Flyball.

The weekend of the championship rolls on.

It's the four a state title.

Harding Academy in Brooklyn.

And we're halfway through day two.

Glad you're with us from Bear Stadium alongside my good friend Kevin Bohan.

And I'm JB Brazil.

Kevin always a pleasure.

And these state championship games have been a thriller.

All three of the baseball state championship games have come down to the wire, with at least the tying run at the plate.

And this matchup here, we anticipate to be quite, quite the same.

That's exactly right.

Harding Academy number one in the super seven rankings for the entire season.

Brooklyn's been as high as number three.

Set a state.

Set a school record for number of wins this season.

We take a look here at the schedule for this weekend.

There's only two left.

The one here coming up.

First pitch in a few minutes.

Brooklyn and Harding Academy.

And then the softball championship.

Three.

A battle between Mayflower and, you guessed it, Harding Academy.

Trying to go for the sweep in baseball.

Softball.

It's going to be a lot of fun, so don't go anywhere.

4 p.m. first pitch, 7 p.m. for the softball championship.

But to today's action, you look first at Harding Academy.

They're got a player to watch coming up.

That's what you got tomorrow.

Softball.

Two championships.

The six.

That's the heavyweight softball baseball championships.

But today it's baseball between Harding Academy and Brooklyn.

And for the Wildcats, it's the leadoff hitter, Kim Pryor.

Yeah.

Kim Pryor has had a great year out of that leadoff spot.

He was eight of 13 in the state tournament last week at Monticello.

He ended up the Shiloh Christian game in the semifinals, goes three for four.

He is the catalyst that makes the engine run for the Wildcats.

And you talk about making things go for Brooklyn.

It's their leadoff hitter, too, but it's their center fielder, Cooper Bodie.

He is playing lights out this year.

Yeah.

Coach Josh Baker says he's on a tear right now.

One of the hottest hitters in the state, hitting 430 for the season, two home runs, 29 RBI's.

That was highlighted by a five for six effort, eight RBI against Highland in a 20 to 9 win during the conference season.

Man, that is quite the slate for Bodie.

Look for him to be on display today.

It's all in the line for the for a state title.

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Just about set for the first pitch.

Harding Academy, the visiting team.

So they'll take the swings first.

It'll be Brooklyn on the mound.

And let's take a look at the offensive line up for the Wildcats.

Cam Pryor, our player to watch, will lead things off as he and Kim Hoover 456 is Hawks, Myers, Watson, Corbett, Smith and Miles to round out the order.

The one Rock automotive batting order and they're going to face a South Paul on the bump for Brooklyn.

It's Asher Griffin love Asher Griffin.

He comes over from Greene County.

Tech works a low three footer slot fastball, slider, changeup.

If he can work his changeup into the righties, it's going to be a long day for Harding Academy.

Asher Griffin on the season 49 innings pitched, he's got a 1.86 E.R.A.

94 strikeouts, 35 walks, team's hitting under a buck 20 against him.

He's looking in the game of his life trying to face a very good Harding Academy team that is going for their eighth state title in school history.

Brooklyn's going for their first, and here we go with the signs been given.

The pitch is coming home.

We're underway from Conway, Arkansas.

405 official start time mist down and in and it's one ball.

No strikes to the leadoff hitter, Kim Pryor.

Yeah, one thing you see out of Ash and Asher, he's going to work fast, but he's going to work real fast.

Tanner set the momentum for the game.

You can see right quick he's getting two pitches real, real quick sure enough, and finds the strike zone this time.

Got swing and missed off the pitch.

Previous gets ahead of a good hitter.

One ball two strikes and the southpaw trying to get things rolling for the Bearcats.

Just a hair above the zone.

Good take from Pryor.

Maybe too close to take.

Yeah that's one of those.

It's borderline.

It's a 5050 pitch.

Harding Academy has to do a good job of staying up the middle today on Griffin and the offspeed pitch too.

Good.

Lay off.

Well, I think we've seen a ton of three ball, two strike counts in these baseball state championships to get begin from these leadoff hitters.

Yeah.

Like we talked about yesterday, pitching off of turf is a lot different than dirt.

See how these guys acclimate adjustment.

It wasn't their free pass to begin the ball game Kim Pryor he fell behind a ball into strikes.

Excellent job to walk the walk.

One of the things you'll see from this Harding Academy lineup is they are very disciplined.

Shane Fullerton has taught the same hitting philosophy for the last 15 years, and you'll see the same approach just from about every hitter.

But they'll have their own unique player.

Coach Fullerton has five of those state titles.

Big swing and a miss from Titus Hanley, the right fielder for the Wildcats.

Due up now.

Kim Hoover's in the on deck circle.

He'll get a crack here in a moment, but a leadoff walk begins the ballgame.

Oh one right down Grand Central for strike two.

Work the fastball down in the zone against the righties.

Henley has had a very good state tournament.

The semifinals against Shiloh Christian three for four with three RBIs.

Going to have to protect this time, though.

Been a good postseason oh two upstairs a little bit yeah.

You talked about his postseason.

It's kind of the case with a lot of these players right.

To get here.

You got to have guys string it together for Harding Academy.

It seems like one through nine.

That's been the case one two pitch busted him inside but missed the inside corner.

Yeah.

Griffin right there really trying to command to the glove side.

And that's going to bust in on the righties.

They're using wooden bats.

That's where you kind of want to break those bats.

Runners on the move two twos inside.

They test the arm of the catcher.

And they got him.

What a throw from Rogan Tyler.

The holes from the sophomore.

And that's the game's first down.

Great transition right there.

You'll see it went on.

First movement.

Great transition by Tyler behind the plate.

Good job by the shortstop right there.

That is our man Ethan Bales.

And there's the defensive lineup right there for you JB that's right bales Eric Short.

You see Gabe Carter to his left at third base group Ken Tucker at second Jake Reese at first.

Another free pass though Gabe Carter Cooper Brody Eli Foster left to right the outfield Logan Tyler, the catcher, made an excellent play to gun down the runner.

Titus Henley's on base now.

Harding Academy likes to apply pressure.

That's your win, Rock.

Automotive defensive line ups.

Yeah.

Next up you get Cam Hoover, who moved over from second base to shortstop.

His older brother, Kyler Hoover, graduated last year for the Wildcats.

Well family of Hoover's a big strike to begin.

So Pryor's done a good job.

All three hitters.

It seems like he's gotten ahead.

Yeah, Griffin.

That's the thing.

If he gets ahead of batters, it's going to be a long day for the Wildcats.

Inside corner.

Snap back.

Throw behind the runner at first a diving save by Jake Reese.

The senior over at first.

I tell you what Jimmy I've been a fan of Jake Reese since he was a freshman.

He's played all four years, made all state, and now he's in the middle of the lineup.

It's it's his year get to a state title game after coming.

So close the last couple of years.

A part of a Brooklyn team that's only got three seniors oh two curveballs popped up.

Center field bodies there, plenty of room just like that.

Two are going.

Nice work from the starter.

Asher Griffin.

Not out of the woods yet.

The runner aboard.

Two gone for Bentley Hawks.

Yeah.

Love the curveball right there.

After you establish the zone with the fastball.

Good command.

Then he comes back with the curveball.

It's got more of a slider shape to it as well, so we'll call it a slur throughout the game.

It's got more horizontal movement than a curve ball does.

He got that pop fly to centerfield.

Lefty.

Lefty clipped him inside, hit by pitch.

All three base runners for Harding Academy have reached two with a free pass, one to hit by pitch.

That's one thing you'll notice.

If there are any inside pitches from Griffin Harding Academy will take them.

They do not bail.

That's one thing.

The same thoughts and teachers take advantage of everything the pitcher gives you.

So now the five hole hitter Brody Meyers will step in the senior.

Well, he was not going to be there every day.

Catcher Isaac Baker went down with injury before the season started.

Coach said Meyers didn't really want to play catch up, but knew he had to step up, went to coach and said, stepped into the office.

They told him coach catchers mind, I'll step up, be a teammate.

He's been that and many much more.

Yeah.

And Isaac Baker could be a college catcher.

He played football of course tore his ACL.

But Brody Meyers has been awesome.

Hit a home run in the quarterfinal win over Arkadelphia and he'll have a hitter's count.

Could try to do some damage.

You see, the sophomore rule?

Tyler trying to calm down his pitcher.

Take a deep breath.

Try to find the zone the deal with Griffin is he's got the stuff.

Really good stuff.

Control can be an issue at times.

Yeah, and command.

Control.

He's going to dial in.

He's got the he's got the stuff.

That's the thing to throw from Meyer to Meyer.

Strike on the outer portion.

That's a good located pitch you see.

Take that deep breath.

Sometimes that's all it takes for a good pitcher to settle in.

You would never know that.

Rogan Tyler's a sophomore behind the plate.

The way he's reacted to his pitcher, where he controls the running game so far, Coach Baker said about his sophomore catcher.

He's going to be a D1 prospect.

He really shined early in the year in that Houston, Tennessee tournament.

They wouldn't play some of the top programs in Tennessee in Rogue and talent stepped up to the occasion.

Yeah, that was after going down to Florida and playing for, during spring break the week.

He came back and they just stopped off in Memphis and play Houston High School.

That was the first time that they'd gone on a spring break trip, but right now it's Griffin location problems.

Bases are juiced.

All of them have come to the free pass for a hit by pitch, and Rhett Watson will get to bat with the bases loaded.

Yeah, don't be surprised.

You see Coach Bobby Joe Watson, pitching coach or another assistant coach come out and make a mound visit right here.

And it's looks exactly what we got.

Looks like Coach Baker's headed out there to talk to a star pitcher.

It's coach Josh Baker, a great coach for Brooklyn to second year at Brooklyn.

Coming out came over from Marion.

Was Marion played in the state finals last night.

Coach Pete Prater has a state championship under him.

Building his own coaching tree right now.

We'll have talked with Baker before the game.

His message to the team stay where your feet are.

You hear that?

Coach?

Coach speak so many times, but he believes it with these guys like, you know, stay where you are.

You've won 26 ballgames.

It's another game.

Just go play.

When you talk to about hey, the heavy Duncan might be one of the toughest non-contact schools in the country in the state, he said that they feel battle tested.

They're ready for this moment, he said.

In those Tennessee tournaments, the student sections, the rowdiness, he said, it was really, really legit.

Reminds him of a state title title.

Tight game.

Yeah.

Houston inner city schools over there.

Collierville, Cordova, Houston, Germantown.

They all get after really good baseball nationally ranked programs as well.

So Coach Baker, after the conversation, Griffin's going to work from the wind up.

First pitch.

Nice block from Tyler behind the dish that keeps everybody at bay.

That's huge back there having somebody.

And we talked about it yesterday during the one day game.

Be a pillow back there.

Be soft have soft hands especially on this turf that the ball can kick away at any moment.

So make sure you block it down in front of you.

Harding Academy looking for the big hit here.

Strike at the knees from Asher Griffin Swanson and the Harding Academy second baseman trying to do some damage here.

Just a sophomore, first year in the lineup.

Yeah.

Didn't play a whole lot last year since Kim Hoover was over there at second base.

So he's gotten to learn a lot from Hoover this year.

And one of the things about Harding Academy, they're state championship teams have always been solid up the middle catcher, middle infield, center field.

You can see it again this season.

Hitters count to Watson two one.

That's a good pitch.

But just below the knees yeah really good pitch right there.

Really good take by Watson.

Sophomore good.

Good hitting strategy up there.

Your head three one right now.

Be surprised if he if he's swinging right here.

Got to be absolutely your pitch right.

Absolutely.

You're looking one spot one spot only three and one Griffin no place to put him.

Strike over the outer portion painted the black.

And now everybody will get a head start from first, second and third.

And one thing with the home plate umpire today Ben Fox.

It's his first state tournament back there.

But he's done a good job so far.

If you've got a pitcher that's all around the plate, it's a little tougher because he's on one side or the other.

Like Griffin's been early on.

Three balls, two strikes in the top of the first.

All the runners are on the move.

The payoff pitch is popped up foul and will do it again.

Way to hang right there.

The sophomore keep battling.

Griffin's already thrown quite a few pitches this inning.

He's up way over 20 so far.

He's had 332 count.

So running that pitch count up early.

That's a great job from Harding Academy to do it.

Runners go again.

Pitch is high at Harding Academy.

Strikes first.

Another free pass.

The first rule of the game thus far a hit by pitch as well and well merry go round for Harding Academy.

Yeah, scoring a run without putting a ball in play.

Well, with the exception of the year, without getting hit, that's taken what the pitch and giving you right there working the count Nate Corbett the starting pitcher will get to bat as we do have a conversation with the base runner courtesy runner.

And that's what it will be.

So courtesy runner to second base yeah.

Coach Fullerton one of the coaches that he does, coach the third base box and always has loves it over there.

It's hard to tell with a red on black right here.

But yeah that's Brody Jones freshman up and in.

Did it hit him.

It did hit by pitch.

Another run comes in to score.

It's two to nothing.

Wildcats.

That Coach Baker is really wanting Griffin to settle in out there.

But at some point you got to think look there's two outs.

You want him to work through this.

But if he gets too much on him right here, he keeps looking over to the dugout.

That's that's how, you know, when he just looking for something, looking for help, looking for a lifeline.

At this point.

Harding Academy trying to keep applying the pressure.

First pitch coming to Riley Smith.

And it's a strike I think that's big for Griffin to get ahead.

Now you can kind of maybe take a deep breath, try to settle in, because Harding Academy is one big hit away from trying to really jump out early in the first.

That's exactly right.

And Riley Smith, one of the first year players, is position this Harding Academy team.

Seven of the eight players in the starting lineup today.

It's their first year at a new position.

Smith hitting a 284 average, fouls it back into the netting.

Griffin, who had a ball and two strikes.

If you saw whatever Griffin and looked over Baker game a thumbs up said, hey, you got this.

You got the stuff to settle down.

And ever since then he's come back.

Look good.

Yeah, we've seen it so far in the first three state tournament.

Pitchers have had a hard time just kind of settling in early out there.

One ball, two strikes.

Fouled back again.

Smith straight back into the netting on Griffin just a little bit off that yeah.

And at this point Griffin he's not trusting anything.

But if he can go back to that curve ball that he got Hoover to fly out on earlier.

If he can can man that he can get it out right here.

One ball two strikes to Riley Smith.

Griffin swinging a chopper.

Right side.

Second baseman Tucker bobbles the ball.

And everybody safe three nothing.

Harding Academy and boy that's a big blow to the defense.

Yeah it's like when it rains it pours right there JB put the ball in play.

Good things happen.

It was a slow roller.

One thing that he could have done right there better and that's that's number eight with Ken Tucker.

Come get that ball.

Come get it and get it to first base.

That's all he had to do.

I think it almost was like deciding do I kind of glove and flip to second or a backhand plant throw to first.

Didn't make up his mind.

Now the ninth batter of the inning will be standing in Joe Miles.

Yeah, Miles, one of those first year starters for Coach Fulton's Wildcats, many out there in left field.

Good speed, nine hole hitter.

Do you want it to be your second lead off.

Flip it over to the for the top of the lineup.

333 out of that nine spot.

That's impressive.

Does have a home run on the year as well 11 stolen bases.

So you're right.

It's like another leadoff hitter.

Oh.

Comes too far inside Griffin.

Another hit by pitch and boy for nothing.

Harding Academy all of this without a hit.

That's exactly right.

They.

And you saw right there miles just rolled into the pitch right there.

Let it hit you.

Take your base.

I think that's going to do it.

Griffin just could not get it figured out.

He needed one more out.

Not the outing that he wanted.

Coach Baker's going to go to the next man up.

We'll tell you about the new pitcher.

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Well, the new pitcher for Brooklyn.

Out of the pen.

Not as quick as they wanted to go to him.

Cooper Stallings is coming into the game, and he's not a guy that's in the lineup.

Defensively, he's been on the bench on the bullpen warming up.

And they call on the right hander.

That's right.

And this was this was Coach Baker.

They were hoping look if Griffin could carry it.

He'd struggled a little bit in his previous two outings.

But that was Griffin's first time in a state.

Turn it.

Look now now you're down four to nothing to a team that won seven state championship.

So go to Stallings.

They have pitching depth.

They just hoping they didn't have to use it so early in the game.

Well here's the deal Asher Griffin just a freshman in throwing 8586 from that left side.

That's impressive.

Cooper Stallings though going to sit more in the low 80s 7980 mile an hour.

But he's got good location 38 two thirds innings pitched just above a one E.R.A.

At 1.09.

And he'll face back to the top of the lineup.

Now Cam Pryor, who started all this with a walk.

You know he got caught stealing.

Man, this inning could be even worse if they didn't get him out at second.

Yeah, we could have A50 game right here if there if there was a definition of a crafty righty, this would be it right here.

Cooper Stallings is a crafty righty.

He's going to fill up the zone low E.R.A.

Like you mentioned numbers driven to right field.

Long run for the right fielder down the line.

And foul man that could have been disastrous for Brooklyn.

That would have cleared the bases likely.

That would have cleared the bases right there.

Great job by first base umpire Paul Cates.

He was right on top of it.

You can see it right there.

Five ball down the line.

Great positioning right there by the umpire.

Foul ball by a good couple feet.

Great job by the replay booth once again two and a half.

So it's one ball one strike out of Pryor in the inning.

Four walks three hit by pitches.

Has led to four runs.

Man bases are still loaded.

It sounded clipped him.

Another one would have came in.

Yeah.

That.

That's really the only time Harding has gotten out of the way when it's come at their head today.

So you see it right there prior hitting the count.

Stallings kind of be careful.

Harding's one big hit away from busting it open early.

Pop fly into right field battling this on second baseman Cohen off the right fielder.

That's dangerous.

Tucker makes the catch, though, and ends the inning, but not before Harding Academy scores four runs without a hit.

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Well, Brooklyn dug a hole.

They trail four to nothing.

Their offense looks to get things rolling.

They'll start it off with Cooper bodies there on your screen.

Take a look at the lineup.

Rip Ken Tucker to follow, then Rogan Tyler.

That's 123.

Jake Reese Gabe Carter Eli Foster will be four five and six.

And in to round out the order.

Griff silver, Thorne, Jordan, Fred and Ethan Bales.

They're gonna need one through nine to get going.

The win.

Rock on a batting order for Brooklyn.

They got some work to do.

Trailing four to nothing.

And Nate Corbett will love to pitch with the lead.

He's on the bump with a four nothing advantage.

Yeah there there is no better friend than going out with a four run lead right here.

Nate Corbin of course pitched in that semifinal win over Shiloh Christian went five and a third inning.

Gave up, four runs.

But only one earned run.

Had six strikeouts, three walks allowed, five hits.

One of the veterans for this Harding Academy Wildcat pitching staff again, Harding Academy, no stranger to a state title game circuit seeking their eighth Brooklyn, they are only their second title appearance.

They've never won it made it 1990 and goodness, a 35 year dry spell.

They're finally back.

Yeah, and just to show you how much Brooklyn has grown since then, they were a two way school back in 1990, I think.

What was the cause now that they played that year, if I'm not mistaken?

Yeah.

And Gasol ended up winning it last year.

So here we go.

Bottom of the first Cooper.

Bodie trying to start a little bit of a rally for Brooklyn.

Just need a little bit.

Hey four nothing deficits not all that large.

Nothing to worry about.

But you do have work to do.

That's exactly right.

And the great thing about baseball, JB no time limit.

That's right.

It's 21 outs to do what you want to with.

Two Bodie a really good center fielder, an electric bat as well.

Takes the oh one upstairs from Corbett and it evens the count.

Yeah.

We talked about that game he had against Highland in the 483 conference which Brooklyn has won back to back now 20 to 9 when Bodie was five for six with eight RBI's in that game one one pitch big swing and a miss.

And it's one and two.

You know, with Cooper, Bodie earlier in the year, he was hitting for 4 or 5 spot.

And Coach Baker said he saw him struggle hit 238 to the first 11 games.

He's a true leadoff hitter.

Hit leadoff in summer.

Coach Baker remembered that.

He said, let's try it leadoff.

Ever since then, he's hitting 435 out of that leadoff spot.

Got a battle here, though.

One two off the hands, but stays alive.

You see right now Corbett working up in the zone.

He's got a little ride to that fastball.

It's not up.

He's not got a lot at the radar gun.

But he's gotten a lot of good late movement right there.

Offers a little bit of deception to the hitters.

Nate Corbett trying to start things off for Harding Academy.

Bodie trying to battle just outside.

A lot of oohs and all from the crowd.

But it's a right call.

Just a little bit out.

That's right.

And you see, our man Brody Myers back there thought he had.

He's about to take it around the horn.

Not quite little outside right there, buddy.

Well, he's on pine Cruz have done a really great job all weekend.

They're the best of the best.

They've done a great job of getting them here.

To to Conway again.

Two two pitch fastball challenge.

And he popped him up into left center field.

Left fielder Miles comes on makes the catch and Corbett starts things off with a fly out in the bottom of the first.

That's one thing.

And here's the defensive lineup right here in the infield.

You got Riley Smith, Cam Hoover, Rhett Watson Bentley Hawks in the infield around left to right.

In the outfield you get Joe Miles, Cam Pryor, Titus Henley and Brody Myers behind the plate.

That's a good defensive alignment there.

The Winter Rock automotive defensive alignment.

Two hole hitter now Ripken Tucker that first name sounds familiar.

Yeah I wonder who he was named after right there.

We talked about that in the pregame.

Well there's two different people right?

Yeah yeah junior and senior.

And then you got, Billy.

Billy.

That's right.

So three of them.

Yeah.

That's a good, good three guys to be named after Ripken Tucker, the left hander.

Trying to get things going, though from Brooklyn.

That one misses down and in he's a move in from Greene County.

Tech also.

But coach said he had an auto accident and really has some.

I think he's got screws in his knees and it really bothered him.

But this is a guy, that man, he he loves the way that he plays.

He is a gritty player out of that leadoff spot.

Yeah.

Well what you want out of your two hole guy do somebody.

Yeah that can control the bat.

Able to bunt hit behind runners if you need to.

And right now Corbett's up two one on him right now.

So what we're thinking is let's go left side try to put the ball in play to big field.

Here.

It's pitch to contact.

He's a tough guy to strike out to.

Two one chops at right side.

Second baseman gobbles it up.

Watson's throw to first is on the money.

Two are gone.

Corbett looking good in the bottom of the first.

Yeah.

Pitch to contact I like we were talking about Jamie.

We've had one home run here hit in three years and that was blown up two years ago.

So pitch to contact.

You're not going to give up the long ball.

Let your defense play.

And if you watched Harding Academy take infield, they do a double barrel in and out.

In pregame they get a lot of ground balls.

They really do.

Here's the sophomore Logan Tyler.

And they do the pop ups to the catcher.

Pretty good to what they call that.

Yeah, that that's the same Fullerton expertise right there.

He does a great job of it.

He tried to teach me that like 1212 years ago at the Cross Training Academy camp did a really good job of it.

He he's the king of that.

Well, you were kind of explained to me and I thought you got to get back spinning like, yeah, it looks super difficult.

There's a lot of, there's not very much room for error.

Yeah.

There's not.

So you gotta have a good uppercut, swing it with me.

I had a line drive swing.

So me trying to elevate was next to none but create backspin.

Get a good updraft.

You're good out there.

Great pitch.

That really was the curveball to Rogan Tyler from Nate Corbett's a strike.

And it's one and two.

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That's right.

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The high hitter got him.

Nate Corbett gets him 123.

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Top of the second for Harding Academy.

They'll have two three and four two up.

It'll be the first full inning of work for Cooper Stallings.

He came in with the bases loaded in, two out.

Did his job.

Got the pop out of cam prior.

So now he'll face Henley, Hoover and Hawks to begin the top of the second and now again, just looking to settle in keeps him at bay because Harding Academy didn't really get anything going offensively with their bats.

It was the good takes.

They worked the count.

First pitch swinging to that left side.

Shortstop bales charges throws on the run and they got a nice play defensively to get the first out.

Henley can slide to a quick throw for the shortstop.

And that's exactly what you want.

We talked about Henley.

You know on the season.

Runs pretty well.

That two hole.

He's got double digit stolen bases on the season.

Really good play right here by your shortstop.

Coming through the ball.

Make a good accurate throw on the run right left throw.

That's exactly what you want.

Now curve ball strike to Cam Hoover the three hole hitter.

Hoover flew out to center field his first time up.

One of two hitters in the lineup I guess only one here that hit out against Griffin the starter.

The other one got caught stealing fouls out away.

And he's in the hole.

No balls to strike.

So Stallings doing a really nice job.

You said he's a strike thrower.

Yeah.

Strike thrower got a little two seam action right there.

More like a sinker ball pitcher lets that ball rotate off that middle finger.

Tough to pick up.

Oh curveball goes up and over.

The batter kind of ducked down.

We saw a player hit the bat right.

You got to get that down.

That's tough to do.

Yeah.

During the one eight game yesterday hit the bat kind I want to get out of the way.

I'll tell you what.

He has the same exact batting stance as his elder brother Tyler Hoover.

It's like looking like a duplicate up there.

We almost saw duplicate pitch curveball up and in again two and two.

Now to Hoover.

Wanted to take that one and try to get the bat out of the way.

It almost caught the bat.

And the catcher call it he would have been out on that.

But a foul tip out.

Yeah you're right.

Or strike three out 222 high.

He and he got him too tall.

The eyes got big for Hoover but a big strikeout for Cooper Stallings.

He's looked good.

Return all three batters he faced.

That's exactly what you want coming out four run deficit.

You go to your next pitcher.

Keep it close.

Well let's take a look here at coach Shane Fullerton Cable.

You know him pretty well.

How do Shane Fullerton he he's this he was the second coach in the program behind coach Dennis Ron won five state championships.

One of the most respected coaches in the state of Arkansas.

Previous coach at Harding University the Bisons that's right.

Been around the game of wild.

Oh yeah.

Had two sons that played for him there.

Jay Paul Fullerton and Pete Fullerton both won state championships.

He's trying to make another one here.

Harding Academy misses outside two balls.

No strikes to the left.

Lee Bentley Hawks.

Hawks hitting 324 on the year.

And coach said he's he's on a tear in the postseason.

Got three home runs on the year 37 runs, driven in on an RBI situation.

Obviously.

But he's been a producer.

Oh.

Might be an RBI shot.

Deep right field going back to the track off of the wall.

Man, that was smoked from Bentley Holtz.

They're going to stop him at second base.

But my goodness he said you think this is an RBI opportunity I might make it one off the right field fence.

The the hardest hit ball we've seen all weekend.

And Bentley Hawks did a great job getting the barrel out in front.

When a sinker ball pitcher runs into trouble right here, he leaves the ball up.

And you saw Bentley Hawks take great advantage of that great smooth lefty stroke off that right field wall.

Looks like the wind caught it right there at the last moment.

Just about five feet from getting out of here JB man he absolutely touched that ball to right field.

So a two out double now for Harding Academy their first hit of the game.

And my goodness was it crushed little check swing right back to the pitcher though.

Myers grounds out one three.

Stallings walks around the hard hit double.

No damage done.

It's four nothing.

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Well, we roll on here in the bottom of the second inning, or five and six do up for Brooklyn.

And they went in order in the bottom half of the first.

And Harding Academy.

The story of the game thus far, though, is in that top first bring it for runs across, all without a hit against the freshman starter Asher Griffin.

And boy, they applied the pressure.

Took some some pitches, but I think Griffin some self-inflicted wounds.

And then there's a defensive miscue as well.

It just didn't help for just a unfortunate series of events for the Bearcats to start the game, but settled down that Stallings gave them exactly what they need right there.

Just a little bit of composure.

Came in, did a great job.

Yeah, because all things considered down four nothing that that's not half bad.

That's exactly right.

Jake Reese will start things off the senior first baseman for the Bearcats takes it down.

And the way he's been around the game a while yet, four year starter Jake Chris has some pop from that right side.

30 RBI's on the season, three home runs I believe coach said he embodies Brooklyn baseball.

Gets a big swing, a miss there.

With that time, Corbett came rig Yeah, Reese hitting 368 on the year.

