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Beckville

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Les Hassell
Beckville’s Trey Lindsay
delivers a pitch during the
May 31 game against White
Oak in Longview, helping
to secure the Region II-3A
series.
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Beckville’s Michael Mize dives for the plate as Clifton catcher Riley Perry reaches for the throw in the bottom of the seventh in the UIL Class 3A State Championship
Game in Round Rock. Mize beat the throw and the Bearcats won 5-4 in 10 innings.
Beckville Bearcats claim state baseball crown with extra-inning win
BY J. SCOTT RUSSELL
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ROUND ROCK — Their motto all
year has been “Whatever it takes,”
and never was that more obvious for
the Beckville Bearcats than in the
state title game.
The Bearcats used four pitchers,
overcame 10 walks and three errors,
and took advantage of five errors by
their opponents.
The last error came with the bases
loaded and one out in the bottom of
the 10th inning to give the Bearcats
a 5-4 win over Clifton and the 2018
UIL Class 3A State Baseball Cham-
pionship in front of 1,508 fans in Dell
Diamond.
Designated hitter Brandt Harris,
who drove in a pair of runs in the
contest, was voted the Nike Most
Valuable Player Award for the cham-
pionship game.
The entire contest went back and
forth from inning to inning. In fact,
the Bearcats had just gotten out of
a bases-loaded jam in the top of the
10th before they finished things.
Ty Jones, who caught a foul popup
to end the 10th for the Cubs, led off
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Brandt Harris gets a hug from teammate Marc McGuire after he wqas named the
Nike Most Valuable Player of the Game in the Beckville Bearcats’ 5-4 10-inning
win over Clifton in the Class 3A state title game in Round Rock.
Harris hit a shot to short against
the bottom of the 10th with a double
the drawn in infield and the short-
into the left-field corner. Clay Bur-
stop just nipped Jones at the plate
nett was intentionally walked — as
with a throw from his knees.
was Bryce Osborn — after an errant
It appeared things would repeat
pickoff attempt on Jones went into
themselves when Zeke Collins hit a
center field.
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“I went from thinking ‘Oh No’
to thinking ‘Holy Moly!! We’re
state champions.”
— Coach Jason Causey
slow roller to third. But the ball went
right through the fielder’s legs, al-
lowing Burnett to walk in with the
winning run.
“I went from thinking ‘Oh No’ to
thinking ‘Holy Moly!! We’re state
champions,” said a relieved Beckville
Coach Jason Causey. “I went through
all the emotions on that one play. It
was just a little squiggler, but it got
the job done.
“Whatever it takes. That’s kind of
been our motto all year long. And
now we’ve brought a state champion-
ship to Beckville, America.”
The Bearcats also had to rally in
the bottom of the seventh to force ex-
tra innings.
Down 4-3, Michael Mize got a two-
out single. He was running when Ben
Bridges’ grounder to third bounced
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Samantha Jones
The members of the 2018
Beckville Bearcats proudly
display their medals as
team trophy after winning
the UIL Class 3A Baseball
State Championship in
Round Rock on June 9 with
a 5-4 win over Clifton.

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off his glove and into left field, allow-
ing the run to score and Bridges end-
ed up on third.
But the heroics would have to wait
for another inning as he was left
stranded.
Ironically, Clifton scored the tying
and go-ahead runs in the top of the
sixth thanks to an error by the Bear-
cats.
Trailing 3-2, Mason Brandenberger
walked with one out and a grounder
to short that had double play writ-
ten on it, was misplayed, leaving two
runners on. They both moved up on
a groundout and they both scored on
Hunter Ringo’s infield single up the Contributed Photos
middle. Above: Beckville catcher Ben Bridg-
But Austin Bryan (6-0), who was
the fourth and final Beckville pitch-
es poses with two of his biggest fans,
er, came on to start the seventh. The Wesdon Harris and Braxdan Allred, who
Cubs did get runners on against him share Bridges’ hair style, going for the
— two hits and three walks — but he Mohawk.
was able to get out of each jam — es-
pecially in the top of the 10th. Right: Beckville catcher Ben Bridges
A single and a sacrifice bunt that catches a foul popup behind the plate
was misplayed put two runners on. A for the third out in the top of the fourth
successful sacrifice bunt put runners inning
on second and third with one out. A
walk loaded the bases.
