CLASS 4A REGIONAL SEMIFINAL SERIES- CARTHAGE\ BELLVILLE- CARTHAGE WINS SERIES 2 -1

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Lead off for Carthage bunts himself aboard and scores on the sac fly a little later…6-2 mid 7

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Carthage wins 6-2

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High School Baseball Playoffs: Bulldogs bring it all together in 6-2 win over Bellville

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It was one of those games where it all came together for the Carthage Bulldogs baseball team.

Or as Coach Jason Causey said, the team played like their philosophy.

“Our philosophy is pitching and defense, and if you can do those two things you’re going to have a chance to win any game you play,” he said. “That’s us, and if we continue to do that we’ll be pretty good.”

 

The Bulldogs were exceptional.

Todd Register went 3-for-4 at the plate with a double an RBI and two runs scored and Noah Paddie went 2-5 with two RBIs as Carthage defeated Bellville 6-2 in the first game of the best of three 4A regional semifinal series on Thursday night at Lamar University.

Senior Javarian Roquemore got the win on the hill throwing five and 2/3 innings, allowing only two hits, two earned runs, walking five and striking out five. Sophomore reliever Matthew Smith pitched the final two and 1/3 innings to pick up the save. Smith allowed two hits, no runs, no walks and struck out two.

“My fastball and off speed (pitch) at times until it got out of hand at the end,” Roquemore said of what was working on the hill. “But I went right back to my fastball and let them guys play defense, and they held onto it for me.”

Carthage (24-9-2) played a stellar defense turning multiple double plays and didn’t commit a single error in the game. Factor in scoring the first five runs of the game, and positive results seemed destined for the Bulldogs.

“Everybody was hitting tonight,” Register said. “One through nine, drag bunts, singles, doubles. Everybody was seeing it good and barreling it up.”

No. 9 hitter Ty Chambers went 2-4, Braden Smith had two RBI singles, while Roquemore and younger brother Jakerrian Roquemore both singled and scored in the game.

Roquemore gave up a single to Carson Paschel to start the third inning but got the next three Bellville hitters in order. “It takes everybody, and we got hits 1-9 nine tonight,” Paddie said. “If you give a dude like (Roquemore) on the mound five runs to play with, he’s going to be really tough to hit. He could come right at batters and he knows he can give up one or two runs and be OK.”

 

The Bulldogs scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning, when Register and Smith both delivered RBI hits.

Connor Cuff and Javarian Roquemore reached on a walk and hit by pitch, and both ended up scoring. 

Bellville (26-6-1) got both their runs in the bottom of the sixth on a Blake Linseisen two RBI single.

Smith came in the game after Roquemore allowed the single and ended the inning with a strikeout of Paschel.

Causey was proud to see his team get double digit hits in a game, especially in the fourth round of the postseason.

“Offensively we had 10 hits off of a pretty good arm,” he said. “We did enough things offensively to take advantage and get some runs on the board. Played good defense behind both guys — turned a couple of doubles. It was a good win.”

Seeing Register come alive at the plate meant a lot; he had been in a slump —  more so everything he hit was ended up right at somebody.

“Todd has been squaring a lot of balls up since district, and he’s had a lot of tough luck,” Causey said. “He just hadn’t had the results and it’s been frustrating, but we’ve been talking to him about staying with his approach, and eventually some of those were able to fall and they were fortunate enough to fall today.”

Carthage took care of business on Thursday night, and now they will look to close out the series on Saturday against Bellville.

Both teams will return to Lamar University on Saturday at 5 p.m. for Game 2 of the series. If necessary, a Game 3 will take place 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game 2.

Causey will give Braeden Wade the ball as the Bulldogs look to sweep the Brahamas.

“We have to be ready to go, that’s a good ball club,” Causey said of Bellville. “We have to come out throwing strikes, and that start’s with B. Wade. If he comes out and gives us a chance and plays good defense, we’ll have a chance to win. That’s a good team over there, so we have to come out ready to play.”

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Game 2

Bellville 0

Carthage 0 Mid 1st

Bellville gets the first two batters on base and gets a shot to left field but a amazing diving catch by the LF saves two runs

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Game 2

Bellville 0

Carthage 1 End 1st

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Bellville 0

Carthage 1 Mid 2nd

Carthage has a damn good left fielder 

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Bellville 0

Carthage 1 End 2nd

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Bellville 0

Carthage 1 mid 3rd

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Bellville 0

Carthage 4 end 3rd

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Bellville 0

Carthage 4 Mid 5th

Bellville loads the bases 0 outs…. Sends a runner on a shallow fly ball and is thrown out at home for a double play… next batter flys out… that’s frustrating. I understand you need a run but the ball wasn’t deep at all 

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Bellville 0

Carthage 4 Mid 6th

Bellville gets first two batters on with no outs… can’t get anything done after that

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Bellville 0

Carthage 5 End 6th

3 outs to keep the season alive

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Bellville 0

Carthage 5 F takes the series 2-0

Congratulations to Carthage solid team. Hate to see it end for this group of seniors. District champs every year of high school and some decent playoff runs

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1 hour ago, aTmfan06 said:

Bellville 0

Carthage 1 Mid 2nd

Carthage has a damn good left fielder 

His brother is CF and SP from Thursday…they’re both good 

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Just now, wo-s#1 said:

His brother is CF and SP from Thursday…they’re both good 

Yes they are. At the beginning of the school year if someone would’ve told me Carthage would go further in baseball this year than they did in football I would’ve said they were crazy.