Good big body.

He was committed, earlier on this season.

He's opened up his recruiting right now.

He'll be a good, good get for somebody.

Takes that just off the plate outside.

Corbett.

He wanted the strike but didn't get it.

Looks to the dugout.

Let's see.

Where am I missing?

Yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.

Where am I missing?

And Shane Fullerton will ask the last umpire.

Hey, blue.

They want to make adjustments, and I respect that.

Not complaining.

Just want to know what they got to work with.

That one misses down and away.

Good take for Jake Reese.

Brooklyn's looking for their first baserunner of the game after falling behind early for two.

Nothing.

Hinders count Reese being a good leadoff hitter right here out of the four hole.

Three one pitch swing and a miss again.

That one a little bit higher in the zone.

But now the count's four.

Yeah, we've seen Corbett so far establish his fastball in the upper part of the zone.

Brooklyn hasn't been able to do anything with it, so you can imagine that he'll stay right there.

Plus his his breaking ball tunnels.

Better off of that.

And it makes it hard for the Brooklyn hitters to pick up what is coming next.

Payoff pitch to Reese up and away, chopped to that right side.

Watson gobbles it up.

His throw to first is pure, and the leadoff batter's gone.

In the second, it might have been out of the zone.

A little up and out.

Yeah, that Reese is going to kick himself for now.

And that was ball four for sure.

On early.

So now Gabe Carter, the left fielder for Brooklyn will step in.

There's that ground ball to the second baseman.

Nice job for Watson.

Fundamental stays down on it.

Not trying to be too fancy.

Good.

Good transition.

Little heel toe action right there.

That coach Fullerton teaches for his infielders a little in step back a little bit.

And Carter takes a strike to begin.

Coach Baker says this is big play Gabe.

He had a double in the 10th against Robinson.

That's a really good Robinson team that they knocked off the team that made it here last year.

Almost a Prairie Grove.

Yeah that Robinson team looking to get back to the state championship game this year.

They ran into the Brooklyn squad Brooklyn great resiliency that game.

The bottom of the seventh and bottom of the ninth inning, I believe, Robinson had bases loaded their leadoff hitter up and were able to get out of it.

Coach Delaney, though, for Robinson, he he's done a great job with the program.

He was you know, I talked to him the other day and I was like, coach, just remember in 2020, you guys had only made one state tournament.

That was 2019.

So now you're expected to get to the state championship young every year.

That's great.

Expectations that now he's like my expectations are always been that way a a chopper left side foul.

And that's what you want.

You want your kids to be able to believe you can get to a state championship game.

And nothing's too big.

And those guys have started believing in you, saying we had more parity and balance in high school baseball this year, JB, than we have in the last few years.

And it's been evident this weekend with all the close ballgames.

This year has all three games previous in the baseball championships have come down to the wire.

For nothing though, here in the top of the second, Harding Academy scored all four of the runs in the first inning without a hit pitch to Carter.

That ball is touched deep left field on the run is Miles and he makes the catch in the gap.

He's fired up miles.

Nice job.

Gets a great jump and tracks it down.

Yeah, that was the that was the key on that one was the jump from the get go.

He thought it was going to be in the gap.

Did over right.

We saw yesterday guys are overrunning five balls out there in left field.

But a great job by miles to run that one down.

It's a good stroke right there.

Short to the ball.

That's tough when you cover in the power alley.

Yeah.

Great job by Miles.

Look really pumped up.

He got a little fist pump in there.

Little Tiger Woods fist pump.

Hey excited state title game one on right.

Yes he did go around Eli Foster the right fielder for Brooklyn batting.

All five batters have been retired by Nate Corbett.

He's done a nice job.

Yep.

And our home plate umpire Ben Fox called the strike on the swing on that one.

He wanted to establish he did swing at it.

Oh one pitch good.

So a little bit up yeah.

Good changeup right there.

His first first change up we've seen from Corbett I really like that.

Had a little good fade a little up in the zone right there.

Corbett getting a little fired up in the air.

Where is it missing I gotta know, but it's not where the catcher receives it.

Right.

It crosses the zone where it crosses.

And these guys are calling about belly button to knees.

That's what you want to call a right above the belt buckle.

Foster turns on one inside in the right field, past the diving second baseman.

The first base runner of the game for Brooklyn.

And it's a base not to right now really good job by Eli Foster right there.

Corbett made a good pitch.

The ball is on the inside part in on the black.

Foster got the barrel out in front.

Great job of hitting right there.

Here's a guy who would make it on the all name team right.

Griff Silverthorne.

Love it.

The D.H. do up.

Yeah.

We had cutter dollar high this morning for Ashdown.

That's right.

That's one of the best ones in the state.

But yeah Griff Silverthorne right here.

Hitting 307 on the year 18 RBI's.

That's one of the thing about this Brooklyn lineup.

They're all double digit RBIs anywhere from 18 to 30.

They can do damage up and down this lineup.

That's what you expect from a team hitting 329.

This is a guy, too, that also has baseball in his blood that played at Arkansas State.

He actually talked about Griff here.

Drove in the winning run against Robinson.

He's hitting 450 early portion of the year.

And it's really not cooled off a ton.

You know Corbett just missed on the outside corner right there.

Really wanted that pitch really good execution so far by the junior from Harding Academy one oh pitch chop left side foul ball.

Third baseman was charging.

And anytime it hit softly when you got speed, it can always be an adventure.

That's exactly right.

And, you know, played on this turf.

It's a little different.

We talked with Coach Baker about how they practiced and they got on the football field this week.

Then they went to the indoor.

So no surprise is Harding Academy.

They do have an indoor facility there too where they can take off turf.

They've played on turf this season.

Of course.

Nate Corbett delivers one one trying to go outside.

Misses the zone.

Hitter's count for Silverthorne.

Nick Corbett pulling that fastball a little bit to the glove side too much.

Just needs to get centered right here and get after it.

Now he's working the bottom part of the zone, so he's done a really good job.

We talked to pitchers about working all four quadrants up, down, in and out to hitters.

Swing and a miss.

Foul tip.

Excuse me from Silverthorne.

Even things up.

Brooklyn just got their first baserunner of the ballgame.

A nice piece of him trying to do something with it and all have to be a two out rally.

But Nate Corbett trying to put an end to that.

See if the runner gets going here.

Oh up it in.

Did not hit the hitter.

But I will tell you this.

The runner will be on the move now.

He will be on the move now.

Three two count 322.

But definitely be on the move.

Two two pitch.

Always a good pitch to to run on right there.

They kept foster at first base.

Now he is on the move.

Three two popped up.

Who wants it.

First baseman's over in foul ground.

It's Hawks who can't undo it and makes the catch.

So Brooklyn gets a runner on a hit, but they're not able to do anything with it through two in the Florida State title game it's Harding Academy a four to nothing.

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All right, it's trivia time.

Who holds the record for most state championship game appearances without a loss?

Oh, yeah.

You got a lot of good ones to choose from right there.

Give me hints.

No, I don't I don't have any hints on this one, but I got a I got some schools I'm mulling over with right here.

Interesting.

Okay.

We'll we'll get that answer from you and we and we've got a lot of state champions that have appeared.

But who has the most appearances without a loss would be a good one.

Well, we head to the top of the third.

Cooper Stallings out for his second full inning of work for second base on the job.

It'll be Red Watson Nate Corbett, Riley Smith do up for Harding Academy.

All three of these hitters reached in the first inning without a hit walk, hit by pitch and an error.

Stallings misses with both pitches to begin the third, and it's two zero to Rhett Watson and Watson.

Kind of slowing Stallings down right here.

Let's see.

They want the momentum on their side of the game.

Within the game.

Coach Fullerton to slow him down looking at their play card I mean there's not much to do on three.

No.

But you never know.

Taking all the way and it misses down and away.

Four pitch walk to Rhett Watson after retiring four of the last five hitters a free pass.

It's number five in the game for Brooklyn the pitching and well you and I both know that cable.

It's tough.

It's tough.

Free passes will kill you.

Talk about the the one he didn't retire Bentley Hawks with the double off the right field wall Jackson Engel two years ago from lone Lona the only home run in three years so far two and a half years at UK Bear Stadium.

What do you know he's stayed close by.

Yeah he did.

He had an injury this year.

One of my favorite young men to cover over the last four years of covering high school baseball.

Great competitor, outfielder, pitcher.

It's going to be on the mound for the bears next year.

So here's the pitcher.

Nate Corbett was hit by a pitch in the first inning.

Now his second bat of the game.

And it comes inside gets away from the catcher.

Oh Watson moves to second base.

And Harding Academy will have three chances to knock him in.

That's all right.

Get get the runner over any way possible.

Bottom part of the lineup.

Now Coach Fullerton likes to play opportunistic baseball.

We'll see if they start taking advantage here.

Five straight or six straight balls.

For Stallings.

Green light for Corbin on A20 fastball.

And it's fouled away.

That's the one pitch you wanted right there.

If he was going to swing, it was going to be right at that one bat thigh high middle third of the plate.

Jump on it.

Because you know the pitchers kind of come into the zone.

I like that approach.

Still a hitter's count for Nate Corbett Riley Smith waiting in the on deck circle.

Now Corbett squaring offering fouling away I tell you what I used to teach bunting at Shane Fullerton's baseball camps, and that was one of the things that they really want.

They get their nose out over the ball.

Everybody one through nine can bunt.

You got to be ready for anything.

That's one of the things when you play a Harding Academy team, they can lay down a bunt one through nine in the lineup.

Corbett trying to do a job.

Two balls, two strikes.

Likely not bunting.

He's not coming inside.

He was not going to move out of the way.

Just dipped below the elbow.

And the count's full now.

Yeah, a little inside right there.

Good 12 six curveball from Stallings.

I'd like to see him throw that a little bit more, because it bends a different way into left handed hitters.

He's got a four seamer, a two seamer that 12 six curve and then a changeup.

Well, for pitch repertoire.

Hello gamesmanship going on right here.

Both teams like to use the wristband instead of giving signals to the catcher.

One thing we've seen, that's very prevalent in high school baseball, these days.

Pay off pitch misses low.

And man, for Brooklyn, they are kicking themselves another free pass, the sixth walk of the game.

And they've also hit three batters as well.

That's nine.

Give it away.

Tough to win a ballgame when you've given up nine free passes in three innings.

So I mean you're loading the bases right there every inning.

So I mean you got runners at first and second.

You got no outs right here.

Time for Harding to do some damage.

Absolutely.

And and it's only for nothing.

That's what's remarkable.

What could be so much worse.

And here's the deal.

Top of the third.

Nobody out.

You already talked about it.

Harding Academy is one big swing away from really stretching out the lead.

That's right.

And even though they're up for nothing with no outs, I wouldn't be surprised.

You got your eight nine hole hitters right here.

They'll put the ball in play.

Wouldn't surprise me if they bunt.

They are squaring to bunt Riley Smith that's a good ball at third base trying to get the lead runner.

And I don't think that got him.

Oh man really good slide right there by Watson Brooklyn had the wheel play on right there.

So they flashed defensively flashed in front.

Third base goes that great call right there Jim.

Umpire fire umpire.

That's just an Allen.

It's his fourth state tournament.

So great call right there.

Wow.

In position.

Like I said I would be surprised to see a bunt.

Hey you're right.

Yeah.

See how they react.

That's what you want to see.

Bases loaded.

Nobody out for Joe Miles.

The nine hole hitter.

Miles was hit by a pitch his first time up.

Niles made that great running catch last inning.

Left field.

See if he puts his speed on display right here.

Cam Pryor in the on deck circle.

Oh, boy.

That one is driven to right field.

Should be deep enough to get a run home.

Foster makes the catch.

Runners at second and third will tag a run.

Comes in.

Sacrifice fly for Joe Miles, and it's five.

Nothing.

Harding Academy does a really good job by miles.

Right there.

Get the ball in play.

Don't do anything much.

But I'll give Eli Foster credit right here.

He didn't try to throw through to third base.

He got the ball into his cutoff man.

That allows to keep the man at first the runner at first base and still keep the double play in check.

Now top of the lineup.

Cam Pryor in the third inning.

Now with his third at bat of the game.

This was the hitter that Stallings faced back in the first with the bases loaded in two out got him to pop up into shallow right.

There you see the walks allowed six for the Bearcats three hit by pitches that they've issued.

So nine give it out on a silver platter.

Well nice job by the catcher to get down and block that one.

And Tyler keeping it in front.

Still runners at the corners with one out for Harding Academy.

Yeah Rogan Tyler doing a great job behind the plate.

His pitchers aren't doing much to help him right now.

And Tyler is really keeping them behind in the game, keeping the positive attitude out there as well.

That's what you need.

Pryor hoping that he comes in the wheelhouse.

Chopper there.

Nice play back stab.

They throw home and they got him.

What a play at third friend with a diving stop with a backhand pick.

And he guns him down at the plate.

That's a big out.

Yeah.

Situation like that.

You good to be thinking five for three.

Double play.

But you know Pryor can run.

Cut down the runner at home right there.

Great job my friend at third base man.

That diving stop at third was impressive.

Here's a look at our umpires for today's for a state title game Ben Fox, the home plate umpire Paul Coates on first baseman Justin Allen.

Congrats to those three men on getting awarded the state title game.

That's exactly right.

Looks like we got an offensive timeout right here.

Fullerton talking to Titus Hensley right here.

And we'll strategy going first.

Runners on first and second.

You got two outs.

So Titus Henley oh for one today.

Walked in grounded out to short.

Man that throw to the plate was huge.

Curveball from Stallings and it's a strike.

So after falling behind most of the hitters this inning he get some life with that play at the plate.

Stallings starts off the next hitter with a strike.

Yeah you got to give it to Stallings.

Keeps competing in the zone.

That's what you want.

For curveball misses away to Henley.

And that'll even the count at a ball and a strike.

Yep.

Kind of jerk that one a little bit that if he he is most effective when he starts that thing right over the middle of the plate and let it drop down.

One one pitch misses down and away.

Now a hitter's count for Henley with Kim Hoover on deck.

Now you just want to hand it off to the next person.

Get it?

Go.

And that's what they did in the first inning.

They just kept stacking it.

Bats upon it, bats good at bats at that two one curveball line drive into center field.

Bodie coming on diving.

And he falls down and makes the catch.

What a play from Cooper Bodie.

They needed it.

And Harding Academy is unable to cash in on more runs.

But they do get one.

Brooklyn's defense on display.

It's five nothing.

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Go back to our trivia question.

Who holds the record for the most state championship game appearances without a loss?

That would be the Harding Academy Wildcats.

JB they are seven and no.

Going for eight.

No.

Today they've won A2AA3A going for a for a championship today.

Man that is clutch.

Yeah.

Been here seven times and won them every single time.

That's impressive.

Yeah they've done that all since 2008.

That's when they brought their baseball program back under Dennis Ryan.

Shane Fullerton took it over shortly after that.

After he left Harding University.

His first state title with the Wildcats was in 2013.

And the MVP of that one, J.R Miller, who is the assistant coach for Shane Fullerton and the Harding Academy Wildcats.

They certainly know how to coach the game of baseball.

Great success there in Searcy, Arkansas.

It'll be Jordan friend to lead things off for Brooklyn his first at bat.

You know Brooklyn's had guys that have hit three times now in her excuse me Harding Academy has had it.

Brooklyn's got guys this is their first at bat.

Yeah.

Only one baserunner so far for Brooklyn.

They got to put some pressure on Corbett right here.

Bottom of the third inning man to be only down five.

Nothing.

All things considered really remarkable.

Harding Academy they've left.

Let's say they've left a runner on each inning.

So yeah they left six total on the first three innings.

Wow.

Brooklyn's only left one on.

And they're looking at trying to start something.

Friend.

The Brooklyn third baseman bails will follow that back to the top of the order.

And Bodie is that two.

Oh pitch misses up and away three and zero to the leadoff hitter for Brooklyn.

Corbett has shown in the past, like we mentioned in the semifinals against Shiloh Christian, he can lose command a little bit at times.

He had three walks and five in a third innings in that game.

So you know, so far he's had really good command.

Just need to get back in the zone right here.

Taking all the way is Corbett comes home three zero pitch.

Here's a strike right down the middle.

There you can see he had 33 pitches through the first, two innings.

Our production staff doing a great job with the pitch counting is up there.

He's at 37 right now.

If he can get out of this with, you know, 45, he'd be doing good.

Three one is fouled away back into the grandstand.

It's the roofing.

You heard the loud thud.

Full count.

Yeah.

Jordan friend, he's hitting 272.

The only starter in Brooklyn's lineup under 300 but has done a good job.

15 RBI has 12 stolen bases on the year.

He's one of five with double digit stolen bases for the Bearcats.

The payoff pitch from Corbett fouled back into the netting from Jordan Friend.

He is hanging tough at the dish at Corbett, doing a really good job.

Three he started out three and oh now he's battled back.

Got the full count through another strike.

He looks like he's taking a little bit off that fastball.

Just kind of being nice and fluid with his motion right here.

Just taken off to locate.

I like that.

That's all you need.

You're up five.

Nothing.

Just throw strikes.

Three.

Two though is up and out a lead free pass.

The second baserunner of the game for Brooklyn.

The first via the base on balls.

And now Ethan Bales, the nine hole hitter and shortstop, will step in.

Yeah.

Sophomore Ethan Bales has done a great job so far this season.

He's hitting three 1121 stolen bases.

He does have a home run 17 RBI.

Guys, let's see if Brooklyn gets anything going right here.

Gets him in motion.

They need to put pressure on Corbett right here.

Trying to start inching back clawing back a little bit.

First pitch from bales down the left.

Holy smokes it.

It's going to go all the way to the wall second to third.

They're going to wave home free and to throw the plate is cut off.

How bout it.

Under the nine spot.

It's Ethan Bales delivering.

We talked about it JB first pitch swinging.

Put pressure on Corbett in the Wildcat.

That's exactly what he does down there in no man's land.

That left-field corner.

Great job by friend to come around from first and score.

Boy that pitch was elevated and bales crushed it down into the left field corner.

Coach said he's the fastest kid on the team.

He can fly.

He got to second in a hurry.

It wouldn't matter.

It was his back all the way.

Absolutely.

He's he's the first Bearcat that's been able to get on that high fastball from Corbett.

Let's see if Cooper Brody follows it up with right here.

Man.

That's got something working.

Yeah.

Your nine hole got to start that hole to kickstart the offense with the right guys coming up Cooper Bodie a 430 average coming in to the state title game RBI opportunity.

Here's something to think about.

Booty.

Bodie out of the top of the lineup, has 29 RBI's.

That means the bottom portion of the lineup has been producing for Coach Baker.

That's exactly right.

And when you have a leadoff hitter, you look look at the University of Arkansas.

The charge that Charles Devil on.

You know, having over 50 RBI's this season.

That's what you want to see.

The Caboose gang is like they like to call them in Fayetteville.

The the Brooklyn Bearcat lineup has done it well at the bottom.

Also, there's a look at the head skipper for Brooklyn head coach Josh Baker.

Good friend of mine.

As a matter of fact, he has had a great coaching career, played under Frank Williams Baptist and and got into coaching.

He loves the game.

Loves to coach giving back.

He was coached Fieldhouse, volunteered there at the high school level, summer ball stuff and then led to some coaching stints.

Nemo Vista before he was the assistant at Marion and then now on his second year head coach at Brooklyn.

He's done great things, moving his way up.

Of course, Brooklyn was under coach, one of the legends, Bill Taylor.

Now they've got some, consistency with Baker there at the helm.

The one zero pitch to Cooper.

Bodie misses down and away.

Two and zero hitters count.

This is the first bit of adversity that Corbett has faced.

And that walk coming back to bite him.

That's exactly right.

Giving up free passes.

You get first you get laid off hitters on that go around from what, a lot of times they come around to score.

Yeah, the numbers are staggering.

Yeah.

Pickoff move to second base.

It's close.

But he's back in ahead of the tag I don't know one off the top of my head but it's above 70% of the time.

It seems 7,273%.

You give up a leadoff walk.

They come around to score, especially in high school baseball.

On that pickoff play right there.

You want to see cam Hoover be a little quick to flash.

He kind of just walked in back there.

And if you flash quicker maybe get that pick because you'll have him off a little bit further.

He doesn't realize it.

Yeah.

Three balls.

No strikes to Cooper.

Bodie.

That's one of the things where there's communication going by the third base coach, which is, head coach Josh Baker.

He's letting them know.

He's letting Bailes know where Hoover is at in his back pocket.

Gotta come with a strike.

First base is open, and Corbett throws it right down the middle for strike.

You want to be very careful right here.

It can be 5 to 3.

I'll be honest with you.

Yeah.

Cooper Brody can get on one right here.

So Corbett has to be a little fine.

You got A414 run lead.

Just be a little careful.

We've already seen a deep fly to right field.

Time is called before the pitch from Cooper.

Brody.

That fastball is a little bit elevated.

Good.

Good job by Wright right there by Corbett to finish the pitch.

You don't want to stop mid motion.

That's when injuries occur.

We saw Bentley Hawks bang one off the right field fence for Harding Academy back in the second inning.

Got to be careful to Cooper Brody three one fastball too tall.

And oh.

Brooklyn's got runners at first and second with nobody out.

And Ripken Tucker duo get no harm.

No harm done right there.

That's a if you want to have a walk.

That's a good walk.

Now you got the double play situation set up.

So all Corbett has to do is settle back down.

And he's already up in his pitch count this inning and struggling with the command a little bit.

Just need to settle back down.

But now you get Ripken Tucker to hole up the senior hitting 398 on the season and you got speed on the basepaths with absolute bails at second.

And then Cooper Brody, the stir that stirs the drink.

The straw that stirs the drink.

Behind the runner at second.

They got him in a run man.

Throw to third.

And he didn't get him.

He takes third base.

They caught him in a run down.

Well risky move, but it pays off for Brooklyn.

Yeah.

Bails.

Oh he got hung out on the extended lead on the secondary lead right there Brody Myers threw behind him.

Great job by the young bails to take off instead of getting in a run down.

It was bang bang at third but I think they got it right in the hand.

Absolutely.

Just touched the bag before the tag.

There it was.

It was close.

Yeah.

The tag was on the back.

He was already through.

He almost slid through the bag that that would have been closer.

Right there.

So now you got runners at the corner.

Bearcats looking to do more damage right here.

Tucker showed bunt, pulled it back, looked like he was swinging and takes the fastball low.

And now the Brooklyn faithful for what seems like the first time today.

Getting a little bit more energetic, getting right back in this thing right here.

Everybody coming down from the Jonesboro area to Conway got a really good crowd once again, there's a conversation piece scam.

Hoover, Hoover short Hoover doing a great job.

One of the team captains on this team coming in settling his pitcher down.

Look just go after him.

Still got a double play intact.

Hitters count to rip Ken Tucker.

He shows bunt not bunting inside.

And the three balls and no strikes.

Corbett struggling to find the zone.

Now the pressure was applied.

And I think that big double from the nine hole spot really sparked things for Brooklyn.

Yeah, they they've definitely flustered Corbin.

You can see the body language is not as positive as it was the first two innings.

So now Brooklyn ready to attack three.

Oh pitch taking all the way.

It's a high strike.

Toss to the back from RIP Ken Tucker in the long walk back to pick up the bat.

Yeah that's one of those where you apologize to the umpire.

The next pitch to anything close might be a strike.

Again, that was a different strike.

That was down the middle about Bell to trying to steal one.

But it needs to be a little bit more.

More.

That's all right.

Three one pitch swinging away.

Right.

Field charge.

That's a base hit in the right field.

RBI single for Ripken Tucker and Cooper.

Bodie moves from first to third at that fastball up in the zone.

The blow was not there on that one.

But he does a great job getting on top of it.

Line drive hit to right field scores a run job.

We've got the ballgame just like that.

Brooklyn.

They knew their offense was good.

They just needed to get the stops of Harding Academy.

They've held him at bay.

And now conversation time.

Coach Fullerton's out to talk to Corbett.

But Brooklyn's going to have the tying run at the plate.

It's hard to believe it's exactly right.

Got runners at the corner and Jamie, we don't have any outs.

Yeah, yeah.

Your first two batters you had friend and Bails come up.

They've both scored and now we're going to get a pitching change.

So Corbett's day is done.

And here's the deal.

Didn't pitch poorly but you don't have any tomorrow.

So you got to go quick.

Look for coach for ten I'll tell you about the new pitcher for Harding Academy.

Runners at the corners.

Nobody out.

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Brooklyn coming back.

We felt like they weren't going to lay down.

Harding Academy jumping out five.

Nothing but two runs home in the inning for the Bearcats.

And they've got the tying run up to the plate.

It's two expected to be on the bump after Corbett's day was done.

Cam Pryor coming out of the pen.

He's nine and on the year they move him in from center field and he comes into a bit of a jam.

Runners at the corners with a man at the plate.

Yeah.

Cam Pryor the the do everything junior for the Wildcats leadoff hitter center fielder.

But he's been their clutch guy on the mound.

Late in the season, especially in the regional and state tournament.

Tyler coming in.

See if he can limit the bleeding right here.

Cam Pryor situation but nine and zero on the mound this year that you can throw the baseball.

Yeah that's exactly right.

And what you got right here.

You got Brody Myers coming out.

You got first and third situation.

So Harding Academy wants to make sure they're a in their right.

But defense be there in their right first and third defense.

So now Corbett will go into left field Myles moves to center.

That's the only change up.

And in first pitch.

And it hits Rogan Tyler.

Oh boy Brooklyn got the bases loaded with nobody out.

Fastball right there by Pryor.

Just ran in on him.

Had a lot late tail little arm side run.

Just ran right into him.

And now batting for our man Rogan Tyler being tough, staying in there, taking the pitch for the sophomore.

You know that doesn't ever feel good.

Yeah.

But man here comes the senior the cleanup hitter Jake Reese.

With the bases full of Bearcats and nobody out in the bottom of the third.

Yeah, Reese learned a lot from a couple of guys that are playing college baseball right now.

West and Speer.

Griffin, Duvall those guys were three four year starters for the Bearcats a year here.

They graduated last year.

And Reese learned a lot from those guys.

And now he gets to carry the mantle on as being the senior leader first pitch swinging from Reese.

Good.

You look at Jake Reese he looks like I mean he can grow the facial hair better than I can.

He definitely grows better than I can.

I'm 26 years his elder.

Look at it.

Get the nice little stache going right there.

He sure does.

Jake Reese trying to do a big job right here, though, with the bases loaded curveball.

Pryor smokes it right back through the box.

They'll score one run wave home another two run single for Jake Reese, and he delivers a great piece of hitting right there by the Bearcat.

Cleanup hitter gets his 31st and 32nd RBI on the season.

We've got a run run run game here at Bear Stadium, man.

He stayed on that curve ball to right on it and drove it right back up the middle.

Great piece of hitting right there by Reese.

He was expecting it.

Yeah he saw it coming.

Picked up the spin early.

Drove it right back up the box.

And then it wasn't just a terribly placed curveball, but it just stayed up too much.

And he was able to drive it.

Yeah, you saw it.

Reese wanted to.

And we talked about this last year with Slade.

Caldwell controlled violence in the box with the swing.

That first pitch, he was he was looking to do damage and he did it right there.

Right.

So now Gabe Carter stands in and takes a strike.

My goodness.

Brooklyn's a base hit to the outfield away from tying this thing up.

And still nobody out.

All right.

Make it happen quickly.

Carter flew out to left field an inning ago.

Seventh man to bat, the inning down and away with that take.

And Harding Academy just got to trying to find some answers.

Corbett got touched up a little bit.

Pryor comes in, gives up a hit by pitch and then a hard hit single up the middle.

Wildcats just looking for an answer here from Pryor.

Now you just want to get the first one.

That's all you're trying to do is get the first one.

Bounces away over the catcher.

Both runners move up.

That's big because now the double play is out and a base hit to the outfield gives Brooklyn the lead.

Yeah.

That ball was down in the in the turf in the dirt.

But Brody Myers has to smother that.

He knows better than he tried to backhand.

It has to do a better job back there.

Look ahead in a secondary position.

