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Post by Calallenbaseball on Jun 5, 2011 9:40:34 GMT -6
STATE FINALS 2011
THURSDAY JUNE 9 2011 BRENHAM VS WICHITA FALLS RIDERS 4PM CALALLEN VS MESQUITE POTEET 7PM DELL DIAMOND (ROUND ROCK)
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Post by Calallenbaseball on Jun 6, 2011 4:46:47 GMT -6
STATE FINALS 2011
THURSDAY JUNE 9 2011 BRENHAM VS WICHITA FALLS RIDERS 4PM CALALLEN VS MESQUITE POTEET 7PM DELL DIAMOND (ROUND ROCK) Semifinals Game 1: Jun 9, 4:00 pm Game 2: Jun 9, 7:00 pm Finals Jun 10, 7:00 pm 4A State Champion Wichita Falls Rider (37-7) vs Brenham (36-7-1) 4PM Corpus Christi Calallen (38-5) vs Mesquite Poteet (31-7) 7PM
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Post by Calallenbaseball on Jun 7, 2011 22:37:31 GMT -6
One year later, W.F. Rider is still really good By MATT KEYSER/Sports Reporter Published: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 1:37 PM CDT Break down the stats of the Brenham Cubs and the Rider Raiders and the teams look evenly matched heading into Thursday’s Class 4A State Baseball Tournament.
Rider, playing out of Region I, is 37-7 on the year and went 11-1 in 4-4A league play. The Cubs are 36-7-1 and finished a perfect 14-0 in District 17-4A, the tie coming to Frenship Feb. 25 in tournament play. Rider played Frenship in a three-game series in the regional quarterfinals — winning 14-0 in Game 1, losing Game 2 10-9 and blowing out Game 3, 11-3.
The Raiders, from Wichita Falls, are a strong offensive team with some two pitchers holding a below 1.50 ERA. The team is batting .372 on the year with a .468 on-base percentage and a .568 slugging percentage.
The Cubs, on the other hand, are hitting at a .348 mark with a .444 on-base percentage and are slugging .535 on the year.
Rider and the Cubs play Thursday at 4 p.m. at Dell Diamond in Round Rock.
Throughout the playoffs, the Raiders are outscoring their opponents 119-35 in 12 games. Against Burleson in the regional finals and the series tied at one apiece, Rider dominated Game 3 with a 21-6 victory to advance to the state semifinals for the third time in school history.
Rider features two Division I signees in Gage Green and Christian Sager, who will head north to play to continue their careers at Oklahoma State.
Green will play baseball and Sager will join the Cowboys basketball team.
Green is hitting a team-leading .504 mark from the plate, with 50 RBIs, 10 triples and five homers. Sager is batting .376 on the year, with 46 runs driven in and 40 runs scored.
Overall, Rider has five players batting over .350.
Cameron Allen is another threat for the Raiders.
Allen is batting .490 on the year with 52 RBIs, 16 doubles and five home runs. In Game 3 against Burleson, Allen went 4-for-6 with five RBIs. The senior is also one of two aces on staff where he carries a 1.22 ERA through 86 1/3 innings. Of the 309 batters he’s faced this season, he’s struck out 131 while walking just 11.
Allen will play for the University of Arkansas-Little Rock next fall.
The seventh-ranked Raiders opened the playoffs with a two-game sweep of Dumas High School, located in the Texas Panhandle. Rider then swept Chapin High School (El Paso) in the area round. The Raiders roll was then stopped in a Game 2 loss to Frenship in the regional quarterfinals before coming back to take Game 3.
Much like the Cubs, when the Raiders stumbled in a Game 2, the team followed that loss with a dominating victory the following game. In each of its Game 3 victories this postseason, Rider has won by eight runs or more - an 11-3 win over Frenship and a 21-6 blowout to Burleson.
In Brenham’s two Game 2 losses - a 1-0 loss to Santa Fe and a 3-2 loss to Magnolia - the Cubs responded with an 18-7 win over Santa Fe and a 10-0 six-inning run-rule victory over Magnolia.
