For the fourth year in a row these two teams will meet up on Opening Day of Texas High School Baseball, the Silsbee Tigers and Nederland Bulldogs. This year the game will be played in Silsbee at the Tiger Diamond with the JV starting at 4:30 and the Varsity starting at 7:00. The Bulldogs own a 2-1 record in those meeting winning in 2018 5-0 and winning 2-1 last year holding off the Tigers in the last inning. The Tigers won in 2019 4-2 in come from behind fashion in the last innings. Looking forward to an exciting game tonight at the Tiger Diamond. TigerNation!!!
Makes me wonder, also. I wanted to see this new crop of Tigers this year in person, but with the live streaming I didn't have to worry. I prefer games in person and a Silsbee game is fun to watch. I go way back to watching the Tigers at McDonald Gym and Beaumont Civic Center playing teams like Hebert and then the games with Lincoln and then on to HJ.
I think Silsbee was starting to really coming together before that quarantine. We beat Lumberton by double digits and handled everything WOS threw at us plus double digit wins over the rest of district. Now, can we get that continuity back, we had, to get ready for a strong playoff run. This young Silsbee team can do good things. I would love to play HJ or Huffman in the playoffs, that means we are right where we need to be and right where we thought we’d be. TigerNation!!!
Maybe not being able to go to games has slowed the chatter down. Maybe the haters for some teams have gotten a soft heart because of the pandemic. Maybe teams are not dominant as years past. Maybe there just not that much to talk about. Maybe it’s just a small trend. Ok, I’m running out of maybes.
I think it was done ok (as far as number of positions picked). In our district, 11-4A D2, you have a several different offenses and several different defenses and you have to compensate for such. Offense 1QB, 1FB, 4RB, 5WR, 5OL, 1K, 1KR. Defense 4DL, 3ILB, 4OLB, 4CB, 3S, 1P, 1PR.