High School Track
from Coach Benson
The LSA Track team had a successful meet on the Wednesday before Spring Break. Let me thank those who volunteered to help to run the meet. Well run meets are rare in the track world and without your help the meets that we have run this year would not be the success they have been.

The Pioneers won both the boys and the girls meets. The boys score 200 points in the meet outdistancing Cypress Christian who had 158.5 points. The girls scored 170 points to second place First Baptist who scored 134.5 points. There were 13 scoring school in the boys meet and 11 scoring schools in the girls meet.

The boys had 4 individual champions in the meet: Perry Brown in the 200 meters, Marcus Gaitan in the 800 meters, Matthew Gaitan in the 1600 meters, and Braden Leimkuehler in the 110 meter hurdles. The boys set a school record in there win in the 400 meter relay by running 42.89 seconds. The team was made up of AJ Okwonna, Joel Hutchins, Easton Brenner, and Perry Brown.

The girls had 4 individual champions in the meet Thursday night. Ayana Smith had her usual stellar meet with victories in the 100 and 200 meters and by setting her third school record in the Long Jump this year with a leap of 18’4.5”. Rachel Bell won the girls discus. The girls won all three relays: the 400 meter relay team members were, Isla Caudill, Lindsey Witson, Emily Adams, and Ayana Smith. The 800 meter relay team members were, Alaina Pink, Lindsey Witson, Tori Burkett, and Malorie McGee. The 1600 meter relay team members were, Audrey Pfeiffer, Tori Burkett, Alaina Pink, and Malorie McGee.

High School Baseball
from Coach Schneider
Varsity Re-cap:
While Spring Break looked a little different for LSA baseball this year, the Pioneer varsity squad made the most of their “stay-cation” breaking out the brooms in a Thursday afternoon double-header sweep of the Concordia Lutheran Crusaders. The Pioneers received a gem of a game on the mound from starter Luke Harrison and solid bullpen relief from Perry Brown in holding the Crusaders to 2 runs on 3 hits. Harrison finished the game with 9 strikeouts, while Brown picked up the win. Lutheran South would piece together 6 hits in game 1 with four of them coming courtesy of Harrison and Tyler Helpenstill each with two apiece. Christian Melillo (1) and Deundre Jones (2) would provide the RBI power for the Pioneers with Jones driving in the winning run in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the 7th giving the Pioneers a 3-2 win. Game 2 would see the Pioneers fall behind 3-0 over the first two innings of play before igniting some offensive fireworks starting in the 3rd inning. Tyler Ehlinger would lead off with a single and steal second base before Luke Harrison would park a baseball off the right field foul pole for a two-run homerun, his first of the season. Deundre Jones followed with a walk and two stolen bases before scoring on a Christian Melillo sacrifice fly to left field. The Pioneers continued the scoring onslaught in the 5th and 6th innings. In the 5th, it was once again Ehlinger leading off the inning with a big hit, doubling down the left-field line. He would advance to third on a single from Easton Brenner before eventually scoring on a Harrison safety squeeze. Deundre Jones would finish the scoring in the inning driving a two-run homerun to right centerfield to end the frame. In the 6th, the Pioneers would pick up singles from Ehlinger, Harrison, and Tyler Helpenstill before a big-fly homerun from pitcher Nelson Klein. Altogether, the Pioneers would score 12 runs in the contest finishing with three homeruns in a 12-3, game 2 victory. Deundre Jones and Nelson Klein provided the firepower on the mound for LSA with Klein picking up his third win of the season.

Prior to spring break, the Pioneers capped off a 2-0 week with district wins over Frassati Catholic (15-1 & 10-0). The winning streak puts the Pioneers season record at 12-3-1, 4-0 in district play. LSA is back in action Tuesday night at home with a 6:00 PM first pitch against SPC front-runner The Kinkaid School.

JV Re-cap:
Ahead of the Spring Break vacation, the JV went 0-2-1 battling in three tough games against Channelview, Clear Creek, and Dickinson in the Deer Park tournament. The Pioneers would tie the opener against Channelview 1-1 before losing on tournament tie-breaker rules (number of baserunners to reach 3B). LSA would then fall to Clear Creek 6-8 and Dickinson 2-8 over the final two games. LSA received solid starting pitching performances in the tournament from Logan Schmidt, Jaden Bowen, and Roland Aguillon. The Pioneers are 6-5-1 on the season. The JV will be back in action on Friday night in a double-header matchup against The Kinkaid School. Games will be played at 4:30 & 6:30 PM at Lutheran South Academy.

High School Softball
from Coach Andrade
HS Softball played four games over spring break facing Bay Area Christian twice on Friday winning both 16-3 and 14-7. Collecting 12 hits on the day with Gonzalez, Maldonado, and Van Aken all having multiple hits with Gonzalez going 4 for 4 at the plate leading the LSA Pioneers in hits. The Pioneers also played two games on Saturday against IWA winning both 12-4 and 13-4. Clark having five strike outs with one walk. Van Aken, Foret, Lehman, and Maldonado each driving in runs. Koster went yard in for her first homerun of the season. The Pioneers have two district games this week traveling on Tuesday at The Woodlands Christian at 6:00pm and Thursday at Fort Bend Christian 5:00pm.