But Bryan came back with a strike-
out and the popup to Jones. 2018 Beckville Bearcats
“Coach puts me in in tough situa-
tions and I have to do the job,” said Team Roster
the junior right-hander, who also has

five saves in the playoffs.
“I feel like I did it. We’ve been going
after this for four years, well three
for me, but four for the rest of the
guys.
“I was kind of nervous (in the 10th).
But I knew we could get out of the in-
ning if we worked for it. We did what
we needed to and we came out on
top.”
“He’s been a very big part of our
success in the playoffs,” Causey said.
“He did an awesome job getting out
of jams. He just kept putting up zeros
until we could score.”
Walks hurt Beckville starter Ethan
Harris as a second-inning walk came
around to score the game’s first run
and he came out after his third walk.
That runner eventually scored to put
the Cubs up 2-0.
“I knew early on that Ethan wasn’t
himself,” Causey said. “So it was on
to the next guy (Osborn). There’s no
tomorrow. A great part of our suc-
cess has been the depth of our pitch-
ing staff. I’m proud of them. They all
came in and did the job.”
The Bearcats took the lead in the
bottom of the fourth as Ethan Harris
and Jones hit back-to-back singles.
Burnett was hit by a pitch to load the
Congratulations
1 — Michael Mize, Sr.
3 — Austin Bryan, Jr.
4 — Will Tate, Sr.
6 — Trey Lindsay, Sr.
8 — Zeke Collins, Sr.
9 — Ethan Harris, Sr.
10 — Mark MCGuire, Jr.
11 — Clayton Burnett, Sr. UIL 3A State Champions!!
12 — Brandt Harris, Sr.
13 — Bryce Osborn, Sr.
14 — Ty Jones, Sr.
15 — Ben Bridges, Sr.
Head coach: Jason Causey
Assistant Coaches: Jason Bridges,
Zach Hubbard
Statistician: Gene Williams; Manager:
Brantley Klingler; Trainer: Matt Burke.
bases and Osborn walked to bring in
a run.
Brandt Harris then singled be-
tween short and third to drive in two
runs and put them up 3-2.
“This is surreal,” Bryan said.
“There’s no other feeling like this. I
feel like I’m on top of the world.”
The 10-inning game tied for the lon-
gest championship game in UIL his-
tory, tying the mark when Anderson
Shiro beat Gilmer in 2006.
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10-game winning streak propelled Beckville to the playoffs
Some days it was the pitching.
Some days it was the hitting.
And some days it was the combina-
tion of both for the Beckville Bearcats
in 2018.
But no matter what it was that pow-
ered the Bearcats on any given day,
one thing is true:
Beckville is the 2018 UIL Class 3A
State Champion in baseball.
From a 13-3 win over Banquete on
Feb. 23 to their 5-4 10-inning win over
Clifton in the state championship
game in Round Rock on June 9, the
Bearcats proved they are the best.
Beckville averaged almost nine
runs a game the entire season and
started the year winning 12 straight.
Although they didn’t clinch the Dis-
trict 13-3A title until the final game
— thanks to a 4-1 loss to district ri-
val White Oak — they closed out the
regular season on a 10-game winning
streak that had them ready for every-
thing they would face once the play-
offs rolled around.
In setting a school record for wins
with 36 (36-4), the Bearcats hit .371 as
a team with 98 extra-base hits and 166
steals.
They struck out almost 300 batters
and had a team ERA of 1.51, posting
11 shutouts along the way including a
4-0 win over Brock in the state semi-
finals.
As a defense they had a .955 fielding
percentage, committing 36 errors in
800 chances.
