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Friendswood sweeps Brenham, moves on to regional championship Ted Dunnam, Staff writer Dylan Maxcey and Reed South delivered run-scoring singles in the second inning for the only offense Friendswood needed in downing Brenham, 2-0, Thursday night to sweep the teams’ best-of-three Class 5A regional semifinal baseball series at Cy Falls. The Mustangs (27-7) will next take on Lake Creek or Houston Milby for the Region 3-5A championship. Friendswood won the opener, 8-4, Wednesday night at Cy Falls. Brenham ended its season with a 25-13 record. Easton Tumis pitched 5 2/3 innings of one-hit ball, walking just two while striking out six. Dane Perry came on to record a strikeout while Griffin Kasemeyer pitched one inning, allowed one hit and fanned two. Friendswood collected six hits, all singles. The win was the eighth straight in the playoffs for Friendswood and ninth overall. Head coach Cory Benavides’s team has swept Nederland, Houston Waltrip, Crosby and Brenham in its first four series. The Mustangs have advanced to the regional finals for the second straight year. Last season, Friendswood lost to eventual state champion Barbers Hill in the 3-5A championship series.

Late-innings surge proves crucial in China Spring/Orangefield regional semifinal-By Van Wade SPRING – The China Spring Cougars continue to be “kryptonite” for Orange County teams after ending what was a superb Orangefield baseball campaign by downing the Bobcats 7-3 to win Game Two of their best-of-three Class 4A Region III Regional Semifinal Thursday evening at Grand Oaks High School. The Cougars won Game One on Wednesday, 5-4. The Cougars (30-8) scored five unanswered runs in the sixth and seventh innings to turn back the Bobcats. It was another great season for Orangefield and head coach Tim Erickson as they rolled to a 28-4-1 overall record, claimed the District 22-4A Championship and advanced to the fourth round of the postseason. China Spring defeated Bridge City in three games in this same round in 2017. The Cougar football team defeated West Orange-Stark in the 4A Region III Division II Finals the last two seasons and won State last football season. The Cougars finished with nine hits while the Bobcats had six. Marcus Rosales got the win on the mound for the Cougars, tossing five innings in relief of starter Cage McCloud. Rosales allowed just two hits while striking out three and walking one. McCloud went two innings, allowing four hits. Jason Bodin started for the Bobcats. He worked five innings, allowing five hits while striking out six and walking four. Trent Eaves tossed the last two frames, allowing four hits while striking out one and walking one. The Bobcats scratched in a run in the bottom of the second. Bodin led off with a ground rule double off the wall in right field. Morgan Sampson flied out to right, moving Bodin over to third. Bodin scored after a Brennon Lecoq sacrifice fly to centerfield. The Cougars answered in the top of the third to grab a one-run lead. Brayden Faulkner drew a one-out walk and McCloud drilled a two-run home run over the rightfield wall. Orangefield regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth. Kolbie Sowell had a leadoff double to right and courtesy runner Kane Smith advanced to third on a Bodin groundout. Sampson then tied the game up, plating Smith with a RBI double. Lecoq moved courtesy runner Brayden Babin to third on a ground out. Babin raced in to score on a wild pitch to give the Bobcats a 3-2 edge. China Spring regained the advantage with three runs in the top of the sixth. JC Hughes opened it up with a leadoff double past first base. Kolby Killough reached on an error and Hughes got to third. Hughes scored to tie it after an errant pickoff attempt. Trevor Black put the Cougars ahead when he brought in Killough with a RBI double. Dean Hannah moved Black to third with a sacrifice bunt. Jase Garrett reached on a fielder’s choice on a bunt as Black was thrown out at home. Faulkner made it 5-3 when he slapped a RBI double to right to score Garrett. The Cougars added some insurance runs in the top of the seventh. Trace Necessary had a leadoff triple and scored on a RBI double by Bryce Tabor to make it 6-3. After Black drew a two-out walk, Hannah drove home Tabor with a RBI single. The Cougars now move on to face either Carthage or Bellville in the Regional Finals next week.

