Beechwood 14 Covington Catholic 3 (35th District Championship)

[cincyswords]

This is quite a shock that Beechwood even won this game much less by the score.

Covington Catholic is 30-5 and I am wondering what happened in this game and what is the effect going into the regional tournament as they now will face a district champion instead of a runner up.

 

 

[BrosefStalin]

Only the sixth time since the 2002 season began that the Colonels have given up 14 or more runs. Here are the previous five times:

• 4/1/22 - L St. Henry 18-0
• 5/9/19 - W Bishop Brossart 26-19
• 4/27/18 - W Ballard 20-18
• 4/21/15 - W Bishop Brossart 16-15
• 4/28/07 - L Danville 14-11 (9 innings)

RPI Rankings of 9th Region Tournament Teams as of this morning below. Should be a GREAT 9th Region tournament. 

1	Covington Catholic - #3 overall	9	35	29	-	4	-	0	33	.87879	.54528	.54225	.66110
2	Ryle - #14 overall	9	33	26	-	9	-	0	35	.74286	.57404	.54747	.62515
3	Dixie Heights - #58 overall	9	34	22	-	14	-	0	36	.61111	.55953	.52440	.56704
4	Highlands - #78 overall	9	36	20	-	16	-	0	36	.55556	.55048	.53158	.54659
5	Beechwood - #83 overall	9	35	20	-	13	-	0	33	.60606	.49859	.52694	.54471
6	Conner - #119 overall	9	33	14	-	22	-	0	36	.38889	.59782	.54129	.50773
7	St. Henry - #138 overall	9	34	12	-	16	-	0	28	.42857	.53368	.52098	.49308
8	Newport Central Catholic - #153 overall	9	36	11	-	17	-	0	28	.39286	.52972	.51269	.47671

[RedHawk]

I was at this game and man, was it a doozy and completely unexpected.  What a train wreck. 

Wagner started off strong and it was tied and and close...until it wasn't.

Kudos to Beechwood for coming in hot and strong.  Colonels looked tired (which presumably the 7 Seniors were, definately not an excuse, but full day and late night of Graduation activities on Monday) and defeated. They couldn't string together runs and left a crazy amount of guys on base. Can't win if you can't score!

Wagner is now 7-1,  1 Save

Zekl tops the state at 10-0

Dieruf 1-1 with 4 Saves

 

Arasmith struggled early but still was able to get the job done.  He is 4-3.

Stiles came in and got the W, now is 2-2

Chase Flarhety will be the Beechies ace for regions I'd assume and is 7-0.  He was the power last night with not one but 2 HRs, his first HR of the season.

 

This tourney is going to be interesting!

[StraightShooter]

Congrats to the Tigers. They seem to be in the hunt for the region title each year. I don't see anyone other than Ryle, CovCath, or Beechwood winning the 9th region tourney. The draw will be important and interesting. We could see two KY Top 25s face off in round one. 

[Voice of Reason]

Yowza! What a win!

Go Tigers!

[theguru]

13 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Yowza! What a win!

Go Tigers!

I thought it was a football game, then I snapped right back to reality. 

[Cousin Chris]

No way Cov Cath can hold that offense to 14 points.

[I gotta go to work]

Coach Kevin Gray the GOAT.