Baseball playoffs: Flower Mound edges Allen, Sachse and Byron Nelson roll to blowout wins

Flower Mound logo (SportsDay Staff) Game of the Night Flower Mound’s discipline at the plate paid off with its Game 1 win over Allen, 4-3, to open the bi-district round. After Allen tied the game at 3 in the top of the sixth via a walk with the bases loaded, Flower Mound returned the favor the very next inning with Jackson Sartor earning a bases loaded walk and scoring Parker Brann to take the 4-3 lead. Logan Richards closed things out for Flower Mound in the final frame, sealing the win when a grounder was hit right to him for the third out.

Flower Mound outhit Allen 7-3 in the game. Catcher Grant Plasek had two hits and an RBI. Game 2 is slated for Thursday at Allen at 7 p.

m. RELATED: Final Dallas-area baseball rankings (4/29): Waxahachie on top of 6A, plenty of shakeup in 5A/others Other Area Results: Sachse 14, Rockwall-Heath 4 (Game 1): Sachse rolled Rockwall-Heath in one of the area’s few bi-district series between two ranked teams. Greyson Darden went 4-for-5 at the plate with four RBIs including a two-run single in the top of the second that kickstarted what eventually became a six-run inning.

Heath mounted an early comeback attempt scoring three runs in the bottom of the third thanks to Mick Randle’s two-run double. But a five-run sixth inning pushed the lead to 10. Sachse’s Jacob Ponce and Colt Upchurch combined for six RBIs as well.