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Where have you seen the asst. coach at? Being an ex-college player does not automatically make her a good coach.

You could very well be right, if he made a mistake my guess is that it would have been overconfidence. I have not seen enough of the 2 girls to know if there is that much difference, if there is any at all, I do know their pitching records were almost identical.

Coach took Oldham from a 12-16 record to 27-9 and was named 8th region coach of the year, no reason to question his decisions in my opinion. Oldham scored only 1 run that day against the best pitcher in the region anyway. It just wasn't their day. As for players to watch in the region, I would go with the returning all 8th region players and fill in from there: Ginn-Walton Galvan-South Oldham Leanhart-Oldham Morgan-Simon Kenton Vaughn-Henry County Seng-Gallatin County

Well, going into the first round game Oldham was 15-0 in the region and had already beaten Spencer earlier in the year 6-0, unless he was planning to pitch the Mcilhinny girl all 3 games that would be the game to pitch her. The Leanhart girl is a very good pitcher. Don't like the wording and implication, if he had said he pitched his #2 it would have been better.

To be fair, at the time one was 13-4 and the other 12-4, the fact the kid was his daughter is irrelevant.

Couple questions for you, Radford does not play Division 1 football and football usually foots the bill for all other sports, where are they getting the money to give "full rides"? Is the travel schedule you mention a requirement to play D-1 softball? I would have to think that many girls would be eliminated just for cost alone.

You are correct, I just assumed she did after playing her first 3.

Boone County graduate Megan Bivins justed finished 4 years with the UL softball team as well.

Just out of Curiosity, could someone give me a list of "Experienced High School Softball Coaches" that are available in Northern Kentucky? If that was one of the qualifications ND was looking for they would have had a tough time filling the position. Good luck to Coach Stevenson, if anyone has seen the facilities recently they know that Notre Dame is certainly trying.

What would be any more special about SK making that trip than any other team?

Good draw, may have a chance to get a win or 2

where does the district go for first round of playoffs? Might be a tough year.

I hope you are right, but I am skeptical. I have seen nothing to make me think softball will take off in this area. What have you seen in Northern Kentucky that makes you think it will get better? In the last 10 years, no improvements to the recreational facilities, no more and possibly less travel team involvement and no high school(maybe Ryle) that has become a consistent state power.

Far too many girls view softball as a recreational sport in this area. When the high school season ends the glove and cleats go to the closet till next February. My experience watching softball in this area for the last 10+ years is there aren't enough young girls to push the older girls and when a younger girl puts in the work to be better than the older girls the parents go nuts because some 7th or 8th grade girl is playing in front of their daughter. Someone mentioned that Conner always has a young team, somebody tell me when the last time there was a Junior/Senior loaded team in this area?

Probably begley in the last couple years

So what is happening in Kenton CO that is not happening in Fort Thomas? I'm having trouble understanding what the problem is, are they having to redistribute money that they don't have?

Are you saying the reason Highlands is underfunded is because they remain an independent school system? One of the things the mountain schools have done is consolidate all these small schools and made one central school Knott CO, Harlan CO, Perry CO, etc. maybe consolidating with the other Northern Campbell County schools is the solution.

Outsider yes, explain to me what the problem is in Ft. Thomas. If your facilities are as bad as you say and you don't have any money then you should be getting some of that money that is going down to the mountains. Either you have the money and are misusing it or you don't and the big money areas should be helping you out.

Doesn't NKU collect parking money?

Concessions? NKU certainly doesn't do these tourneys because they care about local high school softball, it is a fundraiser for them.

I've been to Highlands this year and have been there in the past. Not sure why people think it is such a bad place to play. It seems to me that the people at Highlands are waiting around for someone to come in and fix their problems instead of doing it themselves. It takes two things to have a nice field, hard work and money. Everyone knows that Highlands has plenty of the second, is there anyone willing to step up with the first? Not sure why anyone would want to give up their chance to hold districts at home to go to NKU either, taking money right out of your softball teams pocket.

I agree, no pitching means no chance and you are right there are some good players in the area, the problem is they are spread so thin between the 30+ schools in N. Kentucky.

Your statement is even more spot on in an area where the talent pool is weak and thin. I've seen a good deal of the teams in the area this year and no more than a hand full of good swings.

Todays game will.

You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. It doesn't take a college coach to teach a 7 year old how to catch and throw. Parents need to get out and work with their kids themselves. Expecting coaches to be able to teach fundamentals to 12-15 7yr olds in a 1 hour time frame is absolutely nuts. There is a grocery list of things that are being done wrong pertaining to softball in Northern KY, lack of quality coaching is just one.