The Cubs and Rider have their history, of course.
In 2010 in the state semifinal game, the two teams were tied in the top of the eighth when Seth Spivey hit a single to score Zach Jacobs and give Brenham the 3-2 lead it took the rest of the way.
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Post by Calallenbaseball on Jun 7, 2011 22:42:02 GMT -6
Rider's Smith envisions title But lefty knows task will be tough
By Andy Newberry Times Record News Posted June 7, 2011 at 12:02 a.m. .EmailDiscussShare » DiggFacebookLinkedInTweet thisPrintAAA. Ben Smith has spent four years competing for the black and gold at Rider High School.
The senior left-handed pitcher won't enter those hallways again, but he'd like to give his school some gold as his last official act as a Raider.
Smith, the Raiders' No. 2 starter, will get that chance on Friday night at Dell Diamond if Rider can survive a semifinal rematch with Brenham at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Smith and some of his Rider teammates have been a part of a championship team when his Blacksox squad won the AABC Don Mattingly World Series title last summer. This would be bigger.
"Of course you think about it," Smith said of taking the mound for the final. "You dream about it. We're back there now and we have a chance.
"I think this one would be better. We've grown up together and gone to school for four years. But that (title with Blacksox) felt great, too."
While all energy has to be put into winning the semifinal, the Raiders would be in good shape with a Division I left-hander (Coastal Carolina).
Smith has set the school record for strikeouts in a season with 156.
Smith is 11-2 overall with a 1.39 ERA. He's 4-0 in the playoffs and has strikeout games of 16 and 14 in the postseason. And he is coming off six shutout innings in the Region I-4A finals.
His last two starts have been 10-0 quickies. He'd settle for one-run wins on Thursday and Friday.
Smith will be the first baseman and cleanup hitter on Thursday with Cameron Allen, the ace, on the hill. Smith is hitting .376 with 44 RBIs, although he thought he was struggling a bit in last week's regional final series.
Other Rider players on the Blacksox title team were Allen, Blake Burrus and Kyler Ritchie. Gage Green also is a former Blacksox player. Allen was the MVP of that World Series and will start on Thursday.
"We'd like to win and it feels great to be back there, but we have business to take care of," Smith said. "(Last week), I think that loss woke us up and we came out fired up."
There's no room for error in a single-elimination state tournament if Smith and the 37-7 Raiders are to achieve their dream with gold medals.
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Post by Calallenbaseball on Jun 7, 2011 22:46:37 GMT -6
Familiar foe awaits Raiders Rider to face Brenham again in 4A semifinal
By J. Scott Russell Times Record News Posted June 6, 2011 at 12:04 a.m. .EmailDiscussShare » DiggFacebookLinkedInTweet thisPrintAAA. Gary Rhodes/Special to the Times Record News LEFT: Rider center fielder Kyler Ritchie hits a two-run triple Saturday in the Region I-4A finals. The Raiders will face Brenham for the second straight time in the Class 4A state semifinals. It will be déjà vu all over again for the Rider Raiders at this week's UIL Class 4A state baseball tournament.
Not only are the No. 7 Raiders returning to Round Rock for the second straight season, they will also play the same opponents in the semifinals — the top-ranked Brenham Cubs.
Rider will be the home team for the 4 p.m. Thursday semifinal game at Dell Diamond.
The 7 p.m. semifinal will match Corpus Christi Calallen against Mesquite Poteet.
The Class 4A final is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday.
Rider (37-7) advanced to the state tournament by beating Burleson in the best-of-three Region I-4A finals over the weekend, losing Game 1 2-1 before winning 10-0 (in five innings) and 21-6.
The Cubs also were forced to go three games against Magnolia in the Region III finals, winning 10-2, losing 3-2, then coming back with a 10-0 win.