But this senior-laden team — 10 of
the 12 on the roster at state were se-
niors — had been there before with
coach Jason Causey.
The Bearcats made it to the region-
al finals in 2015, 2016 and 2017, mak-
ing it to state, but falling in the finals
in 2016.
“The goal is not to get back down
there,” Causey said amid the playoff
run. “The goal is to get back down
there and win.”
That’s just what they did.
BI-DISTRICT
Beckville 16, West Rusk 2
LONGVIEW — Trey Lindsay was
the pitching star and Ben Bridges had
the big bat for the Bearcats as they de-
molished the Raiders at LeTourneau
University.
Lindsay gave up one hit and struck
out six in his four-inning stint on the
mound, while Bridges was 3 for 5 with
a double and drove in five runs.
Beckville 18, West Rusk 2
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Beckville’s Zeke Collins tries to turn a
double play after stopping baserunner
Elijah Trest at second base during the
June 2 game against White Oak. The
return throw was late, but the Bearcats
took a 10-3 win to advance to the state
tournament.
LONGVIEW — A second game
didn’t make things any easier for the
Raiders as Beckville once against
pounded out 12 hits and had a domi-
nant pitching performance.
This time it was a 10-run third in-
ning that helped the Bearcats run-
rule the Raiders, behind Zeke Collins’
pitching.
Ben Bridges was 2 for 4 with a dou-
ble and another five-RBI night, while
Ethan Harris was 3 for 4 with a double
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Beckville’s
Brandt Harris
goes down
swinging
in the fifth
inning during
the May 31
game against
White Oak in
Longview. Har-
ris came up
with a single
in the top of
the ninth to
drive in the
only run of the
game as the
Bearcats won
1-0.
Bearcats re-
tired the next
19 in a row.
The Eagles
did finally get
to Lindsay in
and an RBI, Michael Mize was 2 for 3 the bottom of
with three RBIs and Brandt Harris the seventh, pushing across four more
also had a double. runs, but the Bearcats had built up a
AREA ROUND big lead and held on for the 9-5 win at
Beckville 6, New Boston 1 East Texas Baptist’s Woods Field.
HARLETON — Trey Lindsay scat- The Bearcats got the big lead with a
tered five hits and struck out 12 as the six-run seventh inning after scratch-
Bearcats took out the Lions in Game 1 ing for single runs in the third, fourth
of the playoff series. and fifth frames to go up 3-1.
The Bearcats only had seven hits of Brandt Harris walked and Lind-
their own — all singles — but made say bunted for a base hit to get things
the most of them as Ty Jones and Ben started. One out later, Ben Bridges
Bridges were both 1 for 3 with 2 RBIs doubled in both runs to make it 5-1.
each. Ethan Harris walked and Ty Jones
Beckville 5, New Boston 0 singled to lead the bases.
HARLETON — Zeke Collins took Clayton Burnett then went deep to
the mound for the Bearcats and left field for a grand slam and a 9-1
notched the first shutout of the post- Beckville lead.
season with the win over the Lions. Beckville 12, Harmony 7
Collins gave up five hits, walked MARSHALL — It’s been close to
one and struck out two. Trey Lindsay two months since Ethan Harris was
was 2 for 3 with an RBI and Bridges able to take the mound for the Beck-
was 1 for 3 with three RBIs. ville Bearcats.
REGIONAL QUARTERFINALS Saturday afternoon against the
Beckville 9, Harmony 5 Harmony Eagles he made his trium-
MARSHALL — For much of Thurs- phant return.
day night’s Region II-3A quarterfinal Harris got through four innings and
series opener, Beckville’s Trey Lind- his offense provided plenty of support
say was almost perfect against the as the Bearcats outslugged the Eagles
Harmony Eagles. for a 12-7 win and a sweep of the Re-
Yes, he did give up a leadoff double gion II-3A quarterfinal series at East
to Drew Hunter, who eventually came Texas Baptists’ Woods Field.
around to score and give the Eagles
the early lead. But Lindsay and the See RECAP, Page 5B
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“It was good for us to get off to a
good start offensively,” Beckville
coach Jason Causey said. “Especially
for Ethan. He’s been my No. 1 for most
of four years. But he’s had trouble
with his arm and hasn’t been on the
mound since March 13.
