High School Softball

Cinco Ranch forces third game, but is unable to overcome Heights

By Tyler Tyre, Sports Editor
Posted 5/6/23

“This is just the best program ever and I’m so happy that I was able to be a part of it. I’ve met so many of my best friends and have had so many relationships that will last a lifetime that started right here. I’m just going to miss playing with all these people.”

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High School Softball

Cinco Ranch forces third game, but is unable to overcome Heights

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Cinco Ranch never gave in.

Even down to their final inning, the Cougars were loud, they were supportive, and they never lost any hope.

The Cougars fought to get back in their area round series, tying the series at one a piece on Friday night after losing to Heights on Thursday in the first game of the series. But the Bulldogs came back with a strong game three, beating Cinco Ranch 7-1 as the Cougars season came to an end in the second round of the playoffs.

“We didn’t get the result we wanted but I’m so proud of the girls,” said Cinco Ranch head coach Suzanne Reeve. “They were ready for today, they knew that they would come out and force a game three. The momentum just got away from us in that third game and they were able to pull away. But these girls were so great.”

Chela Kovar was terrific in the first game of the night, allowing just one run in seven innings to earn a win. And she did everything she could to keep Cinco in things in the second game on the mound, but Heights slowly started to pull away.

Heights scored one run in the first inning of the game and then got another in the second from an error. Kovar nearly got out of a jam in the fourth inning, but a strikeout that would have been the third out got past the catcher and the batter reached base, and Heights followed that up with two more runs to take a commanding lead.

“This is just the best program ever and I’m so happy that I was able to be a part of it,” Kovar said. “I’ve met so many of my best friends and have had so many relationships that will last a lifetime that started right here. I’m just going to miss playing with all these people.”

Heights scored three more runs in the top of the sixth to put Cinco in a seven run deficit, and Cinco pulled one run back in the bottom of the sixth when Faith Piper drove in a run with a single, but that was the only run Cinco could get across.

After the game the Cougars seniors lapped the field one final time and put their cleats on home plate. It will be a class that will be missed, as over the course of the past two seasons Cinco Ranch has been able to get past the hurdle of the bi-district round as this group helped pave the way for an underclassman group that will try and build on their legacy. Four players from this years team will graduate this spring, including Kovar, Amanda Croteau, Kendall Bregenzer and Gissel Morales.

“For about eight years we struggled to go past that first round of the playoffs,” Reeve said. “But the past two years we got to the third round and area. We’ve set the precedence for the future classes of this is where we should be now. I told the girls after that they need to take little pieces of those seniors, learn from them and build on it because that is what is going to make our future.”

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