Carthage Jim Reeves Baseball Park on Thursday, May 1, 2025 –
The Center Roughriders varsity baseball team fell to the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears, by a 3-1 run score during a Game 1 of a best-of-three game series. The playoff is the first-round of the Texas UIL State Baseball Tournament.
Little Cypress Mauriceville (LCM) gained a 2-0 run lead in the top of the fourth inning when Marco Bandiero singled up the middle and was later driven in to score on a Jacob Scheiderer base hit. Scheiderer scored before the inning ended.
Center got on the board in the bottom of the sixth inning when Easton Wulf lead off the inning with an infield hit and scored on a TJ Belin double to leftfield for Center’s only score of the game.
Clay Raney led off the top of the final inning by drawing a walk and he later scored the final run when Bears teammate Parker Seago doubled to right field to give LCM the final lead at 3-1 runs.
Zy Barnes went the full seven innings pitching for Center and he gave up 7 hits, struck out one and walked two.
Landon Richards pitched the full game for the Bears and he struck out 9, walked 3, and gave up 5 hits.
Center now stands at 13-16 win-loss for the season. Mauriceville is at 25-5 this season. Game 2 of this series saw the Roughriders fall to the Bears by a 10-0 run score ending Center's season end with a 13-17 win-loss mark.
