never worried about him for a second.’’

Wymer said when he found himself in the jam, “I just put my head down and went to work.’’

Flower Mound (25-3), which is ranked No. 2 in the state, nursed a 1-0 lead until breaking it open with three runs in the sixth. Timber Creek (14-8-1) lefthander Isaac Schlabach had worked around control problems to take a one-hitter into the inning.

Cleanup hitter Jameson Hannah’s single to center staked Flower Mound to a 1-0 lead in the first after Schlabach walked the game’s first two batters.

In the sixth, Casey Jacobsen’s RBI single, Flower Mound’s third consecutive hit starting the frame, made it 2-0. Sean Holehouse’s followed with a looper that fell in front of centerfielder Anthony Orta to score two more.

Both starting pitchers were backed by splendid defense. Timber Creek catcher Dalton Davies picked a runner off second in the fifth inning. The centerfielders, Orta of Timber Creek and Hannah for Flower Mound, cut down runners trying to go from first to third on singles in the first inning. And Jaguars first baseman Parker Scott took away an extra-base hits from Austin Gage with a headlong diving catch in the fifth.

“That’s routine defense for us,’’ said Wallace.