Las Animas Baseball Falls 4-3 to Monte Vista Despite Servaes' Three-Hit Game

Logan Servaes put together one of the sharper individual efforts of the early season, going 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI at Runyon Field Sports Complex, but the Trojans came up one run short in a 4-3 loss to Monte Vista on Tuesday, March 31.

The final margin captured just how tight the contest was throughout. Five different Las Animas players recorded hits, a sign of real lineup depth that kept the Trojans within striking distance against a Pueblo-area program that entered the non-conference matchup with its own early-season momentum. Monte Vista's pitching and balanced offense, however, proved enough to hold the lead and close out the one-run win at home.

Servaes accounted for the clearest offensive highlight in the defeat. His 3-for-4 night, punctuated by the double, demonstrated the kind of contact-hitting approach that class 2A opponents will have to account for as the Trojans work deeper into their schedule. The four-hit spread from the rest of the Las Animas lineup reinforced that this was a competitive group that manufactured chances, even if situational hitting and late-inning execution ultimately fell short.

Early road tests against programs like Monte Vista serve a specific purpose: they stress pitching depth, expose gaps in defensive resilience, and force situational decisions that league opponents will probe again come postseason time. Tuesday's 4-3 result handed the coaching staff a clear set of film moments to work from.

Las Animas had almost no recovery window. The Trojans hosted Calhan on April 1, the day after the Monte Vista loss, putting bullpen availability and lineup decisions immediately back in focus. That quick turnaround, combined with additional regional opponents filling out the first week of April, means the team's response to the Monte Vista loss will define more of the early record than the loss itself.