Bees Reclaim Top Spot in League in 15-4 Win

MESQUITE, Texas – Dallas College Eastfield's No. 3-ranked baseball team regained sole possession of first place in the Dallas Athletic Conference after scoring a big win Wednesday and getting some help from a league foe.

Eastfield beat Dallas College Mountain View, 15-4, Wednesday to open a three-game series. Coupled with Dallas College North Lake's 6-3 win over No. 6 Dallas College Richland, the Harvester Bees reclaimed the top spot in the league on its own. Eastfield (39-11, 20-5 DAC) and Richland (33-16, 19-6) entered the day tied at the top of the league.

The Harvester Bees, who will finish the penultimate league series with two games at Mountain View Friday and Saturday, scored five runs in the first inning and four more in the second to take a lead the Lions could not recover from.

Jacob Prokarym (7-2) went five innings, allowing seven hits, two runs and a walk, and struck out five in the victory. Ryan Johnston struck out all three batters he faced in the seventh to seal the deal.

Garret Hendricks went 3-for-4 with three runs batted in, and Aubrey Whitehead doubled twice, walked twice, had two stolen bases, and drove in three runs on a day he was 2-for-2. Billy Spratt was 1-for-3 with two RBI. Trenton McGee had two RBI.

Johnny Toups was 2-for-3, and Zeke Velasquez went 3-for-4 with a double, home run and two RBI for the Lions, who matched the Bees with 11 hits.

Payton Poole's RBI double to center field in the first gave the Harvesters a 3-0 lead. Whitehead doubled to right two pitches later to drive in Poole. One inning later, Whitehead drove a ball to right for a two-run double that padded the lead to eight runs.

Velasquez's solo homer to left on the second pitch in the fourth to put Mountain View on the board. After John Jackson walked with the bases loaded and McGee's sacrifice fly to center put the Bees ahead by 10 in the fourth, Toups scored on a wild pitch in the next inning to make it 11-2.

Eastfield picked up a pair of two-run singles in the bottom of the sixth to push the lead to 15-2. Spratt's two-run single to center and Hendricks' two-run single to right was all the scoring the Bees needed the rest of the way. The Lions used a single by Anthony Winters to score Toups and Velasquez's RBI double to left to cut into the deficit in the seventh, but Johnston came on to strike out the next three batters to end the game.

The Harvesters have won five of their last six.