FORT STOCKTON — Brooks Gay had 10 strikeouts and scattered six hits in five scoreless innings as the Wylie baseball team advanced to the third round of the playoffs with an 8-1 win over El Paso El Dorado on Saturday afternoon.
Braden Regala continued his postseason hot streak by going 3 for 3 at the plate and scoring three runs while also driving in four.
Wylie will now face El Paso Del Valle next week in the Region I-5A quarterfinals.
FORT STOCKTON — Garrett Graham hit two home runs, Landon Williams had a two-run blast and JT Thompson went 4 for 4 at the plate as the Wylie baseball team opened its area-round series with a 17-6 thumping of El Paso El Dorado on Friday.
In addition to Thompson’s big day, Graham and Tye Briscoe each had three-hit games as the Bulldogs took a 1-0 lead in the series.
Grayson Bearden earned the win on the mound in relief with three strong innings in which he allowed two runs on four hits after Trey Gomez and Sam Walker kept El Dorado at bay for the first four innings.
WOODROW — The Wylie softball team closed out Canyon Randall with its second one-run victory in as many days, edging the Lady Raiders 2-1 on Friday at Lubbock Cooper to sweep the best-of-three Region I-5A quarterfinals series.
Rylee Moore, who pitched the seventh to earn the save in Game 1 on Thursday, went the whole way in the circle in the clincher, limiting Randall to just one run on four hits and two walks while striking out nine.
The junior pitcher got all the support she needed in the first inning, when the Lady Bulldogs answered a one-run top of the first with two in the bottom of the frame to account for the only lead change in the game.
WOODROW — The Wylie Lady Bulldogs continued their torrid run, opening a best-of-three Region I-5A quarterfinal series against Canyon Randall with a dramatic 6-5 win on Thursday at Lubbock Cooper to improve to 4-0 in the playoffs with their 11th win in their last 12 games.
Leading 4-0 after three innings and 5-1 with 5½ frames in the book, Wylie saw its lead erased when Randall pushed four runs across in the bottom of the sixth.
But sophomore Mycala Reed launched a solo home run in the seventh — the Lady Bulldogs’ third long ball of the game — for what proved to be the game-winning run.
As Wylie High School continues to grow, so too have its needs in the realm of athletic administration.
After promoting Amy Powell to a role in which she will serve as the campus coordinator for girls athletics, the school had an unexpected opening to lead the girls basketball program.
Enter Duane Hopper.
Four hits in one day is a great day for any hitter. But to get one hit of each kind – single, double, triple and a home run – is one of softball and baseball’s genuine rarities.
Yet that is exactly what Haskell senior Emma Roewe pulled off last week when she hit for the cycle in a 17-7 area round win over McCamey.
But there was an added bonus: Nearly all of her hits had huge impact, beginning with an RBI triple to bring in the first run of the game.
She later broke a 7-7 tie with a two-run homer in the fourth inning and brought down the curtain with a walk-off double to score Olivia Camacho to bring the mercy rule into play.
ODESSA — Reese Farrar shut down the El Paso Chapin softball team for most of the night as Wylie opened the Region I-5A area round with a 12-6 win Friday at Odessa Permian.
Ryleigh Whitehead had a pair of home runs as the Wylie offense collected six extra-base hits.
Whitehead and Mycala Reed each drove in four runs in the win.
LAMESA — Trey Gomez had a complete game two-hitter on Friday afternoon to lead the Wylie baseball team to a 10-3 win over Plainview in the opening game of their best-of-three Region I-5A bi-district series.
Brooks Gay followed that up with five dominant innings on the mound in Game 2 to lead the Bulldogs to a sweep with an 11-7 win.
The Bulldogs offense helped the pitching staff with a combined 26 hits in the two games.
When it comes to senior leadership, the 2022 Wylie softball team is measuring in quality, not quantity.
With just one fourth-year player on this year’s roster — center fielder Ryleigh Whitehead — the Lady Bulldogs aren’t as deep in seasoned voices as many of their past teams have been.
But Whitehead, who was been on varsity since earning a call-up for the playoffs as a freshman in 2019, has proven quite capable as a lead singer. And with eight talented juniors behind her providing near pitch-perfect backup vocals, Wylie’s lone senior is far from a solo act.
Wylie sophomore Indiah Maroney punched her ticket to the Class 5A state meet over the weekend in Lubbock, finishing second in the high jump at the Region I-5A meet to earn a trip to the Austin in two weeks.
Maroney, the only local athlete to earn a spot at state, cleared a personal-best of 5-foot-5 to match region champion Anaya Potter of Justin Northwest, but she took a silver medal on attempts.
The 6-foot-2 sophomore, who also starts for the Wylie girls basketball team, accounted for eight of the Lady Bulldogs’ nine team points and the bulk of the 14 points earned by Abilene high school athletes at the Region I-5A and I-6A meets.
