Covington Catholic 6 Covington Holmes 1

Covington Catholic 6 Covington Holmes 1 in a 35th District game.

Adam Shumate throws a 4 hit 1 run complete game against the Bulldogs at CovCath today in the Colonels second game of the day.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly plus, PeeWee's Place Star of the game, Gruber Grill Defensive Star and BAWAC Inc. Offensive Star of the game, stats and more coming soon.

The Good: The CovCath pitching! Shumate throws a 4 hitter and holds Holmes to just one run. It was the fourth straight complete game by the CovCath pitching staff and it was accomplished by four different CovCath pitchers. Each Pitcher Severson (Badin) Maile (HHS) Tomlin (Cooper) and Shumate (Holmes) only allowed one run each, so as I said earlier in the year, CovCath pitching is deep and Arnzen and Hellman haven't even throw yet this year.

The Bad: A botched squeeze play but that is going to happen from time to time.

The Ugly: Really nothing

Gruber Grill Defensive Star of the game: It really wasn't a play but just an observation. Tommy C of Holmes hit a rocket in the first that young Grant Schriever dove for but didn't catch, however while lying on his stomach on the ground he flipped the ball to Brady Reese, who got the ball in quickly to the infield. Now these two have only played about three games together but this play showed me that the young Schriever understands how to play the outfield.

BAWAC Inc. Offensive Star of the game: Tommy Arnzen is my pick in this game. Tommy hit a rocket to the deepest part of the CovCath outfield and ran like the wind (not really) to earn himself a triple and later a run scored. Tom also hit a double that drove in 2 runs in the 5th inning. Nice to have your number #8 batter hitting like Tom did today.

PeeWee's Place Star of the game: Got to give the nod to Adam Shumate. He pitched one whale of a game and kept the Bulldogs guessing. Adam struck out 10 Bulldogs with 5 of those being called out while looking.

CovCath pitching:

Adam Shumate (W) 103 pitches 7 innings 26 PA 4 hits 1 run 1 earned run 2 walks 10 K's (5 looking) and 1 hbp

CovCath hitting:

Reese 3 PA and 1 K

Best 3 PA 1 run scored 1 hit 2 walks and cs

Lankheit 3 PA 2 hits and 1 rbi

Nienaber CR 1 sb and throw out at the plate on a missed squeeze bunt

Severson 3 PA 1 hit and 1 rbi

Schneider 3 PA 1 run scored 1 hit 1 walk and 1 sb

Grosser 3 PA and 1 sac

Schriever 3 PA 2 runs scored and 2 hits double

Arnzen 3 PA 1 run scored 2 hits triple double 2 rbi's and 1 k

Stein 3 PA 1 hit 1 rbi and 1 sac

27 PA 6 runs 6 singles 2 doubles 1 triple 5 rbi's 3 walks 2 sac 2 K's and 3 WP

With the two victories today, the Colonels improve their record to 10-1 and next play Campbell County at Campbell County on Friday April 15th @ 5pm.

My guess is as Tom gets the rust off he will move up higher in the lineup.

I'd be curious to see Jake Lankheit's average. He's killing it.