Game 1-DIboll- 7 Cameron Yoe- 5 Final

Game 1- Lake Creek- 6 Milby- 3 Final

Game 2- Friendswood- 2 Brenham- 0 Final

Ridge Point- 6 Pearland- 2 Final

Game 1- Strake- 2 Katy- 1 Final

Great accomplishment & career winning the most games in Texas high school football history. No one said anything trumps it. What is being said is a state title some where in the middle of all those wins probably gets him paid more money.

Need to get some live action going until august.....

If he could have won a state title probably gets him alot more

Aledo & Ft. Bend Marshall getting under paid for their success

Texas High School Football Coaching Salaries From 2019 Class 6A Division I-Average Salary: $121,875.25 Hank Carter, Austin Lake Travis: $158,512 Gary Joseph, Katy: $138,588 Reginald Samples, Duncanville: $130,969 Terry Gambill, Allen: $126,365 Jonathan Kay, Galena North Shore: $120,133 Edward Pustejovsky, Cy-Fair: $119,036 Jeff Hulme, Waco Midway: $111,415 Sean McAuliffe, Converse Judson: $111,288 Riley Dodge, Southlake Carroll: $97,284 Class 6A Division II- Average Salary: $112,967.75 Todd Dodge, Austin Westlake: $150,000 Randy Allen, Highland Park: $133,875 John King, Longview: $133,675 Gregory McCaig, Cypress Creek: $119,860 Kenneth Plunk, Amarillo Tascosa: $114,672 Matt Meekins, Spring Westfield: $104,030 David Branscom, San Antonio Brandeis: $97,783 Jason Tucker, Haltom: $97,722 Eric Peevey, Beaumont West Brook: $86,000 Class 5A, Division I- Average Salary: $106,938.88 Randy Allen, Highland Park: $133,875 Ricklan Holmes, Tyler: $109,585 Charles Bruce, San Antonio Wagner: $109,534 Dave Henigan, Denton Ryan: $108,751 Shaun McDowell, Richmond Foster: $104,203 Bradley Butler, Alvin Shadow Creek: $100,175 David Gilpin, Mission Memorial: $96,742 Lon Holbrook, Birdville: $92,646 Class 5A, Division II- Average Salary: $107,718.63 Rodney Southern, Huntsville: $121,800 Phil Danaher, Corpus Christi Calallen: $120,963 Richard Whitaker, Port Lavaca Calhoun: $111,201 Chad Cole, Frisco Reedy: $104,698 James Williams, Fort Bend Marshall: $102,061 Max Kattwinkel, Lubbock Cooper: $102,000 Steve Wood, Aledo: $102,000 Mark Bindel, Wichita Falls Rider: $97,026

Texas High School Football Coach Salaries Top 5 from 2021 Hank Carter, Austin Lake Travis: $158,512. Scott Surratt, Carthage: $154,900. Todd Dodge, Westlake: $150,000. Gary Joseph, Katy: $138,588. Randy Allen, Highland Park: $133,875. Nov 12, 2021