WOODROW — Reese Farrar pitched a complete-game gem and her Wylie teammates gave her just enough run support Thursday as the Lady Bulldogs edged Amarillo Caprock 2-0 in a single-game bi-district playoff at Lubbock Cooper High School.
The junior pitcher allowed just two hits on her way to a shutout, striking out 15 Caprock batters without a walk. The Wylie lineup, meanwhile, plated one run in the second and another in the fourth to make that hold up for the win.
The victory improved the Lady Bulldogs to 19-7 on the season and earned coach Heather Collier’s squad a Region I-5A area-round matchup with the winner between El Paso Chapin and Canutillo next week.
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Behind a dominant effort by starter Brooks Gay, the Wylie baseball team cruised to a 10-0 win over crosstown rival Cooper on Tuesday, using a three-run third and a five-run fifth to break open what was a close game in the early innings at Bulldog Field.
Gay, an Abilene Christian University signee, struck out eight batters in a six-inning complete game, allowing just four baserunners in the contest. The tall right-hander pitched around an error and a hit batsman in the first, before limiting the visiting Cougars to a single and a walk the rest of the way.
The Wylie lineup did the rest, overcoming a slow start against Cooper pitcher Colin Reed to score at least one run in each of the final four frames and earn a run-rule victory on Senior Night.
Merkel’s Alyssa O’Malley is no stranger to our Capital Farm Credit/BCP Player of the Week column.
If she’s not in the weekly mix during the basketball season as one of the area’s top players, she’s competing for our top spot during the spring in track and field.
Her latest exploit: How about four area championships in solo events, despite having a painful foot injury?
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Playing a home game under lights for the first time in program history, the Wylie baseball team took care of business against Lubbock High on Friday, combining a strong pitching performance with consistent offense to earn a 10-0 win at Bulldog Field.
Pitchers Trey Gomez and Grayson Bearden combined for six innings of one-hit ball, while the Wylie lineup scored in every inning but the fifth to end the game early and improve to 17-5 overall and 10-3 in District 4-5A play.
Leading 4-0 after three innings, Wylie took control with a five-run fourth, before putting the 10-run rule into effect with Tye Briscoe’s RBI double in the sixth.
The Wylie softball team closed out its regular season in dominating fashion on Friday, scoring early and often in a 23-1 rout of crosstown rival Cooper at Bulldog Field.
Battling heavy winds all afternoon, the Lady Bulldogs pounded out 12 runs in the first two innings to knock out the Lady Cougars’ top two pitchers, and the visitors had to turn to position players in the circle for the remainder of the game. This allowed the score to get even more out of hand, as Wylie took advantage of eight combined walks in the third and fourth innings before ending the game in the the fifth by way of the 10-run rule.
The victory improved the Lady Bulldogs 18-7 overall and 7-3 in the District 4-5A play, while the Lady Cougars wrapped up a tough campaign at 13-11-3 and 2-8.
For Stephenville standout Coy Eakin to land our Capital Farm Credit/BCP Player of the Week really shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Already signed to play football at Texas Tech, Eakin earned Offensive MVP honors in the wake of a spectacular performance in the Class 4A state title win over Austin LBJ in December, which netted him our final award for 2021. So this isn’t his first rodeo.
Eakin’s latest big-time performance came at the District 6-4A track meet, where he captured two individual district championships in the triple jump (43-0) and long jump (20-10) and assisted in a third title with the 1,600 relay team (50.5 anchor leg).
It’s important to note that Eakin took the district titles in the triple jump and long jump on short notice — having only practiced for both events for a week. That, ladies and gentlemen, is absolutely remarkable at the Class 4A level.
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The Wylie softball team used a four-run third inning to take control Thursday, and junior Rylee Moore handled the rest, shutting out Lubbock Cooper through the first six innings of a 6-3 victory at Bulldog Field.
Moore went the whole way in the circle, pitching around seven hits and two walks while tallying 13 strikeouts in the victory.
Her teammates, meanwhile, provided ample support, following their four-run third with two more runs in the fourth to take a 6-0 lead before holding off a late Lady Pirate rally in the seventh.
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The Wylie softball team picked up a big win over District 4-5A co-leader Lubbock Coronado on Tuesday, riding a complete-game gem from junior Reese Farrar to a 2-1 victory at Bulldog Field.
Farrar gave up just three hits and four walks while striking out 11, putting up zeros in the final three innings to allow the Lady Bulldogs to go ahead for good on Hanna Hood’s RBI single in the fifth.
Hosting top-ranked Lubbock Cooper with a share of the District 4-5A lead on the line, the Wylie baseball team saw a rocky start and a couple of missed opportunities sink any hope it had of upending the Pirates on Tuesday in a 10-1 loss at Bulldog Field.