Give off the front of the plate.

They went up.

Yeah that's tough.

Wow.

How quickly things can turn Harding Academy.

They feels like they were in the first inning.

Carter grounds it up the middle infield in though, so they'll get the out at first.

Nice job defensively for the Wildcats.

Everybody stays put for Brooklyn.

And that's the first down.

That's a big one.

Yeah that was especially with the infield playing in what we've seen so far that you don't have a lot of hard hit balls in the infield.

You've had a lot of slow roller.

So yeah come in play on the inside of the where the green turf meets the brown turf, what we used to call the cut of the dirt.

And they'll stay there with one out.

So now the lefty Eli Foster will step in.

He's singled.

It takes a strike from Pryor.

You know what I was getting to is this inning starting to feel like the top of the first year.

You just couldn't get the up.

They finally have gotten one.

We'll see what Pryor can do with it.

Try to settle in a little bit, because there for a bit, Brooklyn just seemed like they were really applying pressure.

Still not out of the woods yet.

That's right.

Looking to safety squeeze.

Right side.

The runner coming home.

He bubbles it and everybody sees we're tied at five on the ball from Brooklyn.

Brooklyn taking advantage of the opportunities right there.

Foster lay down a beautiful but Billy Hawks look to go home with it right there.

Couldn't field it.

They got the white hankies out over there in the home dugout.

It was going to be close.

He had to field and throw quickly was going to be bang bang.

Took his eyes off the ball and now I'm looking back.

I don't know that he could have had it this way too close.

Yeah, that's one of the things that we talked about.

JB in the onset of the game.

This is Hulk's first year.

At first base.

Yeah it's different.

So I don't care how many rips you've taken.

He's an outfielder by trade and it's just a little bit different situation.

We get a little pressure on you right there.

Now you got a tie ball game.

You got to go ahead running third base.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

And here's what's tough too for Hawks coming into lefty.

He charges in.

He's going to have a tough play at first.

Either way because of him charging in.

That's a really well executed bunt attempt by Brooklyn today.

They did it flawlessly.

You want you want to go to the first base side right there.

Because that gives you a little clear clearance because the third baseman is taught to go with the runner.

And if it's down the third base line, you can only go as far as that fielder can.

So great job of execution right there by Coach Baker in the Bearcats.

And a smart jump from foster two.

Well that ball was bobbled.

He took second base.

So second and third for Brooklyn now.

And man oh man the ninth hitter do up in the inning Griff Silverthorne.

He's got a chance to give the Bearcats their first lead of the night.

That's right.

He popped up to first and foul ground his first time up drills this base hit to left field.

Brooklyn's got the lead a two run single for Griff Silverthorne and Brooklyn's Brian out the bats.

Seven runs in the third inning by the Bearcats and we've only got one out.

Great job of hitting out there.

First pitch swinging.

Silverthorne gets his 19th and 20th RBI of the season out of the seven hole.

And the guy who started it all, Jordan Friend coming up again.

No kidding.

How about him starting it off with a walk?

That's when things really started to shift because it allowed Ethan Bales an RBI double.

And once Brooklyn got one run, the top of the lineup came up.

And it's been problematic for Harding Academy ever since.

They limited Silverthorne to first right there on that one.

I actually thought he was coming out of the box with a double.

It was well hit down the left field line.

Miles did a great job of getting the ball in trend swings.

This is I think you're right.

I think Silverthorne thought about he was halfway to second.

But don't run yourself out of an inning.

Great.

Yeah.

That's right.

Jump right there.

There's controlled aggression, right?

There's times when do I when am I need to be aggressive?

When do I not need to be.

That's a freshman right there on the base pass.

There's a chopper up the middle.

Shortstop flips to second for one relay to first.

Not in time, but they get the lead out on A64 fielder's choice.

Not out of the woods yet, but that's also another dig out.

That's exactly right.

Right there you get get the lead out is a little interesting right there.

Let's take a look at the replay.

If he came through in the bag yeah he cleared him out.

So good.

Good car right there all the way around.

So two outs in the inning.

And here's the guy who man he had the biggest hit of the inning.

Really kickstarted this whole thing with an RBI double down the left field line.

And up to that point, Corbett was almost unhittable.

He offers to bond at the first one.

It's a strike.

And that was a pitch.

It was elevated fastball.

You talked about it.

They hadn't been able to hit the elevated fastball well, Bell said.

Hey guys, I'm going to show you how to do it.

Did a great job and now you got a little different profile.

Prior comes more over the top.

He's going to have more sync than what Corbett did.

So see how they adjust.

Curveball.

The Chase fouled back behind the catcher Harding.

Harding Academy got lucky right there because that's a pass ball.

They got another runner in scoring position.

No balls two strikes a runner at first is Jordan Friend.

The 11th batter of the inning seven runs for Brooklyn oh two curveball threw towards the sixth hole.

And a nice play from Hoover.

Backhand Stan ends the inning, but not before the damage is done.

Brooklyn bring it out the sticks.

They take A75 lead heading to the fourth.

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Gavin Hill, he former Harding Academy Wildcats on the bump in the first pitch, swinging from Cam Hoover leads things off for the base.

Knocks at third hit of the day for the Wildcats.

And one thing we know about Harding Academy they will not go quietly.

And that into the night.

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There's a reason they've won seven titles and not lost a state championship game.

Yeah, and they've had some close games out of course, MVP of that 2022 state championship team that was on the mound.

And now he also won 1 in 21.

So yeah they wanted three straight years 21 2223 in class three A they missed it last year.

Here's Bentley Hawks.

We've already seen his power I'm not going to say that he's not in an RBI situation.

If there's not runners at second and third because he can do it when there's nobody on even a runner at first hit one off the right field wall his last time up, he missed a home run by a couple of feet.

Oh.

That one gets away from the catcher.

Tyler throws.

After recovering, it gets away and into center, but not far enough for Hoover to take third.

Regardless, Harding Academy's got a runner in scoring position now.

Yeah, that was a situation where Hoover slid head first.

He got some of the rubber pellets in his mouth right there and had to come up.

Took his helmet off.

Coach is telling him, complete the play.

That's all you got to do that way you put him at third base.

I don't think the pellets tasted all that great.

It's never tried on my little bit of sand in there as well.

Hawks trying to drive that, but he got underneath it infield.

Who wants it?

Second baseman Taco does calls everybody off.

That's the first out of the inning.

But Boy Hawks just got underneath it.

And that's what you want.

Sinker ball pitcher right there.

Stallings gets the ball down in the zone.

Just got a fly ball right there.

So now Brody Myers the Harding Academy catcher, is due up for one with a walk and a groundout.

And Myers has got some power as well.

As we mentioned earlier in that quarterfinal win over Arkadelphia.

Three for four with the home run, two RBI's swinging away at the first pitch.

Fouls it off the end of the bat.

Starling doing a really good job right now of keeping the Harding hitters off balance.

Like we mentioned, he's got a four pitch mix, so he went first pitch speed breaking ball right there.

Had Myers a little out in front.

Myers trying to do a job here once.

At least get one to run home for Harding Academy.

Curveball right over the heart of the plate.

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Left field.

Carter comes over, calls off the center fielder, and he makes the catch.

Two gone.

Just like that on the fly out.

Yeah, you got Coach Fulton right now.

Middle of the lineup up.

After Hoover gets on with the single he advances to second base on the wild pitch having a runner in scoring position less than two outs.

You got to get that runner home.

They're going to need a two out rally now Rhett Watson reached base safely in both at bats.

He was walked both times and he fouls the first pitch off for strike one.

Once again, Stallings working ahead right there.

Third hitter in a row.

He's had a first pitch strike.

That's what you want to see out of your relief pitcher.

Not you just saw that nice arm by our home plate umpire Ben Fox.

Thought it to Stallings.

Yeah he looks like he done that.

Time to take.

Oh one curveball.

Fouled off the foot of Watson.

And Stallings gets ahead.

No balls two strikes.

You were right on K ball.

He really attacks the strike zone.

Hey doesn't he do that.

Curve balls like a gravity ball.

Like they're waiting.

They're out on their front foot and now they're just beating it down in the turf.

It's hard to square that up.

You get so anxious as a hitter there white knuckling it.

You saw two fly balls and now you know you got your six all hitter Watson just he keeps beating it into the ground trying to battle at the plate.

Oh two curveball stay down on it.

Smokes it to left field.

It gets past the left fielder.

Oh.

Heading to second base.

They're going to wave him to third.

The throw will be late.

Watson with the RBI.

He takes third on the error.

And oh my Harding Academy he's got the tying run at third base.

Great two out hitting right there.

We just talked about making great adjustments in the box two strike hitting approach right there.

Coach Fullerton teaches up up and up up in the box.

Up on the plate up on the bat.

Drop the barrel head for a great double right there.

And then the air gets him to third base.

And now Nate Corbett.

Batting from that left side a chance to help himself out.

Yeah.

Corbett.

Of course he was pulled from the game as a pitcher, but he is staying in as a designated hitter in this game.

So, that's what you want.

That's why Corbett is still in the game, even though he's not on the field.

Well, down in India, Corbett only gave up four one run.

So had the no decision was in line for the win until Pryor came in and gave up three runs.

Only two of them earned.

But man.

Harding Academy quick swing of events, a base hit, anything infield single.

Wild pitch gets that runner home.

Yeah, now you're now you're ahead three and zero.

And Corbett knows the strike zone better than just about anybody right now.

So he knows what he's looking for.

Three balls and no strikes.

Corbett calls and asks for time.

It's granted by the home plate umpire.

I saw the yellow batting gloves.

I thought he had the workman gloves up there for a minute.

The cowards who synchronize strike called on the inner half.

That good little two seam pitch right there by Stallings.

That starts in the left handed batter's box and it moves over.

So it's got some good arm side run right there.

If he can if he can command that'll be be tough.

Corbett rolls over this right side to the four hole.

And we're tied again.

This time it's Harding Academy responding.

They're not going to lay down base hit to right from Corbett.

It's seven all being aggressive in the zone three one count.

Man Corbett does a great job.

Rolled over it a little bit but got it right past Jake Reese diving right there.

Great effort by the senior tie ball game.

And we're in for a thriller JB we might get a couple touchdowns out of this one.

By the time it's all said and done it would not surprise me.

Plenty of action from both teams at Harding Academy.

Jumped out early four to nothing in the first.

They got another run in the third, made it five to nothing but back a half inning ago.

It was a seven spot for Brooklyn and they didn't have the lead all that long.

Harding Academy already got two home in the inning to tie things up and done a really good job of battling.

You know Hoover got on first pitch and then great job right there by Rhett Watson.

Your six hole two strike approach.

And Corbett jumped on A31 count right there.

Two out rally.

There's a chopper to third friend up with it on the first.

And it ends the inning.

But Harding Academy ties things up in the fourth.

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JB man, it's about as good as it gets.

I'm telling you.

Excellent to work with cash.

The fact that they have me coming back, that says a lot, right?

I know this is the third year they brought me back.

So, you know, we just trying to keep up with them.

At the end of the day, you know.

Let's take a look at Cooper Brody.

The scoring for both sides seven five and one five and one is the line score for Harding Academy seven five and two for Brooklyn.

It's not usually what you see.

The scoreboard lines I know we're going into the bottom of the fourth.

It's fun keeping the score book on this one.

Two.

Let me tell you, marking out stuff a pretty good job.

I think it's, top of the lineup for Brooklyn.

If my lineup card does not fail me.

Cooper, Bodie, Ripken.

Tucker.

Rogan.

Tyler and Brooklyn brought 11 batters to the plate back in the third.

They scored seven times.

And it took three different innings for Harding Academy to scratch across seven.

To throw to Bodie.

Nice high strike call.

Good delivery from Pryor.

Pryor just has to work ahead.

And he's feeling a little bit of pressure right now.

But it's a tie ball game.

It's just you're just starting over at this point.

That's all you got to do.

Hitters count for Bodie.

Might've helped him out.

Fastball swing.

Couldn't connect.

Yeah.

Pryor's got a lot of really good run on that fastball.

We saw it in the end when he came in earlier.

Hit the first batter.

That's just got a lot of good late run to it right there.

It looks like it's going to be on the outside corner.

Next thing you know it's in the batter's box right now.

He's going to have to protect two two pitch.

Got him.

Swing and a miss from Cooper Bodie.

And that's the first out of the inning for a guy that doesn't strike out very often.

No, he does not.

Great job getting back in the zone.

He fell behind right there and then pumped it back.

Three straight fastballs.

Good morning.

Good afternoon, good night.

RIP Ken Tucker.

Now do up one for two.

Today.

Grounded out to second but also has an RBI single today.

Takes the first pitch upstairs for Brooklyn.

Got first two hitters left handed hitters.

Here's a look at the wind blowing.

And that's a great look.

So for that ball that was hit to right field earlier from Bentley Hawks.

That was off the wall at that.

But wind's not blowing in.

It's gone.

Yeah that's what I was thinking.

It looked like the ball got kind of knocked down because off the bat we thought that was definitely gone.

So you know got that east wind coming in.

Got it.

I know in the wintertime that sets up for a good snowstorm.

But my good by my good friends channel four and channel seven.

So that's that's my limit of my meteorology knowledge.

I love the Kevin.

More than I know.

I don't know very much.

So it's not hard to beat it.

Three zero to rip Ken Tucker.

The prior though, you know he fell behind but he was able to come back and get him.

But three zero to the two hitter.

Luckily taking all the way is Tucker can't find the zone for pitch walk to the two hole hitter.

Now Rogan Tyler will stand in.

Yeah, we talked about this yesterday.

These right handed pitchers just have a mental block of pitching the lefties.

And with Brooklyn's stack in their lefties one two in the lineup and they've got another one later on down the order.

It just it's one thing that guys gotta work past.

And that's the mental part of the game.

Rogan Tyler stands in for one today.

First pitch pops it up in foul ground.

Third baseman called off by the shortstop Hoover and he makes the catch in foul territory.

Two are going after the free pass.

Great job by Kim Hoover taking over third baseman right there.

Really kind of lost it.

And Hoover did a great job.

That was Riley Smith the third baseman.

He got to where the ball was coming down.

He found it.

But Hoover, doing his job as the shortstop captain in the infield called him off.

That's over call right there.

That's what we talk about.

Shortstop has over call over.

Everybody in the infield got the higher number.

That's ball busted inside to Jake Reese who is one for two today.

And his big swing clutch hitting last time up a two run single.

Then a little bit of a conversation.

Had to get rid of some of your Barry Bonds gear over there at first base.

I think.

You fan of all the gear cable?

Had some of it's needed.

Yeah, I was injured.

Some of it.

Yeah, I was I was kind of dumbfounded when the oven mitt came out.

Then I kind of understood that big swing and a miss from Jake Berry.

So you're still a fan of the oven mitt or at some point and I it's weird because, look, you want to protect your throwing hand when you're on the base pads, and usually that's your right hand when you're going back in.

But I see a lot of guys want it on the left hand.

So I think it's just kind of a comfort thing at this point.

Yeah.

Looks cool.

Yeah, I got to do more studying about that one one too.

Reese popped up foul right side out of play here at camp.

Pryor is doing a great job.

That little two seam fastball, he's got three swung right over the top of that.

So and now he's got and guess.

And so if he can if he can land that curveball right here he may get the third out of the inning.

Runner.

But he's ahead in the count a ball and two strikes Reese got to protect with Ripken Tucker over at first base one two.

Little late on the fastball, but enough to stay alive as he fouls it away.

I challenged him right there with the fastball.

You see Brody Myers sitting up over the inside part of the plate.

That's the one that Jake Reese swung over the top of for strike one.

They wanted to go right back to it, but the ball leaked over the plate.

Kim Pryor got lucky right there.

Now you can set him up your head.

One, two.

You can go to any of your arsenal and you can see Brody Meyer flashing up right there.

Let's see if he goes.

The offspeed goes fastball high, but not close enough to be enticing.

Yeah.

What you want to do right there.

1202 count.

You want the pitch to be competitive.

So what I've taught my kids in the past is look, throw at the top of the helmet, throw it, throw at the bottom of the umpire's helmet because he is sitting at the top of the catcher.

And that's going to be a competitive pitch to two.

Curveball Reece pops it up.

Foul side.

There's there room no.

It lands foul and out of play.

Will do it again.

Another foul off Reese is hanging time.

I expected them Aspected Harding Academy to go to that pitch.

The pitch before right there.

But Reese you start picking up patterns.

You start picking up, getting a feel for what the pitcher's going to throw you right there.

Like his last At-Bat.

He was sitting on the curveball, drove it right back up the middle.

He knew it was coming.

He just missed it.

He drove that curveball right up the middle.

You're right.

Two two fastball.

There it is.

Two tall swing and a miss from Jake Reese.

Pryor gets the strikeout and strands the runner at first.

Two strikeouts in the inning for Pryor.

Harding Academy, looking to take the lead at the top of the fifth.

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And it was the first inning problems for Brooklyn.

It was four runs for Harding Academy, all without a hit.

That's exactly right.

You saw the error right there.

Asher Griffin, the starting pitcher for Brooklyn, just struggled.

He did not get out of the inning.

Then the second inning coming up right here.

Jacob he smokes it back up the middle.

That gets Brooklyn going.

That was the only hit right there going into the third inning.

That's when Brooklyn put on their seven run frame.

Sent 11 players to the plate.

You got the single to left field right there.

That brought home two, one of them being Eli Foster.

That made the game five to for two at the game to one.

And you keep rolling in the fourth inning.

Harding Academy strikes back down two runs.

Big hit scores a run.

Then you had one score.

Gets past left fielder Ty ball game going into the top of the fifth.

JB this game has fit the billing.

Looked like Harding Academy early.

Was going to try to extend this game.

They jumped out five to nothing and they were a couple of big hits away from really breaking it open.

But Brooklyn did not lay down.

They took the lead as you talked about two terms back for Harding Academy.

They've scored in every inning.

But the second half the Wildcats and they look to start things off with their nine hole hitter Joe Miles.

Who is it by a pitch.

And he has a sacrifice fly and an RBI.

So good day for the nine hole hitting outfielder.

That's exactly right.

That's what you want out of your nine hole hitter.

Be able to turn it back over to the top of the lineup.

And Cam Pryor tough day for Cam Pryor so far.

He had that.

Walked in and caught stealing.

Let's see if Myles can get on base and let priority some damage.

Oh he helps him out.

Extends the zone.

Stallings goes off speed down and away.

And Myles swings over the top.

I tell you what Jamie.

Each team only has five hits.

So the key point in the game has been the free passes Brooklyn has allowed nine.

That we know so far.

And then that was by Asher Griffin in one of those days is Stallings swing and a miss in the turf.

Tyler corrals it and throws down the first three pitches, retires Myles.

And that's a big strikeout to begin the fifth.

That's right.

Get the first out.

Last inning, Kim Hoover led off with that single and then advanced to second base.

Harding Academy did with two outs last inning.

Great job by Stallings to get that first batter of the inning.

Well, the only inning that Harding Academy has not scored a run.

It was in the second.

And that's the only inning they did not put the leadoff runner aboard.

That's exactly right.

So, you know, if you 60, 70% of the time during the game, if you can get your leadoff runner on, you know they're going to come around and score.

Harding Academy with Cam Pryor now pops this one up right to the left fielder Carter is there underneath it quickly.

Two are going in the fifth.

Yeah.

And going back to my point you know nine free passes by Brooklyn left Harding Academy in this game.

You know Stallings has done a great job of calming this Harding Academy offense has done a great job so far.

In his fourth inning of work he came in and a really tough spot.

Bases loaded, two outs.

The top of the first.

Got cam prior to pop out.

He's got two outs here along the baseline check swing.

He did not go around says the first base umpire.

So Henley's had one a nice third base please get down.

Thank you.

Doing a really good job going off speed right there.

Keeping him off balance.

Going missing again.

Now it's two zero.

You gotta think Stallings can go a little bit.

He doesn't have a he doesn't have a lot of velocity.

So he's out there.

He can go the distance if they need him.

There's a chopper to the left side.

Going to have to be a tough run.

Nice scoop shortstop throw to first.

And he kept his foot on the back able to get it back down.

Bales to Reese A63 put out in Brooklyn gets over 123 in the fifth.

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It's been a fun championship weekend.

The Centennial Bank state baseball and softball championships.

Hard to believe we're halfway through it.

Yeah, we're over halfway through right now.

We baseball side of things.

We've got a class two AA.

Both of those schools are looking for their first state title.

And then we got the six AA West battle.

The big boys Rogers in Fayetteville tomorrow night in primetime.

It'll be five, six and seven.

Do up for Brooklyn Gabe Carter, Eli Foster, Griff Silverthorne against Cam Pryor.

Big play game.

That's right.

Oh for two so far.

Flew out to left field in the second inning.

And then he led off the third inning six three.

Well he didn't lead off.

He was in the middle of that.

Made the first out of the third inning.

Grounded out to Hoover at shortstop.

Yeah I think there's a good shortstop.

Yeah he is.

He's made some plays.

Here's a chopper foul outside.

Third hit it on the barrel but on the ground foul.

Yeah.

Carter's fourth on the team with 27 RBI's.

Looking to do some damage right here.

Here's a leadoff hitter a lot of baseball left to play.

JR is still in the just the bottom of the fifth.

Hard to believe number one for him for Pryor gets up and away from him.

And Pryor you know at times he's he's settled in right.

So he's done a good job.

But there's still a couple of pitches where he's trying to get ahead and pitches get away from him a little bit.

It looks like he's just trying to do too much out there.

He's got good stuff.

He just got to let it work for him right here.

Be confident in your stuff.

He's got a little crossfire motion.

He's got a little deception to him.

Here's a nice curveball.

That's really, really good stuff to even add up.

Yeah.

And for a right hand here, that's tough to pick up because we talk about the crossfire motion.

He hides that ball very well back there.

Next thing you know is dropping out right in front of you.

Two two to Carter.

Curveball hit him on the fist.

Hoover coming in.

Scoops throws on the money.

What a play from short by Cam Hoover.

That is a collegiate level now in the right field right there.

Let me tell you JB he feels that off the left throws it on the right.

That's A12 step.

Look at the replay here.

It's filtered on the left right.

Boom.

Great play by Cam Hoover at shortstop.

That's tough.

That's plays that these guys make it look easy at the highest levels of baseball.

That's what you want to see out of your shortstop.

That was an impressive transfer.

Yeah.

Glove to hand and then release.

When you can do it in two steps.

That's when you know you've got a really good fielding shortstop Eli Foster stepping in now the left hander.

And how big is that in a game like this I mean you have a short stop like Hoover.

You know how it is.

This game's a game of inches.

You have an era or maybe just a long throw.

You don't get him back runner safe.

It could lead to being the winning run.

Yeah, we've seen some really good shortstop play.

Walt Jones of Ashdown looked really good earlier today as well.

Made some big plays going on the Hill.

He helped Ashdown win their first ever state title in school history.

It was fun to watch coach Jordan O'Bannon his first year at Ashdown and, you know, for for them to win their 24th game and C.J.

Harris, what would have been his senior year, that's big time.

That's right.

Yeah I know Cedric Harris, senior.

He, played at LSU a couple years older than me.

And when that happened, you know, C.J.

was a good young ballplayer coming up, and this would have been his senior year.

So that that was a big, big moment for the town of Ashdown in that community, to get their first state championship and win it for C.J.. Yep.

24 for number 24.

22 to foster.

Hit it to short.

You don't want to do that.

Hoover gloves throws and they got him to it on really good change up right there by Pryor.

Gets foster on his front foot.

All foster can do is beat it into the ground and they hit it to the wrong spot.

The Hoover vacuum cleaner at shortstop Cam Hoover I used to use that with his brother too.

So I finally got to use it for him.

They're going to pat that aren't they.

Take he's hey they take such great angles and you know Kyler did a great job of teaching his younger brother.

So you know he was a sophomore when they played in it two years ago at camp Pryor is starting to dial in first pitch.

Curve ball to Silverthorne is a dandy in its own one.

Yeah.

Going back to the point game, Hoover started as as a second baseman as a sophomore two years ago, so he's very well battle tested.

This is a team.

It's they know what it's like to play at the highest level.

They've been in these state title games quite a few times.

Some of these players it's been you know, 2 or 3 times.

Yeah.

And you know for Brooklyn you know they won their first regional championship this year.

But going back to last 3 or 4 years they've played some of the best competition in the state.

Lone Oak Valley View.

There's one off to the right side.

Second baseman Watson gets it.

Three up three outs on the ground.

Balls.

Pryor's dialed in.

We're still tied at seven through five in the four state title game.

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Go back and check them out.

Certainly is.

It's all PBS sports does a great job.

We talked about that all weekend long and you look at Cam Hoover.

You make good plays on the defensive side trying to get rewarded on the offensive side.

That's exactly right.

We saw it yesterday and I saw it earlier today as well.

You know making a good play in the field and come back up get you a base knocked over had that really good hit back in the fourth inning.

And a single up the middle got the second on a wild pitch.

Ended up coming around.

The score.

Cut the lead to one count off the first one.

Swings and misses it at that one.

Oh and two heavy dosage of curveballs from Cooperstown.

Yeah, and you talk about a heavy, heavy curveball right there.

That thing.

It's a gravity ball goes a little bit more speed that time up and above the zone.

That's a show me pitch.

He's coming right back to that curveball.

I would tell you prove you can hit it right.

Right.

Whoever wants time to talk it over, at least talk it over.

Talk it over themselves.

Perhaps Brooklyn taking a little bit of time to get the pitch count, pitch call in here.

One, two.

There's the curveball.

Hoover pull side swing was crushed and some fans had to scatter down the left field wall.

And he must have hurt me on that one, Hoover said.

Curveball.

Okay, it's coming.

Got a good barrel to it.

Just couldn't straighten it out in front of it.

One two Stallings goes changeup in the turf blocked nicely by Tyler.

So there was a swing and a miss.

He had a chance to throw him out.

Yeah I really like Tyler behind the plate.

Good body good build as he he's about six foot that one 8185.

He's going to be a good 122 fouled away right side.

And regardless of the result here for Hoover these are the kind of at bats that you want.

You want to work that pitch count up later in the game against pitchers who are dialed in.

And Stallings I think he came into this inning with 60 pitches.

So he's starting to get up there a little bit.

Two two popped it up.

This one will be in the field of play.

Shallow center field, body on the run hat.

Fly it off.

Makes the catch.

And that's the first out of the inning.

And that's what speed will do for you.

Great great pitch right there.

So here's what is at stake.

It'll be the fourth title in five seasons.

If Harding Academy is to win, be their eighth overall.

And for Brooklyn, this is just their second ever appearance.

If they win it, they'll be bringing back the hardware to the northeast portion of the state and Brooklyn for the very first time.

That's exactly right.

The northeast corner of the state.

Great baseball.

First pitch swinging, caught by the second baseman, Tucker Ella, the young man.

And he snags that one out of the air.

Bentley Hawks has gotten the barrel to the ball a couple of times this game so far.

Just a great play.

He goes to his right.

Nice little vertical bunny hop right there.

Now we're two outs for all the scoring that we've had earlier in the game.

Pryor and Stallings have done a great job of settling down, giving their team a chance to get back to back.

Brody Myers stepping in big swing and a miss.

You know, all things considered Kevin, we've kind of had two shifts of the game, right.

Early inning problems for Asher Griffin.

Corbett kind of had some problems.

So offense.

And now it's almost a pitcher's duel between Stallings and Pryor.

That's right.

Who's going to be the first to break that.

That's where we're at in the game six and seventh inning.

We saw it last night with Marion and Valley View who can keep the pressure on the most right here.

It's almost as if it's A00 game.

Stallings versus Pryor.

Both pitchers are in a groove and it's own two to Brody Meyers.

Stallings trying to work.

Yeah.

And you see Brooklyn having a little trouble with their pitch.

Come right there.

This is the first year for electronics that can be used in game.

For player communication on the field.

Oh two from Stallings.

Pops him up left field, right to the corner.

Makes the catch seven in a row.

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These are great championship keepsakes for your student athletes.

They really are.