Cards Defeat Seattle, Take WAC Opening-Round Game James Dixon, Assistant AD/Media Relations Despite falling behind 3-0 in the first inning, Lamar University rallied to defeat Seattle, 6-4, Wednesday afternoon in their WAC Championships opening-round game from Hohokam Stadium. Not only was Wednesday's victory the first WAC tournament win in their first WAC tournament contest, but it was also the Cardinals first conference tournament win since 2013 putting an end to a nine-game postseason skid. Big Red scored their six runs on 12 hits, while Seattle plated four runs on eight hits with an error. Seven different Cardinals recorded a hit, including four players with multi-hit games – Chase Kemp (2-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 run), Ryan Snell (2-for-4, 1 2B, 1 run), Kirkland Banks (2-for-4, 1 run) and Reese Durand (3-for-4). Seniors Matt McDonald and Josh Blankenship each finished the day with one hit but made the most of it with home runs – McDonald to right and Blankenship to left. Braxton Douthit got the start and went 4.1 innings allowing three runs – all earned – on four hits with two strike outs. Despite his strong performance he didn't figure in the decision. Douthit really only ran into trouble in the second inning giving up three runs which the offense quickly got back. Senior Max Mize came on in relief in the fifth inning and went 1.2 allowing just one earned run on three hits to pick up the win to move to 3-0 on the season. Classmate Jack Dallas pitched a scoreless 1.2 to record his 14th save of the season. After Seattle struck for three in their half of the second following a three-run home from Trevor Antonson, the Cardinals responded immediately. Leading off the next half inning, McDonald – a native of Phoenix, Ariz. – laced a 1-2 pitch over the wall in right field. LU just missed going back-to-back as Blankenship also drove a ball ball deep into right field but the ball carried just far enough to right center where the wall goes straight back allowing for an extra seven feet of playing area. The Cardinals grabbed their first lead in the very next inning. After Blankenship just missed a solo shot to opposite field in the second he came back up in the third and crushed a 3-2 pitch to left field clearing the wall with room to spare. The three-run shot gave LU a one-run lead which held until the sixth inning when Seattle tacked on a solo shot off the bat of Matt Boissoneault, but just like in the second inning the Cardinals responded in the next half inning. Three consecutive singles from Ryan Snell, Kirkland Banks and Reese Durand loaded the bases with one out. After a strike out, Kevin Bermudez drew a five-pitch walk followed by a chopper to short off the bat of Kemp – who was originally called out – but after video replay the call was overturned for the second run of the inning allowing another run – the final run of the game – to score. The Cardinals return to action Thursday to face the winner of the No. 1 Grand Canyon vs. No. 4 Abilene Christian contest. The game is slated to begin at 7 p.m. (9 p.m. Central time) from Hohokam Stadium in Mesa, Ariz. [Hidden Content]

Late-inning action decides China Spring, Orangefield playoff battle. By Van Wade- Orange Leader The China Spring Cougars outlasted the Orangefield Bobcats 5-4 in Game One of their best-of-three Class 4A Region III Semifinals series Wednesday night at Navasota High School. The Cougars (30-8) rallied from a 3-1 deficit to score four unanswered runs before the Bobcats trimmed the China Spring lead to one in the bottom of the seventh. The Bobcats outhit the Cougars 8-6 for the game but China Spring was able to hang on. Kolby Killough got the win on the mound for the Cougars. He went 6 2/3 innings, allowing eight hits while striking out nine and walking two. Maruca Rosales earned the save, recording a strikeout for the last out. Coop Longron absorbed the loss for the Bobcats. He worked all six innings, allowing six hits while striking out five and walking two. Game Two of the series will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Grand Oaks High School in Spring. Game Three, if necessary, will follow 30 minutes after Game Two. The winner of the Orangefield-China Spring series will face either Carthage or Bellville in the Regional Finals next week. The Cougars scratched in a run in the bottom of the first inning. Brayden Faulkner hit a high fly ball in shallow right that fell and he advanced all the way to third for a triple. He then scored when Cage McCloud had a RBI sacrifice fly to left. The Bobcats tallied three runs in the top of the third inning, thanks to some nice small ball and three hits. Caleb Fregia, who led the Bobcats with three hits from the nine-hole, had a leadoff single to left. Kameryn Henderson then came up with a bunt and Killough made an errant throw to second as both runners was safe. Tyler Shearin, who had two hits on the night, put down a perfect bunt single down the third base line to load the bases. Kyle Michael, who also had two hits and three RBI, then came through big, smacking a two-run single up the middle. The Cougars regained the lead with a three-run bottom of the third. Jase Garrett roped a leadoff single to right centerfield and Faulkner drew a walk. McCloud then singled over short to load the bases with no outs. Trace Necessary brought in Garrett with a RBI groundout to second base. Bryce Tabor promptly laced a two-run triple in the gap into right field to give the Cougars a 4-3 edge. China Spring grabbed a run in the bottom of the fourth. Trevor Black stroked a leadoff triple to right and with one out Garrett reached on an error. Faulkner drove in Black with a sacrifice fly to right to up the Cougars’ led to 5-3. The Bobcats tried to rally in the top half of the seventh. Fregia had a leadoff single up the middle. Henderson reached on a fielder’s choice as Fregia was out at second. Shearin grounded out, moving Henderson to third and Michael plated Henderson with a line-drive RBI single to center. Killough reached the pitch limit after Michael’s at-bat and Rosales got the last out by striking out Kolbie Sowell. [Hidden Content]

