On 4/20/2022 at 2:04 PM, Mustang said:

Granted, while Beechwood is the deeper team, they will likely face re-classified Senior Dalton Davenport, who went 8-1 a year ago, with a 1.06 era, striking out 128 batters in 59 innings of work, on a team that went 24-7.  In Tuesday's 10th Region Championship game versus Brossart (a normally good contact team) he allowed no runs on three scattered singles, and struck out 16.  Nicholas County won that game 3-0, the result of a Dalton Davenport three run home-run in the home half of the first inning. 

I'm quite interested in seeing how effective he will be vs Beechwood.

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Nicholas County went with Soph. Ryan Johnson who is getting interest from UK. He actually has better numbers than Davenport this year.

Davenport 2-2, 2.83 ERA and 31 k's in 17.1 innings

Johnson 2-0, 0.91 ERA and 23 K's in 15.1 innings. Johnson had only allowed 4 hits all year coming into the game today.

 

13 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Nicholas County went with Soph. Ryan Johnson who is getting interest from UK. He actually has better numbers than Davenport this year.

Davenport 2-2, 2.83 ERA and 31 k's in 17.1 innings

Johnson 2-0, 0.91 ERA and 23 K's in 15.1 innings. Johnson had only allowed 4 hits all year coming into the game today.

 

Johnson is a really impressive young player. He'll be a star for the next two years for the Bluejackets. He struggled location wise yesterday. If not for a few lapses in control, it might have been a heck of a game. 

 

Here is the All A update:

Quarterfinals results from yesterday:

Lyon County 5 Hazard 3

Pikeville 4 Glasgow 1

Beechwood 16 Walton-Verona 2 (5 innings)

Danville 17 Campbellsville 6

 

Semi-Finals:

Pikeville 3 Lyon County 1 - upset in this game with Lyon County in the top 5 in the state

Danville vs Beechwood - in action; BW leads 2 -1 after the first inning; Cameron Boyd lead off HR for BW, #10 on the season for him; Beechwood home team; Danville's Baxter vs Beechwood's Berger

Here is a link to the Beechwood broadcast for anyone interested https://mixlr.com/beechwood-sports-radio-network/

Baxter and Berger have both settled in after the first. Strikeouts abound with an occasional batter making contact for each team. Still 2-1 Beechwood headed to the top of the 4th.

 

Crunch time. Top 6. Beechwood leads 2-1. Danville has top of the order up. Berger up to 80 pitches. This will probably be his last inning.

Beechwood gets the win in a classic.  Berger outduels Baxter. O'Shea comes on in the 7th to get the save. All the runs for both teams were scored in the first inning. Cameron Boyd with a HR and fantastic over the shoulder, diving catch in CF for the last out of the game. Final score Beechwood wins 2-1.

Championship game will be Beechwood versus Pikeville. Should start around 3 pm.

No score after one inning in the title game. Brady Clark pitching for Pikeville and Sam Stacy on the mound for Beechwood. You can use the link above to listen.

After 4 innings, Pikeville leads Beechwood 5-4. 

Each team adds a run in the 5th. Pikeville leads Beechwood 6-5 headed to the 6th. 

Pikeville adds 4 in the top of the 6th without hitting a ball out of the infield. It felt like CCH coach Bill Krumpelbeck was in the Pikeville dugout. A walk, 3 bunts, never hit a ball out of the infield and plated 4. Pikeville plays small ball with the best of them. I don't think they have a hit today that has gone more than 120 feet and they have 10 runs.

Beechwood finally gets a bleeder hit of their own. Tigers score 2 in the bottom of the 6th. Pikeville leads 10-7 headed to the 7th.

Pikeville gets the win 10-7. Pikeville is the 2022 All A Classic Champions!