EDINBURG – Senior pitchers Sam Street and Matthew Harrell combined to strikeout 11 while allowing five hits in nine innings to propel the White team past the Green team 4-2 in game one of the Green & White World Series on Saturday at Edinburg Baseball Stadium.
 
Street started and pitched the first four innings, allowing one run on two hits and one walk while striking out five, including the last three batters he faced.
 
Harrell pitched the final five innings, allowing one run on three hits and two walks while striking out six, including four of the last five batters he faced.
 
Sophomore Bryan Ramirez paced the White team offensively by going 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
 
The White team jumped on freshman pitcher Andrew Padron in the first inning, as senior Alex Howe and freshman Victor Garcia Jr. led off with singles to put runners on the corners. Senior Alberto Morales followed with a sacrifice fly, and then, after sophomore Jacob Huckabay was plunked, Ramirez reached on an infield-single to load the bases and set-up an RBI-single by junior Jesus Garcia. One out later, senior Andy Fortuna walked to force-in a run and make it 3-0.
 
Padron settled down from there, retiring six of the final seven batters he faced, including a double play to erase the lone base runner. He struck out two in the outing.
 
The White team didn't record another hit until the sixth inning, when Ramirez singled off of freshman Tanner Dickerson, who responded by retiring the next six batters he faced. With two outs in the eighth, however, Ramirez doubled to drive in Huckabay from first to make it 4-2.
 
Dickerson went five innings, allowing one run on two hits and one walk while striking out two.
 
After Street retired the first six Green batters he faced, senior Brandon Roush singled, moved to second on a hit batsman and to third on a sacrifice bunt. Junior Michael Baca then worked a long at-bat before putting a ball in play on the ground with the infield back to score Roush, who finished 2-for-4.
 
Green made it a one-run game in the sixth, when redshirt freshman Bryant Stites led off with a double, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on a sacrifice fly by redshirt freshman Edgar Cordon.
 
Redshirt senior Austin Casas also pitched for Green, throwing a perfect bottom of the ninth after the outcome had already been decided.
 
Game two of the Green & White World Series will take place on Sunday at 9 a.m. If White wins, they will clinch the series and the overall steak series.

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