And there have been a plethora of good ball games this week, and certainly for the baseball championships.

Yep, they've all been good.

They have, you know, every game has been close.

It's come down to the end.

All three games within two runs.

That's what you want.

And a weekend of champions.

Down at the end of the season.

Every team that come into this weekend, all 12 teams were ranked in our super seven rankings this season.

Most of them in the top five with five number one teams at the beginning of the season.

And the Riverside come in as the number one team in class two AA.

So great games all the way around is what we're expecting.

It'll be eight, nine and one do up for Brooklyn Jordan friend, Ethan Bales and then Bodie.

First pitch swinging base hit right back up the middle.

Jordan friend his first base hit on the title game.

This is this is how it started in the third inning.

JB Jordan friend led off the inning with the wall.

Then Ethan Bales with a huge double right there getting it going again.

Bottom part of the lineup.

You're right.

That's exactly what happened in the third inning.

All of Brooklyn's scoring came in that third inning against Nate Corbett.

A walk to friend.

And then one batter later Ethan Bales at the plate ripped a double down the left field line.

He's going to go small ball this time.

Trying to do a job.

Comes up and hits him on the helmet.

Oh man.

Up and in from cam prior and two on board with nobody out for Brooklyn.

And that's not what you wanted right there.

If you're Cam Prior in the Harding Academy Wildcats they're giving up.

They're giving up and out right there.

And they hit him in the helmet right there.

He did pull back.

He could yeah he could have left it out there too.

They would have given him the bat.

Wouldn't have mattered okay.

You just have to offer at it.

That's the point.

And that they may have been question that right now, but yeah, he he pulled it back and he was not offering at the ball.

So so now top of the line do up and Cooper Bodie Brooklyn looking to bunt.

Bodie trying to get it down bunts it.

Diving play.

Do they make the catch.

Oh my.

Out.

And soon Smith with a huge play in the title game.

And that's the first out of the inning.

Big mistake right there Cooper.

Bodie drop the barrel.

Head pop fly.

Great diving catch by Smith.

And now you're one pitch away from getting out of the inning.

That's right.

Baseball.

I'll tell you what.

It is a crazy game.

This game certainly has been crazy.

Two hole hitter Ripken Tucker do up one for two today with an RBI single.

And Pryor would love a double play ball.

First pitch curveball.

Oh.

Was it fouled.

It was double just off the bat.

If that one does get away though it'll work like a bunt for Brooklyn.

Yeah, exactly.

So in that situation your two hole hitter up, you're sitting pretty right there for the Bearcats.

But just got enough of it where it got under the glove of Myers.

You could tell the ball change trajectory up.

And those umpires are listening for that sound.

That's what they're I mean you're a former umpire you know.

Yeah.

They're going off two sounds right there.

So that's the biggest thing right there because his his line of sight is kind of blocked at that point.

So he's going off sound like you mentioned up low.

Wanted to get Tucker to offer.

That's a great take.

Looks like a fastball and then just falls off.

Yeah.

He needs to extend that out a little bit more.

He kind of cut it off a little bit.

And that's what drove it down into the dirt.

Get a little bit more extension.

That's going to play well at the bottom of the zone to Pryor.

Yeah because then it stays closer to the zone.

So even if you get swing and miss or not if it's contact you're going to ground ball.

One one pitch fouled away by Ripken Tucker.

Boy how quickly things changed when Bodie bonded out and an athletic effort from the third baseman diving in Riley Smith making a huge play.

And that's the chances you take.

You know Bodie handles the bat better than just about anybody in that Brooklyn lineup.

He's your best hitter.

Top.

He's he's your leadoff guy.

You're going to live and die with him.

So you can't question Baker's decision right there.

Sure one two to Tucker change up.

And they got him.

What a pitch from Cam Pryor pulls the string for the second out.

Great job of making an adjustment right there.

We just talked about he goes back to the changeup.

Perfect location gets Tucker out in the front for the swinging strikeout.

Man I tell you boy he must be listening to you.

He's made all the adjustments necessary.

We got pitch cam going on right here.

And you see a Bear Stadium.

Rock and Tyler now do up two going just like that Brooklyn had first and second.

Nobody out but a bunt out to third.

And then a strikeout for Pryor.

Brooklyn's going to need a big two out hit if they're going to take the lead here in the bottom of the sixth.

Now first pitch curve ball.

Great take from Rogan Tyler.

Yeah.

And Pryor really wanted that one.

That's where Myers he let that ball go out of the zone.

If he gets under that ball he's got a better chance of getting a strike right there.

But great call by our home plate umpire Ben Fox the sophomore catcher at the plate Rogan Tyler.

He's got a bright future trying to deliver for Brooklyn.

Takes another curveball out of the zone.

He'll have a hitter's count now.

Two balls, no strikes.

Right.

Tyler is hitting 363 coming into this game.

Struck out his first at bat, then was hit by a pitch.

Grounded out to shortstop back in the fourth inning.

So looking for his first hit of the day, he's got the second most RBI's on the season for the team with 29.

Takes it high three and zero.

And now Pryor one bad pitch away from loading him up for Jake Treece, the senior.

Hit.

Now you just need to settle down.

Get back in the zone is offspeed.

Speed's been working for him today when he's extended out front, whether it be his curveball or his changeup.

Just get back in the zone right here.

Settle in.

Three.

Oh, pitch from Pryor.

He gets the strike three and one to Tyler Reese in the on deck circle.

We've seen Brooklyn be very aggressive on three one counts today.

They have three hits on three one count so far today.

So Ripken Tucker was one earlier in the game that really blew this game open.

So let's see if they're aggressive right here Tyler dig it in three one high chopper to third.

He makes the play.

Smith will beat him to the bag.

It ends the innings Brooklyn threatens but Harding Academy evades any damage.

We're still tied at seven heading to the seventh.

A nail biter from Conway.

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Seven seven in the top of the seventh.

And hey, it would seventh inning time.

We haven't had this come into effect yet.

But there's a new rule that came out for Arkansas baseball state championships.

Yes, we Arkansas is the first state in the United States to get a replay review for high school baseball and softball this weekend.

Our replay official, Justin Yates, has done a great job.

Only replays in the seventh inning.

Each coach has a challenge and if it goes extra innings, they'll have a challenge in each inning until the game is over with.

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It's not they're not challenging if it's a ball or anything like that.

They're doing a fair foul.

Foul.

Safe out.

One ball one strike to Watson.

Curveball goes down and gets it down the line.

It's a fair ball into the corner.

Harding Academy looking to start things off.

A two bagger for Watson.

And they've not gotten him out tonight.

That's right.

That's his second double of the game.

Watson has scored three times already this game.

He's got two walks.

He's two for two with two doubles three runs scored.

What a job out of your six hole hitter man.

And that ball was fair by inches down the line right.

I want a big swing out of the sixth spot for Rhett Watson.

Now Nate Corbett, who was the starting pitcher for Harding Academy stays in as the D.H.. Yep.

Actually down at the outfield.

Really left field.

And you got you you got your.

He's a lefty.

So Coach Fullerton can do quite a few things right here.

They want to make sure to get Watson over to third base.

Let's see if they put the bun on right here.

They are Bunning and they run into that left side diving attempt and he caught it.

You got to be kidding me.

Jordan friend from third.

Returns the favor.

Yeah.

And Corbett needs to get that ball to the first base side.

That creates length over to third base right there.

And he just buttoned it up in the air.

Dropped the barrel.

Good pitch up in the zone.

Great diving catch right there.

That's fireman Jordan friend.

What a game friend has had over there at third base and at the plate.

Jordan friend pulling his best Riley Smith impersonation.

Smith did that a half ago on the bunt attempt from Bodie.

That one would have been fair too.

So that even just better catch right there in a better situation.

Tough grab right there.

Going to the glove side.

That's what these championship games are made of.

Clutch plays down the stretch.

We've seen things shift.

Middle of an inning so quickly.

Defensive plays offensive plays and a credit to Watson right there.

He could have been standing on third base.

That could have been a double play.

But he saw the ball.

Make sure it was down there in that situation.

Caught.

And hey I don't like I don't hate this position for Brooklyn.

First bases open trying to set up the double play.

Perhaps that's what we're talking about earlier.

If there's a walk this is a good walk.

This is a good free pass.

Real pitch that runs right down Broadway.

Smith taking all the way.

He'll be able to dig in now at three and one.

And we know Stallings.

He's a competitor.

He's not going to give in.

He's going to be tough every batter.

I've been impressed with Stallings.

He certainly has been.

Three one pitch chopped foul left side.

So Stallings battling back to run the count for.

Boy this is certainly been one of those games.

It looked like Harding Academy was going to run away with things for nothing in the top of the first without a hit.

They went up five to nothing.

Two hours and 15 minutes later we got A77 ballgame in the seventh.

That's exactly right.

That's what you want to see.

Sevens are wild right now, boys and girls.

So let's see what happens right here in crunch time.

Payoff pitch.

Smith at the end of the bat.

Foul not giving in both pitcher.

And here they know how crucial this at bat is.

That's exactly right.

We talked about the competitor that Stallings has been in the entire game.

He got down three zero in this count.

Now he's battled back got A32 count through three straight strikes.

Let's see what happens here with the payoff.

Another play on that one got away from Stallings.

Not as close as he would have liked.

Runners at first and second.

Now the only good thing for Stallings now is they could roll it up with the double play.

That's exactly right.

So you got the double play intact right here.

And you got Joe Miles coming up.

He's been on base one time he got up.

He was hit by a pitch in his first at bat, flew out to right field, is second at bat and then struck out last time.

Had a really tough time picking up that changeup from Stallings.

First pitch rolls over foul.

Now that ball hit to right field.

It ended up being an RBI.

So he got the sacrifice deep enough.

But he would love a base hit right here.

Find a way to get on with Cam Pryor at the top of the lineup due up next in miles has to know that Stallings is pitching him outside the entire at bat last time, so he has to go to left field with this right here.

Joe Miles trying to come up big for Harding Academy.

Fouls it off to the left side.

And Stallings ahead now.

Oh and two yep getting ahead.

That's the name of the game right here.

One out runners on first and second.

Tie.

Ballgame.

Top of the seventh.

Couldn't ask for anything better.

Miles chokes up on the bat, but we'll have to wait as Stallings steps off the back of the rubber.

You're right, I mean this.

You could not ask for a better ballgame.

Thank goodness.

022 miles.

Oh.

That one gets away from the catcher.

Both runners move up, and now you've got a little bit more of a luxury for Harding Academy.

That's right.

Now, what you want to make sure of right here.

You got A12 count on miles.

You can be you can be a little fine right here.

If you're a pitcher, if you're stalling, work around the plate.

Do not leave anything in the middle.

The changeup just gets a little outside of our man Tyler right there at the plate.

Just could not get around that ball.

And he kicked off away from him.

Harding Academy looking for the big hit.

Miles back to the pitcher.

What a play.

They'll get him in first two gone.

That ball was destined for center field.

But Cooper Starling said not today.

That's exactly right.

That ball gets up the middle.

We know their score and they're probably going to get an out at first base.

But great jobs Cooper Stallings right there helping his cause.

What's the replay right here I thought it went in between his legs.

Now looking back great job right there.

We talked about pitcher fielding practice.

Great job.

But looking the runner back then going to first base with the infield in all the way around.

Man that one could have been problematic for Brooklyn.

The reflexes from Stallings.

They're not out of the woods yet as Cam Pryor is due up.

But man that was a big play at a very large juncture of the ballgame.

That's right.

Coach Josh Baker coming out right now.

Just resetting your infield, going over the situation.

This is where you want to overcommunicate as a coach.

All right guys you got two outs.

Let's make sure we know our game plan going up against Pryor.

The toughest hitter in the Harding Academy lineup.

So let's know what they're going to how they're going to attack him right here.

Prior to that he's over three with the walk.

So he is due.

First pitch curveball turns on it rips it to third.

Nice play from Fred.

And they throw him down at first.

Wow.

Harding Academy threatened, but Brooklyn shuts the door.

We're still tied at seven in Brooklyn.

Going for the walk off in the bottom of the seventh.

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Seven seven.

In the bottom of the seventh.

Yeah, we've had two instances yesterday in the one a playoff where Saint Joe's loaded the bases in the sixth in the seventh inning.

Of course, Valley View and Mary in the five East final in five.

A state title game last night went down to a one run game.

Valley.

You get in there back to back earlier today.

Conference foes ass down to no central going after it.

And this is what you want right here.

Now you got senior Jake Reese coming up looking to do damage in for Brooklyn Jake Reese the cleanup hitter one for three today for Brooklyn.

They had seven runs in that third inning.

They've only had two baserunners.

Six came prior.

He's done a really nice job.

There's what you're looking at Jake Reese Gabe Carter Eli Foster for five and six.

And Brooklyn is hoping that that's all they need.

That's all right Reese represents the winning run.

Takes the first pitch up.

And in.

The prior has been good.

When he's been able to establish that first pitch strike falling behind a senior Reese right there.

Key with it right here.

You get a senior in two juniors right behind Reese one zero pitch smokes it fair into left field Reese heading to second trying to stretch it to a double.

He is safe.

A lead off extra base hit for the senior.

Gotta love it right there Jake Reese came into this game hitting 368 on the year.

Already had two RBI in the game to take the team lead at 31.

Leads off with the double.

Now let's see the strategy that Shane Thornton decides to take advantage of right here man.

Reese, the senior might be the biggest hit of his life.

Yep.

Huge moment.

But we've seen pressure applied from both teams.

Let's see if Harding Academy can find a way to keep this run from scoring get expect.

They'll intentionally walk Carter right here to set up a double play, possibly.

We'll see the cat and mouse game right here.

If Pryor falls behind him earlier, don't be surprised that they intentionally in Brooklyn swing it away.

Foul tipped in the catcher's mitt.

There, a base hit away from potentially walking it off for their first ever state title.

You gotta think, because Josh Baker told his hitters this inning, come out aggressive.

Don't let Pryor dictate the at bat right here.

And that's exactly what they did, with Jake Reese.

And then you got, Gabe Carter doing it right here.

Oh one pitch to Carter.

Curveball pulled foul and out of play.

That was in the hole.

Oh and two Harding Academy.

They started off the top of the seventh with a leadoff double.

Weren't able to capitalize.

And now Brooklyn's trying not to run into the same fate.

That's exactly right.

So one batter at a time right here.

Now it's a chess match.

That's what we're dealing with right here.

J.B.. Carter going to try to battle prior, trying to get him fouled on the high fastball.

Barely got enough to stay alive.

And that was that was ball one.

Big play game.

As coach Josh Baker called him.

He's been big all season.

321 average, 27 RBI's.

And now Kam Pryor trying to put him away though oh two fouled again.

He stays alive.

There is some stirring in the Harding Academy bullpen.

Cam Norris the freshman getting loose.

Yeah Norris is a really good young pitcher for the Wildcats.

The prior goes to long right here.

They'll definitely go getting.

They know that Norris can pound the strike zone.

Looking for that first out of the inning.

And Brooklyn's looking to send all the Brooklyn faithful home happy pickoff move to first.

Really just to settle things down.

Throw it away.

Throw to second.

Get back on the rubber.

Harding Academy with their right handed hitter up.

You want your shortstop over in the six on his natural position.

So the second baseman will be holding him.

Carter has to know that.

So if he can inside out one to the right side, you know you can move him over.

Good curveball off the plate, though.

Nice take from Carter.

One ball and two strikes.

Boy the the nerves are high in Bear Stadium.

You play a kid's game to get to this moment to win big trophies.

Well, you can cut the tension with a knife.

I mean, it is.

This is such a great game.

One ball, two strikes from prior to Carter popped up.

Foul right side.

Carter is hanging tough.

That's right.

This has been one heck of a battle right here.

Big play game Carter just hanging in there tonight.

Game versus the only prior has the advantage.

Still got A12 count.

So he can go to any pitch in his arsenal right here.

Here's again what's at stake.

First ever state title for Brooklyn four and five years for Harding Academy would be their eighth.

And these are the moment for these kids for these high scores that they dream of.

As when they're kids and these big moments.

One two curve ball Carter popped him up.

Who wants it first?

Base side in foul ground.

The catch is made by Hawks.

And that's a big first out for Harding Academy.

Absolutely great curveball right there by Pryor down in the zone.

Not much he can do with that.

If you're game Carter he just pops it up.

Great job by beating Hawks staying on it.

Good communication right there.

And now Eli Foster stands in to the plate.

The winning run at second base for Brooklyn.

Foster is one for two today a single.

He also had that sacrifice safety squeeze that got the run home.

That's exactly right.

Swing it away.

Chops it up the middle to the second baseman.

Slow roller.

Watson's throw to first is good.

It moves the runner 90ft to third base.

And boy the winning run for Brooklyn is 90ft away with two outs.

That's right.

Now you got Griff Silverthorne coming up designated hitter and a single earlier this game.

One for three on the day.

Now anything can happen.

That's right.

If you're Harding Academy, you got to be careful because you get one away from the catcher.

That's the winning run, mother.

Everything.

Just stick to your fundamentals.

You don't need to be too fine right here.

If I'm calm prior, I'm attacking right here on that inside corner.

Pounded in.

Get me a ground ball.

Get out of the inning.

Griff Silverthorne trying to be the hero for Brooklyn, already has a two run single today.

The first pitch is a curveball, and it's inside corner for a strike.

Pryor has done a great job establishing that inside corner against these right handed hitters, not letting them get the barrel to the baseball.

So great job right there against the Bearcats and their seventh hole hitter.

So just a freshman he is a unique situation a huge situation swings and misses against Pryor.

And now he'll have to protect.

Oh, and two.

How about Kam Pryor settling in after giving up the leadoff double?

He's one strike away from sending it to extras.

That's right.

Great job by Brody Meyer to go out and get that baseball.

He had to back in that one.

So we'll see right here.

This is coach Josh Baker.

This is not what he wanted for his hitters this inning.

Any time it's 0212 calm Pryor can go to any pitch.

Silverthorne trying to battle Pryor trying to send it to the A's.

The berry's a curveball and a nice block for Myers behind the dish.

Great job by Silverthorne right there.

And you get the winning run sitting at third base.

That wins Brooklyn their first state championship in school history.

Yeah, Silverthorne got a chance to be the most popular man in Brooklyn.

That's right.

You got a battle, though, at the plate.

Pryor trying to get the big out.

The one two pitch swing and a miss Kim Pryor the ice in his veins and Harding Academy escapes.

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Man who doesn't like free baseball, especially the state championship variety.

That's exactly right.

Last time we had it was 2023 little Rock, Christian Valley View.

When a couple extra innings, a little Rock Christian walked them off their first state championship in school history.

So let's see if Brooklyn can get the same thing for their school.

It's a new pitcher for Brooklyn.

The lefty coming in Elijah snarly southpaw.

Second lefty for Brooklyn.

He's got good stuff.

He struck out the last five hitters against Robinson.

Yep.

And you got that kind of stuff against a good Robinson team.

You trust him in a situation like this?

First pitch fouled away.

Titus Henley leading things off here in the eighth inning.

It's two 3 in 4.

Do up for the Wildcats.

What a competitive classification.

The semifinals both went extra innings eight and two innings.

Now we got a championship game going extra innings.

Oh.

What else did we expect right man.

Had to think how this game started.

Harding Academy looked like they were going to put this one to bed early.

But Brooklyn said no not ready for bed.

Pop set up.

Nice pitch from Sterling.

Right side of the infield.

Who wants it?

First baseman over.

He makes the catch.

Jake Reese for number one.

Great job by snarly right there to stay on the outer half of the plate.

It's your fly ball to your center.

Senior first baseman.

Brooklyn is one of the few teams that will keep the same defensive alignment.

Just bringing in a new pitcher.

Here's the shortstop, Cam Hoover.

First pitch swinging and it fouls it off.

And how about the jumpers.

Early to come in high pressure situation.

And he's just pounding the strike zone.

Just getting there in two strikes.

Big fella.

It's not a big situation or anything.

No pressure okay.

Well you've been in these situations in a lot of different ways.

Player.

Yeah.

Player.

Umpire.

Coach booth broadcaster.

Early the junior oh one pitch.

Just a little bit outside.

It's close.

Good pitch.

Really good pitch right there.

Starter's got to think.

Okay.

Minor adjustment right there.

He only missed that one by an inch or two.

Bentley Hawks would be due up next.

They'd love to have a runner aboard for the hot hitting, left handed.

First baseman.

That'll be interesting to see how Hawks handles the lefty on lefty.

You know he did it in the first inning right there.

Was hit by a pitch.

That's the only time he saw Asher Griffin to wonder who's or just a little outside catcher.

Tyler struggled to corral it.

Now it's three one.

Yeah.

Outside pitch right there.

Tyler just trying to jerk that one a little too quick.

It was outside.

Hoover looking to dig in.

Three one from snarly.

Gets away from him.

Ball at four and the Go-Ahead run will head to first base for Harding Academy.

One thing that if we had a runner on base right here, let's see how snarly does coming out of the bullpen.

Handling runners on base okay.

Does he have the same move?

Does he have a sidestep?

That's what we need to see right here.

We've seen Harding Academy apply pressure.

They didn't have the very first base run of the ballgame.

Cam Pryor caught stealing by the sophomore Rogan Tyler behind the dish.

Yeah I guarantee you that's not his a move right there.

That's just kind of.

I'm going to show you show you my pick.

I'm gonna show you my move.

I'm looking at you.

I see you over there.

That's right.

Do you get a lefty pitcher that straight up.

Straight down, like snarly is?

You can be dangerous.

Boy.

Bentley Hawks was trying to give Harding Academy a two run lead with one swinging the bat.

He normally nearly hit a long ball off the right field wall.

Yeah.

Hawks, just a junior, has a lot of potential on the mound as well.

A one pitch line drive to short on a hop.

They'll get the lead out.

They won't have time to turn two.

But a nice job for Brooklyn.

Didn't get the lead out.

There's two going.

Yeah.

Great job there by Bailes at shortstop.

That ball had some weird spin on had that sidespin on it.

He kind of, Hawks inside out of that pitch right there.

You see right here.

Great play on the short hop.

That could have been dangerous right there.

So great play by Bailes at shortstop.

No kidding.

To be able to adjust middle of the play because you got a split second to decide.

Do I come in and try to catch it on a short hop or maybe in the air?

That's where errors happen.

That's exactly right.

Big hop, short hop.

You don't want that in between hop.

He came up a little bit, got the short hop and got the out.

So now Brody Meyers will be due up and it'll be up to him if Harding Academy is going to be able to keep it rolling.

He's hit by the pitch on the shoulder first and second.

Now for the Wildcats.

And they're a base hit away potentially from taking the lead tonight.

It's been four innings since Harding Academy has scored.

They had the bases loaded last year.

Got Brett Watson third base right there.

Just couldn't get home right there.

Let's see what happens right here.

They have a courtesy runner for Meyers.

They've got Bentley Hawks at second base.

Do they run for Meyers?

Will have to find out and see.

But a big moment for Rhett Watson.

He's not been retired today.

Double a single and a two walks.

Yep.

That's a pretty good job with the state championship.

Just simple short compact swing.

That's what you want right there.

Now to Watson.

You got a bright future.

Waits on A10 from snarly fastball.

Paints the outer black.

Good pitch from the lefty right at the knees.

Snarly.

He's got kind of that over-the-top angle.

A little funk in his motion right there to where he kind of hides it for a minute.

Then it kind of jumps on top of you.

So if he can live at the knees, it's going to be hard for Harding to square the ball up.

One one fastball.

Too much juice get.

You see, Tyler, the catcher, give the motion the universal sign of.

Hey, calm down.

Take a deep breath.

Settle down.

You got two outs just in the way.

Yeah, and we get two hitless.

So just calm down.

Throw strikes.

It's not really got the bleached blond hair.

A lot of guys do that.

The go to thing.

Two one from snarly.

Just missed just a little bit low.

Just missed at the bottom of the zone right there.

Good call.

Yeah the The Slim Shady hairdo 1999 the Panthers with coach Kyle Slayton rolled into Balm Stadium.

All that bleach blond hair, three one pitch misses upstairs, bases loaded.

Now for Harding Academy.

Man oh man.

Taking the lead at third with 90ft away.

Would do it for Harding Academy.

Give him the lead.

The ninth walk of the game for Harding Academy.

They also had three hit by pitches.

That's 12 free passes.

Two quick outs right there for snarly.

And now the junior just has to go in attack right here.

You get Nate Auburn up.

Corbett came into this game starting on the mound for the Wildcats.

Got an early lead yet run from the game in that big third inning by Brooklyn.

Now he has a chance to be the hero for the moment for the Wildcats.

Sure does.

He's been a tough out until he popped up to third on that bunt attempt.

Just could not get down.

And you got to give credit to both third baseman on those both bunt attempts.

They they laid it on the line and made a nice play.

That's exactly right.

Smith.

And then Jordan friend Jordan.

Friends had one heck of a game for Brooklyn.

You got to give it up to number 31 over there.

Hot corner left fielder number both defensively and offensively.

So bases loaded.

No place to put Nate Corbett the starting pitcher for Harding Academy trying to come up.

Clutch first pitch swing and a miss.

Good hack right there by Corbett looking to do damage.

Well we talk about it 85% of the time.

After a coach visits you get a strike.

So yeah Coach Fullerton knew that he had Corbett swinging right there in the old one to Corbett inside down and in one ball one strike in the front of your mind.

You know that the last two batters have reached via a walk and a hit by pitch.

So, you know, you can be selective up there and you don't have to be too aggressive at the plate.

The lefty lefty match up one one pulls foul.

Well out in front was Corbett frustrated with himself.

He wanted that driving it to that right side wanted to give Harding Academy the lead.

That's exactly right.

Just pulled his head out a little bit right there.

Corbett stays on that ball.

He can drive it into right field.

One ball, two strikes.

Snarly trying to shut the door.

Corbett trying to protect curveball.

Just missed inside it.

Just missed inside.

Really good pitch for snarly right there.

Let's see a replay of that one.

If we could.

There it is.

Just get over the plate.

Yeah definitely.

Good call by the home plate umpire Ben Fox.

That ball was on the inside.

Good pitch.

So Corbett lives to see another day.

Two balls, two strikes, bases loaded for Harding Academy looking for the lead.

Curveball.

Crushed to right field, but he hit it right.

Two.

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Bottom of the eighth.

I don't know about you, Bo, but this has been some fun.

Absolutely.

And we've talked about it all week and how close these games have been.

We're into free baseball right here at Bear Stadium.

Both communities out loud, loud and proud right now.

Brooklyn with a chance to walk it off for their first state championship in school history.

We're down to the wire right here.

And they got the right guys coming up.

Typically that would mean three, four and five.

But today for Brooklyn it's eight nine and one Jordan friend Ethan Bales and Cooper Bodie are really the eight.

Nine hitters have really kickstarted the offense.

They really have.

And you know we want to apologize to our class three AA state championship softball game.

The Harding Academy Wild Lady Wildcats and the Mayflower Eagles.

They'll be coming up hopefully at 7 p.m. if we don't go over too much right here.

So still a lot to see on Arkansas PBS sports right here.

Here we go.

Jordan friend one for two today.

He is also walked.

First pitch swinging rolls over to the right side.

Second baseman flips to first.

It's close, but they got him man.

Watson kind of lolly popped it to first and that play was a lot closer than it probably should have been.

Kind of lost their grip on it right there.

First pitch curve ball to Jordan Frey.

And he came up just smooth like he always been.

Just lost their grip on that kind of shot.

Put it over there.

Good review or good look there over at first he did get him.

It was bang bang though.

And now Ethan Bales, the nine hole hitter has had a great game as well.

Scored or drove in the first run of the game for Brooklyn back in that seven run third inning.

They had a big double down the left field line came into the game hitting 311 on the season.

He fastest runner on the team 21 stolen bases.

Let's see if he can get the rally going right here.

One oh pitch curve ball swing and a miss.

Good pitch there from Cam Pryor and really tough to pick up.

We talked about prior with that crossfire action.

That serve just kind of gets on you.

And it's tough to pick up unless it's right over the heart of the plate.

Cam Pryor trying to mow down through the lineup.

