Nacogdoches Dragons Ballpark on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 –
The Shelbyville Dragons varsity baseball team took a 10-3 Game 1 loss to the Gary Bobcats on Wednesday. The game was the first of a best-of-three game elimination series in the Texas UIL Baseball State Playoff and is at the Region III Quarterfinals being played out at Nacogdoches Golden Dragons Ballpark. Game 2 of the series is slated for Saturday, May 18 at 12 p.m. with Game 3, if needed to follow 30 minutes after Game 2.
The bulk of Gary High Schools damage was in the first inning. The Bobcats brought 12 batters to the plate and scored seven runs. Shelbyville fought back in the bottom of the first and Dylan Parker, Wyatt Frick and Gus Duvon scored the team’s only runs of the game to cut the GHS lead to 7-3.
Gary added another run when Brennan Stevens got on base after being hit by a pitch in the top of the third inning and he later scored on a Dragon’s throwing error to give Gary an 8-3 advantage. The final two runs of the game were scored in the top of the sixth when Tucker Grubbs singled to leftfield and Aiden Scogins tripled to leftfield to score Grubbs. Scogins scored later in the inning on a sacrifice bunt by Jacob Moffett which gave GHS the final 10-3 advantage that proved to hold up until the seven-inning game was completed.
Weston Frick pitched 2/3 inning and gave up a hit, struck out one and walked four batters. Dallas Murry pitched four and 2/3 innings. He allowed four hits, struck out three and walked three. Jason Fleming threw 1 2/3 innings, he struck out one and walked one batter.
Bobcat Kohl Woodfin went 5 1/3 innings and gave up four hits, walked four and struck out four. Landon Sipes went 1 1/3 innings and walked one and struck out one.
The Dragons are now 21-5 this season. The Bobcats stand at 19-10-1. The two teams played earlier this season in District 23 2A conference action with SHS taking both contests, a 4-3 win, and a 16-0 win.
