FLOWER MOUND – In what was expected to be a pitcher’s duel with Euless Trinity’s Wes Engle, Flower Mound senior pitcher Sean Wymer let a one-run lead slip away when Engle homered to left field.

“I just stepped off the mound, refocused, and tried to go back in and do what I do,” Wymer said. 

Wymer, a TCU signee, registered eight of his 10 strikeouts from that point and added a go-ahead RBI double, as the defending state champs pulled away for a 5-2 win in the opener of a three-game series in the Class 6A Region I area round.

“That’s Sean; he’s been that way all year,” Flower Mound coach Danny Wallace said. “He hasn’t given up more than two runs in any game all year. He’s going to pitch well when he has to.”

Wymer’s double in the fifth inning broke the game open. Noah Hill started the inning by reaching on an error, and Wymer’s hit to the left-centerfield wall regained the lead for Flower Mound (27-4). 

 “I thought [the double] gave us some momentum,” Wymer said. “Tried to pump the team up.”

Two batters later, Casey Jacobsen – a BYU signee – drove in Wymer and Jameson Hannah with a single to left field. Pinch runner Trevor Jurecka tacked on the final run of the four-run inning, stealing third base and scoring on an errant throw. Jurecka had four stolen bases on the night.

The game was originally scheduled to be played in Euless, but moved to Flower Mound because of wet conditions on Trinity’s field. Game 2 will be played at Trinity at 7 p.m. Friday, if the field has dried out by the morning. If not, the game will be moved to Plano West for a 3:30 p.m. start.

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