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When the names Ally Batenhorst and Morgan Janda are thrown around in conversation, it usually pertains to volleyball.
The duo helped get Seven Lakes to the UIL State Volleyball Tournament two years ago and this past season made another deep run in the playoffs. But this spring, the pair is showing off their hops on the track.
Batenhorst and Janda both have qualified for the regional track meet after finishing third and second, respectively, on Thursday in the event.
"I started high jumping in seventh grade and I was not very good because I was really short," Janda said. "Once I got into high school I grew some more and got better at it.
"Track is definitely way different than volleyball, because it's individual. Volleyball is all team all the time."
Janda is signed to Sam Houston State for volleyball but will also be high jumping there as well.
"That's one of the main school's I've been talking to since the eighth grade," Janda said. "Then they found out I could high jump too and they said they'd let me."
For Batenhorst, high jumping has been a part of her routine ever since getting into high school.
The highly touted volleyball recruit – already verbally committed to Nebraska – sees the advantages to doing this in the offseason of her high school season.
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Oswald Peraza hit a two-run single in the ninth inning to help the Los Angeles Angels snap a three-game losing skid by beating the Houston Astros 4-1 on Saturday night.
Peraza entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning and hit a bases-loaded fly ball to deep right field that eluded the outstretched glove of Cam Smith. It was the fourth straight hit off Astros closer Bryan Abreu (3-4), who had not allowed a run in his previous 12 appearances.
The Angels third run of the ninth inning scored when Mike Trout walked with the bases loaded.
Kyle Hendricks allowed one run while scattering seven hits over six innings. He held the Astros to 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, the one hit coming on Jesús Sánchez’s third-inning infield single that scored Jeremy Peña.
Reid Detmers worked around a leadoff walk to keep the Astros scoreless in the seventh, and José Fermin (3-2) retired the side in order in the eighth before Kenley Jansen worked a scoreless ninth to earn his 24th save.
Houston’s Spencer Arrighetti struck out a season-high eight batters over 6 1/3 innings. The only hit he allowed was Zach Neto’s third-inning solo home run.
Yordan Alvarez had two hits for the Astros, who remained three games ahead of Seattle for first place in the AL West.
Key moment
Peraza’s two-run single to deep right field that broke a 1-1 tie in the ninth.
Key Stat
Opponents were 5 for 44 against Abreu in August before he allowed four straight hits in the ninth.
Up next
Astros RHP Hunter Brown (10-6, 2.37 ERA) faces RHP José Soriano (9-9, 3.85) when the series continues Sunday.