Vote now for best high school mascot in America, Round 2: Clay-Battelle Cee Bees vs. Page Sandites
The bracket is updated for SBLive Sports' NCAA Tournament-style contest to determine the best high school mascot in America, and Round 2 is underway.
Vote below for the No. 4-seeded Clay-Battelle Cee Bees (West Virginia) or the No. 12-seeded Page Sandites (Oklahoma) to advance to the Sweet 16. The Cee Bees beat the Pershing Doughboys (Michigan) and the Sandites topped the Mars Fightin' Planets (Pennsylvania) in Round 1.
The Cee Bees earned a 4 seed by picking up 2,007 votes in our fall contests, while the Sandites earned a 12 seed with 33 votes.
Follow along: National Mascot Tournament 2023 Bracket
Voting for this matchup will conclude Friday, May 12, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
Editor's note: In the event of a tie, the team with the better seed will prevail based on the results of our fall mascot contest.
4. Clay-Battelle Cee Bees (West Virginia)
If every hyphenated school used its initials as its nickname, there’d be a whole lot more competitors with the Eagles and Tigers as the most common team name. But they don’t, so the Cee Bees stand out.
12. Page Sandites (Oklahoma)
Sandite is a a mixture of sand, antifreeze and steel shot used on railways to combat leaves on the lines. But that’s not what anyone from Sand Springs is referring to when using the word Sandite. It just means “a person from Sand Springs.” And the Sand Springs Page Sandites’ mascot is a minuteman, which has nothing to do with Sandites.
