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As long as he has mom's skills he will be just fine!!!!!:lol: In all seriousness both Chris and Jen (his parent's) were outstanding high school players. Does Zach not also play football?

Now that is a true statement :laugh:. Seriously if you look at every post I have ever made I am not sure I have ever been derogatory or negative about the program............Although I think one time in a poll I did vote against them to win but was promptly chastized in my PM box by enough people to never do that again!

Well.........first I think I am allowed to have an opinion and secondly I did not rip your program or say anything that should elicit the kind of responses. Further so that I do not get any more negative PM's this has to strictly do with how it effected a summer team that has NOTHING to do with anything that is Highlands or any body associated with Highlands. The fact that a team has to deal with missing player(s) due to football practice several nights a week is something that only has to be dealt with from the kids at Highlands no place else. Now this also is the reason the football program is where it is....................................The committment and dedication (see that is a compliment). Also flat out kids do NOT want to miss football practice! See another compliment to where the program is. I gurarantee you that at several schools kids are missing freshmen workouts in order to play summer baseball games. Now do you think those involved with the baseball team are happy? No of course not. But those involved also understand the situation and make the best of it. Highlands players are going to be committed to football first and while this may seem strange to those on the outside it is what makes their program. Now if you have this need to try and rip people that might have an opinion that you deem not fiitting into your view. Please feel free to do so. And I do not think any "crying" was going on in the last post.

It is only early June and freshmen football is already causing issues with summer baseball conflicts.................................ON the flip side this makes for a great football program and these kids are committed!

In one of those two innings a ground ball was hit right to the SS and he bobbled it and made a bad throw on top of that. Surely that was an error.

There were errors and also some shaky outfield play...............( left fielder frozen on a ball that could have been caught that went for a double early in the 6th). I do want to comment on Mr. Bertke's composer. As hot as it was and with some defensive lapses not one time did he even look at the offending teammate. Also cooperstown is corrrect....he backed up every base when NCC was hitting the ball hard off him and showed no negative reaction. What a great lesson for younger players and trust me it was a teaching moment for those kids at the game. He has been a class act his entire baseball career with Beechwood and with the Bluegrass Organization. Does anybody know where he is going to school next year?

Ok TAC I guess we will do this again as we do every draw in basketball and baseball threads: #1 The All A is not a state sanctioned tourney and is not just "A" schools if you were to use football classes. #2 How about going to classes and then you can seed everyone in their class. Put yourself in the shoes of a Silver Grove you have 11 players one of them a 7th grader starting and you have to play with Scott and Campbell County. Yeah now that is much worse than a blind draw. #3 Complaints about lopsided scores in regional because of blind draw and a weaker team getting in .....well you have really lopsided regular season scores and district tourney scores due to district seedign games that you have to play. #4 What is more unfair? Forcing tiny schools to play the largest schools in the area or two good teams drawing each other randomly.

Siple's resume is much deeper than Faust and Ollier. That being said this program since its first few seasons has been on a wrong path. This is not going to change how the administration treats football. Good luck to Coach Siple!

tbg excellent points about the level of competion. What you see day in and day out is what makes you better as a player. The level of teams in select leagues SWOL or Greater Cincinnati Select league plus the freedom to be able to play in tournaments against select leagues from all over helps develop players. There are knothole teams that are an exception just like there are supposed "select" teams that are an exception being really bad. The problem is if you are the really good exception in knothole.....................you are not being tested especially during your regular season. Now my main point is this.................the best way to develop a program in all other sports is to have a feeder program. But how many schools have a baseball feeder program due to the loyalties in knothole or a player's select team which of course are all coached by dads in the lower age levels. Coach Baioni has been able to start something most programs will never be able to touch. That being putting teams together that can function as feeder teams coached by who he has picked. Now granted a couple players on each team are not future Bluebirds (yet) but if you do not see how this is going to start having baseball taught correctly the way he wants it which in turn starts to become a huge advantage. And if you look even at younger ages the majority of his 13 year old players play on two teams that he has strong knowledge of and my guess is some lines of communcation with. Further down the line he coaches two youth teams that his son's play for and again he is getting "his way" taught at the earliest age possible. The bottom line is this....with the time to do this Coach Baioni has made sure through coaching teams, holding clinics, fall leagues for younger players, starting feeder teams and communicating with coaches that have players that are in his pipeline that he is setting up players for success in his program which will turn that program around. :thumb:

That came straight from a phone call I made to the KHSAA office and spoke with the commissioner. But I agree with what you say the way the rule reads. And you are correct it is not fair to the younger players who wanted to play the game.

Money is split but trust me by the time you pay umpires, baseballs, field maintenace issues (diamond dry, chalk, etc) most schools will get a check for 100.00 or a little less.

Okay after doing some research the 2 year suspension only applies if a team does NOT show up. If you show and do not have enough players or if you start the game and then forfeit for whatever reason the rule does not apply.

The girls softball team did not have enough players for the district tourney last year and forfeited their first round game and they were not suspended the two years. Really does not matter though it is an absolute black eye on the school and the program. Not the coaches fault as he has worked very hard this year and they have been competitive instead of always losing in 5 innings. In fact in the top of the first in the district game they had a walk and three straight singles (unfortunately two runners made outs on the bases). But when you have a roster of 11 and 3 kids determine that they are making a choice to do whatever else they need to do you are stuck.

