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Ryan got a pair of epic performances in the form of Bubba Roddy's clutch walk-off double and Scotty Young's relief effort, but the Raiders have to feel like they dodged a bullet today against Cleburne.

There were a number of opportunities for the Yellow Jackets to steal Game 3 from Ryan. Don't get me wrong, I think the Raiders are the better team, but Cleburne stepped up and it was ultimately Ryan's pitching depth that won it the series.

Which brings me to my next point. Bret Warnack certainly doesn't need my help, but if it were me, I'd start Young if the Raiders go to a Game 3 against Keller Fossil Ridge. With all due respect to Michael Braswell, Young was simply electric. His heat is too much for lower-order batters.

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Bubba Roddy hit an RBI double in the bottom of the eighth. Keller Fossil Ridge is next.

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Ryan is in the bottom of the eighth with the top of its order coming up. Scotty Young has been dominant and has six strikeouts, more than the other two pitchers in the game combined.

Ryan Salter, Will Nelson and Zach Voight have a chance to send the Raiders to the regional quarterfinals.

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Bonnie Richardson, out of Rochelle, a town near Brady, the mythical "Heart of Texas", is about to win the 1A girls team title all by her lonesome.

Richardson is about to accomplish a feat that even Detroit Lions receiver Roy Williams wasn't able to pull off for Odessa Permian after she won the 200-meters a few minutes ago. She's now won the 200 and the high jump, finished second in the 100 and the long jump and got third in the discus.

With her amazing performance, she has Rochelle sitting atop the team standings in 1A girls with just the 4x400 relay to go. All of the teams in striking distance of Richardson don't have mile relay teams. Pretty amazing feat, right there.

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This is probably not something Bret Warnack is thrilled about.

Ryan is tied with Cleburne, 2-2, heading into the seventh inning of Game 3. We're basically in an overtime situation where the next play, or the next mistake, can win the game. Cleburne has had issues with errors all year. We'll see if Ryan can catch a break and move on to face Keller Fossil Ridge.

Scotty Young is taking the mound for the top of the inning. The top of Cleburne's batting order is heading to the plate.

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Cleburne's catcher took one in the shoulder from Cord Jezek yesterday and gave Jezek a piece of his mind on the way to first base.

Today, Scotty Young took a piece of Braddock's mind by giving him a fast ball to the head. Braddock got the last laugh though as Bif Jones, running for Braddock, scored on a single by first baseman Shane Ingram to tie the game at 2-2.

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Scotty Young and Cleburne right fielder Clayton Skoog kept runners off the board in the fourth inning.

Young came in and looked dominant while getting two quick outs to end the top of the fourth. Skoog made a dazzling throw to home plate after a pop fly to get Colby Boliver at home plate to end the top of the fourth.

Young is on the mound now in the fifth. Ryan leads 2-1.

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With two runners on and just one out in the top of the fourth inning, Bret Warnack is putting flame thrower Scotty Young on the mound.

Young doesn't see a lot of game time in district play, but there is a lot of buzz surrounding the sophomore. He has, as Joey Florence put it, a cannon for an arm. He will likely be Ryan's starting quarterback next year.

Let's see how he does.

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There is a small-ball sighting in Saginaw.

Ryan has taken a 2-1 lead off another base-running bonanza, and with some help from the Yellow Jackets. Tom Robertson, running for Juan Gloria, scored after Will Nelson reached on an error by Cleburne's third baseman.

We are now in the fourth inning. Braswell is still on the mound.

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Ryan just survived its first test of the game, but gave up a run to tie the game 1-1.

Cleburne catcher Colby Braddock hit a no-outs RBI single to tie the game after runners reached on an error and a single. It could have been a lot worse had a Yellow Jacket not gotten caught in no man's land on the third base line and a nice play by catcher Juan Gloria.

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Ryan Salter's base running just gave Ryan a 1-0 lead after the first inning.

He reached base on an error and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Will Nelson. He stole third and came home on a passed ball.

He's an automatic run if he reaches base.

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Ryan's baseball season will over without a stellar effort against Cleburne in Game 3 of the Class 4A Region I area round of the playoffs today in Saginaw. Things are about to get under way here at Saginaw High School, where I have been blessed with an air-conditioned press box.

Here are some notes: Michael Braswell is getting the start on the mound for Ryan -- not a huge surprise. Justin Smithers is getting the start at first base in place of Jordan Buck, who started Game 2. Kevin Burkhart is back in the batting lineup in the nine-hole after being playing just second base in Game 2.

Should be a good one. I'm a predicting a Ryan Raider victory after a slow performance last night.

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That's right, I beat my 10:30 a.m. wakeup call by about 23 1/2 minutes after a long, hot day at the state track meet yesterday. Fifteen hours in the near-100-degree heat and high humidity will take a lot out of you -- and I wasn't even running.

I thought I'd wrap up a few things from last night before I head out for what's going to be a much lighter, easier day (but just as hot) since I was so swamped and didn't get to do much bloggin'.

Continue reading "Live from...my bed" »

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Mike A. Myers Stadium is filling up and in eight minutes the running events will start with the girls 4x100 relay, followed by the boys in order of 3A and 4A.

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After going for a personal-best 46-9 ½ at the District 5-4A meet last month, Denton triple jumper Johnson Amadi had his sights set on great things for the state meet, but Friday ended in disappointment for the Denton junior after finishing fifth in the 4A boys triple jump with a leap of 45-7.

Amadi said after spending nearly half of the year training for Friday, he was simply worn out.

“I don’t know, I guess I’m just worn out from five or six months of track,” Amadi said. “I was better earlier in the season. I just kept on degressing, and I don’t know why.”

another year left, Amadi said he’s all set to start training for next year’s state meet where he’ll hopefully peak unlike this year.

