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HHS plays Dixie @ Boone County at 5:00 today. Winner of that game plays Boone @ Dixie after. Kinda weird, but Dixie has a home varsity game at 5:00.

This post is so spot-on. Let's face it, some kids just don't have the genetics to be stars on Friday nights no matter how hard they work. But how often have we seen those kids come into games when the "star" went down & do remarkable things to help their teams win?

I'm no baseball guru, but Luke receives the ball (catch, block, etc.) as good as any youth catcher I've ever seen.

Very, very nice! Just another example of how top notch academics can and do coexist with top notch athletics!

What a great story. Congrats to a kid that has obviously worked very hard. :thumb:

First bolded: Yes they are. 2nd bolded: I agree completely.

While the betting man would probably have to go with NCC on this one, the fact that Highlands knocked off Boone County this past Saturday shows that anything can happen. Like the old saying goes, 'that's why they play the game.' Go Birds!

So what you're saying is: jpa2825 = The Somewhat Old Guy?

How about Isler at UC?

Seeing how the weather's taken over baseball in NKY, :irked: how about some updates on former northern Kentucky kids now playing at the college level? How're they doing?

2 run squeeze play - I love it! Weather looks tough today Birds, but carry that momentum into the rest of this week & the big games this weekend!

Jake Liggett is a sophomore.

The bold quotes above are not equal. The first means: "Quit either baseball or football. You can't play both." This is a blanket statement not based on any reality of the kid's current situation. Hard to believe this was said by a member of the coaching staff. The second means: "Your best chance at starting in football next year would be to quit baseball & focus on lifting in the off-season." This is a reasonable statement, most likely giving the kid an honest opinion of his chances at being a starter the next season based upon his level of athleticism & strength in comparison to his competition. The kid must then decide what is most important to him - increasing his chances of being a starter in one sport, or having the experience of playing both. Bottom line: the football coaches are going to play the kid that gives the team the best chance of wining regardless of what he does the rest of the year.

Lots of good points made here. There's no doubt that today's kids aren't acclimated to the heat like they were before central air conditioning & video games became commonplace. There's also no doubt that kids today are bigger, stronger & faster that the kids of yesteryear. Don't believe me, dig out your game films from '74. You won't believe how slow you were. The bottom line for me, however, is parents don't send their kids to school to die of heat strokes. You can lay the blame wherever you like, right or wrong, but schools will always take the brunt of any deaths that happen on their watch. We can talk all day about the role the kid played, the responsibility that lies with the parents, but ultimately the school created and was in control of the situation, and the school must take into account the condition of the raw materials (the kids) they are working with. There's just no way around it. Society expects their kids to be safe in school, and that will never change.

It's become blatantly obvious that no matter what is said in response to this statement and others of the same vain, that these statements will continue to be made by those both inside and outside of the Highlands community who wish to stir up trouble. All you have to do is look at how many football players from the past decade have also played basketball or baseball, or track for that matter. From my short memory alone I could begin with Jared Lorenzen & Derrik Smith, mention Cody Rosenhagen & Blake Newman, and stop with all the current freshmen baseballers fresh off a NKY freshman football championship. Of course I haven't mentioned our starting QB, & new UK recruit, who also plays basketball. Taking a cue from Ronald Reagan on how to handle baseless criticisms, I think at some point we should just stop defending this nonsense. Those who truly don't know the validity of the erroneous comment will eventually take our silence for what it is, the judgment that the claim doesn't deserve the energy expended while performing the keystrokes necessary to reply.

Agree on both points. :thumb:

I did catch that & my thoughts went quickly to Zeke. Not sure what the lesson here is - that temper will cost you money, that if you have talent organizations will be patient with your temper, that temper can be tamed enough to have success? Maybe all of these & others? I know that Tony Stewart's temper/competitiveness has gotten him into plenty of trouble with NASCAR & sponsors, but the bottom line is he's a winner and has been able to keep it under control enough to build a tremendous career. It's been done before. Zeke won't be breaking fresh ground if he can do the same.

A very nice 2 out rally to take the lead. Joey Cochran had a nice bomb to left to keep it going (his second of the game) and pitched the 7th to get the save to boot. The JV birds defense is coming along nicely. Much improvement since the start of the season.

I can't believe how insensitive you are.

Ditto on that. It's the best I can remember the field looking at this time of year. Improved drainage seems to have really helped. Once the weather is consistently warmer & the grass really gets to growing it should be a very nice field.

No doubt. I couldn't figure out who took the field at 2nd base to start the game until Colin came to the plate in the bottom half of the inning. I watched him all last season, and I truthfully didn't recognize him from the bleachers!

The ball was there plenty early to make the tag, but since the ump did a good job of getting down the line & was right on top of it, you've got to assume he missed the tag. Bottom line is: speed kills. The Frog can flat-out fly.

There were a few srs who hadn't played hs ball before - or at least since maybe frosh year, as well as (I believe) 1 sr who had played all previous years.

Don' worry, that optimism is still there. Think of it like the infighting within the Republican party over exactly what's the best way to get rid of Obamacare - repeal it outright, or take it appart piece by piece. Same goal, slightly different path.

I know you know this Coop, but for the sake of discussion....Football and baseball just don't go by the same set of rules always. As a predominately football guy, it took me a while to grasp some of the decisions I saw baseball coaches making, especially those regarding personel. For instance, in many baseball programs, if you're not good enough for varsity as a junior, you're cut. There's no dropping down to jv like in football, or no sitting on the sidelines either since you don't have unlimited roster spots like football. Somtimes if you've got a soph who's the equivalent of a lower-end jr, that jr will be cut to open up a varsiy spot for the soph - which theoretically would be better for the program in the long run. These decisions can be hard to grasp when your background is predominately football.