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OF will be pretty good if Q. Evans (D1 baseball recruit) keeps playing..heard he might not be??

Estacado, Pleasant Grove, Jasper and Giddings advance.

congrats Rebels!

[quote name="East TX" post="809507" timestamp="1275760561"] Giddings won the second came 3-1 and going to the Final Four---from the unconfirmed report that I heard. [/quote] Looks like they have good pitching and play defense.

Should be coming soon!  :)

Good season Bobcats! Yall gave it your all! I know how the OF fans feel to lose players like Jace and Jacob who have represented OF so well the past 4 years, Good luck Seniors. Get em' Dawgs  ;D

[quote name="RaiderPower" post="809373" timestamp="1275705465"] So what does 261 mean? [/quote] Miles to Austin

Thanks!

anyone have any updates on the series? They won last night 4-1, and they played at 1:00 today so they are either the first team to advance to state or gonna be playing a 3rd game tommorrow.

[quote name="mffl" post="809058" timestamp="1275654490"] Ben Wells is going to SFA. [/quote] Bummer.

1. WOS 2. BC 3. Silsbee 4. OF 5. HF 6. HJ

Brainfart!!!!! Meant to say Jasper scored all 5 runs in 2cd

[quote name="NorthoftheBorder" post="808457" timestamp="1275509874"] Any updates on where young Ben is on his decision? [/quote] And AJ Dugat.

Cool!

Well since their JV could have beaten most of the varsity teams last year I think they will win state  8)

I thought Texas and Florida had interest in Roberts. Will Garrett play QB in college or turn DB like most WOS QBs?

Go Orangefield!

Is Matt going to play P and SS in college? and does anyone know what pos. Kellogg will play?

[quote name="Gabe" post="808222" timestamp="1275427279"] Bring back the curls matt! Lol [/quote] I agree lol

[quote name="GingerSnap" post="808185" timestamp="1275423359"] Shaggy hair?   ;D [img][Hidden Content]] [img][Hidden Content]] [/quote] Wow! Thanks so much lol Is the first pic from High School or pony?

[quote name="Critter" post="808083" timestamp="1275408291"] 2 of the best players I have ever seen in HS baseball...  Even with all of the talent BC puts out each year.  Also, very impressed with Parkers bat, very patient hitter. Is Parker going to play college ball? [/quote] Texarkana, I believe. The article was from 2006..just showing some appreciation for how good Hicks has been all 4 years.

[quote name="bobbymcgee" post="808025" timestamp="1275365734"] why did he leave Bridge City? [/quote] He didn't leave volunterally. He is a great coach, just look at his record. but some people in BC didn't like him because his personality, I never figured out why that mattered.

On a warm afternoon like this, with the stakes so high on a stage so bright, some high school pitchers might have wished they'd taken up knitting. Or maybe cheerleading. Gardening. Underwater basket-weaving. Anything but standing on the mound Saturday at Vincent-Beck Stadium, with their teams' fate in their hands, with a trip to the Class 3A state tournament on the line and their hearts racing faster than a Mustang. In the decisive Game 3 of this regional final series, Jasper put its faith in a left-hander who'd already thrown the day before. Bridge City put its faith in a freshman. Years from now, Justin Parsons won't remember the pain brought from pitching 10 innings in less than 24 hours. Years from now, Matt Hicks won't remember the pain that comes from rising above all reasonable expectations, then walking off the diamond with only a loss to show for it. Everyone might remember how the Bulldogs piled on top of Parsons after they clinched a 2-1 victory in front of a raucous crowd Saturday. But more than anything, the two pitchers will both remember the show they put on during the biggest baseball game of the year in Southeast Texas. Hicks, a freshman, calmly lasted 5 2/3 innings for the Cardinals, allowing five hits while striking out five. Of the two runs he allowed, only one was unearned; it came in the first inning after two errors. Bottom line: It wasn't Hicks' fault the Cardinals lost. It wasn't the first time Hicks had to deliver in the clutch. He had started Game 3 of the Cardinals' area-round series against Wharton, and he didn't disappoint, allowing two runs over 6 1/3 innings of a Bridge City win. "He did a great job," Cardinals coach Billy Bryant said. "He's a special player, and he'll be good for Bridge City for a long time." Then there was Parsons. The night before, he had merely thrown three innings in the Bulldogs' Game 2 loss. He told his coach, Shawn Mixon, he would go again Saturday until he couldn't go any longer. "If we had to use all four of our pitchers, we were gonna use all four of our pitchers," Mixon said. "Parsons wouldn't let that happen." Parsons calmly lasted all seven innings on the big stage in Game 3, allowing one run on five hits. He struck out four, walked one and only allowed two runners to reach third base after the second inning. "The thing about Justin (is that) he's really comfortable out there," Jasper catcher Blake Weller-Alexander said. "He doesn't let pressure get to him." Pressure? Are you kidding? All that rested on this game was a trip to state. Fantasies came true for the winning players, who left the stadium as local heroes and got more hugs than a sensitivity trainer. As for the players in the other dugout, they had to agonize over all the little moments that left them short. Then there was the stage. Some 2,126 fans showed up in Vincent-Beck Stadium for Thursday night's Game 1 - more than for times the average crowd for a Lamar home game (484) and almost twice the size of Lamar's biggest draw of the year against Rice (1,312). "It doesn't surprise me at all," ticket taker Debbie Long said Friday. "I expected about 3,000 here, because high school sports always draw well. ... It's just a shame the (Lamar) Cardinals couldn't draw as well. They play some really good baseball." Saturday's crowd wasn't quite as large, but it still filled most of the seats in Vincent-Beck. And at times, both teams played like they might have suffered a case of stagefright. They combined for 20 errors over 21 innings - and that doesn't include the handful of other mental lapses, be they on the bases and in the batter's box. Meanwhile, with everyone else's nerves melting in the heat, Hicks and Parsons showed all the emotion of a tax collector. "We were just relaxed," Parsons said. "When they scored their one run, I was thinking, 'Well, they're not going to score any more.' " Luckily for him, Jasper did score one more, breaking a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the sixth. It came after Hicks, a freshman, probably should have been out of the inning. With one out and a runner on third, Bridge City failed to turn a double play because Chase Warner's throw from first to third wound up plunking second baseman Troy Bolton instead. In a series with plenty of freakish plays, it was the freakiest of them all. It also allowed John Bradley to come to the plate and get an RBI single off of Hicks, a freshman. One other thing: On a day that would have wrecked even the steeliest big-league pitcher (see: Clemens, Roger), Hicks allowed just one walk. Did we mention he was a freshman? That was a sensation Parsons already knew something about. "He's been pitching varsity games since he was a freshman," Weller-Alexander said. "Most freshmen really crack. He doesn't. I give him full props on that." As the sun dropped closer toward the horizon Saturday, both teams headed for their buses. The Cardinals went home for the offseason, while the Bulldogs went home to a party. The day belonged to Jasper. But only two people owned the pitcher's mound

Dont see it happening.

LCM and Ned will need Freshmen Carson Raines and James Swan to take their spots.