As long as we can run, I'll take pass balls or balls in the dirt. We spend time in practice working on reading the ball in the dirt and moving up, today we had some kids do that. |
Cecil threw a great game today. He's been a little rusty, but he did a great job today. |
Cecil you know, started off the first of the year a little rough but he came straight from basketball and he did the same thing last year. Kind of started out shaky but he ended up being one of our best pitchers if not the best. |
Frazier hit a home run, but we came back and matched it up. Anytime they score and you can come back and match it, it lets you know the kids are focused on what they need to be doing. |
Hunter did a really good job. Sometimes he's doing so well and he kind of coasts and he starts just throwing instead of pitching. After (Frazier) hit the home run, I think he turned loose a bit more. Sometimes, things like that need to happen to him to keep him focused. |
I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited. |
I thought they were ready to play, but after he smashed that pitch, it just picked them up. Hitting is contagious. The whole year, we score on some hits and the others catch on. I hope it stays like that. |
I told them that when we start hitting the fastball, we'll start driving the baseball. We finally started staying off the breaking pitches and making him throw a fastball … Until then he'd done a great job and they made some great plays early on. |
I've got three I will throw at any time. They all three throw pretty hard. |
In the first two innings they were going a great job of keeping us off-balance and mixing it up. We came back through the order and started picking it up a little bit. Dustin set the tone and it was sort of contagious and everybody started hitting it. |
It puts a little fear in you. It's crappy to host the state tournament and not play in it. |
It's supposed to rain all day Saturday. The chances of us playing this weekend are looking pretty dim. |
Magazine did a great job. For a number four seed, that was a pretty good team. I think truthfully our kids come out a little tight and trying a little too hard instead of playing and letting it happen. Once we calmed down and relaxed we started playing a little bit. |
Sometimes kids don't handle change well. When they saw who was starting (Curry), our team just relaxed and went through the motions. |
The first three innings, both ways, took 15 or 20 minutes. It was just one, two, three for both sides. Finally, in the bottom of the fourth we got a base hit, then after that we started getting a few more and just kind picked here and there and added one or two each inning. |