Mendoza Line

Not a seed game. All seeded games are finished in district. #1 Boone, #2 Ryle, #3 Conner, #4 Cooper.

Yes was a seeded game my mistake.

Not a seed game. All seeded games are finished in district. #1 Boone, #2 Ryle, #3 Conner, #4 Cooper.

The game is today at Ryle @ 5:00

Chase Stanley Boone

Sure, he had his sure of cheap hits. All hitters do. I'm sure the others had their fair share of cheap hits too. You don't hit over .500 at the varsity level playing the competition Ryle does unless you are a special hitter. "Swinger" is not an accurate word to describe his hitting style all. He is a very deliberate hitter with a very good eye. Rarely chases a bad pitch and usually hits the ball solid. The only negatives I could find with his hitting are that I think he is sometimes a bit too patient and I would like to see him hit with a bit more power. He certainly has the size and strength. I would take him over the Boone hitters without question.

Coopertown be honest you would take the last guy sitting on Ryles bench over any Boone player LOL

Congrats to Jackson and his family! It will be fun watching Cotton and Jackson the next couple years at UC.

Lauman and Teegarden from Boone

Great hire for Ludlow!!!! Steve is a first class coach and a first class person. He gives everything he has to the kids and to the program. To bad Silver Grove didn't understand that. He will have the program running strong for years to come. Good Luck to Coach Hart and Ludlow!!!

Yes that is what I am saying. All coaches agreed to the change from what I have heard.

That is not correct, if a district winner vs. a district winner it is a coin toss for home team, if a winner vs. a runner up then the district winner is home team. This was agreed upon by the coaches at the draw.

Certainly on the defensive side it would be hard to argue the likes of Liggett catching and Cotton roaming CF.............both would be strong contenders based soley on defensive prowess. Liggett literally controls the basepaths from the dish. That type of "game-management" at the high school level is certainly MVP criteria. He and Cotton are both strong at the plate as well. Sam maybe doesn't have the HRs but isn't playing at the Band-box at Boone either (not taking away from Ronald at all) Pugh is also a serious contender with his position supporting his overall value and hitting numbers..........certainly their three teams have a strong enough schedule to not have the "watered down competition" discussion. I would start the discussion among these three and move from there as the rest of the season unfolds. I cannot comment first hand on everyone as I admittedly have not seen Dixie yet this year but am familiar with their players, so there are some others that obviously deserve some consideration.

Of Cottons 9 HR only 3 are at home!!!!

cotton .364, 8HR, 28 RBI's, 27 SB, 26 Runs

Impressive win for the Rebels facing Greis and not having their #1 go against him.

Nate Alford pitched very well for the Rebels. 6 hits, 1 earned run and only 1 walk. He is now 4-0 on the year with a 1.71 ERA.

Pitchers?

Greis for Brossart

I'll go with Hoskiins right now (yes, some Ryle bias there), but I would like to hear some of Laumannm's pitching stats, if anyone has them. I was pretty impressed watching him throw last week. If he has some nice pitching stats to go with his hitting, it might give him a leg up. Much similar to last year when I (and a lot of other people) thought Isler's combined pitching/hitting stats were worthy of the POY.

Laumann: 5 saves, 22K's in 15 innings, .155 ave against him,

Hitting: .397 ave, 5Hr, 21 RBI's, 17 Runs scored and only 4'k in 70 AB

Cotton .400, 5HR's, 20 SB's.

Cotton .400 ave, 6 HR, 24 SB, 16 RBI's, 18 runs scored and has thrown out at least 6 runners. And on top of all of that he is one of the best defensive outfielders in the state!:notworthy:

Boone has #1 seed locked up. They have won all three of the seed games. Get your facts straight 33

Boone has 4 very good hitters all hitting over .400

Ronald Cotton 4Hr

Jackson Laumann 5 Hr

Doug Teegarden 3HR

Nate Alford 2HR

who pitched?

West for Conner and Deno for Boone. Deno went 5 plus and Laumann finished it.

Jackson Laumann of Boone!! Great defensive 1st baseman with a ton of power! Also a very good Pitcher.

Oh sorry I read your post wrong. I thought you said who will be number one. My bad. I'll put the rotations the way I think they will go this year:

 

Dixie-

1. Brice Smallwood

2. Brett Stansberry

3. Tyler Sexton

4. Keegan Burney

5. Tim Barnhorst/ Corbin Dematteo

 

Boone

1. Tyler Deno

2. Doug Teegarden

3. Jackson Laughman

4. Alford (Couldnt think of his first name)

5. Chase Stanley

 

Ryle

1. Chris Hensley

2. Kyle Donavon

3. Connor Hempel

4. Daisuke

5. Tyler Hill/ Caleb Lonkard

 

Connor

1. Nick West

2. Jody Hubbard

3. Brennan Russell

4. Jake Samad

5. Maybe Zach Nelson

 

Cov Cath

1. Adam Warning

2. Chris Gerwe

3. Adam Shumate

4. Matt Klein

5. Ben Maile/ Tom Arnzen

Closer- Brennan Schlaugbaum(sp?)

 

Beechwood

1. Josh Bertke

2. Zach Larimore

Then I dont know. I dont know enough about Beechwood to finish their rotation.

Very solid pitching in the 9th this year. Should be a very fun low scoring 9th

Nate Alford

Will he be their #1 or Deno? I like the way Deno pitches. Nothing overpowering, but he's a fine example of why you don't need to have a blazing fastball to be successful.

Laumann 3-1, Deno 6-1, Teegarden 7-0, Alford 3-0 :thumb:

Just wondering but does Sam call his own game for HHS?

 

BTW the best hitting catcher if anyone wants to know in the Ninth is (IMO) Boone's Dunaway!

Now if you could give me Liggetts "D" and Dunaway "O" I think you would have someone close to another Maile, but still, not quite as good as the real thing! Some just don't understand how good the young man was in HS!

:thumb: I was waiting for someone to mention him!!!

Boone should have a good pitching staff as well. They return 21 of their 24 wins from last year. They only graduated one pitcher. Deno, Teegarden, Laumann and Alford were a combined 18-4 if I am not mistaken. Plus you add Brodsky, Devandry and Crabtree who led the JV team to the title last year.

Does anyone know how the NKY Warriors did?

They ended up 3-2 (beat Cardinals, Hornets, Knights-Lost to the Heat and Irish).