Ridge Point grad signs with Razorbacks
After starring at Cisco College, Biggers heading to Arkansas this fall
A longtime multi-sport athlete, Jax Biggers used a lesson he learned in football to help him take a major step in baseball.
Biggers played football, basketball and baseball at Ridge Point. He graduated in 2015 and went to Cisco Junior College to play baseball. While playing at the junior college level is widely accepted as a good step in baseball, it does not always beat the mindset of wanting immediately to play for a Division I school.
Before signing with Cisco as a high school senior, Biggers remembered a disappointing time from the 2014 football season. Ridge Point entered its regional semifinal game against Temple undefeated with high hopes of advancing to the final against Fort Bend area foe George Ranch.
Ridge Point never got that chance. The Panthers lost to Temple on a last second field goal.
“Our motto that season was always to take it one game at a time,” said Biggers, who was one of the district’s top wide receivers. “The one game that year we thought one game ahead we ended up losing.”
So when Biggers put on his Cisco baseball uniform for the first time last fall he embraced his opportunity to show Division I colleges he was good enough to play for them. After a successful season playing shortstop and batting near the top of the order, Biggers signed to play for the University of Arkansas.
Biggers lucked out when a high school shortstop the Razorbacks had signed opted to go pro after being drafted in the third round. The first call the coaches made was to Biggers, who happily accepted the offer.
He had been talking to Arkansas coaches for about a month. He also had offers from Arizona, Auburn, Arizona, Baylor and Houston.
“When I committed to Cisco, they said if you have offers to leave after one year you are more than welcome to,” Biggers said. “I feel like I found the right place to go to.”
Biggers always was quick and fast. He discovered a little bit of power after tacking on 15-20 pounds in college, but mostly he is a line-drive hitter.
He became a smarter hitter and has not lost his ability on the base paths. In college he learned what are the better counts to run on. Biggers scored seven runs in four games at the JUCO World Series. Cisco finished fourth out of 10.
In addition to scoring a Division I scholarship, Biggers said he grew as a player in his one season with Cisco. The most significant improvement came in his mental approach. It helped that he was able to play baseball during the fall because until this school year his falls always had been filled with football.
He said he would not trade that for anything.
“I think football and basketball helped me out,” Biggers said. “Basketball helped with footwork. In football you have to be tough. If you can be tough in football it is pretty easy to be tough in baseball.”
Biggers will take his toughness to the Southeastern Conference as he tries to improve enough eventually to get a chance to play professionally. If there is one thing lesson that sticks with him, however, is to worry only about what is immediately in front of him.
“You always want to get drafted and be all-conference, but I don’t want to look too far ahead,” he said.
“I want to worry about what is happening now. I’ll worry about the future when it happens.”