Hendron’s perfect game stretches Redmond High’s winning streak to 10; Mustangs face Skyline tonight

Redmond High School senior Peter Hendron hurled a perfect game Friday against Eastlake as the Mustangs pulled out a 1-0 win to extend its winning streak to 10 games.

Redmond High School senior Peter Hendron hurled a perfect game Friday against Eastlake as the Mustangs pulled out a 1-0 win to extend its winning streak to 10 games.

The Mustangs improved to 7-4 in the Kingco 4A Crest Division and 10-7 overall. Redmond enters the last week of the regular two games behind division-leading Skyline, which has an 8-2 division record.

The Mustangs look to extend their winning streak to 11 against the Spartans in a key matchup tonight at 6 at Hartman Park.

“To keep it going, we have to continue to play clean defense, execute offensively, and find ways to win the close ballgames because our pitching will keep us in each game,” said Redmond coach Dan Pudwill.

Hendron was dominant from the outset against the Wolves on Friday. Hendron needed only 96 pitches to set down 21 Eastlake batters in order. He struck out 10, did not walk a batter and induced five groundouts and six fly outs.

“Peter’s fastball was dominant and he threw his curveball and change for strikes which kept hitters off balance, disallowing them to catch up to his fastball,” Pudwill said. “Obviously, with no walks, his control was fantastic.”

The Redmond offense was held scoreless through six innings before plating a run in the top seventh inning with two outs. Junior Brent Firth blooped a single center to start the rally. From there, pinch-runner Max Hicok stole second and moved to third on a seeing-eye single from sophomore pinch-hitter Kyle Francis. Brando Bruditt drew a walk and loaded the bases before Cody Beliel was hit by a pitch to walk in the go-ahead run.

Hendron set down the Wolves in order in the bottom of the seventh to complete the perfect game.