“I’ve just got to work harder and get better,” he said. “I just need to try harder I guess, I don’t know. I worked on technique for a long time. I guess it just wasn’t my day. I just didn’t have that spring I usually do.”

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Tonight's schedule here is going to be a whirlwind to the umpth degree. Here's a little rundown of my chaotic night that will start here in about 3 1/2 hours.

6 p.m. - Ryan's Michael McLeod competes in the 4A boys high jump
6:10 - Argyle's 4x100 relay team gets to work
6:20 - Argyle distance legend Kristie Krueger takes a crack at the middle distance in the 800
6:30 - Argyle's Connor Hughey takes his crack at the 800
7:05 - Guyer's Brittany Shorter, the Wildcats' lone girl representative, runs the 100
7:35 - Sanger's 4x200 relay takes off
7:55 - Guyer's Joe Barb goes in the 400
8:15 - Argyle's Colby Oberle runs the 300 hurdles
8:45 - Krueger goes for the second time of the night in the 1,600, which she won last year
8:55 - Argyle's Blake Woolums and Stephen Curry go for the gold in the 1,600. Woolums won the 3,200 this morning.
9:15 - Guyer's mile relay competes in the final race of the evening, otherwise known as the "granddaddy of them all" around these parts.

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Both the boys and girls 3A pole vault just ended here in Austin and the Argyle Eagles barely missed out on the medals in both events.

Samuel Retzloff finished fourth with a 14-6, and Sanger's Trevor Hall cleared the same height, but had more misses to finish fifth.

On the girls side, Argyle's Jessica Bonfield finished in fourth, by way of more misses, with a height of 11 feet.

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I'm here at the UIL Track and Field State Championships at the University of Texas and due to a slight delay (about an hour) in getting my wireless password I'm just now getting you the great news for Argyle.

In the past, Kristie Krueger has ruled the distance events at Argyle High School, and while she still likely will, she has company in Blake Woolums.

Woolums took the 3A 3,200-meter run in a time of 9:23, besting his time from regionals by 17 seconds and winning by six over Llano's Cole Hoffman.

Woolums will be running in the 1,600 later in the afternoon and I'll talk to him then. Keep checking back for more updates. I'll be on fire all day today, literally. It's supposed to near 100. Fantastic.

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Well, I'm sitting here at my friend's house in Pflugerville (home of TV's Dillon Panthers) and getting ready for the UIL state track meet that begins tomorrow where many area athletes will be competing.

Because of the trip, I'll unfortunately be missing Guyer's series with Joshua for the chance to advance to the regional semifinal. Guyer's made great strides this year -- having never won a playoff game before this year -- and frankly, no matter what happens this season will be viewed as a great success considering the team's youth (starts five freshmen and three sophomores).

Speaking of softball, I was a ringer last night in my buddy's beer league softball game and we played the best team in the league and beat them 16-10. Thing was, we scored all 16 of our runs in the third inning, thanks in large part to my bases loaded triple.

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Ryan is facing Cleburne again in the area round of the playoffs. Last year the Raiders disposed of Cleburne in three games and the Yellow Jackets have plenty of ways to hurt opponents in 2008.

First of all, Cleburne has a wealth of left-handed pitchers, something that's even harder to find at the high school level than it is elsewhere. Shane Ingram is 10-2 on the year and will likely face Curtis Petersen in Game 1.

Catcher Colby Braddock is one of the best in the area and will challenge Ryan's small ball style of play by attack base runners that try to steal second. He's batting .417 in addition to his defensive abilities.

The good news for Ryan is that the Yellow Jackets make a lot of errors. They managed to sneak by Fort Worth South Hills last weekend despite committing five errors in Game 2. The Raiders have no trouble putting the ball in play. It could get ugly if Cleburne makes too many mistakes.

I'm predicting a Raider win, if I can go that far out on a limb there.

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The Guyer softball team suffered a serious injury on Monday in a friendly game of "backwards softball", the Lady Wildcats' Monday ritual when they play with their opposite hands and bat opposite of what is natural to them.

Guyer assistant coach Trey Shaw, who might've taught Amber Gonzales a thing or two about diving for balls, apparently goes all out in every practice and plays like he's trying to win a game....in practice.

So Shaw dove for a ball and landed awkwardly on his wrist, snapping it in two. Head coach Keith Medford told me he heard the bone snap and Shaw just got up and calmly said "It's gone, I'm out," and went on to the hospital.

Medford's take on the situation, "At least it was him and not one of the girls." Of course, it was in a joking manner, but it would be disastrous if it were Gonzales and not Shaw considering the Lady Wildcats start their regional quarterfinal best-of-three series against Joshua, which knocked off Ryan, on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. at Keller Central.

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As I first reported on this here blog last Thursday, Guyer's offensive tackle Kyle Clark, who committed to Texas Tech two weeks ago, was injured during spring practice.

Head coach John Walsh had told me he walked off the field without much problem, but it was still clear that Walsh was a little shaken and nervous.

Now he can exhale because Clark's injury is pretty minor by football standards. He just had some torn miniscus cartilage in his knee, which isn't that big of a deal. Walsh won't take any chances -- Clark's out for the spring -- but of all the players Guyer has, Clark's probably on the list of guys who didn't need spring ball as much as some of his teammates.

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It's easy to say the Ryan Lady Raiders choked and didn't live up to the lofty expectations that come with having the majority of a team back that made the state title game the year before.

Frankly, Ryan just got beat. Watch out, Guyer. You're going to have your hands full with the Lady Owls.

Joshua was able to get enough hits off Brysten Luster and Tara Tague. It is one of the best base-running teams I've ever seen. And pitcher Kayci Wilson was simply heroic, pitching all but three innings of the three-game series and shutting down one of the hottest offensive teams in the state in games 1 and 3.

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