Swing and a miss on the curveball.

And it's one and two.

Look at this bender from Cam Pryor.

Man, he's got a lot of break on it.

He does right there.

That was that was the one.

This is the good one right here.

That just falls off the table right there.

No chance to do anything with that.

If you're Ethan Bales go spike curve two.

That's what a lot of the guys are going to do.

Now.

Those one two chops at left side slow roll.

It could be trouble.

Smith on the run.

Bang bang.

And they got him at first.

Good play right there.

It looks like we're going to have our first review.

And you got to run it too.

Yeah.

Going in extra innings you lose it if you don't got it.

So look at our replay guidelines right here.

They're available in the final inning which is the extra inning right here.

Safe and out.

Calls are reviewable.

Each coach is allowed one challenge per unit.

So you might as well use it.

Yeah.

Great.

Great job using it right here.

Let's look at it right here a replay official Justin Yates is in there.

That's that's about as close as you can get I think you that's right.

He got it.

He got the call right.

Right there looking for sound though.

Well I don't know.

He balls not.

They're not there yet.

Wait for the touch of the bag.

I hope he man.

Looks like he made it right there.

Yeah, I think they can overturn this.

That's a great challenge right there.

But what they're looking for, the runner has to beat the ball there.

It goes to the runner is not a rule in baseball.

So they're looking for did the runner beat the ball to the bag.

There's a good look.

Yep.

Not quite.

Back in the webbing.

And hey this is a historic moment.

It's the first ever baseball review.

And the Arkansas state champions.

Exactly right.

We had one earlier in softball.

But what they're looking for right here and the coaches cannot question it after the final call, stands.

Boy, you know, regardless of these situations, one side is going to be very unhappy.

That's right.

You either got the runner on with one out or you got two outs right here.

So but it looks to you right.

It looks like you're safe.

That's the that's the frame right there that shows you safe.

Boy that ends up true.

It would be a two for three day for Ethan Bales out of the nine spots.

Incredible.

Great job.

Our production team right there looking at it right there.

And they're looking.

Did he get on the bag.

Yes.

We're see that you got white touch and white right there.

Glove does not have the ball in there.

So we're frame by frame.

We should get a call.

It's safe right here.

It'll be big.

That's the winning run.

If it ends up getting overturned for Brooklyn.

And it flips the order over to the top of the lineup like we talked about.

So great job by sophomore Ethan Bales right there.

And likely you'll have Cooper Bodie swinging away not trying to bunt in this situation.

If there's a runner at first base with one out.

But you talk about as close as it can get, man.

That's a that's about as close as it gets.

But what do you do as an umpire?

No wonder you get some of those.

Like as a first base umpire, you're looking at the bag and listening for.

Yep.

And we just got a back to the replay booth.

Get our call.

Yep.

From our umpire here.

Here we go.

There is Game Boy safe.

You are right.

My call is overturned.

Safe.

Great challenge right there by Josh Baker.

Now Brooklyn has the winning run at first base with only one out.

Man that is a huge call.

Coach Baker.

He uses the challenge and it pays off.

Now.

And now the top of the lineup due up with Cooper Bodine.

Man there's the look.

This right here could be the biggest play of the game if you will.

That's exactly right.

Now Cooper Bodie hasn't quite had the championship game that he would like.

He's over three with a walk.

Swings rips that right side off the ball gets away.

Base hit with runners at first and second.

You got something going on right here.

Let's hold on.

Oh.

Did it hit the runner at first?

Moving to second I thought we're let's get a replay right here.

Yeah.

Oh, I think it did.

So he's a dead.

The seconds is out.

So he's out.

So the ruling on that is if it hasn't passed the fielder it's an out and makes contact with the runner.

So he's out in that situation.

As long as the fielder did not making a reasonable attempt to field the ball, he's going to be at.

It looked like it hit fielder first and then.

Hit the runner first.

Then we got to the fielder.

Yeah I'm going to go and describe Coach Baker I mean rightfully so.

You got to go ask him to talk about confer amongst two sisters something different.

Yeah.

You can't challenge anymore Coach Baker.

So at least ask them to get get together, make sure they're making the right ruling and go right there.

First base umpire right there.

Did a great job.

Called it right away.

You can see it right here on the replay.

Ball was smoked.

Got him on the field.

Yep.

Number eight for one.

Could have been.

Yep.

There he is.

Great job by Justin now.

And he called it right away.

I tell you what this umpiring crew has done a great job doing this for a championship game.

Yeah but our video crews well absolutely man that's a big momentum swing that ball gets through to right field.

There's like three runners at the corners.

Yep.

And now you're just down a fielder's choice and two outs.

So Ripken Tucker trying to play hero one for three today with an RBI out of the two spot.

First pitch drives it to center field.

They played the shift.

It's in the left center field.

Miles will come in and get it.

It's extra is second and third now for Brooklyn.

And for the second time tonight the winning run is 90ft away.

That's right Ripken Tucker.

They played him to pull in the outfield and he shoots it the other way takes second base right there.

That was a great job.

Heads up.

Base running.

He saw the go the the throw go through the home plate.

And he went ahead and took second base.

Good job by Cooper.

Bodie right there running running running and running taking advantage of it.

Good job.

Good Tucker Logan Tyler.

Well I want to say here the last two innings both teams have had runners at second and third every time at least.

So now do you intentionally walking will make a force at any base because I mean nothing against Ripken Tucker at second base.

He does not matter at all he done.

Yeah, it's that runner at third.

But you also want to thanks Jake Reese either.

Yeah they're going to roll the dice.

They're going to go and face Logan Tyler.

He is old for a three today.

So maybe that's where they come in.

Think hey we've had Rogan Tyler's number.

That's exactly right for the chess match comes into play.

And hey if you lose him okay, you're still not in the bad shape, but you want to come out and perhaps don't want to groove anything.

Oh, and one from cam prior to Taylor fouled back into the netting.

Cam Prior's a strike away from sending this game to the ninth.

Game prior in the situation that he's been very effective in all game long.

Getting ahead of hitters.

His arsenal plays up right here.

Here the clapping from the Harding Academy faithful.

Rogan Tyler the sophomore trying to play.

He rolled through Brooklyn oh two.

Coba fouled off his foot at the plate and he'll live to see another margin of error.

Very small right here from Pryor.

You don't want to bury it in the dirt, but you don't want to leave it hanging right there.

He got lucky.

Batter's eyes lit up right there.

He's thinking, I got this game winning hit right here.

You can't leave that hanging right there again.

Tyler may make him pay.

Prior trying to send it to the nice Tyler try to send Brooklyn home happy.

Strike three called prior again.

Works out of trouble.

You gotta be kidding me.

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And boy, this has been a good one.

Five minutes away of what would be the start time for the softball championship.

We apologize.

We've got baseball still going on top of the ninth.

This game's been tied at seven since the fourth inning.

Yeah, the last extra inning for a championship game happened in 2022.

That was Valley View and Harrison at Benton High School.

So another extra inning affair.

Number one, this is what you want to see right here.

Snarly getting that for the Harding Academy lineup right here.

Let's see.

It's 892191 Riley Smith Joe Miles the top of the lineup.

Cam Pryor snarls, first pitches up and away to Riley Smith.

Oh for two today is Smith.

He's reached three times though.

An error, a sacrifice.

In the walk inside this time nearly hit him.

Gets out of the way.

Something you don't see very much as Harding Academy hitters jumping out of the way of free bases right there, but he is ahead to a.

It's a chance to dig in if he'd like to also strike over the outer portion.

Really good pitch right there.

Snarly right on the black on the outside.

Good frame job by your catcher right there to one swung out of his shoes on that one did Riley Smith.

And you look boy it's really been the bottom part of the lineup for both teams that have really kind of produced.

It's been the top that's been over.

Yeah.

Even though there's only one hit for Harding Academy.

They've been tough outs and Miles has an RBI sac fly so far.

So a low swing and a miss.

Snow fell behind two.

Nothing.

But he gets the high cheese and the strike out.

How about in the really good competitive pitch right there by Starling going up and in.

Great pitch.

That's a nice job of throwing gas but controlling it keeping it competitive.

Here's Joe Miles nine hole hitter.

He has reached base in his first plate appearance.

He was hit by a pitch.

Then he had a sacrifice fly, struck out and then grounded out.

Lefty.

Lefty.

Match up one zero.

Pitch just a little bit outside.

Another two oh count.

He's at breaking ball.

First pitch right there.

I'm surprised if he didn't go back to right there.

That's something that Miles really can't control.

Miles has been a little pull happy so far in this game, so let's see if he challenges him a little bit.

Now we got A30 count.

So now taking likely all the way is Joe Miles.

And he's got good speed.

So Harding Academy would love to get him on base.

And you got the auto takes on right here.

Sometimes it's a one.

Sometimes it's a fear.

Sometimes it's you know what to do.

You're not swinging at anything.

Three.

Oh he was taken all the way.

Three and one.

The strike call.

Looking to dig in.

Joe Miles, three one pitch outside ball for another free pass.

Goodness.

That's 13.

Give it away today for Brooklyn.

And they got the go ahead run at first base for number one camp Brian.

You're not going to pinch runner half coverage running for mile.

That guy can fly and fly.

Now you got Cam Pryor who is over for this game with a walk.

He's doing it.

He is he is dude coming into this game hitting 427.

He's definitely do.

Yeah.

You don't keep that guy off the hook for too long.

You're flirting with the numbers.

Oh one from snarly.

Got him to pop it up.

He's frustrated and slams the bat down into right field.

Right fielder calls everybody off.

That's foster.

That's a big out now.

And two are gone.

Good job right there by snarly.

Just he is competitive in the zone.

And that's exactly what Brooklyn needed Pryor knows by play a little up and out of the zone right there.

But nothing they can do with him and pop it up.

He's got that stuff.

It just moves.

Deceptive.

Yeah.

You just can't squared up really good.

Titus Hanley.

The two will enter now.

Stands in and takes a strike.

Go on the inside corner.

He is doing what Asher Griffin wanted to do.

And he's gets control it to that glove side on the inside of the right handed hitters.

Oh one popped him up.

That might end the inning.

Calling everybody off to be the first baseman.

Reese makes the catch.

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Bottom of the ninth.

This is a regulation seven inning game for those wondering in man, how about the pitching?

You know, we talked about this cable up until about the fourth inning.

You had Corbett start for Harding Academy, Asher Griffin start for Brooklyn.

And my goodness, ever since then, it's really been a pitcher's duel.

That's exactly right.

And Pryor has come in for Harding.

Academy has dialed it in ever since Corbett went out and snarly.

But what a job by Stallings.

Cooper Stallings had a great game.

Came in bottom of the first two outs and they were down four to nothing at that time.

JB now we've got A77 game going in the bottom of the ninth.

And our man Jake Reese up to bat man.

The senior coming in a big moment.

It's two for four today a double and a two run single stands in against Pryor.

First pitch curve ball right over the heart of the plate for strike one.

They should make score books with 12 innings now.

But they've done well.

I've got one.

But I think it's a little makeshift that I've created for myself.

Get creative at this point.

No kidding.

Oh one curveball, man.

He was trying to send everybody home with one swing of the bat.

Yeah, that's the curveball that.

Yeah, you can see right there.

We got a split screen going from our great production staff for a softball.

Getting going right there for eight.

Excuse me three a softball tonight.

The Mayflower Eagles are the home team.

And the Harding Academy Wildcats are your visitors tonight Reese trying to protect against Cam Prior oh two fouled away.

And Pryor still got a lot left in the tank in terms of pitch.

Young what one tends to limit him to 83 heading into this inning and one tends to limit.

You can start the last batter at 109 and actually go over that 110, but you can't start a new batter after that.

The senior Jake Reese trying to hang tough.

Oh two curveball falls off the table, and Kim Pryor got him all off speed to Jake Reese right there.

Great job of attacking for Cam Pryor.

They knew exactly what they wanted to do and that at bats and not let the big slugger get his arms extended.

Cam Pryor came into the game in the third inning.

He gave up three runs, two of them earned.

Once he settled in the table, he has been almost unhittable.

That's exactly right.

He gave up that one run like you said, but he settled down.

He's had a couple of well, right there.

He retired nine in a row between the fifth, sixth and seventh inning.

Right there.

Oh, he gave up that leadoff double in the seventh that was it.

Oh, he's scattered hits.

Scattered hits a one pitch to Gabe Carter.

It evens the count and the ball and a strike is it misses outside.

So both Harding Academy baseball and softball championships going on at the same time.

That's exactly right.

You got a split crowd.

You know they're finishing up over here before you head on down to the softball field.

You're not going anywhere.

You're keeping your eyes on this game.

One one shot, left side, slow roller.

Third baseman cuts it off.

Smith throw to first and there's two going.

Great job coming across right there.

Smith took the proper angle to the baseball.

Look at him right there.

It comes right at it.

Attacks.

A little get me across.

Throw off the right foot.

There's not too much.

Great stretch by Bentley Hawks right there.

Not bad for a converted outfielder.

Not bad at all.

So it'll be all up to Eli Foster.

If Brooklyn's going to be able to walk things off in the ninth and win the ballgame.

Well, I mean, the effort that Cam Pryor has given six and two thirds innings scattered seven hits, giving up three runs, six strikeouts and a walk.

That'll do the job exactly.

Yes it will.

Two oh count now to foster as he misses down.

And in does have that middle block against lefties.

No way I'll tell you that.

Even though he's done a really good job, he got Cooper Bodie back in the fourth inning.

He's got him another couple times, but he's always going to fall behind.

2021 of these guys two to foster going left side over the shortstops head bloop single for Eli Foster.

And the winning run is on again for the Bearcats.

They've had it each of the last three innings.

You know jQuery slid off the seventh inning with a double.

Great job right there by foster.

Just going with the pitch, going to left field.

Now they've got something cooking in the broiler.

Griff Silverthorne will have another chance.

At least that's what we think it will be.

Yeah.

They're looking like I don't know if they're going to run for foster because you can reenter in high school baseball.

You can get a pinch runner out there.

That's what they're going to do.

It looks like.

Yep.

On the run for the lead Murray.

So it's going to be Reed Murray freshman coming on over at first base.

Going with some speed over there.

Griff Silverthorne got a chance.

Well he had a chance there in the seventh inning to walk things off with a winning run at second.

But Cam Pryor got the best of him with a strikeout.

That's exactly right.

You know he battled back right there.

That was a great job by Pryor.

Silverthorne, the D.H. the freshman.

You know we talked about you know that's a big situation for him in that seventh inning.

Now he has a chance at redemption for two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

First pitch from Pryor is a curveball down in the way.

Pryor has gone heavy on that offspeed on that breaking ball the last two innings especially.

He's got a really good feel to spin it right now.

There's not much Brooklyn can do with and feelings at first.

Strike three.

He starts it out in the zone.

The only time he's struggling is when he pulls it really back to the glove side.

So we'll see what happens if he stays with it or not.

Silverthorne takes the one zero pitch up.

In a way, two no hitters count.

Now for the Bearcat designated hitter.

Silverthorne had a single back in the third inning.

Struck out back in the seventh.

Runner at first, Reed Murray came on to run after foster singled to over is a strike on the outer bottom portion of the zone.

Yeah, that was a pitcher's pitch right there.

Myers made it.

Look, I don't I won't say worse than what it was, but it was a it was a good pitch.

But Myers just kind of started up in the zone that went down two.

You want to get under that pitch now?

Not having crossed up two balls and a strike high fastball, fouled back into the netting and prior has been lights out on the bump trying to send this thing to the tent.

Tell you what, no matter what happens, Cam Pryor is a competitor.

He's only a junior.

You know, both of these teams don't have big senior classes, so wouldn't surprise me if, you know, we have these two same teams back here next year.

Boy, the way this game is going, I'd be all for it.

Exactly.

No disrespect to anybody else.

Two two from Pryor fouled off up and in.

He fooled him enough to get the foul tip from Silverthorne.

And that's one of those you know when you're tall as a hitter you're taught yes yes yes.

No yes yes yes.

No.

He didn't pull the trigger on the no quick enough right there and just had those hands leaking out little too far.

Well, we just got word Harding Academy is up one to nothing over at the softball complex, Natalie Schock Stadium and runners at first and second to slowly putting some pressure on against Mayflower and coach Scott.

Great career.

Stepping down.

The ball gets away from the catcher winning runners in scoring position with a payoff pitch coming to Silverthorne.

Now you got A32 count right here on Griff Silverthorne.

Myers just couldn't handle that.

Pitch is up and out of.

That's on Pryor right there.

Just tried to overthrow it.

He tried to throw that one as hard as he could.

I was thinking the same thing, but he can make it all for not.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

You can get Griff Silverthorne here.

Let's go back to the curveball right here.

Payoff pitch.

Base hit likely wins it.

Three two.

Curveball bloops into right field.

In comes the right fielder, and he makes the catch on the run.

Headley corrals it in right field.

We head to the tent.

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Top of the 10th is upon us.

Third extra inning of the ballgame.

Now it'll be three.

4 in 5.

Do up for Harding Academy.

Cam Hoover, Bentley Hawks, Brody Myers against the lefty.

Eli snarly man.

This has been great I'm JV Brazil alongside Kevin Bohan.

And you're watching the Centennial Bank state baseball and softball championships.

They've all been good it seems.

But man this one takes the cake thus far.

Absolutely.

Any time for Ray was always my favorite classification umpire.

I got to be the crew chief for stew state finals 2017 and 2019.

And it was just and there were only 12 teams at that point made a state tournament.

Now this is the first year you get 16.

And like we mentioned earlier, both semifinals went to extra innings and the championship game going to extra innings.

That's how you know you get great baseball in class for it.

This one has fit the bill.

And Kim Hoover to lead things off.

Phenom shortstop swing it out of those shoes.

Trying to give Harding Academy the lead with one.

Swinging the bat he goes pull side.

Gave it everything he had.

Hoover's got a little pop.

Oh one pitch is low.

Blocked by the catcher and Hoover first year at shortstop.

But I'm telling you, he did not look like he looks very comfortable over there defensively.

One one curveball that is a dandy over the left side.

Yeah that's that big sweeping breaking ball right there.

That snarly has done a great job of landing so far in this game.

Now let's see if he goes away right here and does kind of go outside.

Fouled away.

Hoover doing a great job of staying alive right there.

That was a 5050 pitch.

It's close enough that you want to go after.

Great approach right there.

Coach Fullerton teaches his guys up in the box up on the plate up on the bat.

The red guys absolutely.

Hands up hands up, hands up.

Hands up, hands up, hands up.

Let me see it.

Let me see.

It's the final game of championship weekend here in Hot Springs.

It's a sold out crowd.

Here we go.

Tip off a set back with a right hand tie.

Ballgame.

When you're gonna wake up, y'all don't wake up when the season over.

That's swung on, lifted high to right field.

He's going back to the warning track.

It's out of here.

I can kind of look at people and tell if they doubt me.

You know, you can kind of see their entire expression kind of change, right?

When you make it, they get it to Williams, throws it down.

I mean, she just stepped up and nailed the biggest shot right there.

Use a walker.

She at halftime would challenge anybody from the stands.

And I never saw her being hurt on.

The sun is setting insulin county and we've got four baseball titles on the line.

It's kind of just a simple is like a superhero putting their superhero suit on down to 10s and stop it, cease to exist right now.

So he has allowed three free passes, but he's pitching the contact.

He's letting his defense work.

Now.

Bentley Hawks stands in one for four to deck that one hit big was smoked off the right field wall a few feet away from being a long ball.

He take one again.

I guarantee you.

It's on the one from Snarly.

Good pitch, but no cigar.

Just a little bit outside.

That's where you want to live with Bentley Hawks live away because if you come into the wheelhouse, it may get deposited into the bleachers over there.

I know there's not bleachers out there, but you're not getting it back.

Yeah, onto the party deck and right field into the bullpen.

Whatever.

Three balls, no strikes.

Hawks trying to reach and give Harding Academy a base runner a chance to go ahead.

Run.

Taking all the way.

Takes a strike.

Good pitch right there.

Take a little off.

I'm not snarly.

Is anywhere from 80 to 82 with this fastball.

We don't have a radar gun up, but there's the party deck out.

Growlers, gap and left field.

Foul ball off the bat of Hawks.

So snarly.

Battling from behind.

Three to push it to a full count.

What he said he's been competitive just like Cooper Stallings was great pitching depth for both of these clubs.

Pay off pitch popped up.

Foul from hops.

We'll see another, he said.

Now let's see right here.

So he's going fastball three straight pitch is three two.

Let's see how much he trusts his off speed right here.

See if he breaks it off right here.

Trying to get the big lefty.

Three two popped him up.

Falling out of play yet still staying at the top of the zone.

Right there.

You change the eye level I think offspeed might could work this time if you snap it off enough.

Hawks trying to battle though.

He wants to get on first base now to pay off that one.

Not competitive though.

Didn't quite get on top of it.

It sails through snarly and Harding Academy once again.

They've got the Go-Ahead runner at first.

Yeah, I think we counted 12 runners left on base for Harding Academy in this ballgame.

You know, ever since, you know, the first inning, they just haven't really been able to get much going.

Let's see if they can start rolling right here and get to snarly.

Still hasn't given up a hit in two and third innings.

Harding Academy has drawn 11 walks and four hit by pitches.

That's 15 three passes.

Wow.

What a save by the catcher.

It sailed.

And man Rogan Tyler.

It's not going to go down as the play of the game.

But that's a huge save to keep the runner at first.

Tell you what for a sophomore and that young man got a bright future that he does want to go from snarling at.

One smoked but smoked foul off the bat of Brody Myers, fouled by Pliny.

You know, we talked about Myers and the power he has in that 9 to 2 quarterfinal win over Arkadelphia.

He was three for four.

Had a two run bomb in that game.

Right.

You can see what's at stake for talent.

Five seasons for Harding Academy.

First state championship for the Brooklyn Bearcats.

Myers comes inside, hits a strike.

He almost got it.

Clipped him and then the strike zone.

But he was crowned the play.

That's right.

When you're up on the plate like that you see a really good pitch right here.

Maybe.

But hey, with that crossfire motion, that snarly has went across the outer, the inside edge of the plate.

One, two.

Now to Myers boy expanding the zone.

But he's able to fight it off and stay alive.

And he said, go go gadget boat paddle on that one.

Went out there and got it and he got the boat paddle because man that was well out of the zone.

But he was full it off today.

Just find a way to fight at the plate and live to see another day.

Now the one two up and away boy always makes you a little nervous if you're a catcher.

You see that ball sailing?

Tyler does a nice job again.

Yeah, and it's anytime snarly loses it.

It's to his arm side.

So that's it.

Tyler has to go across his body on that two two runner at first.

Did it hit him?

No.

Myers thought it clipped him.

This is not a reviewable play by the way.

You can only review safe or out.

That's right.

Now he did not sell it.

Like Brian Walker, the former Razorback catcher sold it against Ole Miss back in the day.

So we'll take another look at it right here.

Yeah.

I don't think you got him.

It kind of disappeared.

Sure.

When the ball when the ball is close enough, I mean, you're going to feel something which is foul and you can't Fort Myers.

Yeah.

Why not try to sell it?

If Coach Fullerton thought about it and he thought he really got here, they would have asked to, you know, if any of the other umpire saw it.

Three balls, two strikes.

Go ahead, run it first.

Early in Myers in a battle.

Three two foul again left side hanging.

Tough game boy this is a battle.

And each at bat is so critical I know game within the game they just keep going.

Every pitch has so much weight on it.

That's a great point.

Every single pitch has seemed monumental.

Pay off to Myers.

It hit him that time.

He says.

See, it got me on the leg and he's at first.

Yeah.

Myers Myers said something and you know great job by home plate umpire Ben Fox.

Even though Myers said something to him, he's like, hey, that one got me.

But Ben Fox, he said, go ahead and take your base.

I know it got you on the ground.

No reason to take it any step further.

Harding Academy, they've got the Go-Ahead run at second base now.

Rhett Watson who has not been retired today.

Man how about it for Watson out of the sixth hole three walks a double and a single.

He's been a tough out.

That's exactly right.

That's what you want.

Usually your six hole hitter.

You want it to be your RBI guy.

And that's why we've that's why I've always stacked my lineup.

He's really your second best three hole hitter.

So when we were stacking our lineup you get somebody that can drive the ball, get your guys off the bases.

And that's exactly what Watson has done.

He's been the toughest out in the Harding Academy lineup today.

He's got a chance to give the Wildcats the lead with a freshman coming in Brody Jones and go back over to softball.

1 to 1 in our score Mayflower responds against Harding Academy.

We're tied here.

They're tied over there.

That's exactly right.

Still in the bottom of the first right there.

Looks like Mayflower has got a runner on second.

Still trying to do more damage over there.

But we're not done over here at Bear Stadium.

Top of the 10th over Watson.

First pitch pops it up.

Foul ground catchers off with a mask.

Buddy runs out of room.

Someone's going to get a souvenir.

That's the ball you're going to want to keep.

Because this has been a dandy.

Yeah.

Major league baseball they're responsible.

Each team is responsible for 5 or 6 dozen before a game.

And that's how many baseballs you can imagine.

High school baseball doesn't go through nearly that many, but there's been quite a few today to get out of the park.

Celebration.

You're going to introduce and say you're going to be right back.

Out.

No balls and a strike to rent.

Watson trying to come through for Harding Academy fouled away in its own two.

Snarly ahead oh two.

Right here.

Let's see how he attacks him with that.

Go ahead.

Run at second base.

Looks like he's going to stay away right here.

Oh two pitch swing and a miss.

Monumental strikeout for snarly.

And two are gone for Rhett Watson.

Retired for the first time today.

Starling with that oh two count, goes up and out of the zone.

Gets Watson to chase.

You get two outs now.

Man one and out.

But you're not out of the woods yet.

Nate Corbett trying to be the hero for Harding Academy.

Both teams have had a lot of opportunities with big hits.

Corbett swings and misses at the first one and Corbett just needs to settle down right here.

He's played the game with a lot of emotion today and everything's hyped up to an 11 right now, so just calm down.

Stay within yourself, line the ball to the outfield.

That's all you got to do right here.

Snarly trying to make sure that doesn't happen.

Corbett though curveball able to lay off.

Man that is a great take from Corbett.

Yeah.

Corbett being a pitcher himself, it's easier for those guys to pick up spin.

So he saw it right out of the hand.

Was able to lay off the pitch.

Now he's back to even one ball one strike swing and a fly ball into deep right center field.

Long run to the center fielder.

It's off his glove.

Extra bases.

But he couldn't catch it.

It's a two run triple for Corbett.

And the throw gets away.

Three runs come in to score.

And Corbett, the biggest hit of his life, got a pitch he could drive.

Game guys, game's not over.

Great effort out there by the center fielder.

Cooper Brody.

The right fielder, Eli Foster.

They went after it out there.

What a drive right there.

Ball just kept sailing.

Two is good off the bat Cooper boater just on Outstretch arms gets it back into play.

The ball got away from the third baseman over there Jordan friend Corbett scores.

Now they're up three runs.

Man the effort from Brody and center.

He just nearly made one of the biggest catches in center off the tip of his glove.

Yeah he's that's what you're talking about.

Yeah.

He sold out on that one.

He got an injury time out right there.

They're going to take a look at him.

He hit.

He hit the ground really hard.

He was parallel with the ground.

Got up threw the ball back in.

Just great effort right there by the junior centerfielder.

Back over it Natalie Schock.

Stadium bases are loaded for Mayflower against Harding Academy.

A big ground out there though, ends the threat.

But man, how about the big swing from Nate Corbett?

Huge right there.

We talked about him staying with himself.

He'd been getting in trouble the whole game with that head.

Find out he kept his nose on the ball.

That's one thing that Saint Fullerton preaches.

Keep your nose on the baseball.

He drove it to the deepest part of the ballpark.

Looks like Cooper.

He's up and okay right now.

Here.

Boy, this game has been incredible.

Not over by a long shot either.

No, no.

And we saw it last weekend with Brooklyn.

Look, they went ten innings with Robinson in that semifinal.

Final game.

