Having dominated the competition up until then, The Woodlands baseball team had little response to Klein Oak in the team’s fifth and final game of their varsity tournament.

Panther starting pitcher Tanner Lawson threw a complete game, allowing just one run and one hit over his seven innings of work in a 4-1 Klein Oak victory.

“(Lawson) did a great job out there,” Klein Oak coach Bo Hernandez said. “A pitcher’s job is to keep the batters off balance, and I think that’s what he did.

Klein Oak’s pitcher was close to delivering a shut out before Highlanders Lucas Jensen got home on a fielder’s choice that was hit by Chris Andritsos. The run scored, but a no-hitter was still possible until catcher Zach Gartner singled in the bottom of the seventh. click here for complete story