Very hard for underclassmen, no matter how talented, to keep their cool in postseason play.

Beechwood's 2006 state runner-up team was almost all seniors, and they kept their cool throughout their entire postseason run.

HB ... you often get an idea fixed in your head and you find ways to justify it is right. You want to try and prove your early season hypothesis that Beechwood wasn't "that good" so you are jumping on yesterday to try and prove it.

 

The fact is Beechwood had quite a few quality wins, so saying they struggle against good teams is just wrong. Losing 10-0 yesterday doesn't mean Highlands is clearly superior to Beechwood. In fact, Beechwood beat Highlands earlier in the year. That is the way baseball goes and you can't use one game to judge a team. In addition to beating Highlands, Beechwood beat CCH, Dixie, Trinity, Scott, high quality teams in the All A games down state.

 

As to having players up and down the lineup, Beechwood is not a 3 or 4 player team. I will make an educated guess and say 6 players in yesterday's lineup will have the opportunity to play college baseball if they choose to, and that doesn't include Combs.

 

Which 6 players are you referring to?

What is considered an upset? I think that Conner is more talented than CCH right now so I would consider a CCH win as the upset. Dixie is pretty balanced and has some solid pitching but Highlands is not too far behind, so it is hard to say that game would produce a big upset.

 

I'm pretty sure Dixie & Covcath were ranked #1 and 2 coming in (and most of the season) so I believe that would make Conner and HHS as upset winners......

This is the biggest laugh I've had all day!!! I'd never know you were a huge Beechwood fan--all you do is bash them.

There is a difference between speaking honestly and being a homer. I'm not a homer. Sorry to disappoint you but I do know from your posts that you unfortunately are.

Which 6 players are you referring to?

 

Suchanek, Combs, Stringer, Slusher, Booth, Rundle and Allen for sure and when all done, Schmidt, Feiger will have the opportunity (choice) as well.