They were the home team in that one being the regional winner, their first regional championship in school history.

They had the last at bat and that one won it in the bottom of the, 10th inning right there, 7 to 6.

Now they've got a lot of work to do.

Snarly has to settle down.

That was the first hit he gave up all game, right?

Yeah.

Got one more out to go.

Riley Smith.

Bases were empty now, but, man, you go back and talk about this.

11 free passes for hit by pitches.

It just was a matter of time before it came back in Brooklyn.

That's what you got to go back as a pitching coach and think man, that's that's where we gave the game up right there.

Now you got Riley Smith's up two zero right now.

Starling just needs to settle down.

Look at those one's going to settle.

Now.

He does throw a strike.

That one's tagged into center field.

Right center field?

I should say Foster's there.

Makes the catch, but Harding Academy, they've got A31 lead.

All thanks to Nate Corbett.

They're three outs away from another state title.

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Stadium.

Top of the 10th.

Two on, two out.

And it's a big drive to the right center field gap for Nate Corbett.

The junior cleared the bases and scored himself for the errant throw.

Man, oh, man, was that big.

That was huge.

And you know they get that puts them up three runs right now.

And for Brooklyn out of 16 teams they play four games in the state tournament to get to in the championship game.

This is their third 10th inning game of the state tournament.

Coincidence.

It's all been against 45 North schools CAC the first round they won 2 to 1 semifinals.

They won 7 to 6 over Robinson.

And now Harding Academy in the state championship game, their third game against teams from the same conference.

Wow.

They're going to have some work to do though, if they're going to win their third extra inning, ten inning game.

Cam Pryor has been boy, he has been lights outs down the stretch for Harding Academy.

And he's got to be getting up to close to the pitch limit.

We'll get that number for you here in just a moment.

Off the bottom of that.

Yeah he's at 88 and 88 9898 okay.

There's only 12 pitches left but that's enough to close it out.

Didn't put my readers on right there.

So yeah.

But he's starting against 891.

The caboose game for the Brooklyn Bearcats have been key in this game.

They've been on base quite a bit.

So we'll see how Cam Pryor approaches it.

Jordan Friend will lead things off one for three today with the walk.

Friend bails and Cooper Bodie out.

They're going to need at least those three runners to have a chance.

Brooklyn going for their 27th win of the year.

26 wins is already a school record.

Of course, they're going for their first state championship.

Harding Academy 24 and six on the year, going for their eighth.

That put them in the top five all time for state championships.

It's a dynasty.

It is a dynasty they had they have been a dynasty for a while now with same thoughts.

And he stepped away.

He went to an athletic director role.

He's still the athletic director.

He figured out he can do both.

And this will be his sixth if he's doing it.

First pitch to Jordan.

Fred lines it into center field.

Diving attempt, but it drops.

It's a lead off single for Brooklyn and they're not done yet.

No they're not.

And great attempt out there in center field.

Diving attempt.

Just could not come up with it.

Joe Miles showing off that speed.

Just missed it.

But hey great job right there.

The right fielder, Titus Hensley, backed up.

The play was able to limit Jordan Friend into a single on that one.

It's in the top of the second over at Natalie Schock Stadium.

Still 1 to 1.

Mayflower versus Harding Academy.

The Wildcats have a runner at first with two outs.

First pitch to Ethan Bales here.

The nine hole hitter is upstairs for a ball.

Brooklyn has been its best today offensively when they've been aggressive early in the count, especially against Cam Pryor.

They don't want to give Cam Pryor the option to go to that offspeed pitch, which has been deadly for him.

One zero pitch.

There it is, a strike at the knees to eat it up.

Really good pitch right there.

Really tough because there's nothing that bales can really do with that.

And I know there's some fans out there thinking, hey, do they want to move the runner over and put him in scoring position?

No, you don't want to give up any of this point.

Not when you need three.

Yeah.

Every run is valuable.

He is offering double at it.

And that's strike two.

Maybe he thought he could done for a hit with the speed he has.

He has 21 stolen bases.

But let's see the sophomore thinking oh maybe I can bunt for hit because that really didn't look like a sacrifice too much.

He started out in hitter stance then squared the bunt.

So we'll see.

Third baseman was back to.

Yeah that's what he saw.

Now with two strikes you don't have that luxury.

Not at this juncture of the game.

One ball two strikes Pryor trying to get him.

And he hangs tough a fastball fouled away by Ethan Bales.

Let's see if Pryor goes back to something soft in a way right here.

Get him to roll over.

Get that possible double play ball.

Brooklyn needs just one more runner to bring the tying run to the plate.

Want to get it?

It hit him.

Wow.

Pryor had him.

One, two.

You got to be kidding me.

Yeah, and you've called ball with me before, J.B.. And you know that by number one pet peeve hitting a guy.

Oh, two.

Number two, pet peeve walking a guy when you got him over two.

I never got to three because it's not worth that point.

My guess is it might be one two hit by pitch.

That's close.

Wow.

New life for Brooklyn.

They'll have the tying run at the plate, but it's not going to be against Cam Pryor, the third pitcher of the day for Harding Academy.

Coming into a tight situation.

Don't go anywhere.

This one's coming down to the wire.

We'll take you over to Sam Ball.

As a matter of fact, while they work on the pitching change, it's 1 to 1 in the bottom.

The second is Mayflower.

Up.

Be able to back catch.

You kidding me?

Right there?

Very hard.

A leadoff single for Mayflower.

That's Jose Scott over at first base.

Miranda Leslie, the catcher for Mayflower.

Mayflower coming into this game, 25 and six on the year.

Harding Academy, 22, eight and one.

These two teams, of course, playing for the three AA championship due to the competitive equity factor.

That's why Harding Academy is playing in the four a baseball game and softball still back in three.

That's right, the pop fly out of play from Marina Leslie.

Ace Ellis is the pitcher.

She's going at inning giving up four hits and a run.

It was earned a strikeout.

The double.

This is Miranda Elevens first at bat of the game.

Team.

Do like the purple and white pinstripes at my.

But it's, Mayflower grit.

Good baseball tradition.

They've won a state championship in baseball.

Really respected coach Joe Albritton, won a state title, I believe, back in 2015.

LeBron, a tip from Leslie.

That's a good one.

She's going to beat it now.

Good speed from your catcher.

Absolutely.

Very athletic catcher.

Leslie got down the line real quick.

And, of course, move the runner over.

Get her up right there.

And now you got a chance to take the lead with a base hit to the outfield.

It was Josie Scott moving to second base.

So first and second for Mayflower.

Nobody out in the bottom of the second.

Leslie, the junior catcher and great job.

Well.

You might.

So, back to Bear Stadium.

New pitcher is the former first baseman.

It's the lefty Bentley Hawks coming in in a big situation.

The South Pole will face the tying run at the plate.

Yeah.

Last outing for Hawks.

He went two and two thirds innings against Shiloh Christian to get the win in the semifinals.

Had three strikeouts.

Only allowed one hit against the Saints.

Now they're going lefty on lefty right here Cooper Brody leadoff hitter Cooper Brody up runners at first and second.

Nobody out.

High pressure situation in the bottom of the 10th.

Yeah.

First pitch to Bodie.

Oh.

He gets away.

Runners will move up to second and third.

I thought for a second it might hit his leg, but it didn't.

Yeah, it's just tough pitch.

If Bentley Hawks is straight over the top right there and you can see it right there.

Just gets away a little arm side run.

Meyers is has to go across his body right there.

That's one of the toughest balls for a catcher to get to.

And Meyers just let it get past him.

Now Brooklyn's got runners in scoring position.

It's always good for a hitter to you feel like you got some confidence.

Big swing and a miss there from Cooper Brody.

And it evens the count Billy Hawks only a junior right here.

Going after him.

I think he's got a lot of upside.

RIP Ken Tucker would be next at wild.

Pitch is big because it eliminates the double play ball one to Brody.

High looping curve falls off the table.

Good take for the Bearcat leadoff hitter.

You know if you're Billy Hawks you want to start that about six inches over to the left.

Let it fall right over the middle.

You get body swing over the top of it to one smokestack to first.

It's knocked down.

Who gets through.

That's going to score a couple of runs Cooper Bailey a two run double a huge hit for the leadoff hitter.

You gotta think the chains in the defense of a run right there.

You take Bentley Homes off of first base.

The hardest part.

Modi got hold of it.

Remember me looking?

Every poet there went right through his legs.

We got a one run ball game and a town run on second base.

My goodness.

And this is a tough situation to talk Bentley Hawks man.

Oh, man.

Ken Tucker, another lefty do up.

This game has been insane.

He says hey, we're just gonna camp out here tonight.

Davey.

We might just.

Call both games tonight.

Man.

Oh, man.

We'll get Tyler points in the on deck circle.

First pitch fouled back to Tucker and Alyssa.

Orange and Westmore will be on the call for the softball game.

If and when we get done with this thriller of a four state championship.

No kidding.

If and wins a great statement.

Ten nine tying runs at second Brooklyn trying to win their first ever state title in school history, just their second ever trip.

Harding Academy trying to win for the last five and be their eighth state title in school history.

Oh one curveball fouled off to the left side for Tucker.

That's the one you want right there.

If you're Bentley Hawks.

He left it up a little bit.

But still that's a really good pitcher's pitch right there.

Start that one down a little bit more.

Release it a little bit more out in front.

You're swinging over the top of that one.

Tucker couldn't make up his mind, it seemed.

Fouled it off late.

And there's your waltz right there.

Harding Academy has drawn 11 walks on their offense today.

Brooklyn's only down 302 pitch.

Hawks trying to get him high fastball.

Boy you don't want that one to get away from you.

Yeah, and that was you.

Maybe that's your show me pitch right there so you can go back to the curveball.

It was.

I mean, he wasn't on it too well.

So.

Griffin.

Tucker.

But let's see what he goes back to right here.

Three extra bases for each team.

That's the most we've had so far in the weekend in champions on the baseball side.

I agree for Myers.

I think he likes to show every pitch.

He's like, just show me a little bit.

Let me make it so close.

One, two.

All curveball.

Zach good take.

And bring it down, son.

Got to be competitive with that pitch.

That's an easy take right there for Kentucky.

Easy take.

We talked about it for Brooklyn.

The eight and nine hitters doing their job to get things started.

Had they not been a catalyst.

Oh they have every time they start the inning of get it run get a run, go.

And that's what you want out in the boundary line ups.

Give us a chance.

Two two pitch blocked up.

Shallow left field.

In comes the left fielder.

It's miles.

Move to left.

He'll make the catch.

The fly out keeps the runner at second.

And that's the first out of the inning.

Good.

Out right there.

Good piece of pitching from the Hawks.

Make it easy on Tyler.

Here's Rogan Tyler the do up.

Get sophomore up and get rip Ken Tucker the senior talking to the sophomore about what to look for in Bentley Hawks.

Giving him a quick scouting report.

It's 4 to 1 Mayflower jumping around Harding Academy over at Natalie Schock Stadium.

They're up in the bottom of the second by Logan Tyler.

He's do he's not really had the state championship game offensively that he'd like.

He's oh for four with a hit by a pitch.

But he's struck out twice.

Yep scored in back in the third inning.

Can we on the score on a hit by pitch.

But he can erase all that.

That's exactly right here with a base hit to the outfield to tie things up.

Two run bomb would help to I don't think he turned down one.

I would.

But he would absolutely have to get a hold of one.

Bentley Hawks doing a really good job right here.

Nibbling on the corners, not leaving anything over the middle of the plate for the Bearcats.

Three hole hitter, two balls, no strikes.

Tyler represents the winning run at the plate down and away.

And you don't want to put the winning run aboard if you're the Hawks.

No you're not.

It's kind of a 5050 give and take right here because you can get a double entry.

Jake Reese is a big pool ball hitter.

So we'll see what happens right here.

See how Hawks are taxing.

Taking all the way will be Taylor.

He does get a strike.

It's three one borderline 5050 pitch.

One benefit of the pitcher right there.

That's been a strike all game.

So now Rogan Tyler a chance to dig in.

But you're not swinging at anything but one pitch middle in fastball or whatever your pitch is.

Three one.

He's swinging and he fouls it back.

That same pitch right there from Bailey Hawks right over the outside corner of the plate, right about Bell High.

Now if you're if you're Rogan Tyler you want to be thinking right side of the field.

Advance the runner.

Give him a chance to maybe get a wild pitch or something and hand it to the next guy.

That's what you want right there.

Trying to battle at the plate.

Five one Mayflower.

Now bottom of the second.

Keep it on.

Pour it on in.

Rogan Tyler in a battle at the dish with Hawks, three two.

He smokes it up the middle.

It's true.

They're gonna leave on the tying run.

Bodie scores a we're tiny kid.

The throw allows him to hate this second.

Good.

And Tyler, the sophomore, delivers huge hit right there for Rogan.

Tyler, the sophomore catcher.

Great diving attempt right there by Cam Hoover at shortstop.

Just got past him.

And then just run free for 20 drive.

Great.

Great read right there by the base runner.

That's Cooper.

Bodie does a great job.

Wow man.

This game was tied at seven ever since the fourth inning.

And then Harding Academy scores three run to the top of the 10th.

They're thinking we're going to run away with this thing.

But Brooklyn answers and they've got the winning run at second for the senior Jake Reese and off Harding Academy I'm walking Reese.

You want to double play don't the.

And they did.

Yep.

There you go intentional walk to Rhys.

That's a smart play because he has been red hot at the plate.

Now you got the double play ball in order game Carter is known as big play Gabe.

He's got a chance to be the hero for Brooklyn.

I live up to your name right here.

Harding Academy coming out talking it over, making sure they've got.

They're playing right here.

Oh my goodness.

Are you nervous man.

This has been an election.

I feel like I'm playing again over here.

I'm not going to be able to eat tonight.

I know it's you know it's okay with the drive, but hey look there's the strategy.

Here's what we're going for.

Harding Academy looking for their fourth title in five years.

And with one more run, the Brooklyn Bearcats could win their first in school history.

Have not been in the state championship game in 35 years.

Wow.

That was back in 1990.

Their only ever trip.

They lost to Gosnell in the championship game.

Yeah, in the two way state championship game that year.

It shows you how much Northeast Arkansas has grown and it's become a baseball hotbed.

It's one thing that Mike Silva talked about.

The new head coach at Arkansas State.

You know what a run they had finishing eight tied for eighth in the Sunbelt this year.

They got back to that.

Yeah.

Got back to the Sunbelt tournament game Carter first pitch swing and a miss against Bentley Hawks.

There's your 85% rule JB coach comes out to make a visit 85% of the time.

That's next.

Pitch is a strike.

First.

No balls and a strike to Gabe Carter has a one swing and a pop fly.

Right side.

Right fielders over.

That's Henley.

They're going to tag the runner at second.

We're going to have a play at third.

The throw is cut off.

They throw behind the runner at second and they got him up one the throw home.

And they got him out.

You got to be kidding me.

What just happened.

Is that a triple play.

Well there was this one running out already.

So he was out at second base.

I think they were thinking maybe if he's not out at second, let's send him home.

Yeah.

What is going on in Conway?

So in that situation, if he stays there letting the play play out.

Man here's the tack they throw to third base.

And a nice cut right there.

And they throw behind the runner at second.

The tag there.

And I think they got it.

Yep.

So they they went ahead because in that instance the play plays out.

So if he's ruled safe at second they can follow through make the play at home as if he's safe at home.

If I'm remembering right it would be over at that point.

But he was ruled out at home so.

Right.

So that's that's a moot point.

Well we'll get a confirmation on that.

Well there was already one out.

That's what I thought too.

But there was a fly ball to.

Right.

Yeah.

We got another challenge was the second out.

Then they moved the runner the third they threw behind.

That should be the third out of second.

If it's not there was that play at the plate.

That's what you're alluding to.

Exactly right.

And he's challenging the play at second base so he can't challenge the play at home.

He can't challenge that great rotation right there.

First base umpire Paul Cates comes home makes the play.

Makes the call at home.

And we're going to confirm.

If they're a are you looking at the play at the plate.

Looks like it.

Looks.

Yeah.

We just got confirmation.

We're looking at the plate.

Home plate.

So this would be the winning run.

Yeah.

It looks like he was safe at second.

Evidently.

Oh my goodness.

Well this is a huge call then.

If that's the case.

And from that angle it looks like the hand got in before the tag did.

Wow.

What if what if we ended the for a state championship game on the second replay reviewed.

That's that's the tough call right there.

Did he tagging on the first time through before the hand got in?

Wow.

There's a look at the zoom in and it's just hard to see from an angle.

And if you got overlapping here's is going to be your best view right here.

As you look the hand gets in.

But you do not see where the glove is.

The hand is up.

And if it's got to be incontrovertible evidence.

Brushes.

Is there a tag?

Right.

Is there a tag right there?

It looks from the third base.

Can we got a first base and third base camera for our fans at home that are watching.

We've got two different views that we can look at right here.

So they're looking at first base and third base.

I'm still confused at what happened at second.

Did they end up overturning it because he goes out in the to say they couldn't overturn, he had to call him safe at second base.

This is the best one.

Safe.

Wow.

We thought we saw air right there on the first.

I thought I saw air the first time on the way through.

So.

He got to the plate.

It's just a matter of if he had got the tag on.

He and Paul Casey did a great job coming down.

You see the first base umpire, Paul Casey's in position.

He's got the perfect view on it.

Man, this could come down to the ballgame just.

Wait.

I think they got our solution.

So here's the call.

Is the biggest call of the game.

And it stands.

He is out at the plate.

We've got more baseball.

At least that's what it would seem.

Top of the 11th up coming.

Here's another look.

Great job by Harding Academy to finish the play right there.

Wow 10 to 10.

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Wow.

So here's how things went down in the top or bottom of the 10th.

There was a deep fly to right.

They did not get the runner at second.

They ruled him safe.

This was the double play at the plate.

It was bang, bang.

If he was ruled safe, it would have been a walk off win.

But the call stood.

Yeah, there was not enough evidence to overturn the call right there.

Based on the camera angles that we had.

We talked to our replay official.

Justin Yates had a great explanation for it.

Play stands, runners out at home.

We go to the.

How about Meyers the catcher Tommy James over the line.

What was going on in that whole sequence?

I have no idea.

But it came down to the wire.

We're tied at ten in the 11th inning, and Harding Academy will get things rolling with their nine, one and two hitters.

It'll be Miles Pryor and Henley do up 66 pitches from 66.

This is going to be the sixth at bat of the game for Joe Miles and Pryor on deck.

He had six.

It'll be his seventh at bat.

Yep.

Joe Miles.

Top of the 11th.

First pitch to mile swing and a miss there from snarly.

How about going?

We went six innings without anybody scoring a run.

And they we have six six runs in the 10th inning.

You can't make this stuff up.

I've never been a part of.

You ever watched a game like this?

This is incredible.

Tell you what 1998 it was not this, but we we were playing Batesville in the three a state championship that year.

Got up five.

Nothing.

They got up 13 to 5.

With the ball right there it's one two count.

We came back and tied the game up 13 to 13.

Wow.

And they won 15 to 13.

And that was in seven innings in the three a state title game in 98.

Sam one two to Myles.

Line drive left field.

But he hit it right to Gabe Carter.

That's a fly out to begin the top of the 11th and one out to big in.

Miles went with the pitch.

You snarly does a good job now working that off-speed breaking ball away from the left handed batters.

Miles went with it just right to him.

Struck it well.

And this game has been so good.

You really hate to see either team lose.

Absolutely.

Top of the lineup now.

Cam Pryor.

Yeah.

Here's the deal.

If Harding Academy wins this is going to be your player of the game.

Cam Pryor pitched his tail off to give him a chance.

He's now at the dish now and has not had a hit today, though he is on for five.

Played great defense though.

Of course.

Came in the mound.

Did a great job.

Went seven innings in relief and we're in the 11th.

This game makes no sense, but it is going to go down in the history books.

And great job right there.

Laying off that pitch just a little outside.

I think the records 21 innings, if I'm not mistaken.

I don't want to challenge that tonight.

We'll be here.

Watching the softball game across the street would be over by that time.

Yeah, that last check Mayflower was up in that one 8 to 1.

It may be over for get done anyway.

A31 pitch big swing and a miss from Cam Pryor and Will.

On the full count, it is 8 to 1 in the bottom of the third Mayflower hooking up crooked numbers.

They've scored seven runs in that second inning, and they've got two aboard in the bottom of the third.

There's a swing and a high fly ball into left center field.

Carter's over can according to it on Starley doing a great job settling in right here.

And he looked right there.

Score it.

Day three A state softball championship.

Mayflower leaves Harding Academy, eight one, in the bottom of the third inning.

So it's going to be all up to Titus Henley if Harding Academy is going to be able to do anything in the top of the 11th.

First pitch out in front.

Strike one!

Henley scored the first run of the game for the Harding Academy Wildcats.

He walked and came around to score big semifinal game for Henley, went three for four with three RBI's in that game.

Quarterfinal win.

He had a triple against Arkadelphia.

He was four for five in the opening game against Lone Wolf.

That was a 13 to 4 win by Harding Academy.

He's do though.

He's all for five today.

The one one pitch pops it into right.

Should be caught.

Foster's on calls on that stolen.

It gets A123 inning.

Will Brooklyn be able to finally claim their first ever state title?

We'll find out.

The bottom of the 11th is next.

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You have a nail biter.

From central Arkansas, 1010.

In the bottom 11.

Back to softball, though.

Nine one Mayflower.

We're headed to the top of the force to try to add home things.

Their eight run lead for the Eagles.

The over at Natalie Schock Stadium going for a big state title.

Trying to knock off the Wildcats.

Over at the baseball stadium, we have got a dandy 1010 bottom of the 11th inning.

This game's coming up on four hours old.

Yeah, we're we're six minutes shy of the four hour mark.

They just keep going in this one.

I'm just glad this one started for this afternoon.

Upset?

No kidding.

Be sitting at close to midnight tonight, 11 p.m. Eli Foster will stand in first for Brooklyn.

He takes it low.

He's had a good day.

Two for four with an RBI out of the sixth spot for the right fielder.

And he's been busy defensively out there in right as well.

And you want to flip it.

You got to get it to that bottom.

Part of the lineup that we talked about has been the catalyst for this, Brooklyn Bearcats team today.

One zero pitch misses inside.

And if you're Bentley Hawks, you do not want to put the winning run aboard to lead off the inning.

No, you do not.

Because at that point, Brooklyn can play opportunistic baseball.

They can afford to give up and out to get one over because they've done a really good job of hitting with two outs in this game.

Two balls.

No strikes.

Foster goes up and gets that and pops it up into left field.

It's the left fielder coming on and Joe Miles, he corrals it for out number one.

Really good job of the orchard to keep pushing at the top of the zone over thorn.

Really good job right there.

Keep pitching top of the zone.

Ball's not going to get out of the ballpark right now.

Man this game is still anybody's ballgame.

Who wants it.

Griff Silverthorne standing in.

He had a big two run single.

What seems like forever ago back in that seven run third inning.

That's right.

Really got really got it going.

Ended that inning right there.

Silverthorne struck out in the seventh inning.

Flew out in the ninth.

Oh, one pitch is just a little bit outside there from hops.

Just missed over the outside corner right there.

Even though he throws over the top right there.

He's a lefty that's got really good arm side run and run it away from the right handed hitters.

One ball, one strike to the Bearcat D.H. that one a little bit further outside.

So now a hitter's count for the seven hole hitter.

Eight and nine in the lineup.

Or following.

And that's been a portion of the lineup that has really been tough to get out.

Two one pitch opposite field drive.

But it hangs up.

Hanley comes on, makes the catch.

The two are going to just keep pitching the contact right here for Bentley Hawks number 31 Jordan Brand.

He's been the starter.

He's been a reliever this year.

So it puts Baker is telling him right there.

He can't just chop at you.

Got to get on playing with Hawks because he comes out in search of a high release point.

It's going to create a difficult playing for these Brooklyn Bearcat hitters to get on.

Jordan friend will bat now with the bases empty and two gone.

Against the third pitcher of the game for Harding Academy, it's Bentley Hawks.

Their starter Nate Corbett went two innings gave up four runs, came prior, went the next seven innings only giving up four earned runs.

Max Bentley charged with that final run.

He's gone an inning and two thirds.

The one zero to Jordan friend popped him up on the infield.

Who wants it?

Hits the pitcher.

He makes the catch.

Hawks corrals it.

One, two three.

Go the Bearcats!

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It's 10 to 10 at the top of the 12 Harding Academy, Brooklyn, in a battle from Conway, Arkansas.

Take a look back over at Natalie Schock Stadium.

What's going on over there?

Mayflower and Harding Academy.

It's the Eagles leading the Wildcats 9 to 1.

You know that's a ten run run rule after five over.

It's exactly right.

They tack on a couple more.

Hold them.

You can be in good shape if you're Mayflower.

All right.

We apologize.

Unable to bring you the coverage of the sample championships.

The drive for Mayflower, the left center field.

But let's catch out there in the gap.

So here we go.

Top of the 12th for Harding Academy.

It'll be Cam Hoover, Bentley Hawks, Brody Myers.

So clean up with a heart of the order I guess I should say three, four and five due up.

And there's a strike.

I will say this, gable.

This will be my final line.

I've only got 12 innings on my scorebook at this point.

We're fans of the game.

Getting a call it right here.

That's that's the best part about it.

It's been beautiful.

Hoover drills that one.

But it's going to hang up for the center fielder Cooper Bodie leadoff batter is going hit it hard but it hung up too long just right at him.

So here's Bentley Hawks.

He's the pitcher of record right now for Harding Academy.

He stands in.

And now what could have been back in the second inning.

Yeah big double.

He was a few feet away from a home run ball.

And we've officially hit the four hour mark here at Bear Stadium.

And we're still not close to deciding a winner.

We still got bottom of the 12th.

Is guaranteed that one out right here in the top of the 12th.

Snarly.

Hey.

He's been going a while.

He came in for Cooper Stallings Stewart Stallings had a great night on the mound.

We'll get over here to the to the line here.

Good.

Curveball falls off Sterling at 82 pitches.

And he is pitched lights out for the third inning only giving up two earned runs.

He's in his fifth inning of work right now.

One one's up and away.

You gotta wonder if it keeps going.

Who do they go to next?

You know the thing coach Josh Baker before the game said, look, we're going to Cooper Stallings and that's all we're going to need.

And it turns out to you may need a little bit more.

So what's the pitching depth going to look like?

You don't have any more eligibility.

Yeah.

Sorry.

I'm, I'm tapped out at this point.

I think you still got some.

That's why they got the right back a few years ago.

I can still bring it in there pretty good.

When I was coaching Caden Wallace in those guys, I had to give him some type of competition when they were 14, but then they got bigger than ours and, we were done with that payoff pitch to Bentley Hawks.

Bases empty, one on top of the 12th.

The payoff chop to the right side.

Second baseman Tucker gobbles it up his door.

First is true.

And two or gone in the top of the 12th gets the number three.

Great job right there by snarly.

Fell behind three zero.

Got back in there.

Got the out.

Now we're two outs.

Now we're looking a little bit.

Momentum shifted once again.

We need a pitch count for how many times the momentum has shifted.

This game.

I don't have enough fingers to count.

I now don't have enough fingers.

Auto.

So we get a good graphic on that one here in a minute.

This officially has now tied the second longest state championship game in Arkansas history.

We're glad you get to be a part of history with us.

Yeah, if we're here, we might as well make history.

JB that's well, that's coach Chris Curry last night.

Hey, if you're if you're if you're down there for four games you might as well win the whole thing.

Buddy Myers pops it up.

Foul as well getting all nice and comfy and cozy I got people text me you got people bringing you food.

Snickers or anything like that I don't know.

Wait till this one finishes.

But we we might be here even longer.

See, Brody Meyer does have a home run in the state tournament.

As we mentioned earlier, if you were not here as part of the broadcast earlier, Maris had a three for four game in that quarterfinal win over Arkadelphia.

Been really good behind the plate.

You got to think what kind of toll this game is taking on the catchers back there, because they've been back there for almost a double header now.

So it's at some point you got to think you know how much these guys have left.