“He wasn’t as good as he’s capable
of throwing, but he gave us a chance.
And we gave him some runs.”
The defense helped him early with
a double play and the offense used the
long ball to push across three runs in
the bottom of the first.
Ben Bridges walked with two outs
and Harris helped his own cause we a
triple to center. Ty Jones did him one
better, hitting a long fly ball over the
fence in left for a two-run homer and
a 3-0 lead.
Harris gave way to Michael Mize
in the fifth and thanks to three hits,
two errors and a walk he needed help
from Bryce Osborn before he could
get out of the inning with an 11-7 lead. Les Hassell
REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
Beckville 3, Edgewood 2 Beckville’s Ethan Harris safely steals second base during the June 2 game against White Oak. Harris was 3-for-3 at the plate
TYLER — The Beckville Bearcats plate wih a double and a triple.
had all the confidence in the world in
Vernon Mize
Austin Bryan when he came on in re- of the mound that Lindsay just missed
lief with two outs in the bottom of the getting the runner at first to load the Beckville’s
seventh Thursday night. bases. A high chopper to first brought Michael Mize
But a hit batter and a couple of in a run as Jayden Morgan just beat singles with two
cheap hits let the Edgewood Bulldogs Bryan to the bag. outs in the sev-
push one run across and load the bas- The right-hander then finished enth to keep the
es with the tying run just 90 feet away. things off with the popup into short Bearcats’ hopes
Bryan fell behind 3-1 to the Bobcats’ center field. alive. He would
Cooper Hill, but then got him on a The Bulldogs scored in the bottom score in the
popup to second for the third out and of the first off Lindsay, but he held
a 3-2 Bearcat win in the first game of inning to send
them scoreless the rest of the way.
the Region II-3A semifinal series at A Mize single and a Ben Bridges the game into
Mike Carter Field. double tied the game for the Bearcats extra-innings
The Bearcats pushed an insurance in the third. and Beckville
run across the plate in the top of the Beckville had just three hits until beat Clifton 5-4
seventh when Michael Mize dou- the bottom of the sixth, but they took to claim the
bled with Trey Lindsay running on the lead without benefit of a hit in the Class 3A State
the pitch, scoring easily from first to fifth. Four straight walks brought in Championship.
make it a 3-1 Beckville lead. the run,
Lindsay had thrown 99 pitches Edgewood 8, Beckville 5 error to score
through the first six innings, but A five-run inning gave the Bulldogs a pair of un-
went back out to finish the game, de- a lead they would never give up as the earned runs in
spite having just 11 pitches left. Bearcats missed a chance to end the the top of the Beckville’s Austin Bryan proved to be
He almost made it. series early. seventh to put the game away. the answer.
A strikeout and a ground out used Beckville starter Ethan Harris Beckville 5, Edgewood 4 The senior right-hander came on
up eight pitches and he was ahead of couldn’t get out of the second inning TYLER — Ineffectiveness and high in the sixth inning of Game 3 and re-
the third batter 0-2. But Keeton Seale as six walks, an error and three hits pitch counts caused both coaches to tired five of the seven batters he faced,
slapped a single in the hole to keep put the Bulldogs up 6-0. make several pitching changes Sat- including striking out the side in the
the Bulldogs alive and end Lindsay’s The Bearcats had runners on in ev- urday in the Region II-3A semifinals bottom of the seventh as the Bearcats
night on the mound. ery inning but one, scoring three in at Mike Carter Field as the teams won the series with a 5-4 win over the
Bryan hit the first batter he faced the third, one in the fourth and one in combined to use 10 pitchers in the two Edgewood Bulldogs.
to put two on, then gave up an infield the sixth to make it a 6-5 ballgame. games.
