By Keith Thompson. HEATH – On the heels of another very successful season of Heath Hawk baseball, post-season awards and recognition have continued to come in for the talented Hawk duo of Jovan Hernandez (left) and Jake Thompson. The two, through outstanding hitting and pitching, carried the Hawks to the Region II finals for the [...]

Rockwall-Heath’s Jovan Hernandez tied a 21-year-old state high school baseball hitting streak record Friday morning at 42 games with a second-inning double in the Hawks season-opening, 6-0 win over Del Valle in the Waco ISD baseball tournament. But third baseman Hernandez will have to settle for sharing the record with Orangefield’s Jeff Granger, who set [...]

The Dallas Morning News. Player of the Year. JOVAN HERNANDEZ, 3B, Rockwall-Heath, Sophomore. (Photo from HeathHawksbaseball.com) Baseball is defined by numbers. They are associated with every aspect of the game. Innings. Outs. Hits. Runs. Errors. And individual statistics. The raw data don’t lie. And in Jovan Hernandez’s case they tell the whole story, capturing the [...]

HIGHLAND PARK-Oklahoma signee Drew VerHagen homered for the second straight game and drove in four runs as Rockwall-Heath overpowered District 10A rival Highland Park, 17-10, in the first game of their best-of-three game Class 4A Region II quarterfinal series Thursday night at Highland Park. The Scots led, 3-0, and Rockwall-Heath then scored 10 consecutive runs to pull away. Drew Benefield [...]