Two one Myers was trying to give Harding Academy the lead with one swinging the bat.

He was going left field pull side.

Exactly.

That's a that's a sweet spot right there.

Just pulled off it a little bit.

Snarly trying to work A123 inning two two is fouled back into the netting.

Has this not been a dogfight for both teams?

Every at bat every pitch seems to be that one.

That's exactly right.

And you can see yeah Brooklyn has outhit Harding Academy 14 to 7 in this game.

Just, you know, Harding Academy's taking their walk.

So they've gotten guys on base.

It just haven't been able to get them in 2 to 2.

Myers up and away.

Another key thing to look at.

Both teams have now left on double digit runners.

13 for the Wildcats.

Left on ten for Brooklyn.

They've had chances.

Yeah they've had opportunities of just haven't gotten them in.

That one sails up and away ball for the payoff pitch to Brody Myers.

Harding Academy.

They've got the go ahead a run on again for Rhett Watson.

You got to think.

And snarly going to his hand right there I don't know if he's got a little blister on it.

And something's happening right there.

But this has got to be we don't have this game by game stats, but he's going deep into the game.

How many times is he gone this deep this season.

This is where players are digging deep into their souls trying to figure out what they've got.

Right.

You just let the body work.

At this point, it's better just to react to everything.

Don't think about it.

Just go with it.

011 to Watson upstairs to even the count.

Nate Corbett, who was at the big swing in the 10th inning to give Harding Academy a ten seven lead.

He's on deck.

A big swing there.

Coming up empty was Watson and he's behind the one and two holding his count.

He thought they'd want it.

They're up 10 to 7.

Runs have been hard to come by, but Brooklyn responded with three of their own in the bottom of the 10th.

Here's a pop fly.

Let's stay in play.

Tyler behind the dish, just runs out of room after flopping off the mask, and Cam Pryor had done such a great job for Harding Academy this game.

He was just at the end of his rope.

He had already pitched seven innings.

It was just tough for him to come out there and get the final three outs of the game.

Bentley Hawks couldn't get it and now it's gotten to the top of the 12th.

Two out.

Sterling at 95 pitches for the game one two upstairs.

Good take from Watson.

And it's two balls and two strikes.

Regardless of the outcome this game is going to go down as one of the best state title games in history.

Absolutely.

You can't ask for anything better than this two two pitch Watson up and away.

And I think you're seeing the fatigue kind of settle in for Sterling.

That's exactly what I was about to say JB everything's up right now.

This is where you got to dig down deep.

He had two strikes on the last two hitters.

You just couldn't put him away.

He's at the end of his rope payoff pitch comes over.

Challenge.

Nice job.

Digging in was snarly.

But Rhett Watson spoils a good pitch.

And if you're Sterling, you don't want to face Corbett again.

No.

And you know Watson, they got him out last time on that high fastball up in the zone.

Let's see if he'll go back to it right here.

Another payoff pitch.

The runner on the move.

Up and in.

Back to back free passes.

And Nate Corbett's about to step into the box.

And yeah I think that's going to be it for snarly out there.

They're going to go out and have a conversation and I'm with you okay.

Bo I would not be shocked if that's the end of the line for Sterling.

And he's pitched his tail off and he's pissed his heart out right now.

And that's that's all you can ask from that young man.

What a great outing right there.

The junior came in, gave his team every opportunity to win the ball game, and now they're going to turn it over.

I think we're going to go over to the softball game real quick.

Has been make the pitching change.

We'll come back to the baseball to Bear Stadium.

We go to Shock Soccer Stadium shortstop.

We'll tell you about the new pitcher Hastings here.

Just a moment.

The man Mayflower and nine Warren League over Harding Academy.

That ball's touched in the deep left center field.

But a nice job tracking that ball into left field for Mayflower.

Off day.

It's 9 to 1.

The top of the fifth inning.

That was Ace Ellis for Harding Academy putting the drive into left field.

You see the score line right there?

Mayflower has got nine runs on nine hits, no errors.

Harding Academy one run on five hits, two errors.

Now we're going to the bottom of the fifth.

This has been a crazy game.

Looks like Jake Reese is getting on the mound.

Senior action.

I think that's what Coach Baker thought was going to happen today.

Yeah.

Defensive change.

Get somebody who is battle tested.

He's he was a starting pitcher for the Brooklyn Bearcats as a freshman pitching behind Western Spear Griffin Duvall.

As we mentioned earlier he's been in this program for four years.

He's going to play college baseball at the next level.

Probably the hardest thrower we've seen this weekend.

I mean, we'll see.

We'll see some low 90s guys on, you know, when the six eight championship game.

But Reese is going to be high to mid 80s or mid mid to high 80s.

Excuse me.

And have a really good slider.

Reese has thrown 21 innings this year.

He's got a 2.33 E.R.A.

36 strikeouts, 11 walks.

Teams are hitting only a buck 90 against the Hard Flames, throwing righty.

This is a big situation.

Two on two out top of the 12th.

The Go-Ahead run in scoring position with Nate Corbin, who was the big hitter in the 10th inning.

Do up.

Yeah, I like this matchup for Reese right here.

Corbett is a he's a pull all hitter.

That's where he lived.

You know he had that big you know two run double where he ended up coming around to score on the air at third base.

Reese is going to live away from him right here.

The Go-Ahead run is at second base right there.

They're leaving Brody Myers in to run for himself right now.

So Corbett, with a base hit to the outfield, could give the Wildcats the lead.

He had a two run triple back in the 10th inning.

He scored on an error in that same play.

First pitch right down the pipe, a fastball from Jake Reese, the senior.

And you all from Jake Reese.

Get ahead.

They're playing Corbett to a pole there on the infield.

Second baseman playing well.

Swung around towards the four hole.

Oh one from Reese.

Good pitch.

Just a little bit low.

Yeah.

If you're a catcher right there you got to squeeze that one.

That was that was borderline.

You catch that he may get it may not be 5050 ball.

But when you drop it in just about guarantees you get right there Rogan Tyler you got to think fatigue coming in for him two right I mean you've been down there okay.

Yeah.

This is the ball one strike from Jake Reese.

We've seen two straight fastballs.

What's next to Nate Corbett?

He does go off speed.

Little different angle almost.

Yeah.

He's going to have a slider.

He's not going have a curve ball like you've seen from everybody else today.

He's a hard thrower.

So what do you want to come off that you want to come up with the slider.

Because you have to tunnel it out of the same arm slot and you just run it horizontally.

So you're going to run it in on lefties.

Throw it to their back foot.

Hitters count for Corbett trying to get a big hit again.

Two one sails on him.

Three balls, one strike for Nate Corbett.

Reese got to be careful.

You know be careful because you know the last time Corbett was up, he hit that hit.

Yes.

What?

The count was 313 balls and a strike.

Wheeler two on two out.

Top of the 12th.

Nate Corbett, three runs driven in today.

Weights on A31 from Reece.

Takes a deep breath.

Fastball just a little bit outside.

Maybe low bases are full of wildcats.

Yep.

Little low little out.

So we appreciate all of our fans and everybody staying with us in this marathon for a state championship game.

We're in the 12th inning.

If you tuned in to watch the three eight state title game between Mayflower and Harding Academy, Mayflower is up in that game right now, 9 to 1.

It looks like in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Got one out and we're still going to top of the 12th over here at Bear Stadium.

First pitch it hit him up it in to Riley Smith.

And Harding Academy's got the lead.

Wow.

And.

He cannot believe I mean now it's 11 to 10.

Hard Academy is up.

You're going to live and die with your senior on the mound right now.

If you were 25.

But Brooklyn is the home team, so they're going to get the last at bat.

We'll see what Harding Academy can make happen right here.

Another nine hole hitter, Joe Miles, due up.

And if if we're counting right, that's the 16th or seven 17th free base in the game.

17th.

There's a strike to start Myles outer half.

Right down Harding Academy wanting a big swing here.

Morris trying to make sure that doesn't happen.

Oh one fastballs up and away.

Not least he's going to stay away from Myles right here.

Myles did a great job.

His last man.

He flew out.

He lined out to the left fielder.

Well strike ball you see right there left on base.

Harding Academy had the bases loaded a couple times this game.

They've left 13 on in 12 innings one one pitch fastball off the hands foul and three's a strike away from sending it to the bottom of the 12th with only needing one run.

And Myles has to be kicking himself right there.

Could have been devastating.

Two one and one two right there.

Just fouled it off.

That was likely ball two a little bit inside.

Just pulled it.

One ball two strikes to Joe Miles Reese trying to keep him loaded.

Swing and a miss.

He does it.

But Harding Academy they get a run on a hit by pitch.

They're trying to end this marathon historical game in the bottom of the 12.

Brooklyn.

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It's 9 to 1.

Harding Academy trailing Mayflower over at Natalie Schock Stadium.

You're tuning in for that broadcast.

We apologize.

Couldn't have planned for you for a baseball state championship to go as long, but smoked into the corner for Harding Academy.

I got some lights on them over there.

Amalie Stadium.

Not done yet.

And down eight runs with double right there.

Right down the line.

One hop off the fence.

Take a back to baseball.

Here we go, here we go.

Nine.

Oh Ethan Bales leads it off.

Cooper Bodie and RIP Ken Tucker to follow against Hawks.

The lefty first pitch he helped him swing and a miss region.

Yeah that's tough right there.

You got a stick.

Don't press I mean Brooklyn's been in this situation.

Let's say they've played a lot of baseball in the state tournament so far.

We mentioned earlier this is their third game of at least ten innings in the state tournament.

They opened up 2 to 1 over Central Arkansas Christian, the number four seed from the 4A5 North conference for a central regional, as I like to call it, and think it's the third region three now, I can't remember.

Your knowledge is impressive.

You got maybe at this point I'm just trying to come up with some new stuff or a list or whatever, and I agree with you.

Yeah.

One strike to Ethan Bales.

He's been clutch today.

Swings and misses at the high chatter though.

And that strike two.

That was the one that bales drove to left field early in the game.

To get that seven run third inning going.

You'd like to have that one back.

He's a good high ball hitter.

He'd like to see these young guys like this.

They're really good, you know?

Right at the hands.

Good quick bat hawks with A12 count.

Little one to that opposite side.

Yep.

Two and two.

Got good arm side run.

Even though lefties they always have a different spin on it and everything seems to run to their arm side.

The Hawks is straight over the top and he even he has some sinking action to it.

Two two to bales.

Fouls it off down the right field line trying to make a bid for extra bases.

Two no I think he got Nate Corbett's back over there.

First base Corbett's at first.

You're right.

Good big target over there to throw to Pryor.

Went back to center field.

Miles shifted over to the left.

Once Hawks came in.

Another two ball, two strike count up and away and it's full.

Wow.

There's a big pitch up coming.

How many times we said that.

Yeah I mean you know it's so big for both teams right.

Getting that first getting the leadoff hitter out.

That's what Shane Fulton is telling Billy Hawks right here.

It's so critical right here.

And then for Brooklyn get the leadoff guy on.

You're playing for one run pay off pitch.

He missed it out and away.

And the tying runs aboard for Brooklyn and the to one in the bat.

And that's actually Brody Davis.

Well they say it on the scoresheet.

That's not correct.

It was Corbett at first base on the the time runs on the winning run will come to the plate.

Line up flips over for Brooklyn.

That's exactly what you want.

You got me and Cooper Brody coming up.

Looks like we're going to have a coaching visit right here.

And this might be also situational.

Two if you're Brooklyn.

Yup.

Do you try to.

But he's already been unsuccessful in a bunt attempt already.

But you also run the risk if you swing away to it to a double play.

Yeah.

And the only good thing in that situation is, is you got to rely on body speed.

So I'm with you.

He's hit hard.

Yeah.

He's it's hard both time.

He's pulled it hard to first base a couple of times.

You got both of them to get through.

We see coach Caleb Campbell.

I believe that's who it is.

Assistant coach for Harding Academy.

Campbell actually be the head coach at DeWitt next year.

It'll be his first head coaching job.

Shane Fulton's that got two assistants that played for him, of course.

Caleb Campbell, that was part of that 1718, both of those championship teams.

And then J.R Miller, a part of that 2013 team.

So, a lot of history over there at the Harding Academy coaching staff that a lot of history.

You're right.

Cooper Bodie standing in now.

But they take the baton of his hands.

Will they let him swing away?

He sling it first, pitch it, hit him.

Cox comes inside and for the first time all weekend, it seems visit to the mound does not end up as a strike.

That's right there for the 15% comes into play, J.B. that's why I always say it's not 100% accurate.

And I think now you got to go.

Hawks is out right.

Do you do you is Don they're going to go to the bullpen.

Yep.

Winning runs.

Oh boy.

For Brooklyn and we said that a ton to just call him two.

You got to think Bodie had the wind knocked out of him on Nate Corbett's.

Double back in the 10th inning.

The longest game ever played, by the way, 13 innings back in 1992.

Junction city over Clinton, 76 to 16.

New pitcher.

We'll tell you about him in a minute.

Softball is still going on at Natalie Schock Stadium.

It might finish before ice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The Mayflower is up 9 to 1 there in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Right there.

Mayflower looking to nail down the three.

A state championship right there.

Up 9 to 1.

They had a big inning early in the game.

A57 runs in the second inning, I believe.

Yeah.

Here's the deal.

There's two outs.

If they don't get on they're three outs away from the win.

Yeah that's exactly right.

And that's where we're at right here.

Three outs away at Bear Stadium.

How about and I know we'll get back to it in a minute.

Harding Academy is making a pitching change.

In the fly ball right there.

Like, actually.

Been at the top of the seventh.

Three outs away for Mayflower.

For knocking off and winning another state title.

They played six three outs away from winning it over at Natalie Schock Stadium.

And the new pitcher for Harding Academy came north.

Freshman at is a huge situation really like Norris.

I've gotten the same in pitch a few times.

You know, over the past couple of years, whether it be in Showcase Ball or you know, this season, really good fastball.

He he's going to be the next great arm for this Harding Academy program.

The future of the Wildcat pitching staff.

You're getting a look at him cam Norris in a very tight situation.

Winning runs a board tying runs at second.

He needs three outs and they're going to be three tough ones.

RIP Ken Tucker due off Rogan Tyler with bat barring a triple play.

And you got to think that Brooklyn's gonna look to move the runners over right here.

RIP Ken Tucker a two hit championship game looking to bottom up.

They'll try pickoff moved his second first before he comes home.

Tucker an RBI single double.

He struck out grounded out.

And he's done just about everything is also what.

Yeah.

And your two hole hitters usually the guy that can do just about anything for you right here.

So yeah.

Well we talked about them laying down the bunt, moving the runners up.

Don't be surprised if you see a slash right here.

You get the defense moving.

Poke it through the left side.

Get something going here.

He's scoring early.

They got the will going on.

Tries to ball but he bunts it.

Foul MP stab at it right there.

That's not what you want to do.

It's also dangerous to pop it up.

Two and one thing a good drill to do for all these baseball players at home.

Make you a contraption that's got a stick with a net on it, and just learn to catch that thing.

You want to be able to put it where you want to put it.

Just work.

On catching the catching.

Yep.

Kits that was given with it, right?

Almost get in.

Especially when you get up to the higher velocity velocities, you're going to get a lot of give in that bat.

So you got to learn to be very forceful with the bat head.

Tucker.

Going to try to execute another bun attempt.

Norris leaves it up.

One ball, one strike.

And here's something you don't want to do if you're Harding Academy in Norris.

You don't want to hit him.

You don't want to throw a wild pitch.

And Harding Academy changed up their bunt defense on that one right there.

They crash the first baseman.

They can't crash.

Corbin on that one.

Left the third baseman at home to try to get the force out right there.

We'll see what they do right here.

One ball one strike pulls it back and he takes a strike on the outer portion.

That was tough.

Good pitch by Norris right there.

So now Tucker will have to swing with one ball and two strikes.

Cam Norris trying to get a tough out.

Tying runs at second base for the Brooklyn.

The Bearcats.

And you know you're going two strikes right here.

Do you leave the bun on.

They do not.

He's swinging away.

And he struck him out looking.

What a pitch from Cam Norris.

Yeah.

Intestinal fortitude at its highest level with freshman Cam Norris getting the huge strike out right over the black on the corner.

Tough pitch to take right there.

Ripken knows it.

That's a well-placed fastball from Cam Norris.

Harding Academy a double play away from their eighth state title.

And Tyler Stanton first pitch misses.

And the difference on that pitch?

Well, yes, it was a little bit more inside, but Brody Myers turned his glove.

Over Natalie Schock Stadium Mayflower one out in the top of the seventh.

They need two more to claim the state title.

And now they're one out away.

They got that last out.

They got one more to go.

Two balls.

No strikes to Rogan Tyler.

Norris needs to settle in right here.

Two balls, no strikes.

The big moment for Rogan Tyler.

Cam Norris got to be careful.

Tyler had an RBI single his last time up that tied the ballgame.

Swings Thompson is fouled down the third base line.

And we just got word.

Here it is Mayflower.

The Eagles all year three softball state champions on base.

The crazy that they finished before you do exactly right Mayflower winning 26 and six on the season.

Congratulations to the Mayflower Lady Eagles.

Your three softball state champions.

And we're still rolling here at Bear Stadium.

Two balls and a strike to Rogan Tyler a freshman pitcher on the bump.

Cam Norris two one smokes it.

Foul man that one a tie this one up.

You got a freshman versus the sophomore right here.

You gotta love the future of Arkansas high school baseball.

Where they're competing right now we're talking about how so many times this game every pitch has so much riding on it right now.

You got A22 count, one out runners at first and second.

We'll reset it for you.

The chants and the stomping of the feet.

Tyler trying to battle Norris trying to shut the door.

Laughed away.

He tries it.

Pickoff move to second.

And man oh man, has this game been one for the ages.

Brooklyn going to their first ever state title party and going for their eighth, their fourth in five years.

Two two to Tyler.

Curveball just missed outside and the count will be full.

I apologize, Kim Norris is a senior.

So yeah, we had listed wrong on our our lineup card here.

So yeah yeah you're right.

He's listed as a freshman here on the lineup card thanks to, A good friend of mine that way, Cam Norris, a senior, trying to shut the door.

Payoff pitch.

It's driven to deep left, but it's going to drop into the glove of Myles.

They're a tag trying to move the runner to third.

They didn't get him.

They didn't get him.

They didn't get him.

They thought they did.

He saved the runner at first.

Will stay put Brooklyn is still alive.

Harding Academy they were celebrating.

They thought they had won it.

And what is going on in Conway?

He threw the ball up.

My guess if he'd been paying attention, I think he could have taken home.

He missed the two.

Missed the tag.

The previous three is.

We have our third, third review of the night.

Why not?

Yeah, we've had everything else this ballgame, so I don't know if we're going to get anything to say that to clear this and third baseman right there.

Smith thought he got him.

But.

I don't know from that angle.

Can you tell.

Yeah.

You can't tell from that angle.

It's it's going to stick.

Oh that would put runners at first and third with two outs tying run 90ft away.

If that call stands if it's overturned, Harding Academy will be here for a state champs.

I can't believe he rain.

Oh, I can't either.

I mean, it was shallow left field.

It jumped off the bat.

Maybe he thought like either that it was going to travel.

It did not the only the from this view, the only tag it looks like he got him on the arm right there.

That's the only way I can see them calling this out, man.

Do you see the webbing move at all?

That's.

Yeah, it's it's got to be inconclusive, right?

Yeah.

You got to know without a doubt.

That's where I just don't know.

That was a risky move, to say the least.

Is behind him at that point.

Did he get him on the arm or is his glove behind him?

It's hard to tell from that angle.

So we're going to wait.

So I think they've got an answer.

Here's the biggest call in the game yet.

He's safe.

It stands and Brooklyn still alive.

Got two outs.

Runners are going to be a first and third.

With senior Jake Reese coming to bat this is so poetic Jake Reese with the bases loaded hit a runner on the bump that gave Harding Academy the lead, and he's got a chance to tie things up in the bottom of the 12th.

What?

Jake Reese, he's had a good day.

Two for five relief, two runs driven in a double and a single.

And by far the biggest bat of his life in the 25 degrees.

It's senior on senior Cam Norris.

Jake Reese a base hit ties it.

An extra base hit could win it for Brooklyn, but an out will do it for Harding Academy.

The first pitch is outside for ball one.

And if you're Harding Academy, you're going to have catcher's indifference in Brooklyn.

Takes off toward second base right here because that doesn't mean anything.

That runner at third, you got to make sure he doesn't get home.

No kidding.

You got two outs.

Many fans on their feet at Bear Stadium.

But that is the winning run.

Also, you're right.

One zero Reese popped it up.

That could do it right.

Field.

Second baseman going out.

Right fielder who popped it.

Hits home ball.

We're tied.

They're going to send the winning run home and he's out.

You have got to be kidding me.

What is going on?

We're going to the top of the 13th.

I can't believe what I just saw.

We're going to be tied at 11 tonight.

According to the 15th inning, Cooper Bodie hurt on the play at home.

Right there, a tough fly ball.

This this time of the day.

I mean, it's night.

He just lost it in lights out there.

It's in no man's land Herman Westmore talking about the Bermuda Triangle yesterday.

That's that area between right field, first base and second base.

And that's where it landed.

And right fielder just dropped it right on him.

And we're going at the top of the 13th.

Collision at the plate.

They gone.

Heads up.

Play for Harding Academy to recover.

Yeah.

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At the top of the 13th.

It's 11 to 11.

And we've still got at least six more outs of baseball.

Yeah.

And I think, I'm going to be a. Yeah, we're going to get a look at the last player out here.

Jake Cory senior pops it up to right field.

He's depressed at this moment.

The right fielder drops it.

Reese realizes I can touch first right here.

At this point, the tying run is scored.

Cooper Bodie comes around.

See Coach Baker waving him around.

And Bodie at that moment was just out of gas trying to score from first base.

JB well, I like to call in him.

Yeah.

Why not?

Is a game like this?

Yeah.

What a restart.

The game was over.

He pumped it up.

He thought the season was coming to an end.

Wow.

The second time in two batters Harding Academy thought they had won the four state championship game.

The first time was on the fly ball to left field.

Ripken Tucker, of course, caught it in left field or hit it to left field.

Miles made to throw to third base.

You know, for ruled safe.

Upon review our third review of the game, the first year of replay in high school baseball nationwide, Arkansas gets to use it as a testing ground.

And they've done a great job so far.

They've upheld the calls, done a great job.

It'll be top of the lineup due up for Harding Academy Cam Pryor, Titus Hanley and Cam Hoover one, two and three due up against Jake Reese in his first full inning of work.

There's a pop up on the infield foul.

Ground first baseman going up against the really makes a great catch for the first out of the 13th inning.

Great job by Eli Foster right there shifting over to first base.

He's been playing outfield the whole game.

Shifted over to first base right up against the netting.

The wall right there.

Great catch.

We've got one out in the top of the 13.

And game ball.

This is just been wild.

First pitch to Titus Hanley fouled away.

You go all the way back to the beginning of this game.

Harding Academy jumped out for nothing in the first.

Went up five.

Nothing.

Looked like they were going to run away with things.

We were tied at seven after Brooklyn responded and no one scored.

That was the fourth in A77, six innings.

Took six innings before we saw a run again.

And then when the runs did come, each team Brooklyn would always capitalize.

Fourth title in five seasons for Harding Academy.

If they win, it would be their eighth overall.

And for Brooklyn, you can tell they want this badly.

They're seeking their first ever state championship, Harding Academy.

They've got no quit in them either.

That one's crushed deep down the left field line.

That's a fair ball for Titus Henley.

He stumbles, heading to second.

They've got a chance to get him.

They throw to first and he's back.

Wow.

That could have been disastrous for Harding Academy.

Yeah, that sniper out in the right field bullpen kind of got him going around first right there hoping he's all right.

Yeah, he kind of pulled up after first base.

Yeah.

Had that.

These guys are wearing plastic molded cleats and they stick in that turf sometimes.

You couldn't see it right there.

You could see it on the first shot right here rounding first base.

And he just lost it.

Hustle back now love the effort to get back because his run is super important.

Is immediately slammed the helmet down on the turf and a lot of pain guys you hate to see that but gosh I mean for teams coming into for some of these guys, I mean, this this is coming up on almost five hours long.

Yeah.

We're back four hours and 41 minutes.

Henley seems to be all right.

He's going to stay in.

Now remember, in high school baseball, you can use the reentry rule.

So if Coach Fullerton needs to pull him out for a little bit and he's got a courtesy, he's got a, pinch runner over there.

He can pull him out and put him back in if he needs to.

We're going to continue to tend to him.

Cam Hoover will be the one.

Do up.

They let him try to walk it out, but man, that ball from Henley was touched.

He pushed it down that left field line.

That's one of the hardest hit balls we've had all weekend.

And you know for Reese senior pitcher he's Cam Hoover's.

Do you got a lot of these guys that have had subpar offensive games that have looked great defensively.

Hoover has got to be thinking he's do right now.

So this this will be a really good battle between two seniors.

Hoover is one for six in the game today.

Fortunes telling Henley right now look I can I can bring you out if I need to.

So I want you to go over this to make sure he's all right.

Nothing's.

This looks like that's what's going to happen.

They're going to get a runner in for him and then reenter him in the bottom of the 13th at his position, you know.

So you're going to get a runner for Henley.

Game will continue.

Can Hoover's the Wildcats shortstop had a great game defensively.

But pitching has been good really for both teams.

A lot of hit string together have been hard to come by.

Yeah Brooklyn's on their fourth pitcher.

Harding Academy is as well.

Can Hoover now we're going to see if Hoover he's up for the seventh time this game.

Seventh or eighth.

Yeah this will be his eighth.

And Maddie's one for six with a walk.

First pitch is up and in to Hoover.

And if you've tuned in late and you're expecting to see Mayflower and Harding Academy for the three day softball state championship, that game has already started and finished.

Mayflower wins that one, 9 to 1 for the three.

A state softball title.

There's a pitch outside.

To Hoover two and oh, or what if this is the first baseball game of the day?

Goodness, yeah.

Two.

Oh, pitch.

Oops.

A little bit low pops out of the catcher.

Tyler's mitt, and it's three balls and no strikes.

And we've seen Tyler a couple of times.

And that low outside fastball just kind of gets a little quick on it and drops.

It always looks better to the umpire when you catch it back.

There.

It's a small things.

Now.

Three balls, no strikes.

Cam Hoover taking all the way.

It's already going final in the three a state softball championship.

Talked about that cable Mayflower A91 win over Harding Academy.

Still yet to crown a winner in the four baseball state championship.

Three old pitch taking all the way runners trying to take second base.

The throw is late and off line, and a swipe for the bag over at second base.

That's the pinch runner now, Sanders interesting call right there from Shane Fullerton, but it doesn't surprise me at this point.

Three zero you want to run?

Trying to apply pressure.

Why not put pressure on the area?

Get your dudes up.

They can control it.

Hoover did a great count.

Yeah, Hoover did a great job.

Kind of distracting the catcher right there.

You know, give him something else to work with.

A little chess match, trying to do a job with A31 count.

Reese delivers a strike on the outer corner.

That's where.

That's where Reese is deadly.

Right there on that.

Outside.

Outside third.

Outside black.

Now you got Hoover.

He has to battle back.

Great job by senior Jake Reese fell behind three.

Oh.

Now it's back to full.

Payoff pitch up coming with Nash Sanders the Go-Ahead run at second base.

Pay off.

Strike three.

Call Jake Reese with the punch out, perfect execution.

Fastball on the block Jacob.

Great.

Look at it right here.

Good spot up.

Job batting number 16 by the catcher.

Hey, just where we get it, right?

Yeah, just went back to hey, he didn't.

And that pitch made Hoover uncomfortable.

You could tell he didn't like the three one call because he thought he was off to first base.

Throw it there again.

Great job by Brooklyn.

Great execution.

So now two outs in the top of the 13th.

Bentley Hawks will stand in now for Harding Academy.

He had a double back in the second inning.

That was his pitch to right there inside fastball he likes.

Yeah.

You stay away from Bentley and be okay all day.