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There were more than 20 walks and
five hit batters in the two games.
Zeke Collins got the Game 3 start
for Beckville and had the Bulldogs
under control until the bottom of the
fifth when they cut a 5-1 deficit to 5-4.
Bryan would hit the first batter he
faced, but came back to get a fly out
and a ground out.
“I really love coming in in those
situations,” said Bryan, who had to
get the final out in a 3-2 game Fri-
day night. “The adrenaline gets me
pumped and I have confidence in my-
self and I feel I have my best stuff. So
does coach. I’m thankful he has the
trust in me.”
In the seventh he got a called strike-
out, walked a batter and came back
with two more strikeouts to finish
things.
REGIONAL FINALS
Beckville 1, White Oak 0
LONGVIEW — Beckville’s Trey
Lindsay and White Oak’s Elijah Trest
had already battled on the mound
twice this season headed into the
start of their Region II-3A final series
Thursday night.
So when they did it a third time it
really came as no surprise.
The duo put zero after zero on the
scoreboard through eight innings
and 222 pitches before Brandt Harris
drove in the only run of the game in
the top of the ninth to give the Bear-
cats a 1-0 win and a 1-0 advantage in
the best-of-3 series at Lobo Field.
The pitching was at the forefront for
most of the game as Trest was perfect
through 3⅔ innings and limited the
Bearcats to three hits, striking out 12
in 7⅔ innings of work.
Lindsay got out of jams in sever-
al innings, stranding nine runners
on base, while giving up six hits and
striking out six. His last strikeout
came on his 110th pitch in the bottom
of the eighth and Harris’ ninth-inning
single made him the winning pitcher.
Bryce Osborn reached on a fielder’s
choice with two outs, stole second to
get into scoring position, making it
home when Harris lined a 2-2 pitch
over the Roughnecks’ shortstop.
Since Lindsay had reached his pitch
limit, the Bearcats called on Austin
Bryan, and once again he answered.
He got the first two Roughnecks on
called third strikes before finishing
things with a swing and a miss to
strike out the side.
“It’s a good win against a really
good team,” Beckville coach Jason
Causey said. “Going in I felt it was
going to be a low-scoring game, but I
didn’t think it would go nine innings.
Trest battled, but Trey was equally as
impressive. It was just a big win.
“It was a good team win. He pitched
well and we played good defense be-
hind him.”
White Oak 12, Beckville 0
LONGVIEW — Offense was at a
minimum in Game 1 of the Region II-
3A final series as just one run scored
in nine innings of action.
The scoring troubles continued for
the Beckville Bearcats in Game 2.
Unfortunately for the Cats, the
White Oak Roughnecks had no such
trouble Friday night.
White Oak pounded out 10 hits and
broke the game wide open with a six-
run fifth inning to take a 12-0 run-
rule win over the Bearcats at Lobo
Field and even the series at 1-1.
The Bearcats didn’t have any trou-
ble getting runners on base. Their
trouble was plating those runners.
They left 11 runners on base for the
game, including leaving the bases
loaded in the second and fourth in-
nings.
The Roughnecks then put the game
away in the fifth when they sent 10
batters to the plate. A Heath Hood
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Beckville
coach Ja-
son Causey
(center)
talks to
his players
between
innings of
the Game
2 regional
semifinal
against
Edgewood
at Mike
Carter Field
in Tyler.
triple and
two walks
loaded the
bases. One
out lat-
er, John
T homset t
singled in
two runs
and the But all eight of their hits were sin- the task.
hits and runs just kept coming for the gles and none of those runners came The Bearcats broke it open in their
Roughnecks as they opened up the 9-0 around to score. half of the fifth as Mize led off with a
lead. The Bearcats, however, made the lazy fly that the right fielder played
Beckville 10, White Oak 3 most of their hits, taking advantage into a triple. Bridges was intentional-
LONGVIEW — Things didn’t go of three extra-base hits along with ly walked to put runners on the cor-
particularly well for Ethan Harris another strong pitching performance ners, and Ethan Harris hit a single
and the Beckville Bearcats the last as they beat the Eagles 4-0 Friday af- between short and third to make it a
time he took the mound. ternoon in the semifinals of the UIL 2-0 game.
