It was as lopsided, as the score reads.

 

The Ky Colonels went up against an extremely talented and outstanding Baseball team today, that had a lineup of players who could hit and hit and hit the ball hard, from each spot in the lineup!

 

From what I was told, a lot of the players played for the Hamilton Badin Rams.

 

Ky Colonels U-18 pitching

Gorbandt (Ryle) 5 innings 94 pitches 33 PA 16 hits (2 HR's) 13 runs 11 earned runs 0 walks and 2 K's

 

Ky Colonels hitting

Popham (Dixie) 2 PA

Ryle (Conner) 1 PA

Lonkard (Ryle) 2 PA 1 hit

Shumate (CovCath) 1 PA

Roberts (Conner) 2 PA and 1 fc

Cottrell (Walton V) 2 PA 1 hit (Double) and 1 walk

Arnzen (CovCath) 2 PA and 1 walk

Reese (CovCath) 2 PA and 1 K

Freidel (Elder) 1 PA and 1 K

Williams (Conner) 1 PA 1 run and 1 hit

Maile (CovCath) 1 PA

Wise (Carroll County) 1 PA

Lankheit (CovCath) 1 PA

Severson (CovCath) 1 PA and 1 hit

Peddicord (St. Henry) 2 PA 1 hit and 1 rbi

One pitcher gave up 16 hits and 13 runs?

 

Why would he be kept in that long to take a beating?

One pitcher gave up 16 hits and 13 runs?

 

Why would he be kept in that long to take a beating?

 

By your question, I can tell you haven't watched the Ky Colonels play that much over the years. It's just Walt being Walt and his idea of finishing something you start! Walt has done this many, many times before, so honestly it's nothing new! Now if this were a tournament game, it would be a different story but in a regular season game....well.

 

Honestly the Team Cincinnati U-18 club was a very, very talented team, one that I think could give Midland a run for it's money this season!

If the kids are indeed from Hamilton - they take their baseball pretty seriously up there. Hands down, the best youth baseball team I've ever seen was a SWOL U13 team from Hamilton a couple years ago. They were beyond impressive & absolutely clobbered my son's team.

There are times when you can say that the game was closer than the score made it appear. This isn't one of those times.

 

Team Cincinnati has a really nice hitting team. They squared up a bunch of pitches. I didn't think Gorbandt threw a bad game. I think the PU could have given him some strikes on his curve early, but he didn't, so more fastballs in the zone means more hits for TC.

 

I don't keep a book but just kept running totals in my head. I had Gorbandt with 5 strikeouts. I counted 4-5 errors by the Colonels and (again just counting in my head) figured maybe 7-8 of the runs were earned. I'd have to go back and re-create the innings to know for sure.

 

Either way, the better team won. TC was aggressive which I like. And they held the Colonels to maybe 3 or 4 hits. Their starter threw a nice game and was effective primarily by throwing inside fastballs getting jam shots for easy outs.

 

I don't understand why the Colonels in the dugout aren't watching what the pitcher is doing. He was struggling with his offspeed. He's busting guys inside consistently with the fastball. But Colonels hitters get up there and crowd the plate wanting to jerk the ball to their pull field. I'm somewhat surprised one of the coaches didn't tell them to make an adjustment.

By your question, I can tell you haven't watched the Ky Colonels play that much over the years. It's just Walt being Walt and his idea of finishing something you start! Walt has done this many, many times before, so honestly it's nothing new! Now if this were a tournament game, it would be a different story but in a regular season game....well.

 

Honestly the Team Cincinnati U-18 club was a very, very talented team, one that I think could give Midland a run for it's money this season!

 

That's crazy talk...They are always one of the top two or three teams in the country..Come on TOG!!

I will look again at the number of K's and you are probably correct as off the top of my head I remember one inning he did K the side but between those K's were a boat load of hit's.

 

As far as the errors, I had only two that I can remember (Don't have my book with me) but they hit the young Colonels hard, very hard and yes RB this Team Cincinnati is like "Coca Cola" as they too "are the real thing"! Was told TC had a player from Arkansas playing for them.

This was the first Colonels game I've seen.

 

You've obviously been there a few times. I didn't see or hear a lot of coaching going on.

 

Would you view that as normal? They just let the boys go out there and play?

I will look again at the number of K's and you are probably correct as off the top of my head I remember one inning he did K the side but between those K's were a boat load of hit's.

 

As far as the errors, I had only two that I can remember (Don't have my book with me) but they hit the young Colonels hard, very hard and yes RB this Team Cincinnati is like "Coca Cola" as they too "are the real thing"! Was told TC had a player from Arkansas playing for them.

 

Midland has 15-20 kids from all over the country..Trust me Team Cincy isn't going to win the Connie Mack World Series..

Midland has 15-20 kids from all over the country..Trust me Team Cincy isn't going to win the Connie Mack World Series..

 

RB have seen Midland play many many times over the years and yes they are very, very good but have you seen this Team Cincinnati Club this year?

RB have seen Midland play many many times over the years and yes they are very, very good but have you seen this Team Cincinnati Club this year?

 

No..

Midland has 15-20 kids from all over the country..Trust me Team Cincy isn't going to win the Connie Mack World Series..

 

I've heard really good things about Team Cincy, but there also is a difference of depth and playing a series of games in one week in a tournament versus one game.

I've heard really good things about Team Cincy, but there also is a difference of depth and playing a series of games in one week in a tournament versus one game.

 

Absolutely..You might be able to steal one here or there, but your not going to beat them in a tournament setting..

My two cents.

 

If Team Cincinnati is drawing kids from Badin, and the Hamilton area in general they are likely getting kids very well schooled in baseball. A program called Panel Barn used to draw a lot of those kids and built themselves into a nice regional power. Something happened with that program though and it went downhill/disbanded.

 

That said, I could easily see Team Cincy being good, even very good. But they aren't beating the Redskins, when the Redskins bring their A game and play their top lineup.

Midland has 15-20 kids from all over the country..Trust me Team Cincy isn't going to win the Connie Mack World Series..

 

I don't believe this is true anymore. Midland had a bit of a paradigm shift after last season - they disbanded their existing 16U and 17U teams and were told by Papa Joe to concentrate on recruiting more local-based kids. I believe "local based" to Midland now means within a 200-mile radius or something like that. I'll have to check with my Midland contact to see the actual makeup of their roster this year, but I'm told the days of them having a roster full of Georgia, Florida, Texas, California, etc.. kids are done or will be done next year. Obviously, even drawing from a radius of 200+ miles still puts you ahead of most everyone else recruiting-wise, but it is certainly not impossible that the overall talent level at Midland may be down a little and might make it possible for other teams to win the Connie Mack.