The birds out hustled the colonels and committed less errors to take an early 2-0 lead and maintain it. Congrats to them on the win.

 

Highlands 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 4 7

Dixie Heights 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 4

It was nice seeing the Baby Birds play a complete 7 innings. First time in long time that they stayed ahead in the whole game. They have a bad habit of falling apart in one inning. Hopefully after this weekend it builds their confidence.

 

Baby Birds had a good weekend. Friday night they were leading Ryle 4-2 after 5 innings. Baby Birds gave up 4 runs in bottom of the 6th to lose 6-4. Nice pitching effort by Sam Hennigan. We left bases loaded twice. We couldn't get a timely hit. Ryle has a real nice squad. Top half of their lineup can rake. Kudos to Ryles catcher #8. He's a work horse on the dish.

 

Baby Birds played 2 on Sat. We beat Holy Cross 16-4. Andy Field pitched a good game. Finished up with Dixie 4-1 in a well played game. The wind was in our favor. The ball would hang up in the air and let our outfielders run it down. S/O to Cam Johnston for closing the Dixie game. 2nd time he has pitched this year. We played 3 games without 6 players who were on a field trip to Washington DC. This weekend the Baby Birds were mostly all freshman team.

Why did the birds cancel yesterday's games against Moeller and CCH a month ago and then turn around and play two? The round robin with those two schools was put together by Highlands. Just curious.

Why did the birds cancel yesterday's games against Moeller and CCH a month ago and then turn around and play two? The round robin with those two schools was put together by Highlands. Just curious.

 

I don't know the answer. My guess would be that we were missing 6 players on 8th grade field trip so they didn't want to play two powerhouses without our full roster. I do know that the 2 games on Sat were scheduled at the last minute. We do play CovCath today at CovCath.