Oak Ridge baseball still in state hunt

The Oak Ridge baseball team extended its stellar playoff run last week, eliminating Lake Travis in three games in the regional quarterfinals.

The War Eagles won 3-1 and 2-0 in eight innings after dropping the opener 13-0.

Next up for the Eagles is a showdown with Dallas Jesuit in a best-of-three Region II-6A semifinals series.

Game 1 is 7 p.m. Thursday at Rice, Game 2 at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Dallas Baptist, and Game 3, if necessary, is 10 a.m. Saturday at Dallas Baptist.

Jacory Boudreaux picked up the Game 3 win against Lake Travis.

The junior pitcher held Lake Travis to five hits through seven scoreless innings for a complete-game victory.

Nicholas Calderaro supplied the first run with a two-out RBI single in second inning.

Tyler Davis, who scored the run, made it a 2-0 lead with a triple to plate Michael Lawson in the fifth inning. Cooper sends four along

The John Cooper School recently recognized four senior athletes who will compete in college with a signing ceremony.

Parents, faculty, coaches and teammates joined interim athletic director Scott Holland to honor the student-athletes.

“We are very proud of these athletes and their accomplishments at Cooper and look forward to following their college athletic careers,” Holland said in a release.

Cross Austin signed with Sam Houston State, where he plans to play baseball while pursuing a degree in business management, and Sydney Shannon, a National Merit Commended Scholar, will swim at the University of Rochester in New York, where she’ll also major in biomedical engineering.

National Merit Finalist Taylor Sloop will represent the Harvey Mudd College softball team in Claremont, Calif., while also studying engineering and dance, and Carolyn Covington is headed to Miami to cheer and study neuroscience and psychology.