You come in on him, he can put it off the wall or over the wall.

And Bentley's got to be thinking, man, I want that one back.

Let's save Reese changes up the strategy to to go away from him right here.

Base hit to the outfield.

Gives the Wildcats the lead.

Curveball swinging it is.

That's a great job to bring out the bender.

Great timing.

That's a really good slider right there.

You see Reese is really pumped after that one.

Had a lot of good late bite to the great replay right there.

That's the back foot slider you want from Reese right there.

He's like I'm in the zone right here.

Give it to me again.

He's fired up almost as if he got the strikeout.

He put that right where he wanted and that now Hawks is guessing at their Reese is getting eaten out of his hand.

Hawks trying to battle oh two pitch just a little bit inside.

Man that was close game.

You that I really it's that's good plate discipline.

If you're Bentley Hawks that's what you're going to say offensively right there it was inside.

It's a great call.

Plus the catcher was late getting to it.

And then there's shifting over like like that.

Yeah.

So here we go again.

One ball two strikes Reese to Bentley Hawks.

One two curveball got him a swing and a miss Reese the emotion coming out and Brooklyn.

What seems like now the sixth time tonight will have a chance to walk it off for their first ever state title.

No run for the Wildcats of the third team.

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Bottom of the 30.

You heard me right.

You see it right on your screen?

We're tied at 11.

Brooklyn trying to work things off.

Cam Norris, the senior back out for his first full inning of work.

And I'll tell you right now, cable, there's really no way to recap the way this game has gone.

They've had three challenges, all kinds of close plays, man.

So it's their seventh attempt.

You mentioned it.

So he started in the seventh inning.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

11.

12.

Now 13.

Could it be lucky 13 with big play game coming up to bat.

We know David Carter didn't play games without a hit tonight.

He's zero for six.

Trying to start things off against Kam Norris.

The hard throwing right hander in the first pitch misses up and in.

The story of the game is you know there's been so many missed opportunities.

It's been a great game.

We've had so many things happen in this game.

Like you mentioned, the three challenges double plays, awkward double plays game Carter first pitch gives it a ride towards left center field, but the center fielder is back there and Pryor makes the catch for the first down of the inning.

And believe it or not, Pryor pitched seven innings in this game already.

And he's now been moved to center field after.

I mean, if this is just not fitting of how equally matched up these two teams are, yeah, they've been two of the top teams in class for a season.

Just shows you the depth of that classification.

You talk about Robinson and Moralton, Shiloh Christian and even Central Arkansas Christian.

It's been a great season in class for.

It all comes to an end tonight.

At least we think it will.

Might go into the wee hours of the morning.

Already has tied the longest game.

In Arkansas high school baseball state championship history.

This is outside two balls.

No strikes.

Now to Eli Foster.

He's had a two hit day an RBI as well.

He's two for five.

And that sacrifice is had a sacrifice and a hit or a walk.

Excuse me.

Wait till the two.

Oh pitch taking takes a high three.

And.

Oh.

Just upstairs.

Good high.

Good approach right there.

Look, it's been a great it's been a consistent zone all night for a home plate umpire Ben Fox.

His first state championship game.

He's been in for a good one.

And yeah, he got double his money tonight because he's he's called almost two two full games.

Three zero pitch taking all the way in.

It is right down the middle.

If Brooklyn's unable to score then this will go down as the longest game in Arkansas baseball state championship history.

Three one.

Ball four.

Down it in the winning run for the seventh time tonight, he's on for the Brooklyn Bearcats.

Great silver Ford.

Yeah.

Cam Norris, you can say he's wondering where that missed.

You know Brody Myers behind the plate is getting tired.

You can kind of see right there with just with the glove work back there.

He just kind of went to that ball a little late.

If he can get around that ball and make it look good, make it look like a strike.

And I know in the bottom of the 13th inning.

That's the toughest thing for a catcher to do.

But help your pitcher out a little bit, make it look like a strike and go from there.

Griff Silverthorne will be the man due up a one for six day for the designated hitter, but he does have a two run single that tied things up at five apiece.

The third inning, which gave A75 lead.

Excuse me?

Yeah.

Gave him a 7 to 5 lead.

And Harding Academy battled back.

Tie the game up.

That was forever ago.

Forever ago.

That was in the fourth inning.

At about 530 this afternoon.

Little did we know we were going to come into a historic matchup where ball strikes just slow two.

And oh, and I'm going to tell you right now from Brooklyn that's six he's missed with here.

I'll probably take it.

Yeah he struggled a little bit.

He got the three oh count to foster.

And that last pitch he got it for a strike.

Then he missed the next one with the ball.

So he's just been he's just been around it.

He had been two wild hits.

Hasn't been in the zone.

Two.

Oh pitch down and away.

Three.

And oh he's frustrated.

Punches the gloves and at this point it's it's auto take of course.

Depending on the situation.

Three.

Oh we'll see.

Norris has got to find the strike zone.

He struggled to find it.

Silverthorne is absolutely taking here.

You can see Myers flashing the sign.

Flashing.

It's right down the middle of the plate.

That's all you need.

The three.

Oh gets the strike on the bottom portion, and it's three and one.

That goes to tell you he's trying to struggling with command a little bit because he was trying to throw that right down the middle.

Yeah.

You can see we've hit the 9:00 hour.

We're goodness five minutes short of five hours for the for a state championship game.

Unbelievable.

Witnessing history right in front of your very own eyes.

Three one missed upstairs.

And the winning runs in scoring position for Jordan friend.

Yeah.

Jordan friend who going back made a diving attempt on an a sacrifice bunt attempt by Nate Corbett earlier in the game that likely saved a potential run.

Now he's up.

Bottom of the lineup.

We're going to get a pitching visit.

We're going to get a mound visit by coach Caleb Campbell coming out to settle Norris down.

Got one out.

Look, you're one pitch away.

Big guts.

You going out there saying this is all you need to compete in the zone?

That's all you need to do right now.

Compete in the zone.

You got a great defense behind you.

They're not going to hit it out of the ballpark.

No.

And if they do he just wants to tip your hat and going about it.

So.

But I'm with you I like that approach.

Attack.

Yeah.

You got to give it to these.

These young men have competed.

It's just.

How much is left in the tank at the end of the at the end of the game?

That's what you get to think about.

Norris is the fourth pitcher for Harding Academy.

He's had 31 combined free passes tonight.

That's a lot.

Jordan Friend, the senior.

Trying to knock in the winning run and what would be his final high school at bat.

He'd remember it for a long time.

The infield fly rule is in effect.

So anything with reasonable effort that can be caught on the infield or the shallow outfield will be called infield fly.

First pitch to friend.

I like that Norris goes off speed, locates there.

Strike one.

We've had chaos and craziness on the base paths already in this game, so just want to point that out real quick.

Runners at first and second, less than two outs.

We've had all kinds of chaos on the base pads today.

Oh, and one to Jordan friend Cam Norris pitching into a jam, trying to squirm his way out of it.

This is up and away to even the count and a ball and a strike.

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We appreciate it.

One ball, one strike to friend.

Curve ball up the middle to second.

It's bobbled.

They get the tag.

They throw it at first.

Is it a double play.

Oh my goodness.

And that will end the inning.

What a play right there.

You got to come up.

Make the tag.

That's exactly where you wanted to fill the ball.

He came up.

He could have waited back on that.

It looks like we're going to the top of the 14th inning.

Oh, they're going to challenge it.

I don't think so.

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Top of the 14th.

We've hit the five hour mark.

This game has been incredible.

It's been nuts.

Tied at 11.

Still yet to claim a winner.

Jake Reese coming out for his third inning of work.

I have never seen anything quite like this in all my life.

But man, has it been a fun game.

Sorry.

Fruit snacks.

We had a little energy burst here.

I don't think anybody would blame the cable on Brody Myers.

So it'll be Brody Myers do up for Harding Academy in the top of the 14th inning, and the first pitch is swung on and missed.

First.

Strike one.

I've run out of scores.

I've officially ran out of spots.

13th inning.

Was when I was running out.

Now, here in the 14th.

I'm just having to create space over here.

Yeah.

Thank goodness for technology.

And our great statistician, Troy Mitchell.

Always does a great job with our Arkansas high school state championship games with me.

Football, basketball, baseball, softball.

He's done a great job tonight.

Walter what he does as well.

Pop rock left field should be playable.

Everybody up.

Gabe Carter snags it.

It's not number one to begin the top of the 14th.

Yeah.

At this point, what you're doing, Jake Reese, number 12.

Brett settling in right now on the mound, doing a great job.

That slider is really working for him right now.

First pitch coming home to Watson.

Since had a very good state title game.

He's walked four times.

Get a single and a double, and he swings and misses at the fastball to even the count.

It's Watson and then Nate Corbett due up in the inning.

One runs a nice take up.

And in.

Nate Corbett back in the 10th inning had that three run.

Was actually a two run triple.

Ended up scoring on an errant throw.

They went up ten seven.

Harding Academy thought they had all but won it.

Nice curveball strike from Reese Evens account.

Really good slider right there.

I've had the privilege of being friends with very good men in this in this profession.

And I'll finish that thought.

This is two two up and in.

And it hit him.

Hit by pitch.

Watson's aboard again.

The Go-Ahead run at Red Watson has just been he's been so good at the plate tonight.

I was going to finish my thought.

You get right there plunked him and Jake is like yeah I got him.

That's my fault.

Now batting number six race was dialed in before that pitch right there.

But some good friends of mine that are still umpires and one of them being Justin Yates is in there.

And then Ian Hewitt, who is on the five day game last night, Dylan Parham, John Hannon, Steve Powell, Greg Hendricks, those guys, we talk about going to waffle House late night when the game gets done.

This may be a waffle House night, boys.

No kidding.

So Watson is over at first base.

And it's Cam Norris, the pitcher getting his first at bat of the ballgame.

One oh count with a runner at first base that was downstairs.

Tyler does a nice job of keeping it in front.

Reese kind of settling down right now.

Going to the rosin bag, getting a little, little sweat right there.

Make sure he's drying up.

Norris trying to deliver in his first at bat of the ballgame.

And it's on A20 pitch.

Good location.

Fastball for a strike.

That's where he's been.

Very good.

To the glove side.

Right there in JV.

It's good to break history with you, my friend.

This is now the longest championship game in Arkansas high school history.

Well glad to be alongside with you for it.

It's been a fun ride.

Two one from Reese misses outside three and one.

And again we've talked about the fatigue 31 combined three passes get now 32 after the hit by pitch.

These guys have been playing for five hours I mean it's that's a long time to be on the field.

You know thank goodness it hasn't been 85 8085 degrees.

These guys would me and a lot more medical issues than we've had.

Pickoff move to first does Reese I talk about Jake Reese came up as you know the pitcher he's probably going to go to college as a hitter.

Obviously could be a two way.

Got the JuCo level, but his fastball has been up to 8889 in the past.

Wouldn't you know, he's been the hardest third we've had this weekend.

Just left in command.

Struggled to find it.

Well, that hit by pitch was huge.

He had lost it on the ropes, lost it with a hit by pitch, and then struggles with the combined number 11.

He was office coach says I'm good, but that is two free passes.

33rd of the game combined in Riley Smith, eight hole hitter a chance with a base hit to the outfield to give Harding Academy the lead.

Smooth playing a really good hot corner tonight for the Wildcats.

See if he can hand it off to the next one.

Just keep it going.

First pitch strike.

Fastball to Smith Ali Smith on the game is one for five.

This is his eighth at bat.

He's been walked and hit by a pitch.

Also.

This is a game that's gone almost two games for the in terms of length swing and a miss there with two.

Yeah Reese getting right back in the zone collecting himself.

Look he knows himself better than anybody else out there.

He knows what he can do.

Go into the wristband.

Coach.

Pitching coach Bobby Joe Watson is been at Brooklyn.

I don't know how many number of years, but he's.

He's Bearcat blood through and through.

Oh two shot to the left side.

Shortstop coming in.

Only play is going to be at first to scoop and gets away.

That's going to score and run.

Harding Academy will score on the error.

They're up 12 to 11.

Tough play right there.

Slow roller to the shortstop.

We talked about some of the great defensive plays all game and a slow roller footwork.

He got his foot on just long enough where he couldn't get enough on that throw to first base right there.

You got a great replay right there.

Just kind of threw it going away from first base instead of going to first base.

That's the difference in Harding scoring a run there being two outs in the inning.

Yeah, that is a huge play.

Joe Miles now due up.

Baseball is a game of softball, especially the game about angles and how you attack, whether you're a pitcher, hitter or a defender.

All about angles is small.

Margins are the difference in winning and losing.

Joe Miles at the plate takes it down, and in.

Oh boy.

Reese seems to be a little bit.

Slow there.

This looks like he's fine now, but for a moment looked like he was in some pain.

And they're going to come out.

Look at him real quick.

Good construction.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get some cramps right now to.

That pitch, he really came off limp a little bit.

And honestly, they're going to have to drag him off the field knowing what kind of competitor Jake Reese is.

I don't know what pitching his left.

Day.

We'll step aside.

1211 Harding Academy's got the lead.

They took it here in the top of the 14th, and they're threatening for Moore.

We'll step aside.

One, two.

Three.

I think a change is happening.

Let the group take over, which is perfect.

The age of discovery is now here.

You know what it is?

So.

I am quite overwhelmed.

That's a joy to be in this world.

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Now, back to action.

Here in the top of the 14th.

Take a look who it is.

Jake Rees toughing it out.

That is one tough kid.

He's going to stay in the game.

Yeah we talked about how physically he's listed at six two but 215.

And so he's going over the trainer right now.

Yeah I tell you what.

This reminds me the state championship game two years ago with little Rock Christian and Valley View.

There was so much adrenaline and so much, you know, it was warmer that night.

It was a 7:00 start and the starting pitcher for little Rock Christian, who's now at Louisiana Tech, had so much adrenaline when he came off the field, he almost went into shock with how dehydrated and everything he was.

And that's just kind of what these athletes are going through right now.

And as I said on the water, more finely tuned athletic machines.

Here's your first Bobby Bouchet reference of the night.

I like the cable deal.

They've never played a game this long.

Yeah I mean ten innings is one thing, 14 is another.

I mean, in a game of this magnitude with the emotions, the adrenaline pumping.

Joe Miles was at the plate, took a ball before we had to stop play.

Reese is back and ready in the first pitch.

Look for the time's a good one.

Look good on that one and say, can I get Rick in it?

He just pulled something right there.

You know Reese, he's a kind of violent and has his wind up.

Everything's pretty smooth, though, but there's a little bit of herky jerky this.

One from Joe Miles misses down and in and it's two and one just missed right there on the inside.

That's where he's really been kind of living.

It's you know the right hand the better.

It's on the outside on the block on the to the glove side of Reese.

The best way to describe it.

But you want to stay away from Myles right here.

That's ball opposite field.

That's a fair ball.

Over to the left field corner.

It'll score one run.

They're gonna raise him another into the corner and goes Joe Miles a big triple.

And the Wildcats are up by three.

The Wildcats have added an field goal.

The top of the 14th right here.

Big Two-out triple by outfielder Joe Miles.

We talked about how early in the game he stroked one to left field.

That one was right in his wheelhouse.

Brooklyn had set up on the outside right there.

They thought they could get the fastball by.

Miles said, not tonight.

That's a great, excellent piece of hitting from Joe Miles out of the nine hole.

Go with the pitch.

And that's just it just shows you the the plate approach that Coach Fullerton and Coach Miller, they they drive into these guys.

All of them are short to the ball.

Just hit the ball where it's pitched.

Now coach Shane Fullerton's talking to looks like that's, Justin Allen over there.

Third base.

So our third base umpire.

On those you find out what's going on there.

But we've got one out the.

They're just telling the Harding Academy dugout to a little bit of chirping going on.

Not too bad.

A curveball to the top of the lineup.

Now Cam Pryor fouls it off now.

But we've seen something similar already tonight.

Yeah we saw a three run lead going into the bottom of the.

It looks like they called miles out.

It called him out at third.

Yeah.

So bases empty.

Two going three balls a strike and it's own two.

Yeah.

He's not on base.

Yeah, they called him out.

Yeah.

What I think happened and we may get a replay of it I don't know.

But the third baseman just kind of nonchalantly.

We got it down there.

He may have stepped off the bag and they may have tagged him.

That's what I'm thinking happened.

Yeah.

Yeah right there.

Oh two.

He's got the ball right there.

We're looking on a different screen.

And he stepped off and they tagged.

That's exactly.

That's why Joe Myles is not on third base.

Kind of the nonchalant to get him out.

Swing and a miss got him foul tipped.

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Well, what has been a historic night on Championship weekend?

The longest game in the history.

It's 1411.

Harding Academy, up by three.

Cam Norris, the senior, going to try to close it down in his final campaign.

Three outs away from doing that.

And let's go back to the second out.

Last inning Joe Miles had just hit a triple a two run triple at that point.

Very excited.

Third baseman rolls over there just kind of nonchalantly friend.

He steps off the bat.

He saw him once, saw him twice again.

Boom.

Tagged third baseman umpire Justin Allen on top of it.

They get the second out.

Coach Shane Fullerton shows it right there.

That got us out.

Number two Jake Reese got out number three with the strikeout onto the bottom of the 14th in JB.

And that's our nine hole man.

The sophomore Ethan Bales going to try to flip things over for the top of the lineup.

First pitch went right behind him.

And every inning this fall when Harding Academy is responded with a couple of runs to jump out, Brooklyn has matched them punch for punch.

They've been resilient.

If you think back, this game was four oh at one point.

Harding Academy scored four in the top of the first inning.

It's just amazing in this.

It has been so fun tonight.

That's all I can say at this point.

Those are strengths and I've never seen anything like this.

We've got in both of us.

We've gotten text and social media is going crazy right now.

And I've had people reach out to me, this is the this is the craziest thing I've ever seen in high school baseball.

One, one pitch to Ethan Bales.

Hits it off the end of the bat to second.

Nice job.

Watson throws to first and now Harding Academy.

They're two outs away.

Key right there is getting bales off the base pads.

Came into the game with 21 stolen bases.

The fastest Bearcat.

Now they've got him retired.

Now you got to deal with with our man Cooper Bodie who has just sold out.

The junior has been phenomenal all night defensively at the plate.

He's had two really big hits for the Bearcats tonight for Ethan Bales.

That's just the second time he's been retired tonight.

He's been on base six other times.

Yeah that's a pretty nice job from a sophomore.

There's Cooper Bodie.

He's not had quite the offensive night.

But he didn't have that big two run double in the 10th.

He's going to need some more magic if they're going to keep this historic season alive.

Cam Norris the senior he's been so good.

It's a swing and a miss from Bodie.

Oh he's like that high stuff.

That's where you really want to kind of stay with Bodie right there.

Kind of outer third of the play.

Kind of built high.

Don't come in on him.

I mean, he has shown he can he can take the ball down the right field line tonight.

So one ball, one strike.

Kam Norris to Cooper Bodie Ripken Tucker waits on deck.

One one's low and a hitter's count.

Now for the Bearcats leadoff hitter.

They'll need two base runners to bring the tying run to the plate.

This game's coming up on 5.5 hours.

To one misses upstairs.

Three balls and a strike.

Norris pats himself.

He knows it.

A little self-talk right there, like he got this.

Come on, buddy, that's when you got to find your inner child and just go play a game.

Boys you think came Norris is hard on yourself.

Oh, yeah.

Any any competitor is at this point, any competitor is able to get this thing done with give back to Searcy and you know with it the title three one's upstairs.

He walks him two outs with which to work for Brookland with Ken Tucker.

Now do with a two hitter.

He's reached base safely three times, but he struck out a couple of times also and grounded out and flown out.

Gosh, most of these hitters tonight have done just about every day.

They bat.

I'm surprised we haven't had a cycle yet.

But you know.

Get speed in the two holes.

So it's going to be harder to turn a double play.

You're going to have to have a hard hit ball.

Ripken takes the first pitch out of the zone for ball one.

This is where you really, as a pitcher, you really just got a pitch to contact right here because you you need outs.

You don't need extra base runner.

We've had what, 3334 this game.

Free passes between walks and hit batters is pitch to contact.

At this point on the pitch, Tucker has taken all the way.

Yeah, I don't blame him.

Yeah.

He wanted to see it struck out the last time.

It was a tough one.

Trying to was against Norris to a big situation.

First and second.

Nobody out.

Norris got the best of him one one this time.

Chop to that right side.

First baseman steps on the bag.

That's Hawks.

And they're one out away having Billy Hawks back over their first baseman.

You know Nate for a bit here did a good job over there.

But Hawks has been a guy over there at first base the whole season.

So take advantage of what you have over there defensively.

And now we're down to one out.

It's all up to Rogan Tyler.

He represents the last hope for Brooklyn Tyler done a great job behind the plate tonight.

We talked about the bright future that the sophomore has.

He came in you know hidden hitting in the three hole as a sophomore hitting 363 two home runs coming into this game.

And he's a great defensive catcher.

First pitch popped up fouled Norris.

He can feel it.

The Wildcat faithful can feel it.

They just need one more out you get getting the groove right here.

And they've been in this situation two times already in this game where they've needed just one out to end it this season.

Third time's the charm for the Wildcats.

I'm telling you, they've been stealing it.

That one's up.

And in in Brooklyn right now.

They're needing almost a miracle the way things have been rolling.

They gave up the catcher's indifference over to second base.

And that's where runner steals and they don't award a stolen base on that.

Because I'm just giving it up to Jake.

Reese would wait.

He would represent the tying run upstairs.

Two balls and a strike to Tyler, Brooklyn.

He just one more.

You got to get somebody on to have a chance.

Harding County wants to make sure that does not happen.

Visit here on the mound meeting of the minds Caleb Campbell coming out.

He's going to be the head coach at DeWitt next year.

Played in 2017, 2018.

He's just trying to keep a little look there, having a good a little fun out there too.

Like these guys know each other.

I mean, they play summer ball together and compete against each other all year long.

These two teams faced each other early in the season at Arkansas State.

Harding Academy won that game 10 to 5.

So you know, you get to know your competitors a lot more during the year.

So let's see if we settle down right here.

Let's go back to the 85% rule.

See if it happens.

Let's go see.

Do we have a strike two and one to Rogan Tyler.

It's not a strike.

And it Clifton.

So Brooklyn will have a chance.

They will bring the tying run to the plate.

Trailing by three Jake Reese back in the 11th inning batting number 20.

He thought the game was over with a fly out to rebuild.

And drop fly ball ended up tying the game up.

Nice.

He's got a chance to do damage.

That's right.

New life back and that should have ended it a while back.

At least they thought Jake Reese.

He's only got one home run on the year.

30 RBIs came in leading the team.

He just wants to find a way to get on anyway.

He can hand it to the next guy.

Just keep it going, keep the train going.

At this point.

The third time this game that Harding Academy has had at least a lead of three runs or more.

One ball, no strikes.

Norris too tall two.

And oh what a frustrated with himself again.

Have a conversation.

Meyer said.

No, no no I got it.

Yeah, but let me get in a rhythm.

Let me figure it out.

You know, kudos to Meyers.

He's done a great job back there.

But at this point Norris just needs to bow up and throw strikes.

That's all it needs to happen.

Let your defense work live with the results.

Two oh, pitch upstairs.

Three balls, no strikes, and you don't want to put the tying run aboard.

You certainly don't want to bring the winning run to the plate now.

And you got to think at this point in the night, been out there.

You know, these guys got here about 230.

So they've been here at the field for seven hours taking batting practice going going through everything.

And you can see our stat right there.

17 runners left on base for Harding Academy 12 for the Brooklyn Bearcats three zero pitch.

And he missed Norris visibly frustrated.

Bases are loaded for Brooklyn and they're not done yet.

Oh, don't count out the Bearcats.

Never, never.

North the Bearcats.

That's all Jake Reese is trying to do right there.

Like I said earlier, hand it off to the next guy.

Keep the train rolling.

Two outs.

Anything could happen at this point.

Norris has gone two and two thirds, but he's walked three.

Hasn't allowed a hit.

And I think they might be making a switch.

Yeah they're making a change.

So new pitcher for Harding Academy.

They need one out.

Bearcats need three runs.

To step aside and get the finish set up for you.

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And we're not done yet.

We're not done yet.

New pitcher is going to be Rhett Watson.

He needs one out, but the tying run is at first base.

Bases loaded.

Two outs.

Yeah.

Big play.

Game up.

He's hit some long balls in his life.

Yeah, he has.

Junior Gabe Carter hitting 321 on the year.

It's the first pitch.

Take it off.

Speed to strike.

Yep.

Cam Pryor shifted over to the left side.

And you can see, playing second base.

The entire night.

Watson just had.

He's got a short, quick delivery to first base, so he's going to throw like a middle infielder.

It's not going to have much velocity, but he's going to be repetitive and he's going to fill the zone up.

He gets ahead on a one to big play.

Gabe swing and a foul at Harding Academy.

There a strike away.

Now just to set the picture right here.

It's an oh two count with two strikes with the bases loaded.

If a ball is in the dirt, all Meyers has to do is step on home plate and it'll be ball game.

He doesn't have to make the long throw to first base.

Just step on home plate.

Dave Carter's hoping that there will not be a strike three.

Rhett Watson trying to close it out for the Wildcats.

Oh two swing and a miss.

And Harding Academy has done it for the eighth time in school history in a record frame of 14 innings.

How sweet.

It is.

Eight and zero for Harding Academy in the state championship game.

That is Shane Fullerton six state championship as a head coach, the fourth time in five seasons for the Harding Academy Wildcats.

They've done it in two.

They've done it in three.

And now they have done it in class four.

A congratulations to the Harding Academy Wildcats 44th title in the last five years.

Absolutely.

What a finish for Harding Academy.

We'd be remiss if we didn't say a heart break for Brooklyn.

There had to be a loser.

Only one team can win it.

1411 Harding Academy.

We'll have the trophy presentation when we come back.

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Wow, what a game for a bear stadium.

Someone had to lose.

Someone had to win it.

It was Harding Academy 1411 and a historic game.

Making history 14 innings, the longest in Arkansas state championship history.

My goodness is the eighth title for Harding Academy.

This one's going to be real special.

They're going to remember this one for a long, long time.

Now coach Shane Fullerton, tell these guys you can be remembered as the great as the great, one of the greats in Harding Academy history.

And now they have cemented themselves as the eight state champion Hart Academy perfect eight in our state title game.

Well, we don't have enough time to give you the whole recap, but it started in the eighth inning.

Defense.

Clutch play.

After clutch play, we were tied at seven and extras.

We had three reviews.

That man were pivotal, but they got them right.

How about this big swing?

Nate Corbett at the time it was tied at seven.

What an effort from Bodie.

But it got away.

And then the throw to third the triple for Corbett.

He came over and scored.

That made it 10 to 7 Harding Academy.

They thought two hours ago they had it one.

Not the case.

Good job from Brooklyn to capitalize and come back to tie things up.

This one here would have ended the game.

It was tied up.

They tried to tag him, he was safe and we played on.

It led us to the 14th inning where the top of the 14th.

It was this play.

Joe Myles, a two run triple that extended lead 1411, and Harding Academy hung on to win.

Watson is the MVP of the state championship tournament, and sports fans list an official championship apparel and memorabilia for the season are available at Arkansas High School sports.com.

Congratulations!

There's your Harding Academy champion gear right there.

Arkansas high school sports.com.

Well, if you thought that this game was fun, day two concluded.

But we got one more full day of championships tomorrow.

It starts with A2A softball finals, Hackett and Riverside duking it out for the two way crown.

Should be a fun day of baseball.

Two a final in Riverside.

And of course we got the two a baseball tomorrow as well.

Riverside and Cedar Rapids going for their first state title, both schools.

And then we'll wrap it up tomorrow night with the six, a state baseball championship.

Two, six, eight West schools.

Rogers will take on the Fayetteville Bulldogs.

If you watch this game for the very beginning to the end, you're a trooper.

What a night it was.

Well, we hope you all have a very wonderful night.

JB Brazil, Kevin Bohan and the rest of our crew signing off.

Have a wonderful night and we'll see you tomorrow.