By Mike Kravk

On Saturday May 12, Plano East and Colleyville-Heritage played the third game of a best of three series in the second round of the 2012 baseball playoffs at McKinney Boyd High School. The winner of the game would win the series, become Area Champions and move on to Regional Quarterfinals.

Heritage entered the second round of the playoffs with a gaudy 27-4 record and the number seven ranking in the state. Heritage won District 6-5A with a 15-1 record and swept Midlothian in the first round of the playoffs. The Heritage team strength was very simple, they bludgeoned the baseball.

Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh headline a stellar field of former champions and international stars that will be on hand at the 2012 HP Byron Nelson Championship to help celebrate the 100^th anniversary of Byron Nelson’s birth.  Mickelson returns for the first time since 2007; Els for the first time since 2006. For the complete field list, click here.

They will be joined by a number of other Nelson champions, including defending champion Keegan Bradley, Rory Sabbatini, Scott Verplank and Brett Wetterich. The field also includes several international standouts, including South African Louis Oosthuizen and Irishman Padraig Harrington, both of whom will make their first career starts at the tournament.

By Dic Humphrey

– Friday night’s much anticipated dream pitching match-up between C. J. Wilson for the Angels facing essentially the man that replaced him in Texas – Yu Darvish, was knocked out of the box with bad weather.  26 minutes into the game, the skies opened with a humongous downpour that halted play for almost two hours (1:56 officially).  Darvish returned when the game resumed, but Wilson did not, foiling the head to head matchup.

Around the rain delay, Texas took charge of the game with a six run first inning and went on to win 10-3.  Wilson was the losing pitcher and his ERA rose from 2.61 to 3.36.  Darvish pitched into the sixth inning to take the win.  Josh Hamilton continued his torrid hitting by clubbing two more home runs to bring this WEEK’s total to eight.  Texas banged out 15 hits in total, which included a home run from first baseman Mitch Moreland, his fourth.  Moreland now has four times as many home runs this season as Angels’ first baseman Albert Pujols.