Faith Academy Flames baseball team headed to the playoffs

• Contributed/ Stennis Shotts Senior Cross Sanchez made sure the Flames exit the field as winners in his final home appearance in the regular season.
• Contributed/ Stennis Shotts Faith Academy freshman pitcher Braxton Blair helped the Flames qualify for the Class 3A postseason of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools.
• Faith Academy freshman pitcher Austin Ellis gave the Flames several quality innings to get them started during the game one win against Round Rock Christian.

A Marble Falls High School athlete is on track towards competing with the best in the region.

Junior Tyler Hamblin is on his way to capturing the wild card of the 3,200 meters at the Class 4A Region III championships April 19 thanks to clocking 9 minutes and 28.04 seconds for a new personal best.

He has the fastest time among the four bronze medalists from the regional meets, which gives him the ninth spot at the Class 4A state meet.

The meet will be conducted at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 2, at Mike Myers Stadium on the University at Texas in Austin campus.

Jennifer Fierro publishes reports about area youth athletic events on her website TexasChalk-Talk.com. To send her a note, email fierrojennifer@yahoo.com.