Only hold your ace when the balance of power is obvious. Anything else produces fools gold more often then treasures.

 

I agree here mostly, but another situation where you can hold your ace is when you have several strong pitchers. You still have your ace of course, or even two 'aces' right. But then your 3, 4 and even 5 are very strong. Coaches dream right?

Looks like West Carter held their best in semis against Ashland to gamble for what the coach thought would be a better matchup against Greenup Co. in tonights finals of 16th. Results, Ashland wins 5-4 and advances. Only good news is West Carter's best pitchers are well rested while getting to watch the Championship game as fans tonight.

Whenever there is the win or go home risk, the top coaches make sure of the win today. One game at a time!!!

I don't think the HHS win versus CovCath was a major upset at all. Actually if CCH would of beat Raisor that would of been a major upset in my book..CovCath has very average pitching imo so it didn't matter who pitched for them..

 

I agree that it was not a huge upset. I do think Cov Cath was the better team but I think Highlands got hot at the right time and Cov Cath ran out of gas late in the regular season. I don't think Mayer should have pitched when Cov Cath has a set of quality pitchers in Pitzer (who could probably pitch somewhere if he wanted to or play football), Young (signed with Transylvania and no-hit Dixie this year), and Armstrong (signed with Thomas More and didn't allow a hit against Conner for six innings earlier in the year). But still, I don't think who pitched for cch mattered as Raisor completely shut down Colonel's offense. Highlands deserved that win and just outplayed Cov Cath.

If you can't score, you can't win. Pretty easy observation! DUH!