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    EXPECTATIONS MET

    Jul 02, 2019 4 minutes
    by CARLOS COLLAZO

    Colleyville Heritage High head coach Alan McDougal remembers feeling disappointed. And tired.

    It was around 4:30 in the morning late in May 2018. The baseball team had just gotten back to school after losing a onerun game to Amarillo High in the Texas regional semifinals. The charter bus was a disaster, filled with trash strewn by players still thinking about the heartbreaking end to their season.

    McDougal got off the bus and went to clean up his things. He returned to the bus to clean, only to see junior shortstop Bobby Witt Jr.—soon to be the top-ranked high school prospect in the country—and his teammate Mason Greer quietly tidying up.

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