Solid analysis...Appreciate the time it took. I would still put Clark over Campbell right now though to start the season until proven otherwise.

GRC4LIFE... I agree with you on that, it was hard to put Clark behind Campbell because of the fact you stated, Clark has owned Campbell well for a long time now and I can remember Campbell only beating them a couple of times in the past probably 10 years. The only reason why I have them behind Campbell at this point is the fact of they probably won't see Campbell until later in the Regional Tourney and the Regional Tourney this year is in NKY one team will have a 2.5 hour bus ride the other well about 20 Minutes. But I do agree with you 100% on Campbell needs to prove other wise.

 

Brossart - not that deep and not that much talent, its going to be a long year I beleive for the stangs. You will hear about their success over the small single A schools, which their fans will try and say that's why they are going to be great, but when it comes to playing the bigger schools with talent they just will not have a enough.

 

I do not completely agree with this comment. As I do agree that their talent level will not be anywhere close to last year's squad I do believe they will be competitive with a lot of teams in NKY. As to them not having much talent, any team would seem like that when they graduate nine seniors in which everyone of those players would have started on most of the teams in NKY. Just because they don't return much doesn't mean they have no talent all the time and in this case it just means two things. 1) That they won't have as much Varsity experience as most teams and 2) That they graduateda team full of very very good talent. It's the same thing that happened to their basketball team this year and look at what they have done. It's the same for every sport at Brossart. TRADITION NEVER GRADUATES. It's pretty safe to say that Brossart has a winning tradition and this year will not be any different.

It's pretty safe to say Brossart doesn't play any body worth bragging about. Yes they dont have that much talent this year. They had a good group of kids graduate last year, but so did Campbell and you don't see me using that card with them. Varsity experience means little if anything at the HS level, either you got guys that can play or can't. The ball parks they play in are the same, the innings are the same the players they play against pretty much are the same, they have played against them before. If you want to say look at their basketball this year lets do that, they are 13-11 of those 13 W's they have beat Silver Grove (1-20) Lloyd (9-15) Pendleton twice (4-18) Calvary twice (11-10) Augusta (12-11) Dayton (7-14) Bracken (4-20) Paris (3-15) St.Pat (18-7) LCA didnt know they played basketball (9-13) Harrison Co. (9-12) that means those wins came from teams with a combined record of 87-155 roughly 36% winning percentage, something to be proud of. Most of those schools have 5th graders playing on them. Now look at the games they lost St. Henry wasnt close (13-10) Campbell wasnt close (14-8) Highlands wasnt close (15-7) St. Pats twice losing to them (18-7) Deming (11-9) Mason Co. wasnt close (23-3), Scott (7-17), Holy Cross wasnt really close (8-11), University Heights wasnt close (22-4) and NCC wasnt really that close (14-8), so teams that beat that great tradition power house school that brossart is have a record of 145-91 or 61% winning percentage. So thats my reasoning for saying that yes brossart will beat the small non talented teams but dont have the talent to play with the bigger more talented schools. There is no TRADITION brossart, realize they had some good classes come through, and its time they start realizing that and realizing how lucky they were to have those classes come through and enjoy it while it lasted because now there is no talent like they had. Brossart will continue winning with the small schools but not at the big scale whats happening with basketball will be a repeat with baseball, brossart will not get out of the district this year, they will be 3rd in the district behind Scott and Campbell.

ohh and mind you that the great tradition power house of brossart basketball finishes the hardest schedule known to high school sports this year with augusta, deming and newport, with the only real solid team Cov Cath being last. If you can't have a "winning" season with that schedule there are some serious issues. And I know how the brossart people like to pit themselves against campbell co. on this so I did that research for you on campbell and their wins come from teams with a winning % of 35% pretty much the same as Brossart but their losses this season come from teams with a 73% winning percentage, far better than the teams brossart has lost too. But lets mind you this is a BASEBALL thread.

GRC4LIFE... I agree with you on that, it was hard to put Clark behind Campbell because of the fact you stated, Clark has owned Campbell well for a long time now and I can remember Campbell only beating them a couple of times in the past probably 10 years. The only reason why I have them behind Campbell at this point is the fact of they probably won't see Campbell until later in the Regional Tourney and the Regional Tourney this year is in NKY one team will have a 2.5 hour bus ride the other well about 20 Minutes. But I do agree with you 100% on Campbell needs to prove other wise.

 

You make some good points about the bus ride this year for the regional tourny. If they were smart...they'd stay in a hotel...

 

But this thread is about pre season ranked and I just think GRC is going to be the better team.. They play this year right? We might be able to find out the answer to who's better...:thumb:

I have been arguing that all along when these 10th region teams have to play the regoinal tourney all the way down in clark co. just to get a hotel, thats the same way when they have to come up here for the region. And hey I just have them ranked that way because of that fact, if I had to put money on who would win the first game of the year between Clark and Campbell I would be a fool not to put my money on clark.

Pendleton Co.- will be in the 10th region tourney by default because heck its either them or bracken co. and I will take Pendleton over Bracken most of the time, especially this year. It will be a quick regional tourney for them, probably 5 innings.

 

Pendleton is in the 38th District with Harrison, Deming and Nicholas.

That's what I meant. I didn't mean Bracken Co. My fault, I meant to say Nicholas but still is the same concept.

That's what I meant. I didn't mean Bracken Co. My fault, I meant to say Nicholas but still is the same concept.

 

Don't forget they "draw", so anyone could get Harrison first round.

That's what I meant. I didn't mean Bracken Co. My fault, I meant to say Nicholas but still is the same concept.

 

Thorobred is right they draw so anyone can get anyone.

 

Like I said before Harrison is basically an automatic every year but the 2 spot is up for grabs. This years District will be an interesting one.

Where is the regional tournament going to be played. I know it was scheduled for Scott, but there is some question as to whether it will be played there because their not being enough room from home plate to the backstop. Does anyone have any info on this?

Very interesting, you thought they would have known that before they even said where the regional was going to be played. IMO the best locations for the regional tourney are either Harrison Co. or Campbell Co. there aren't any other schools with the correct deminsions and locations as well as fan accomodations as those schools. Clark is a close 3rd but man what a traffic mess to get to see it. Plus I would favor the idea of having 1 year down southern part of the region and 1 year up in the northern part of the region so that the northern and southern teams in the region have to take turns traveling each year to the tourney.

I don’t know if any of you guys were at the regional last year in Montgomery Co., but they have the best playing surface and dimension in the 10th region.

What is the best deminsion for a high school feild? I think it should be 320' down the lines and 350' to center. Have 20+ feet back stop and 20+ feet of foul ground to the fence.