So the senior right-hander knew he Class 3A State Baseball Tournament One out later, Clay Burnett doubled
had something to prove — at least to at Dell Diamond. to left to drive in two more and make
himself — when he got the call Satur- Beckville scored the only run it it a 4-0 lead.
day in the final game of the Region II- needed in the bottom of the first as Lindsay ran out of pitches before he
3A series at Lobo Field. Michael Mize was hit by a pitch and could finish the sixth, forcing Bryan
The proof was in his performance. came around to score when Ben to come in with two on and one out.
Harris kept the White Oak batters Bridges followed with a triple to wall He would walk the first batter to load
in check for nearly six innings and in left-center field. the bases, but then struck out the next
provided the big hit in the Bearcats’ “I felt coming in it was going to be two to end the threat.
big inning on offense for a 10-3 win a low-scoring game,” Beckville coach “Trey did an outstanding job,” Cau-
and a second trip to the state tourna- Jason Causey said. “Going from re- sey said. “I couldn’t be any prouder of
ment in the last three years. ports their starting pitcher was good the way he threw and the importance
“I knew I had to come out and be and he was. Of course, our guy was he’s had on our season this year.”
big, be focused and to really throw pretty good, too. Bryan gave up a one-out single,
my best game,” said a joyful Harris. “I was just glad we were able to notched a strikeout before hitting a
“I tried to be consistent and stay in a break it open late. Even then we still batter and giving up a walk to load
zone. I had to keep us in the game.” had to work out of jams.” the bases.
The game didn’t start particularly One of the jams was in the top of the Causey went out to visit him on the
well for Harris and the Bearcats as third as Brock got a pair of bunt sin- mound, had a brief conversation and
White Oak’s Heath Hood touched him gles to start the inning, then a single left him to finish things. He picked up
for a leadoff homer just a few pitches to right loaded the bases. his fourth strikeout in 1⅔ innings to
into the game. But Trey Lindsay, pitching for the pick up his fifth save of the postsea-
But Harris got out of that inning Bearcats for the final time, came son.
without further damage; pitched out back with two of his game-high nine “It was a great day for me,” Lind-
of a base-loaded jam in the second; strikeouts. say said. “It was the last time to take
and left two runners stranded in the The Eagles would mount at least a the mound with this jersey on. I can’t
fourth. small threat for each inning the rest think of anything better than to go
The Roughnecks would finally of the way, but Lindsay (11-2) and re- out like this.”
get back to him in the sixth as Hood lief pitcher Austin Bryan were up to
plated two with a double, bringing on
Austin Bryan in relief to finish things
off, stranding the tying run at third.
Despite the three runs, the Bear-
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cats held a 4-3 lead after the uprising
and Harris had something to do with
that as well.
He drove in Trey Lindsay with a
single in the top of the first to tie the
game. His third-inning double drove
in Lindsay again to take the lead, and
Ty Jones singled in two more to make
it 4-1.
Harris’ biggest hit came in the sixth
as Zeke Collins was hit by a pitch,
Lindsay put down a sacrifice bunt and
was safe when the catcher threw the
ball away. With runners on second
and third, Ben Bridges was intention-
ally walked to load the bases.
Harris cleared them with a triple
past the diving attempt by the Rough-
neck center fielder to make it a 7-3
lead. He finished the day going 3 for 3
with five RBIs.
Jones would single in Harris before
Clayton Burnett launched one over
the wall in left to make it a 10-3 lead.
STATE SEMIFINALS
Beckville 4, Brock 0
ROUND ROCK — The Brock Ea-
gles picked up two first-inning singles
and managed to out-hit the Beckville
Bearcats all day.
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