West Orange-Stark vs. Bridge City Game Thread/WO-S wins/Comments

[BaseBow]

[quote name="jacf" post="991898" timestamp="1301712198"]
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME BRIDGE CITY HAS HAD A .500 RECORD THIS LATE IN THE SEASON.  BILLY!!!!!BILLY!!!!!BILLY!!!!!BILLY!!!!
[/quote]Landry is welcomed on the Nederland staff anyday ;)

[GTBBaseball]

 1st off, Bridge City has had a huge run the past 3 seasons and Chad Landry was the right person hired and the right person for the BC Job, so to go after the coach is unjust.... His program is being humbled some, but to blame him? Im just not seeing it...
His positive impact way outweighs the disappointments of "one week" of baseball.
 Secondly, The Hicks, Robertson factor is in effect right now, in years past Matty and Joseph refused to have bad performances in back to back games, they always responded, and right now in the "2nd season", being district, Bridge City has to have some game to game consistency from impact type players... giving up only 4 runs in a high school game should spell "Wins", but BCity is searching for clutch hitters, something those who have evaluated Bridge City this season, knew would be a concern for them.
 After the Silsbee loss, it somewhat challenged the "Bridge City Tradition of Winning", shook some confidence, and Zane Anderson, who is a pitcher who thrives on hitters aggressiveness and creates frustration was the wrong pitcher at the right time to get after Cardinal-Nation and their somewhat shaky confidence level.
 Didnt we see PNG just go through the same thing? Havent they responded quiet well? Every season has peaks and valleys and you hope your just good enough when you arent playing your A-Game...
 This was West Orange Starks "playoff-type" game after such a challenging season up to this point, and now they are right back in the hunt if they can remain humble....they were much more motivated to find that "feel good" game and Anderson and company responded... If you have yet to see this young man Anderson, after 3 seasons now of over 80% wins as a starting pitcher, not many should be suprised, he said "give me the ball" Im going out and getting us this one...
 If you have yet to figure it out, Baseball IS Mental period and high school kids at times dont know how to recognize how to fix some failures mentally, but Landry is a smart guy, he will figure it out for those kids, real quick.
 The Cards and Landry will right the wrongs and all will be fine in Cardinal country, its just a lil piece of humble pie to a community who has worked hard and been blessed with winning for so so many years and its like an eclipse, it just inevitable that its going to happen every once in a while...its high school sports, wins and losses just tend to balance out over the long haul.

[BaseBow]

Well said coach ;).....GREAAAAAT POST

[BigHawk]

Can someone back up the rumor that darnall is going to Texas state?

[WOSgrad]

I think something that Chris touched on, but which may be kind of hidden is how you can't underestimate the role of momentum, either positive or negative, in high school sports.  I think the results in 21-3A on both the baseball and softball show that this extends not only within the game but from game to game as well. 

This past Tuesday, both in softball and baseball, we saw teams previously undefeated in 21-3A play.  The teams that won those Tuesday contests (Silsbee baseball, Bridge City softball) went to capture their next game.  However, the losing teams (Bridge City baseball, Silsbee softball) went on to drop game to teams that were struggling (4-12 WO-S in baseball and a H-J softball team that was winless in district).  You can probably add PN-G's early district troubles to show the same thing.

I am glad my job performance isn't judged on the achievement of 15-18 year olds!

[setxballpop]

Coach Fack,  great Post!

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I think it was Jacob Finney with the big clutch 2 out 2 rbi hit to win it for the Stangs. Anderson threw a great game for the Stangs.

Lemoine and Guidry aslo threw well, just a clutch hit by Finney.
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His name is Jacoy Finney but you are right it was clutch hit alright.