GRC advances to the finals to face either Bourbon County or Harrison County.

 

GRC improves to 21-11.

The Camels end the year @ 19-13.

Outstanding game in Alexandria.

 

Anthony withrow started for Clark County and went 5 innings. He was relieved by Brent Stoneking. T.K Korb homered as well.

 

Jenkins started for Campbell County, and went 5 1/3. Tyler Walsh hit a solo homerun.

 

Campbell County scored three runs in the bottom of the 6th, and had the tying run on third in the seventh inning.

"I think Clark will win a nail biter in this one. Clark 5 Campbell 4." Oh well I missed each team by 1 run, but it was a nail biter.

Good luck to GRC the rest of the way.

Congratulations to the Camels on a hard fought game.

Way to go Cards. Also Congrats to Campbell Co on a great season.

 

A 40th district final in the finals of the 10th region, GRC vs Bourbon.

Article on the game:

 

The Cardinals took a four-run lead in the sixth. Korb's single to center field plated the sixth run. That would be enough scoring to secure Clark’s first regional final appearance since it won the 2007 tournament. But there would be a passel of unusual plays before Wednesday’s game was complete.

 

Facing the Camels’ third pitcher, the Cardinals put the first two batters on base in the seventh with back-to-back singles and had two base runners thrown out at the plate in the inning, one on a throw from right field and another on a throw from second base.

The inning ended with Clark runners standing on first and third when Pokey Harris struck out on a pitch that hit him in the hand.

 

“That seventh was the strangest three outs I’ve ever seen,” Allison said. “But that’s the way the game goes sometimes and we prevailed.”

 

Korb went 3-for-4 with three RBI. Zach Pasley and Jake Robin added two hits each for the Cardinals, who have won five of the past six games. Logan McQuerry’s bases-loaded walk on Jenkins' 105th and final pitch, forced in a run, making it 5-2.

 

Campbell County rallied to within one and set the final score with three runs in its half of the sixth. Tyler Walsh belted a lead-off homer. The Camels' final run came across on a ground ball that was played for a force-out at second base, which was the location of two collisions and one controversial interference ruling.

 

Campbell County had runners on first and third with one out in the sixth, but Clark reliever Brent Stoneking preserved starter Anthony Withrow's unbeaten record, now 7-0, by getting an inning-ending, double-play line drive to the right side.

 

With the game contested so closely — the teams had identical totals in the categories of base hits (10), runners left on base (9) and errors (3) — every play carried enormous weight.

 

http://www.centralkynews.com/winchestersun/sports/ws-prep-baseball-cards-edge-camels-face-bourbon-in-region-finals-20110602,0,6584103.story

Another article: NKY.COM

Campbell County pitcher David Jenkins has faced so much adversity in his personal life that Camels baseball coach Scott Schweitzer knew he had the right guy on the mound to start Wednesday's pressure-packed 10th Region tournament semifinal against George Rogers Clark.

 

"He can handle anything," Schweitzer said of the gutsy right-hander.

 

When George Rogers Clark rallied for a 6-5 victory by getting five runs off Jenkins in the fifth and sixth, following four shutout innings by the senior, Jenkins took it hard. But it was not the end of the world.

 

"It's the end of the line for baseball, and that's it," he said. "I'd go on and play more, but God has other plans."

 

Jenkins during his sophomore year was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease that initially affects the skeletal muscles of the face and upper arms, and shoulders. Jenkins no longer will be able to play organized baseball.

 

"This is my last game," Jenkins said. "Whenever I overwork a muscle, it doesn't rebuild and sometimes I get tired. That's what happened today. I got tired late in the game."

 

In an unrelated procedure, Jenkins underwent elbow ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John) on May 6 of last year. He could not pick up a baseball for five months and did not complete his post-surgery throwing program until shortly before the beginning of this season. He was limited to one- or two-inning relief appearances the first month.

 

Through it all, Jenkins was able to post a team-low 1.25 ERA. He sailed through the first four innings of Wednesday's contest.

 

"David's unbelievable," said Camels catcher Michael Kremer, who had two putouts at the plate against GRC on back-to-back seventh-inning plays, one on a throw from right field and another from second base. "It's just too bad we couldn't win for him."

^ Great article.