The Dallas Morning News. The result was so sudden, so unexpected and so resounding no one could have seen it coming. In the aftermath of Frisco Wakeland’s 12-3 victory over Rockwall-Heath in the Class 4A Region II final Saturday, both teams were in shock. In less than three hours, Rockwall-Heath, ranked first in at least [...]
By J.J. Smith. The nation’s top-ranked high school baseball team didn’t look like it last night. For only the second time this year, the Rockwall-Heath Hawks (39-2) were defeated – actually clobbered – by a revved-up Frisco Wakeland (39-10) squad, 14-6, in the first of their best-of-three-game series for the Class 4A Region II championship. [...]
By J.J. Smith (James Baune photo by In Focus Photography). The Class 4A Region II Baseball Championship series between the nation’s top prep baseball team, Rockwall-Heath (39-1), and Frisco Wakeland (29-10) will begin tomorrow at Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco at 7:30 pm. The Ballpark is the home of the Frisco Roughriders minor league baseball [...]
By J.J. Smith (In Focus Photography photo). For the third time in a row USA Today newspaper named Rockwall-Heath the number one high school baseball team in the nation in their Super 25 Index May 27. The Hawks top-ranking came as a result of their string of 37 straight victories, two recent playoff wins over [...]
By J.J. Smith. Playing a playoff double-header yesterday, the nation’s top-ranked Rockwall-Heath baseball team finally lost their first game of the season to Cleburne, 4-3, but came back in the final game of their best-of-three-game series to defeat Cleburne 6-2, advancing to the Class 4A Region II Finals. The Hawks had already beaten Cleburne Thursday [...]
By J.J. Smith. The nation’s top-ranked, undefeated Rockwall-Heath Hawks baseball team took advantage of two Cleburne errors last night and won their 38th straight game, 4-1, in the first of their best-of-3-game Class 4A Region II semifinal series at Cleburne. All of the Hawks’ runs came in the fourth inning. After Jovan Hernandez cracked an [...]
By J.J. Smith. James Baune (pictured above, courtesy of In Focus Photography) struck out seven in 5 1/3 shutout innings, Trevor Holland went 2-for-3 with two RBI doubles and Jovan Hernandez smacked a two-run homer as undefeated Rockwall-Heath won its 37th straight game last night, shutting out Carrollton Newman Smith in a one-game playoff in [...]
By J.J. Smith. After Rockwall-Heath’s first 10 batters reached base, the undefeated top-ranked team in the nation went on to destroy Dallas Kimball last night, 18-3, in a 5-inning shortened game on the rain-soaked field in Heath, sweeping the playoff series and advancing to the next round. They beat Kimball (17-12) Thursday night, 9-0. The [...]
By J.J. Smith. Jovan Hernandez pitched and hit the nation’s top-ranked, undefeated Rockwall-Heath baseball team – according to USA TODAY – to a 9-0 shut out of Dallas Kimball (17-11) last night in the first game of the best-of-3 series. The sophomore struck out eight and allowed just one hit in six innings. One of [...]
By J.J. Smith (Photo of James Baune by In Focus Photography). Rockwall-Heath’s undefeated boys baseball team (34-0) was ranked no. 1 in the nation for the second time in a row today in USA TODAY’S “Super 25″ high school ratings. Since first being ranked at no. 1 two weeks ago, the Hawks have torn apart [...]
