It was a very good year for Cove diamond games

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ait.  Stop right there.

Before you ask me how I can say that when neither softball or baseball made it out of the bi-district playoff round, ask yourself this. Hasn’t the Lady Dawg softball team made the postseason four of the last five years?  How about the Dawg baseballers, who have been dancing two of the last three campaigns?

In my book, it’s pretty darn good, when you take into account how much work was ahead of softball boss Bryan Waller and baseball coach Dusty Brittain when they took over their respective programs.  Both coaches worked hard and then some to shape teams which could compete with the powerhouses this district produces season after season.

A special shout out would have to go to the Bulldawg baseball squad for its 25-6-2 mark, the top won-loss record in school history, according to former head coaches Mike Wilburn and Brian Jost, who’ve been there, seen it and done it.  Another first was Copperas Cove’s 10-4 record in District 8-6A, their first-ever time to post double-digit league wins.  It was good enough for an undisputed second-place finish behind undefeated league champ Midway,

with no tiebreakers necessary.

Now, as the newest realignment has San Angelo Central exiting, plus the arrival of Waco High and Temple, the district dynamics will change, but we’ll still see a bunch of hard-nosed ballplayers giving it their all, just like I did while being privileged to announce many home games for both teams.

Yes, as Frank Sinatra once sang…”It was a very good year.”

Go Dawgs!