Win over Cashion part of 4-0 start for Dover

Dover capped a whirlwind week last Friday with its biggest non-playoff win in the Pete Voth era.

Trypp Lack pitched a complete-game gem and delivered the winning hit and was responsible for every run as the Longhorns beat visiting Cashion 3-2.

The Wildcats are the reigning Class 2A-1 state champs and entered the game ranked second in the class.

They took the loss despite Kyle Yowell and Ryder Lykins combining for 14 strikeouts in the game.

Yowell accounted for 11 of those, but he exited the mound after 5 1/3 innings of work trailing 2-1.

Brian Nabavi’s groundout in the third inning drove home Ryker Johnson to give Cashion a 1-0 advantage.

That stuck until Lack the hitter gave Lack the pitcher a boost in the bottom of the fourth inning.

After Bryce Cockayne led off with a single, Lack homered to center to put the Longhorns up 2-1.

Down to their final two outs, the Wildcats kept themselves in it in the top of the seventh.

Johnson slapped a oneout double to left and scored on Kellen Smith’s double in the next at-bat.

With the Wildcats threatening, Lack coaxed a strikeout and a groundout to get out of the frame with the scored knotted at 2-2.

Daxx Compton and Brok Cooper led off the bottom of the seventh with singles.

After a strikeout, Cockayne was walked to load the bases.

That’s when Lack delivered the walkoff hit as Compton crossed home.

Lykins took the loss as he gave up 3 hits and 1 earned run in his inning of work. He also struck out three batters. Yowell surrendered four hits and two earned runs and didn’t walk a batter.

Johnson, batting in the nine-hole, was 2 for 3 with 2 runs scored for the Wildcats.

Lack went all 7 innings for the Longhorns, surrendered 5 hits and 1 earned run.

He struck out 10 and walked two.

Lack was 2 for 4 at the plate with 3 RBIs and a run scored.

Cockayne was 2 for 3 while Compton went 1 for 3 and scored once.

Cashion dropped to 1-1 with the loss.

Dover, which is coming off a fall season in which it qualified for the Class B state tournament, moved to 4-0.

The Longhorns also got a 6-5 walkoff win over Oklahoma Bible Academy on Friday.

Down a run entering the bottom of the seventh, Brennan Fletcher got on board with a one-out walk.

Ivan Ruiz followed with a double which brought home Fletcher from first to tie it up.

Kyler Williams was inserted to run for Ruiz and he scored the game winner when Hunter Miller reached on an error in center field.

That gave Casen Buck the win as he pitched 5 innings of relief, surrendered 5 hits and an unearned run. He struck out 6 while walking 3.

Buck was also 1 for 2 at the plate and scored twice.

Those wins came one day after the Longhorns, ranked sixth in Class B, downed Timberlake 8-3 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.

Dover opened the season Tuesday, just three days after winning the Class B-II basketball state championship, by upending Class A-II’s fourth-ranked Pioneer 7-5.