Hurt by some sloppy defense early, the 11th-ranked Bulldogs fell behind 5-0 just two innings into the game. And they came away with just one run in their best chance at a big inning, allowing Cooper to maintain control throughout.
The loss dropped Wylie to 15-4 overall and 8-2 in league play — two games behind the Pirates (18-6, 10-0) with one more game remaining against them on Friday.
When the Wylie baseball team takes on Lubbock Cooper for a pair of games this week, it will do so with the District 4-5A lead on the line.
The Bulldogs enter Tuesday’s 5 p.m. home matchup just a game back of the defending champion Pirates, despite graduating a 10-player senior class that fueled the WHS program to a 46-25-2 record through its first three seasons at the Class 5A level, including a district title in 2019 and a trip to the Region I-5A semifinals last spring.
With six players in key roles who are seeing significant varsity action for the first time, the 2022 Bulldogs are far less experienced than last year’s model. But the team’s combination of strong senior leadership and youthful exuberance has been a winning one so far, evidenced by its 15-3 overall record and 8-1 mark in league play.
MIDLAND — The Abilene High softball team won its third consecutive game Friday, using a four-run third to erase an early deficit before exploding for eight fifth-inning runs to pull away for a 14-3 victory over Midland Legacy.
With the victory, the Lady Eagles improved to 13-10 overall and 4-4 in District 2-6A play, keeping pace with Odessa High for third place in the league standings while pulling a game ahead of Permian, which lost to first-place Frenship on Friday.
LUBBOCK — The Wylie baseball team completed a season sweep of Lubbock Coronado on Friday, scoring 11 runs over a three-inning span to turn an 4-2 deficit after three innings into a comfortable 13-6 victory.
The Bulldogs, who defeated the Mustangs 7-6 on March 17 in Lubbock and 7-5 on Tuesday in Abilene, avoided any late-inning drama in the third meeting, using a two-run fourth to tie the game, before answering a one-run Coronado fourth with four runs in the fifth and five in the sixth.
The victory improved the Bulldogs to 15-3 overall and 8-1 in District 4-5A, keeping coach Grant Martin’s squad within a game of league leader Lubbock Cooper (16-6, 9-0).
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The Wylie baseball team rode a fast start Tuesday to its fifth consecutive victory, scoring three runs in the first and two more in the second to set the tone for a 7-5 home win over Lubbock Coronado.
The Bulldogs, now 14-3 overall, pounded out 10 hits and took advantage of four Mustang errors in improving to 7-1 in District 4-5A play.
The Wylie Lady Bulldogs picked up a big win over crosstown rival Cooper on Tuesday, outlasting the Lady Cougars for a 6-4 victory to close out the first half of District 4-5A play on a three-game winning streak.
WHS, now 14-6 overall and 3-2 in district, never trailed in the game, but it wasn’t until the final out was recorded at Cougar Diamond that the Lady Bulldogs could finally breathe easy knowing the outcome was secure.
Leading 6-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh, Wylie saw Cooper pull within two on a leadoff home run by Karrigan Parrott and threaten to do more damage before finally running out of outs to play with. The Lady Cougars sent three batters to the plate as the tying run in their final at-bat, but following a 50-50 call on a sacrifice bunt that resulted in the first out of the inning, Wylie pitcher Rylee Moore induced a pair of ground outs to close out a complete-game victory.
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The Cooper softball team dropped another heartbreaker on Friday, falling 7-4 to Lubbock Coronado in a 10-inning thriller at Cougar Diamond.
The Lady Cougars, who gave up four seventh-inning runs in an 8-6 walk-off loss to Monterey last Friday, were tied with the Lady Mustangs this week from the end of the fourth inning through the top of the 10th. But a three-run outburst by Coronado in that half-inning left Cooper with a deficit it couldn’t overcome.
The loss dropped CHS (12-6-3 overall) to 1-3 in District 4-5A play, leaving them alone in fifth place after Friday’s games.
The Wylie lineup gave senior ace Brooks Gay three runs in the first inning and tacked on at least one run in four of the next five frames to fuel the Bulldogs to a 9-2 win over Lubbock Monterey on Friday at Bulldog Field.
Staked to a 4-0 lead after three, Gay allowed his only runs in the fourth and sixth innings and his teammates continued to provide run support, following one-run frames in the third and fourth innings with two runs in the fifth and sixth to pull away for a comfortable victory.
The win improved Wylie to 13-3 overall and 6-1 in District 4-5A play, keeping the Bulldogs within a game of league leader Lubbock Cooper, which defeated Abilene Cooper 11-1 on Friday in Abilene.
LUBBOCK — Coming off a difficult 8-6 road loss to Lubbock Monterey on Friday, the Cooper softball team needed a win at Lubbock High on Wednesday to avoid an 0-3 start to District 4-5A play. Playing a day later than scheduled due to heavy winds in the Lubbock area Tuesday, the Lady Cougars had little trouble accomplishing that, dominating at the plate and in the circle in a 10-0 run-rule victory over the Lady Westerners.
