Jaegers Bring Home the Title – Together
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Fayetteville senior shortstop Easton Jaeger, left, poses with his dad, Clint, the head coach of the Lions, after they won the state title Saturday in Round Rock. Photo by Jeff Wick -
Jaegers Bring Home the Title – Together -
Easton Jaeger, left, and Clint Jaeger, right, in action at the state title game. Photos by Scott Coleman
E aston Jaeger’s last baseball game playing for his dad Clint was a truly special one.
Easton, a senior, was named MVP of the state championship game as the Fayetteville Lions, managed by his dad Clint, won the state title Saturday with a 4-2 win over Gordon.
That’s why the Jaeger boys are an easy choice as this week’s Fayette County Athletes of the Week – our firstever father-son honorees.
“It’s everything,” said Easton of being able to share the title with his father. “He’s helped me accomplish everything I have. He’s been working with me since I was four, got me into baseball watching him play in a men’s league, watching him coach games, watching the Rangers on TV.
“Everything on this journey has been with him, so there’s no better feeling than that.”
Saturday’s title was Clint’s third as head coach at Fayetteville, including the 2012 and 2021 crowns.
Each of the last two seasons the Jaegers have been so close to winning a title together, but had finished as state runner-ups.
But that just made Saturday’s title even sweeter.
“It’s special,” Clint said of winning the title with Easton. “He probably took it the hardest the last couple of years being the coach’s son. It’s great seeing that senior class finish it out.”
Easton was a big reason Fayetteville came out on top Saturday. He reached base all three times he came to bat (three hits and once via error). He scored one run and drove in two. He also saved at least one run with a heady play to gun down a runner at home to halt a Gordon rally.
Late in the game, when Easton came to the plate, his teammates were already predicting a possible MVP for Jaeger by chanting M-V-E.
“He’s always been a really, really good player, and he showed it all today,” Clint said.
This is not the first time Clint has shared a state title with one of his kids.
His daughter Brooklyn was a standout volleyball player at Fayetteville (and now at Texas A&M Corpus). Brooklyn was a high school junior and Clint was the head volleyball coach when the Lady Lions won the 2021 state title.
Both the Jaeger kids were also the valedictorians of their graduating classes at Fayetteville.
With his Fayetteville athletic career punctuated with an exclamation point, Easton turns his attention to college.
He plans to attend the University of North Texas to study physical therapy.