Mother with two of the players Randall Fant (Left) and Nathan Sorenson (Right)About a month ago I told my 85 year old mother that if two of the high schools in Texarkana made it to the state baseball championship tournament "I" was seriously thinking about going....well she says that could be "OUR" vacation. I thought unless you have a frog in your pocket I didn't mention you going. Well it so happened that Pleasant Grove and Texas High both made it to the tournament so off we went to Austin, TX.... I took two of my close friends with me and it took all of us to keep track of her, (she wonders off like a little child). She has been an avid sports fan for Texas High since 1946. She was priviledged to see them win state in football in 2002 and was so excited about going on this trip. After THS won the semi-final game on Wednesday afternoon, I thought wow we may have a chance to win it all this year. We had 4 top college signees on this team. One of those 4 got drafted in the first round of the baseball draft two days before the tournament. On Thursday, Texas High won it's first state baseball championship and mother was there to witness it. Everyone, including her doctor just knew she would never survive the trip but when her Tigers won she had tears in her eyes and said well I've finally seen it and I'm ready to go be with Jones (my daddy who passed away in 2003. Pleasant Grove didn't fair as well as they got beat in the semi-final game of their division. I hated that because how awesome would it have been to have two state champions from the same town.
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