Friendswood bats erupt late to beat Brenham Boots Landry blasted a three-run double in the sixth inning to power Friendswood to an 8-4 win over Brenham Wednesday in the opening game of a Region 3-5A baseball semifinal series at Cy Falls High School. The teams were tied 3-3 before the Mustangs erupted for four runs in the sixth to pull away for the victory. Brenham took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on an RBI-double by Cayden Shields. However, Friendswood (26-7) scored twice in the top of the third inning on three Cub errors for a 2-1 edge. Brenham, though, regained the lead at 3-2 in the bottom of the third. Friendswood, though, took the lead for good when Kyle Lockhart punched a two-run single to center for a 4-3 lead. Landry then followed with a three-run double to right-center to clear the bases for a 7-3 cushion. Friendswood’s final run scored on a wild pitch to make it 8-3. Jacob Rogers started on the mound for Friendswood before Dane Perry came on in relief to close out the victory with two strong innings. Written by Ted Dunnam sports editor of the Bay Area Citizen, Friendswood Journal and Pearland Journal.

Game 1 line score China Spring- 5-6-0 O.Field- 4-9-2

Game 1- Friendswood- 8 Brenham- 4 Final

I agree the b.c. youth coaches at that time were very good. Not sure how the high school coaches messed that up? Most of the groups i seen that had winning success starting in youth continued winning in high school, yes there were some that under achieved & yes there were some that were more hyped up by parents that were not actually that good.

I thought baseball & high school coaches at b.c. had alot to do with the demise of that infamous great group of cardinal football players from stjfl?

2ND TEAM SELECTIONS PITCHERS Kyler Baker- Nederland Mason Hernandez- Png Brent Holdren- B.H. G. Driskell- Nederland 1ST BASE Will Eudy- B.H. 2ND BASE Rey Ortiz- G.P. SHORTSTOP J. Saenz- Crosby 3RD BASE Noah Kendrick- Nederland CATCHER Mason Beresford- Nederland OUTFIELD F. Barrientos- G.P. Tommy Reed - Png McKade Massengale- B.H. G. Burton- United J. Londrigan- Crosby UTILITY J. Ramirez- G.P. B. Jacobs- B.H. DESIGNATED HITTER Cade Hollyfield- Nederland

1ST TEAM SELECTIONS Pitchers Brady Corcoran-Nederland K. Kennermer-Crosby B. Gutierrez- United B. Van- B.H. L. Guarnere- Png FIRST BASE G. Kimble- B.H. 2ND BASE C. Underwood- Crosby SHORTSTOP J. Martinez- B.H. 3RD BASE K. Eudy- Crosby \ Adan Soto- Galena Park CATCHER M. Mendez- Galena Park OUTFIELD C. Garrett- B.H. Y. Richardson- Galena Park R. Chiasson- Png B. Gomez- Nederland UTILITY PLAYER C. Faulk- Png DESIGNATED HITTER W. Buntin- B.H.

DISTRICT MVP- Sean Bazmore-JR.- Crosby OFF. PLAYER OF THE YEAR- Nehomar Ochoa- JR- Galena Park CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYERS OF THE YEAR- Brodey Williams- SR.- B.H. \ Larry Johns- SR.- Crosby PITCHER OF THE YEAR- Josue Carrizales- JR.- Galena Park NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR- Sean Gardiner-SO.- PNG COACH OF THE YEAR- Chris Wiggins- Crosby

It's just a simple general way to judge if an age group has a majority of kids that are good at that level with the possibility of it translating thru jr. high & high school each year they stay together & play. One example is the WOS groups that went to the State Championship game 4 years in a row. Anyone that watched those groups play from 8yr old thru 12 yr old football knew they were a very talented group. I'm sure most stayed playing football, which translated into the great success they had in high school. I have no idea about talent levels from Hardin, but if the man says these groups now are more talented then he usually has seen then that's cool, they will get that chance to prove it.

Most area Youth football Leagues dating back to the early 2000's are made up of teams ages 6 to 12 yrs old from towns that will play each other from jr high thru high school. So yes it is a good way to judge which groups will be talented, Imo.