And I do agree that if the schools agreed to this schedule that is there own fault. however, it just shows nobody was paying attention at other schools as to the potential issues that would come with this type of schedule.

Ok first of all the second game started at seven and if you read my post it stated rain or no rain this game had no chance of getting completed so it is poor planning. Second as I also stated mel had nothing to do with it. Third i also stated that soembody had to agree with the schedule however this district chooses to do there meeting via e-mail and not get together and meet. Finally if Silver Grove does not bail out which is conmpletely and utterly bush league you are not in that position. This schedule did not make the 5 team district only have one game left. Silver Grove opting not to play has created that situation.

They could have just played it at Campbell.......or used the same format Silver Grove used last year at NCC field when they hosted it there.

Clyde the set up for the tourney is supposed to be agreed upon at a meeting but this district does not have a formal meeting (or at least did not last year or the year before and if they did this year my apologies) and so the stuff is "sent" out via e-mail and really does not enter in to much discussion about things like other districts would. And based upon hearing the discussions about the game times by the coaching staffs they were not happy but had no choice. Could have been Brossart set the times and sent them to people, could have been AD's, not sure. All I know it was a bad decision and an easy one to see well in advance that it was going to be a problem. In defense of Mel he is running the girls fast pitch tourney so somebody else with the school is running the basebal..

I agree that the call unfortunately has to hurt one team. Again I am also agreeing that if you ask twenty people you will get twenty different responses. My angle was much better in the batter at the plate on the "leaning slightly into the pitch" and i will say from my vantage point it was clear that the batter leaned into the pitch. I feel I had a great angle and probably a better angle than the home plate umpire. I will say though as a baseball fan and not a fan of either team I want the call to give the runner an extra base to be one that is pretty blatant in a extra inning game that is tied. But both teams played well and the Camels came through with a clutch hit to win.

I will add the runner was trying to get up and the fielder was on top of him (not intentionally). And again he had no chance of geting to third based on the play. Not sure how the rule reads as far as a runner trying to get up and if that has anything to do with it. Any way I looked at it not a way to have an ending for a great game. By the way in the 7th Michael Kremer tripled for the Camels to lead off the inning. Calvary intentionally walks 2 batters and the next batter hits a line drive to first that is caught and the first basemen steps on the bag fora double play. So now second and third two outs. Calvary again loads the bases and the next batter hits a low line drive that the Calvary SS makes a phenominal catch on to send the game to the 8th inning.

Well........Brossart had the winner of Scott/SG playing them with less than 24 hours turn around time on Tues. Also if you look at the tourney the 4 vs 5 seed game is always played first since it is a play in game to see who plays the one seed. Then the 2 vs 3 seeds play. Completely inept set up.

I have to say I have never seen anybody try this but Brossart the host school schedules a 4:00 and 6:00 game with no lights. Now looking at this.................A game starts at 4 and once once it finishes you need at least 20 min. between games due to field maintenance and warm ups then 10 min. per team for infield. So by my math somebody thought it was a good idea to schedule games 2 hours apart figuring the first game was going to take......oh......90 minutes? Are you kidding me? The first game ended up going 8 innings but even if it ended in 7 innings it was already 6:30 which is about a normal game time (2 1/2 hours). So now you have two teams sitting there knowing that even if they play a 5 inning game you have no chance of finishing the game that night. Of course then the rains hit so they have not even completed the first inning. Even without the ran they only had an hour of day light left. Not fair to make two teams split a game into two days. Now the rain obviously would have caused that but anybody with any sense knows that a high school baseball game is going to take longer than 1 1/2 hours plus you must factor in your maintance and infield time. A little thought would also anticipate a close game between CC and Calvary.................Meaning potential meetings on the mound, possible extra innings, etc. :confused:

Classic ball game with lots of strategy, several lead changes, ties, almost winning home runs, and of course a strange call or two to go along with it. Really cannot post details as i do not know the names of the players for either team. All I know is that in the bottom of the 8th the Camels have a batter lean into a curve ball to get on base (Calvary argued but to no avail) and then the runner steals second and it is a high throw. The Calvary player jumps to catch the throw and the runner makes contact with him causing both players to tumble with the Calvary player landing on top of the Camels runner. The ball goes into center field where the center fielder promptly fields the ball and gets it back in to the infield. Unfortunately for Calvary the runner is awarded third for interference since the fielder landed on him and both were entangled on the play (Calvary coaches very upset on this call and rightfully so). That runner scores the winning run.

BB and JOAT hopefully your kids will opt back for baseball especially the type of athletes they are. As long as JB gets the time to build he will attrract baseball players (not just kids playing multi sports) especially younger ones who have not made a decision on the high school they want to attend. Good stuff going on will attract good players.

I do not think it has to be a "Bellevue guy." What the job called for was someone to give the program stability, good coaching, and show an interest in being around for awhile and/or showing that they would not have to be let go after a few years ( or one season). Coach Sorrell would fit all these qualities.

Holy Cross is more towards NCC than Newport or Lloyd.........................I think the Brossart people are underestimating them.