The Bridge City Cardinals held off the Orangefield Bobcats 2-0 to wrap up the district title, the 26th in schools history.
The Cards scored both runs in the third. Mason Gonzales walked Schuyler Thibodaux and balked him to second. An error on the first pitch to Justyn Romero scored Ryan Ellis who was courtesy running for Thibodaux. Gavin Green then drove in Romero with a base hit. Johnny Armstrong replaced Gonzales in the fourth and kept BC off the board.
The Bobcats had their chances, leaving six on base in the first three innings. Winning pitcher Caleb Dubois started the game for BC and Jacob Goodman came in in the fourth and shut the Bobcat bats down, giving up one infield hit, and one walk while striking out six.
BC (21-7) got two hits from Logan Hamm, a double from Thibodaux, and singles from Dubois, Green and Cameron Yadon. For OF Gonzales and Brett Fregia had two hits apiece.
It was BC’s third shutout in a row and their tenth of the season. Both teams will begin postseason play next week.
LCM celebrated Senior Night, honoring L to R: Reid Sapperstein, John Beeson, Reagan Burdette, Michael Lee, Slade Green, Truman Franklin, Chris Bilbo, and Hunter Hooks.
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears secured second place in district with a decisive thumping of the Hamshire-Fannett Longhorns on Tuesday night. The Bears won 14-3 at Don Gibbens Field.
The Bears scored in all four innings they batted with the big outburst coming in the fourth when LC-M scored eight runs to take an 11-run lead. The Longhorns were retired in order in the fifth to invoke the 10-run rule.
The scoring started early for Little Cypress-Mauriceville (8-2) as the Bears tallied three in the first. Jordan Alexander led off with a double. Michael Lee walked, and Truman Franklin singled to drive Alexander home. Lee scored on a hit by Chris Bilbo, and Franklin scored on a wild pitch.
Hamshire-Fannett answered with a run in the second against Bears’ starting pitcher Taylor Gilbert who was relieved by Reagan Burdette. The Bears responded with back-to-back doubles from John Beeson and Alexander to start the bottom of the second to go back up by three runs.
The Longhorns got two more runs in the third aided by a couple of ground balls that the Bears fielded but failed to retire any of the base runners. Burdette got a clutch strike out with one out and the bases loaded before gloving a comebacker to retire Dustin Porter Hamshire-Fannett’s leadoff batter to end the inning with LC-M still up by one 4-3.
LC-M got a little cushion on that lead thanks to a two-out, two-run single by Beeson in the bottom of the third to put the Bears up by three. Beeson’s line drive to center scored Bilbo and Slade Green who had reached on a walk and a hit-by-pitch before being bunted up a base by Burdette.
The eight-run fourth included only four hits by the Bears. Longhorn pitching walked four batters and hit three more. The first big blow was a bases clearing double by Bilbo to make the score 9-3. Lee closed out the scoring with a screamer off the left field fence that missed a homerun by maybe a couple of feet to drive home Beeson and Alexander.
Burdette earned the victory for LC-M. He pitched 2 1/3 innings allowing two runs only one earned with two strikeouts and two walks. Thayne Toomey pitched the fifth inning and retired all three batters he faced.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville was picked in the preseason polls no higher than fifth place in the district. Coach Steve Griffith and the Bears finished alone in second place just one game behind the district champion Bridge City Cardinals.
-Dan Perrine, KOGT-
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Silsbee outlasted WOS 13-8.
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