Summer Simmons and Jahlissah Marquez combined to pitch a two-hit shutout, and they got 14 hits from their offense, with six of those going for extra bases.
Cooper scored four in the first inning and two in the second to take control early, before tacking on a seventh run in the fifth inning and putting the 10-run rule into effect with a three-run sixth.
LUBBOCK — The Wylie baseball team improved to 5-1 in District 4-5A play on Wednesday, scoring five runs in the fourth to rally from a 3-1 deficit and defeat Lubbock Monterey 6-3 at Moegle Field.
Playing a day later than scheduled due to heavy winds in the Lubbock area Tuesday, the Bulldogs saw an early 1-0 lead erased by a three-run Plainsmen third. But the visitors answered with their offensive outburst the next half-inning to take the lead for good.
That big fourth inning made a winner out of Grayson Bearden, who relieved starter Tye Briscoe in the third and pitched the Bulldogs into the sixth. JT Thompson then put up zeroes in the final two innings for the save, completing 4.1 innings of scoreless relief.
Even in high school baseball, perfect games are rare. Two perfect games in one week in the same league are extremely uncommon.
Two perfect games in one week, thrown by a pair of teammates are about as elusive as a Lochness Monster sighting.
And coincidentally, that’s about how often Big Country Preps names two players for the Capital Farm Credit/BCP Player of the Week.
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Brooks Gay threw four no-hit innings and the Wylie offense capitalized on six errors by Cooper as the Bulldogs took a 17-1 win at Cougar Field in District 4-5A play on Friday night.
The top three hitters in Wylie’s lineup — Braden Regala, JT Thompson and Landon Williams — were a combined 3 for 8 with six walks, five runs scored and four RBIs.
That dominance at the top of the lineup set the tone for the Bulldogs offense early, allowing Gay to atone for a loss last week to Lubbock Cooper.
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Wylie left-hander Tye Briscoe was nearly perfect on the mound and his teammates gave him far more run support than he needed Tuesday in a 17-0 win over Lubbock High at Bulldog Field.
Briscoe, who allowed just two walks in a five-inning no hitter, faced one batter over the minimum, striking out 10 in a dominating performance.
And the WHS lineup ensured that effort would be a winning one, scoring at least three runs in every inning to help the Bulldogs improve to 10-3 overall and 3-1 in District 4-5A play.
A seven-run bottom of the first wasn’t enough to fuel the Wylie softball team to a win over Lubbock Monterey on Tuesday as the Lady Plainsmen countered with 12 unanswered runs to hand the Lady Bulldogs a 14-7 loss in the District 4-5A opener for both teams at Bulldog Field.
Monterey scored at least one run in every inning, using a five-run fourth to take a 10-7 lead it would only add to from there.
Wylie, which was coming off a 1-0 walk-off win over Stamford on Saturday, fell to 11-5 overall and 0-1 in district play with Tuesday’s loss — the first meeting between the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Plainsmen since Monterey ended WHS’ season in the Region I-5A quarterfinals last season.
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The Wylie softball team didn’t muster much offense off Stamford ace Citlaly Gutierrez, but with the way Rylee Moore pitched for the home team Saturday, coach Heather Collier’s Lady Bulldogs didn’t need to.
WHS pushed across one run in the bottom of the eighth and that was all that was needed to pick up a 1-0 walk-off win over Stamford in the final nondistrict game for both teams.
Limited to just four hits while striking out 15 times, Wylie put a pair of runners on base in the bottom of the eighth and got an RBI single from Ryleigh Whitehead to break a scoreless tie and improve to 11-4 heading into Tuesday’s District 4-5A opener against Lubbock Monterey.
The Wylie baseball team opened District 4-5A play with a 3-0 win over Lubbock Monterey on Tuesday, getting a combined shutout from pitchers Tye Briscoe and Grayson Bearden at Bulldog Field.
Briscoe went the first 4.2 innings to earn the win, while Bearden recorded the final seven outs for a save.
The victory, which followed a 4-0 run at the Abilene ISD Invitational baseball tournament, improved Wylie to 8-2 on the season and 1-0 in league play.
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CHILDRESS — Amarillo Tascosa outscored the Wylie boys basketball team 22-14 over the final eight minutes Tuesday to turn a one-point lead after three quarters into a 56-47 win in a Region I-5A bi-district matchup at the Childress High School gym.
The Rebels, who trailed by two at halftime, held just a three-point lead with two minutes remaining. But Tascosa closed the game on a 10-4 run to secure the win and end the Bulldogs’ season at 18-16.
Here are the updated Big Country boys basketball playoff pairings, results through March 5:
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Below are the final regular season statistical leaders for Big Country boys basketball in 2022.
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