The varsity baseball season came to a close in the area round, much earlier than the team had hoped.
The Cougars won the first game Friday night 7-2 but lost the first game Saturday 6-5, and then were leading 3-2 in the bottom of the 7th with one out when the Santa Fe 9-hole hitter hit a two-run homerun to end the season for the Cougars.
“It was a brutal ending, we did the best we could but fell short,” Casey Smith said.
The team is graduating nine seniors and has 13 returning varsity players. There is also a strong group moving up to varsity next year.
“There’s good returning leaders for next year, and I’m looking forward to going and playing college ball now,” Braeden Holub said.
It was a great season for Tomball varsity baseball, which finished 26-6 and advanced deep into the playoffs in what many were expecting to be a rebuilding year.
While the players were not able to repeat as state champions, they still finished as district and bi-district champs.