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With three weeks remaining in the regular season, Clay County and South Laurel look like the teams to beat in the 13th region.

Where is the Cardinal fan that said Harlan County was not very good this year? Great win Harlan County.

I've watched all the teams in 50th district and Clay and North in the 49th district, 50th disctrict might want to avoid 49th in tournment play.

After reading the local paper NL had a chance to win, however, two errors late cost them the game.

Interesting how Whitley smoked NL and SL just gets by them. Just curious how it happened.

Newpaper said North threw a freshman pitcher, that might answer your question on how that happen. I'm sure North would not throw anyone at Whitley in case they meet them in the region.

Does anyone have deatails on this one.

Final!

Game was played at Transy Field which has no lights. NL was ahead 6-5 bottom of 7th with 2 outs and 2 strikes on the hitter when they committed their 7th error of the game to let LC tie. Could not start 8th because of no lights.

Final.

Young talent you"ve got to look at NL they start Carson a 8th grader,Brooks and Storms both freshman Hayden Soph. and the rest are Jrs. They will be hard to handle by tournment time this year the way their hitting the ball now. Just need pitching to start comming around.

I understand Cody Jones is out with an ACL injury. Williamsburg will have to vastly improve on fundamentals, fielding, and hitting to challenge in the district this year. I'm a huge Williamsburg follower, but I'm also a realist. I just don't think they have the pitching to cover these other weaknesses, as I thought was aptly displayed in their scrimmage with North Laurel tonight. It's difficult for me to understand why they seemingly have the same problems each year. The last group that was fairly sound fundamentally was the year Andy Greer was a senior, and had solid pitching from Reynolds, Foley, and Jones, outstanding defensive catching from Root, and a pretty solid infield and outfield. That group was also pretty good offensively and very unselfish. Is it due to the little league programs diminishing? Is it just a cycle? Is it coaching? Maybe all of the above, I really don't know. I hope I'm wrong about this season's team and they improve by leaps and bounds. Moses does have an outstanding bat and is as sound fundamentally as any kid I've seen there, and Barton has alot of talent that should be developed. Any way I've rambled, best of luck on the season.

I agree with you Volfan, Williamsburg's pitching has a long ways to go from what I saw.

I heard from the 13th region Jim Conway was leaving. Is he being pushed out or his decision to leave.

Corbin has only one freshmen and one sophmore on their varsity pitching staff. The rest are junior's and senior's and that usually means experience and leadership.

Nothing against your pitching staff, I'm sure you do have plenty of experience. What really concerns me about the 13th region is the lack of great hitters. This region is usally won on 2 maybe 3 avg. pitchers and hitting is know longer part of the equation.

I think they have overlooked mountain baseball. I'm like you, I think Harlan County might surprise lots of people.

I'm concerned about SL hitting. They never could hit in the clutch situations. They have a great young coach but he lacks the experince. Outfield play really concerns me about their squad.

Corbin has a great coaching staff but graduated lots of experience.

Clay Co. has a lot to prove from last years final game. Coach Griffin knows how to win and plans on showing his experinced squad this year how to go the distance.

Does anybody know of any players from the 13th region being serriously considered at any D-1 schools for baseball?

Robbie Slusher could be in the hunt for the tile homerun king along with Matthew Peters and Matthew Martin from South Laurel. Wesley Hopkins from North Laurel should hit a few long balls.

My prediction for the most homeruns hit this year in the 13th will be: Spencer Greer

Personally, I like Conway as a coach. To be honest, he hasn't had a great deal of talent (except Seidel) in his tenure. Good kids, but not a lot of really skilled basketball players. They turn over middle school coaches far too often, and hasn't had a great deal of support in getting the AAU program going. I think he has done pretty good with the talent he has. Also, it is hard to build when many of the best players in your district, even if they started playing at North Middle end up at playing at South. There are 2 major contributors for South who started their careers at North middle and found their way across town. Both could have been an enormous help to NL right now. One even played varsity as an 8th grader when he was at North.

 

That being said, I think this will be a very close game. I look for Seidel and Miller to play big. The difference will be their supporting casts. North needs a big game from Couch and Shears for North to pull it off. I will have to be a Laurel County homer and pick North in the upset. If they play the way they did for most of the game against Henry Clay and Marshall County in the hoopfest, I think they pull it off. But I agree, it would be an upset.

 

NL 73

KC 72

Why do kids with talent leave North to come to South?

It will come down to coaching. KC by 15

I think the team to beat this year will be Clay Co. Well coached and most all their starters returning.Another team to watch out for by tournment time will be North Laurel, the best group of Freshman to ever come in.