Brenham (36-7-1) beat the Raiders 3-2 in eight innings last year in the semifinals on the way to the state title. The Cubs beat Calallen 2-1 in the finals to claim the crown.
The Raiders return eight of 10 starters from last year's semifinal game, while the Cubs have four
starters back — Drake Roberts, Chance Bolcerek, Colten Walla and Ty Schlottman. Schlottman is the left-handed pitcher who outdueled Cameron Allen.
The two teams have one common opponent this season — the Frenship Tigers.
Brenham and Frenship played to a 1-1 tie in a Round Rock tournament, while the Raiders took 2 of 3 from the Tigers in the regional quarterfinals, winning 6-0, losing 10-9 and winning 11-3 in the deciding game.
The other semifinal matches the No. 4 team in the state, Calallen, against No. 8 Poteet. Calallen swept Corpus Christi Moody 3-0, 5-0 in the Region IV finals, while Poteet outlasted Rockwall Heath in Region II, winning 2-0, losing 10-3 and winning 4-2.
Notes:
Rider coach Scot Green was one of the coaches for the 3A-4A East team in the Greater West Texas Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Game on Sunday at Lubbock Cooper.
However, the East came up short as the West team won the contest 10-8.
Green's team was a couple of players short. Gage Green, Cameron Allen and Ben Smith had been selected to play in the game but couldn't because the Raiders' season isn't over yet.
Hirschi's Joe Barron also was picked to play on the East team but didn't make it to the game.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Jun 8, 2011 7:23:00 GMT -6
My $$$$ is on the Kitties this weekend.
Good luck Cal
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Post by gpjohn on Jun 8, 2011 7:35:18 GMT -6
I'm a little confused. Article says Brenham is #1 in state, calallen #4, yet some say calallen is #1 seed in this tournament.
Of course I know trhat rankings and seedings are subjective, its what happens on the fiels that counts!
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Post by C5_96 on Jun 8, 2011 7:45:30 GMT -6
I'm a little confused. Article says Brenham is #1 in state, calallen #4, yet some say calallen is #1 seed in this tournament. Of course I know trhat rankings and seedings are subjective, its what happens on the fiels that counts! Seedings are not subjective. They are based entirely on the teams' W-L records. Calallen IS the #1 seed. They are playing the #4 seed, Mesquite Poteet, which has the fewest wins of the four teams in the tournament. Rider is the #2 seed, and they are playing the #3 seed, Brenham. Get it now?
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Post by gpjohn on Jun 8, 2011 7:51:30 GMT -6
OK, I think I get it now. calallen is #1 seed in tournament, but Brenham is Ranked # 1 in State, cal #4.
Like I said, good thing they determine winner on the field.
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Post by C5_96 on Jun 8, 2011 7:55:01 GMT -6
OK, I think I get it now. calallen is #1 seed in tournament, but Brenham is Ranked # 1 in State, cal #4. Like I said, good thing they determine winner on the field. Yes, just like every other sport except Div 1 college football.
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Post by gpjohn on Jun 8, 2011 8:20:41 GMT -6
OK, I think I get it now. calallen is #1 seed in tournament, but Brenham is Ranked # 1 in State, cal #4. Like I said, good thing they determine winner on the field. Yes, just like every other sport except Div 1 college football. The BCS has worked out pretty well for LSU! I will admit that the whole BCS system is pretty messed up though.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Jun 9, 2011 15:36:56 GMT -6
Brenham vs. WF Rider Bottom of 3rd inning. WF Rider up to bat. Brenham 0 WF Rider 1 Listening on www.kwhi.com1280 AM
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Post by DD Booger on Jun 9, 2011 16:09:41 GMT -6
Brenham 0 Rider 2 Bot of 5th
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Post by DD Booger on Jun 9, 2011 16:11:37 GMT -6
In the same hotel as the Poteet team. they may not get there.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Jun 9, 2011 16:15:08 GMT -6
Brenham E6.
Brenham 0 WF Rider 3
WF Rider still batting in Bottom of 5th.
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