Drought Ending Victory
Seven Lakes conquers Cinco Ranch to earn first playoff trip since 2014
Dennis Silva II
Nov 15, 2018, 5:00 am
Seven Lakes, on a night when all odds seemed against it, thrived. Vype
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The players that needed to win a do-or-die game, against a team they had never beaten, to get into the playoffs for the first time since they stepped onto campus were loose and relaxed.
No pressure, the Seven Lakes Spartans assured.
Then, they went out and proved it.
Seven Lakes dismissed Cinco Ranch 40-10 on Friday night at Legacy Stadium in a win-or-go-home game for both teams in each’s regular season finale. The Cougars struck first a little more than halfway through the first quarter, but the Spartans rolled thereafter, using a hard-hitting, playmaking defense and big-play offense to secure their first playoff berth since 2014 and Jimmy Hamon’s first postseason as a head coach in his initial year at the helm.
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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.