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Dre'lon Miller
National Beep Baseball World Series
Beaumont will play host to the National Beep Baseball Association World Series on July 24-31 at the Cris Quinn Soccer Complex. The NBBA is a sports organization for blind or visually impaired athletes. More than 20 teams from across the nation, as well as Canada and the Dominican Republic, will descend on Beaumont for the tournament.
“We partnered with the Beaumont Youth Soccer Club, SETX Baseball Academy, MCM Eleganté, and the Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites to make this happen for Beaumont,” said Freddie Willard, director of sales for the Beaumont Convention & Visitors Bureau. “We are thrilled that the NBBA World Series is coming to Beaumont. With the support of our community and partners, the prestigious event is in capable hands.”
The championship will bring in more than 400 players, their families, and spectators of the sport, which will impact the local economy tremendously. With an expected 1,500 hotel room nights to be generated from this event, it will bring in an estimated local economic impact of $500,000.
“The National Beep Baseball Association and its affiliate teams are thrilled to bring our sport and its world-class blind athletes to Beaumont,” said NBBA President Blake Boudreaux. “With a storied history of Beep Baseball throughout the state of Texas, we feel the 2022 NBBA World Series will be truly memorable and leave a lasting impression in the hearts and minds of everyone who can take part in this historic event.
Little League Baseball
The Bridge City Little League 12-year-old Team won the District 32 Champions after defeating Groves in the Championship game June 30.
Team members are Luke Erickson, Kaysen Click, Jaxon Agerton, Davey Hogg, Hunter Reeves, Jackson Cobb, Corban Palfy, Nash Chambless, Logan Anderson, Drake Mills, Major Butler and Paxton Arkeen. Coaches are Cody Mills, Tim Erickson and Jeremy Reeves.
Sectionals began July 5 at Bridge City Little League and include Bridge City, West End, Barbers Hill and Orwell. The championship is scheduled for Saturday, July 9, at 7 p.m. The winner will advance to the State Tournament in Tyler on July 16-24.
The Silsbee 50/70 Intermediate won the Sectionals with a 14-1 victory over Tomball on July 1. They will next compete in the State Tournament.
Coached by Bobby Fasulo and Matthew Riley, the team is Seth Briscoe, Ryder Blythe, Brendon Hughes, Josh Lawson, Peyton Grisham, Kaden Fasulo, Jaydn Fregia, Riley Pavlowich, Jaden Hicks, Dallas Moss, Reid Gibson and Wrangler McMillan.
Silsbee volleyball
Silsbee ISD announced that Carlyn Nichols is the Silsbee High School’s new head volleyball coach and will take over for Bridgett Hicks, who has coached the team since 2016.
Silsbee is not unfamiliar territory for Nichols.
“I was born and raised in Dickinson, Texas, but I have family in Silsbee,” Nichols said.
Before coming to Silsbee, Nichols was the head girls soccer and cross country coach at Navasota High School for the past three years. In her first year at Navasota ISD, she was the junior high girls coordinator and ran the volleyball program.
Nichols, who is starting her seventh year of coaching, attended Dickinson High School where she lettered in volleyball and soccer. She was an all-district goalkeeper in soccer.
She attended Sam Houston State University and played on the women’s soccer team for two seasons. Nichols graduated from SHSU in 2016.
After graduation, she spent two years as the head soccer, assistant volleyball and assistant tennis coach at Florence High School, a Class 4A school.
In 2020, Nichols received her master’s degree from Lamar University.
Her husband, Zach Nichols, is the head baseball coach at Navasota. The couple have three daughters.
7-on-7 football
Despite no local teams winning the Texas State 7-on-7 Football Championships in June, Silsbee’s Dre’lon Miller was named to the All-State team for his efforts in the tournament. He has collected more than a dozen offers to play college football from the likes of Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Oregon.