Baseball one win from Class 6A state tournament
By: Doug Quinn, Sports Editor
05/04/2007
But Tigers, Dobson remember 2006 regional heartbreak
For a year, Shannon Dobson has waited for this opportunity.
"There's been a bad taste in our mouths for a long time," the
Broken Arrow High School baseball coach said Friday. "Now,
we've got a chance to do something about it."
The Tigers, riding a 12-2, run-rule over Putnam City, are one
victory from qualifying for the Class 6A state tournament.
Broken Arrow plays the Putnam City-Sapulpa winner at 4 p.m.
Saturday at Tiger Field.
Should BAHS lose, the if-necessary game follows with that
winner advancing.
BAHS was that one win away from the state tournament just
one year ago.
Instead, Bartlesville knocked off the Tigers twice for the regional
championship.
Those games have haunted the Tigers since.
BAHS put itself in the driver's seat by banging out 15 hits against Putnam City.
"We came ready to play," Dobson said. "We've had more of a hunger than I saw last year.
"These guys remember what happened. I don't think want to be denied again."
Senior right-hander Nathan Pettus labored through a six-hitter over five innings for the
complete-game victory.
He retired the Pirates in order in the second and fifth innings but faced 17 batters in the
other three innings combined.
"You want to get through innings with the fewest pitches possible," Pettus said. "Sometimes
is 20 pitches, sometimes it's 10."
Pettus escaped a bases loaded jam in the first inning by striking out Jason Monko.
That was a momentum builder for the Tigers.
"If they had scored, we might have gotten down a little," Pettus said. "We needed that
strikeout."
BAHS answered in the bottom of the first inning scoring three times after two outs.
Pettus helped himself with a RBI double while going 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
Ky Burgess went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, including a wind-aided two-run triple in the fifth to
chase PCHS starter Garen Wright.
"We had a lot of people contribute offensively and that was good," Dobson said.
Marcus Terry, Andy Wilkins and Cale Replogle each had two hits for the Tigers.
Game Notes
* The tournament started Tuesday but was postponed Wednesday and Thursday by rain.
* The champion advances to the state tournament May 10-12 in the Tulsa area.
* BAHS starter Nathan Pettus had four strike outs and one walk.
* Putnam City starter Garen Wright was charged with 14 hits and all 12 runs, all earned.
* The run-rule was enforced in the bottom of the fifth when Pettus doubled on the third pitch
from reliever Corey Miller.
* Marcus Terry, John Swyden, Andy Wilkins, Ky Burgess and Cale Replogle each scored
twice for the Tigers.
* Eight different Tigers had hits.
* The top five in the BAHS order - Terry, Swyden, Wilkins, Burgess and Pettus - were a
combined 11-of-17 with nine RBIs and 10 runs scored.
BROKEN ARROW 12, PUTNAM CITY 2
Putnam City 000 20-2 6 2
Broken Arrow 320 25-12 15 1
Wright, Miller (5) and Hardesty; Pettus and Rymel. W - Pettus. L - Wright.
©Neighbor Newspapers 2007
By: Doug Quinn, Sports Editor
05/04/2007
But Tigers, Dobson remember 2006 regional heartbreak
For a year, Shannon Dobson has waited for this opportunity.
"There's been a bad taste in our mouths for a long time," the
Broken Arrow High School baseball coach said Friday. "Now,
we've got a chance to do something about it."
The Tigers, riding a 12-2, run-rule over Putnam City, are one
victory from qualifying for the Class 6A state tournament.
Broken Arrow plays the Putnam City-Sapulpa winner at 4 p.m.
Saturday at Tiger Field.
Should BAHS lose, the if-necessary game follows with that
winner advancing.
BAHS was that one win away from the state tournament just
one year ago.
Instead, Bartlesville knocked off the Tigers twice for the regional
championship.
Those games have haunted the Tigers since.
BAHS put itself in the driver's seat by banging out 15 hits against Putnam City.
"We came ready to play," Dobson said. "We've had more of a hunger than I saw last year.
"These guys remember what happened. I don't think want to be denied again."
Senior right-hander Nathan Pettus labored through a six-hitter over five innings for the
complete-game victory.
He retired the Pirates in order in the second and fifth innings but faced 17 batters in the
other three innings combined.
"You want to get through innings with the fewest pitches possible," Pettus said. "Sometimes
is 20 pitches, sometimes it's 10."
Pettus escaped a bases loaded jam in the first inning by striking out Jason Monko.
That was a momentum builder for the Tigers.
"If they had scored, we might have gotten down a little," Pettus said. "We needed that
strikeout."
BAHS answered in the bottom of the first inning scoring three times after two outs.
Pettus helped himself with a RBI double while going 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
Ky Burgess went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, including a wind-aided two-run triple in the fifth to
chase PCHS starter Garen Wright.
"We had a lot of people contribute offensively and that was good," Dobson said.
Marcus Terry, Andy Wilkins and Cale Replogle each had two hits for the Tigers.
Game Notes
* The tournament started Tuesday but was postponed Wednesday and Thursday by rain.
* The champion advances to the state tournament May 10-12 in the Tulsa area.
* BAHS starter Nathan Pettus had four strike outs and one walk.
* Putnam City starter Garen Wright was charged with 14 hits and all 12 runs, all earned.
* The run-rule was enforced in the bottom of the fifth when Pettus doubled on the third pitch
from reliever Corey Miller.
* Marcus Terry, John Swyden, Andy Wilkins, Ky Burgess and Cale Replogle each scored
twice for the Tigers.
* Eight different Tigers had hits.
* The top five in the BAHS order - Terry, Swyden, Wilkins, Burgess and Pettus - were a
combined 11-of-17 with nine RBIs and 10 runs scored.
BROKEN ARROW 12, PUTNAM CITY 2
Putnam City 000 20-2 6 2
Broken Arrow 320 25-12 15 1
Wright, Miller (5) and Hardesty; Pettus and Rymel. W - Pettus. L - Wright.
©Neighbor Newspapers 2007
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The Baseball Facilities are at:
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1901 East Albany
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
74012-9275
Ken Ellett,
Director of Athletics
918-259-4520
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Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
74012-9275
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A HITTER, TOO — BAHS’s
Nathan Pettus pitched a
complete-game and delivered
this RBI double in the first
inning as the Tigers beat
Putnam City, 12-2, in a Class
6A regional Friday.
(Ledger photo by Jim Funk)
Nathan Pettus pitched a
complete-game and delivered
this RBI double in the first
inning as the Tigers beat
Putnam City, 12-2, in a Class
6A regional Friday.
(Ledger photo by Jim Funk)