Ragsdale 3A Western Regional Champions

From the High Point Enterprise Sunday Morning:
Tigers tame Wildcats, reach state 3A title series 
ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT  

DALLAS – Senior Trevor Mullins wasn’t ready to put away his high school uniform just yet.   The Ragsdale right-hander struck out nine and allowed just five hits and no earned runs Saturday night to propel the Tigers to a 3-1 win at North Gaston. The victory gave Ragsdale the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A Western Regional Championship and sent the Tigers into a best-two-of-three title series next weekend against D.H. Conley of Greenville.   “He was just amazing,” Ragsdale coach Donnie Maness said of Mullins. “He was going to win – you could just see it.” Ragsdale (28-3) grabbed an early lead when Jason Wallace led off the second with a double, took third on Brent O’ Berry’s grounder and scored on a Brian Goodwin safety squeeze.   North (22-8) evened it in the bottom half when an errant Mullins throw to first brought home a run. He and Wildcats starter P.J. Shives then matched zeroes until the fifth, when Brandon Phelps doubled, Goodwin beat out an infield single and Nate Cash put down a safety squeeze to make it 2-1. Goodwin later scam*pered home on a wild pitch for the two-run cushion.   North made things interesting in several in*nings. In the third, the Wildcats had a runner at third with no outs when the Tigers turned a 4-6-3 double play – without the runner ever breaking for home.   The fifth frame saw Mullins dive for a popped up bunt, snare it and fire to first for another twin-killing. Wallace, the left fielder, dove for a line shot to the outfield that would’ve put a runner on to open the seventh.  Mullins responded with back-to-back Ks to end the game and send Ragsdale to its first championship appearance since 1972, when C.B. Aycock captured the crown.   “It feels really, really good,” Maness said. “The last 4-5 years we’ve been knocking on the door with it, and we were finally able to knock it down.” Details of the weekend series will be released by the NCHSAA on Tuesday. The four champi*onship matchups will be split between Raleigh and Greensboro and are slated to run from Fri*day to Sunday, although Ragsdale’s graduation ceremony Friday evening could affect the state’s scheduling.

 

should be a great series.

will be intresting how both teams pitch their ace. i think when alex white pitches its an automatic win for conley. so does ragsdale hold their ace til the second game??

 

Trevor Mullins

15-0

Ragsdale hit White pretty good the one time they faced them. Of course it was White's first appearance of the season. I bet it goes three games.

 

didnt white only pitch a late inning of that game??

 

I think he pitched 1 2/3 - but they tagged him for six hits. But it was his first appearance after basketball so I'm sure he was shaking off the rust.