Bridge City and West Orange-Stark baseball lose Friday. BC softball stays undefeated.
Bobcats beat Mustangs
OF 0 1 0 0 3 1 0- 5
WOS 0 1 0 0 0 0 0- 1
The Orangefield Bobcats are still hunting a playoff berth. Friday night at Ronnie Anderson Park the Bobcats pulled off their second upset of the district with a 5-1 victory over the West Orange-Stark Mustangs who were tied for first place coming into the game.
Orangefield opened the district with a win over one of the preseason favorites the Silsbee Tigers. The Bobcats have a bye next Tuesday and will try to make it two in a row when they play at home on Friday night against the winless Hamshire-Fannett Longhorns.
Pitcher Josh Chandler deserves the bulk of the accolades allowing just one run in the complete game victory. He scattered seven hits, walked four, hit a batter, but struck out 11 Mustangs including three in the seventh inning. Chandler also drove in the Bobcats first run of the game in the second.
That second inning started with a single from Brett Fregia. Andrew Hoyland batting next faked a bunt and swatted the ball to the left side past Mustang third baseman Ryan Ragsdale who charged looking for the bunt. Shortstop Payton Robertson fielded the ball deep in the hole, but his hurried throw skipped past first baseman Kaleb Ramsey allowing Fregia and Hoyland to get two bases on the play.
Ryan Deutsch drew a one-out walk from Jack Dallas to load the bases. Chandler hit a grounder to second base. The throw home was low and bounced past the catcher allowing Fregia to score and give Orangefield a 1-0 lead.
The Mustangs tied it in the bottom of the second. B. B. Tezeno and Tre Bernard both lined one-out singles to left. Ramsey flew out to deep right center. Tezeno tagged and went to third. When the throw from the outfield went to second base to keep Bernard from advancing Tezeno kept right on motoring around third and scored standing up.
West Orange-Stark just missed an opportunity to go ahead in the third. Chad Dallas walked with one out and his brother Jack followed with a double to the centerfield fence. With runners at second and third Ragsdale came to bat. The Bobcat third basemen Fregia was playing close to the bag to keep Chad from getting too big of a lead. On the first pitch Ragsdale ripped a bullet down the line that was ticketed for two runs batted in, but Fregia snared it and took two steps over to third base for an unassisted double play to snuff out the threat by the Mustangs.
The game remained tied until the top of the fifth. Blake Bradley started the inning with a walk. He went to second on an errant pickoff by Jack Dallas. Payton Lathrop tried to bunt him to third, but Jack got off the mound quickly and threw to Ragsdale at third who put the tag on Bradley.
A balk moved Lathrop to second base. Orangefield then got successive singles from Johnny Armstrong, Dylan Anthony, Fregia, and Hoyland to score three runs and chase Dallas from the mound. Robertson relieved Dallas to stop the bleeding, but not until the Bobcats went ahead 4-1.
Bradley scored the final run in the sixth after he walked again. Lathrop drove him home with a double to left center field.
Tuesday West Orange-Stark will try to bounce back at Hamshire-Fannett against the Longhorns. The Mustangs do not want to be found guilty of looking ahead against the last place ‘Horns because next Friday night the Mustangs play at home against the Bridge City Cardinals.
-Dan Perrine, KOGT-
The Silsbee Tigers gave their fans their moneys worth this week with two come from behind wins, including a 4-3 win over the first place Bridge City Cardinals in 8 innings Friday. Tuesday they needed 8 innings to come back and beat Hamshire-Fannett.
Down 3-1 in the bottom of the 6th, Silsbee scores twice off Tod McDowell to tie the game at three. And in the eighth with Kyle Bergeron in relief, the Cardinals get an error by the first baseman Austin Fitts, a hit batter and a walk to load the bases, and then a passed ball to score the winning run.
BC outhit Silsbee 11-7 but also left 11 on base. Caleb Dubois had 3 hits for the Cards and Bergeron, Fitts, and Tanner Doiron had two each.
Silsbee overcame five errors in the victory. Travis Sundgren pitched the first 5 innings and Ethan Dunn the final three.
HJeff 5 HFannett 4 (10)
PNG 6 Lumberton 4
BASEBALL
24-4A
Silsbee 7-2
WOS 6-2
BC 6-2
H-Jeff 5-4
LCM 3-5
OF 3-6
H-F 0-9
SOFTBALL
OF 17 WOS 0 (3) – HR’s by Kaylee Ancelot and Autumn Frost
BC 9 Silsbee 5 – Wilbur WP, 2-4 3RBI; Kaufman 1-4, 3RBI; Thibodaux 2-4, RBI
Vidor 8 Lumberton 0
HJeff 6 HFannett 1
SOFTBALL
24-4A
BC 9-0
Silsbee 7-3
H-J 7-3
LCM 5-5
OF 5-6
HF 1-9
WOS 0-10
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