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Post by 96Ag on May 6, 2009 22:13:32 GMT -5
I am assistant coach with the Varsity team and we tied for second in district. After the swine flu changed the schedule several times....we now play friday night for 2nd and 3rd in district. Either way we go to the playoffs, we just need to know the seeding.
side note....this is the first time in 18 years that they did not win the district. They have made the playoffs in every year of the programs existence except one...the first year...1987. My brother in law was on that team.
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Post by BTB07 on May 6, 2009 22:26:20 GMT -5
Cool man. Good luck to your guys.
Keep us updated on your progress.
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Post by tophb21 on May 8, 2009 22:06:15 GMT -5
Didn't know you coached as well AG. Keep the updates coming! Good luck in the playoffs.
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Post by 96Ag on May 11, 2009 15:02:04 GMT -5
we lost 12-11 which means we will now play the runner ups in one district instead of the 3rd place team.
we play best of 3 starting Thur.
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Post by tophb21 on May 11, 2009 15:09:02 GMT -5
Good luck AG!
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Post by BTB07 on May 11, 2009 15:13:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2009 23:02:45 GMT -5
Good luck this year AG!
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Post by 96Ag on May 17, 2009 13:48:45 GMT -5
well I just spent 20 minutes typing a summary of our playoff series, then lost it when I hit backspace to correct a spelling mistake...for some reason the browser went back.
damn
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Post by 96Ag on May 17, 2009 13:55:50 GMT -5
Game one:
Fuller powers Cooper May 15, 2009 · Print This Article
SNYDER - Bryson Fuller highlighted a four-run first inning with his 13th home run of the year, extending his single-season school record and leading the Cooper baseball team to an 8-5 victory over Abilene Wylie on Thursday in the opener of a Class 3A bi-district series at Moffett Field.
Ethan Kohnle went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI for the Pirates (20-9), who will try to close out the best-of-three series at 4 p.m. today. If Wylie (14-10) wins, a decisive third game would be played 30 minutes afterward.
Tyler Teter (6-1) pitched into the seventh inning and struck out six to earn the win, and Chadd Bednarz recorded the final two outs for his second save of the season.
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Post by 96Ag on May 17, 2009 13:56:19 GMT -5
Game 2 and part of 3
SNYDER — Trailing Lubbock Cooper 1-0 in its bidistrict baseball series, Wylie came into Game 2 on Friday with one goal: extend the series.
The Bulldogs did that Friday afternoon, forcing a deciding third game with a 14-10 Game 2 win.
Mother Nature then further extended the series, stopping the progress of Game 3 with heavy rains and lightning.
The lightning, which came in the top of the fourth inning with Wylie trailing 9-3, forced a delay. A storm cell west of Snyder that was expected to pass instead hovered in the area, keeping players and coaches off the field
At 11:15 p.m., the game was halted for the night and scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. today.
The Bulldogs (15-10) forced the deciding third game by winning a slugfest in Game 2.
Wylie, which trailed 5-0 after 2½ innings and 10-8 heading into the bottom of the sixth, had to rally a couple of times, but the Bulldogs were able to sandwich a pair of one-run frames with six runs in the third and sixth innings to earn the four-run win.
The last of those six-run outbursts turned a 10-8 deficit into a 14-10 Wylie lead, which pitcher Reid Strong protected with a 1-2-3 seventh to earn the win.
While Wylie's offensive production proved to be the difference in Game 2, it appeared for a while that Lubbock Cooper might use a hot start to bury Wylie early as it did in the series opener Thursday.
The Pirates scored three first-inning runs off Wylie starter Brandon Hicks and added two unearned runs in the third to go up by five runs.
But Wylie answered in its half of the third, taking advantage of a pair of Trey Chandler errors to score six runs and take its first lead.
After the first two Bulldogs hitters of the inning reached base on fielding errors by the Cooper third baseman, Wylie got a walk from Tanner Mitchell and RBI hits from Daxton Deal, Jon Miller and Brandon Hicks to go up 6-5.
The Bulldogs added another run on a Hicks RBI walk to take a 7-5 lead into the fifth, but Cooper scored five runs on four hits, two walks and an error over the next two innings to chase Hicks from the game in the sixth and take its first lead since the third inning.
Strong, who was brought into relieve Hicks with one out and the bases loaded, struck out the first batter he faced. But he back-to-back hits allowed all three inherited runners to score, leaving the Bulldogs down by two when he finally got out of the inning.
But for the second time in the game, a resilient Wylie team battled back.
Two walks and a Cooper error on a sacrifice bunt attempt loaded the bases.
Matt Field stepped to the plate and drove the third pitch he saw down the right field line to score two, tying the game and setting up and even bigger inning for the Bulldogs.
After Strong grounded out, Wylie forced two more walks, the second of which pushed in the go-ahead run. Mitchell and Miller then sandwiched a pair of RBI singles with a Deal sacrifice fly. By the time the inning was over, Wylie led 14-10.
Strong came on and got two strikeouts and a weak groundout to end the game and extend Wylie's season.
For more far more than a few hours, it turned out.
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Post by 96Ag on May 17, 2009 14:13:28 GMT -5
so here is the situation....
we are down 9-3 with two outs in the top of the 4th and a runner on second when the game is halted because of weather. We wait for two hours before deciding to wait until Saturday to finish the game. We get home at 1:00 and plan to leave at 8:15 Saturday and head back to Snyder for the conclusion. Rains continue to fall over night and while we are on the road we find out that Snyder's field is too wet and will not be ready until the afternoon at best (the game has to be finished sometime on Saturday), so we head to our back-up field in Midland. Midland ran their sprinklers but the field should be ready by gametime....which is now 12:00. 20 minutes out side of Midland, we get word that a rainshower has made Midland's field unplayable, but Odessa escaped the rain.....so we head to Odessa.....Game time is now 1:00.
We arrive at Odessas Permian's field (the famous MoJo - Friday Night Lights) and game 3 is on.
We get out of the fourth without allowing anymore runs, but fail to score. They score a run in the 5th and we are now down 10-3. We battle back and score 7 runs in the 5th and tie the game 10-10......then we allow five runs in the 6th, but battle back for four runs of our own. down 15-14 heading into the 7th. We shut them down and need only one run to tie....two to win. Leadoff man draws a walk, but the next three are retired in order.....game, series season is over.
8 errors in the final game should have sealed out fate, but we battled back and had a chance to win despite the poor defensive performance.
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Post by BTB07 on May 17, 2009 18:16:38 GMT -5
Man that is tough 96AG. Sounds like you guys had a great season, congrats.
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Post by tophb21 on May 17, 2009 20:11:31 GMT -5
Ouch AG, that's a tough pill to swallow.
On a side note, I went to my local HS Baseball team's benefit golf tournament. I won the 50/50 raffle, but gave the winnigs back to the team. We finished third in the tourney at -7. It was a fun time.
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