7PM - Baseball: Spring Woods vs. Jersey Village

Regents and Second Baptist are practically joined at the hip. After all, they’ve met eight times since 2012, including a run of six straight regular season or playoff matchups from 2016-21. They both sport similar dark blue and white colors, although Regents has a splash of gold thrown in, both are VYPE client schools and they even share some coaching history with longtime former Regents head coach Beck Brydon heading to Houston to helm the Eagles for three years, including the last time these two TAPPS powers met in the 2023 playoffs.

It’s odd, then, that they haven’t met since then. That’s an oversight that will be remedied when Regents faces Second Baptist in the TAPPS Division II state semifinals Friday night (11/13) at Caldwell HS in our VYPE Austin CenTex Game of the Week.

Head Coach Kyle Shotwell’s Knights (8-1) are coming in fresh off a first-round Bye and have rolled since falling to SPC power Kinkaid in Week 2. (Which brings up another connection: the Knights fell to Kinkaid; Second Baptist fell to Houston Episcopal. Both those SPC titans are meeting for the SPC 4A Championship Saturday night at Delmar Stadium in a game VYPE will broadcast.)

Senior quarterback Jack Devine has thrown for over 2,000 yards with 28 touchdown and just one pick to pace a Regents offense averaging 47.4 points-per-game. The Knights defense, meanwhile, has pitched two shutouts and allowed just a single touchdown against playoff qualifier and cross-town rival Hyde Park.

First-year head coach Keith Page, who took over from Brydon this year, has his Eagles on a 3-game winning streak, including a 37-0 blanking of the aforementioned Hyde Park Panthers in last week’s Regional Round. Second Baptist (8-3) has scored over 30 points in their 7 wins (not counting a forfeit victory) and have held four opponents to a touchdown or less.

Regents leads the all-time series 6-2, including a 34-7 win in their last matchup in 2023. The winner of this one plays for a TAPPS State Championship next week.

There are more than just bragging rights on the line when these two proud programs clash in the playoffs yet again.

What: TAPPS State Semifinal - Regents vs. Second Baptist
When: 6:45 Pregame, 7:00 Kickoff
Where: Caldwell HS
Who: Melvin Jones, Harley Hudon
Watch: https://www.vype.com/7pm-tapps-football-state-semi...