Baseball Nut 24

Of course they were tired.

Looking back the team seems to be right on par with their results the last several years and they have made the regional tournament in 7 or 8 straight years winning it all in 2015. Pretty solid program and consistent team over the last several years in my opinion. A lot of teams would like to have had their success. 2020/21 16-9 (covid shortened schedule) 2019/20 17-13 2018/19 22-10 2017/18 18-13

I'll take the side of our head coach and program. Playing a tough schedule you will have more losses than if you scheduled a cupcake schedule and were 23-5. Wins and losses don't mean anything in the regular season when you are playing top teams. It is about improving and getting your team ready for post season play. These comments seem to have started about 5 weeks ago so something must have changed your mind from the beginning of the year? Can't compare JV games to varsity games either. Terrible comparison.

I think Coach has done a tremendous job with this team and put together a very tough schedule to get them tournament ready. I follow the team as closely as anyone (and have no kids involved of my own) just a love for our school and programs and I have a completely different opinion. ? I also agree with CVG in his assessment above. In my opinon, there are 99% of boys or girls teams that would love to have a post player (like Julia Hunt) to throw the ball into to start their offense every time down the court. The fact that they have 3-point shooters waiting when they collapse on her is another luxury to have. The reason they shoot so many 3's is because of the double and triple teaming on Hunt so the ball is kicked out to players for open 3's. The fact that they are shooting a low % from 3 this year is a whole other discussion. I'm not sure what other offense would be better to run with their current personnel or is it more about who is playing and who isn't playing?

Excellent summary of the game. I'm a Holy Cross guy but was impressed seeing Conner for the first time this season. If Holy Cross makes shots they can hang in there with anyone.

You're information was correct. Holy Cross won both the Freshman and JV games. The assessment of the varsity game was also correct. After the game was tied at 9-9 midway through the 1st quarter Conner went on a 13-0 run and never really looked back. Holy Cross made a few runs but could not get closer than 5 points. Conner has a really nice team and play well together. They aren't very deep (maybe 2 subs off bench played) but was very impressed with them. The Indians did a great job guarding Hamilton in my opinion but was still impressed by her play. She is going to be a handful the next two years! Unofficial from Holy Cross Radio - Conner 18 6 13 15 - 52 Holy Cross 9 5 12 14 - 40 Conner (20-3) - Simpson 13, Hawthorne 11, Hamilton 10, Strange 10, McGraw 5, Fisher 3. Holy Cross (17-10) - Hunt 11, Arlinghaus 9, Bottom 6, Wimzie 5, Robinson 3, McCoy 2, Williams 2, Lehmkuhl 2.

Already peaked? Come on now. Holy Cross had won 9 of 11 before tonight and lost by 3. Give NCC credit here.

Rare 5:30 pm varsity only game tonight vs Holmes. * HC Boys varsity will have their senior night after this game at 7:30 pm against NCC.

Sorry I’m just seeing this. We usually setup during the JV game but only cover the varsity games for radio. Thanks for the kind words and for listening.

Closer than I would have thought.

Game times for tomorrow (2/5) Holy Cross at Beechwood. Holy Cross Radio will be there to bring you all the live coverage if you can't get there in person. JV 2:30 pm Varsity 4:00 pm

Congratulations to Joel and the Breds!

Anyone know where this district tournament is held at this year?

Appreciate that!

Holy Cross Radio will be there all week covering the Holy Cross boys and girls games only.

Welcome back PotatoMan it's been a while. Your assessment was spot on.

Unofficial from Holy Cross Radio - Holmes 18 22 15 9 - 64 Holy Cross 23 22 18 26 - 89 HC (15-6) - Ward 40, Z. Arlinghaus 17, D. Arlinghaus 12, Gibson 8, Lehmkuhl 3, Pulsfort 3, Hoffman 2, Bales 2, Reinersman 2. Holmes (8-14) - Q. Calloway 27, Perrin 10, Boyd 8, Pouncy 7, T. Calloway 6, Commodore 6. * Holy Cross played without Jacob Meyer who sat out the game with an injury. Javier Ward led all scorers with a career-high 40 points. The Indians had 11 3-pointers on the night. Quantez Calloway led the Bulldogs with 27 points. Holy Cross is now 1-1 in district play with one game left at Beechwood on Feb 5th. Holmes drops to 0-2 in district play with a game left with Beechwood.

Lead was between 8-12 most of the game. Got to as high as 15 on the first play of the 3rd quarter on a 3 by Cooper. Holy Cross cut the lead to 3 and had 2 possessions to get closer but never could. Cooper is a really good team. Was impressed by their defense. They outplayed Holy Cross and deserved to win. Best of luck to the Jags!

Sounds like you have a future in coaching with your expert analysis on coaching.

Holy Cross trailed 46-35 at halftime but outscored Campbell Co 54-39 in the 2nd half to come away with a nice win on the road. Junior guard Jacob Meyer led all scorers with 43 points. Indians have now won 5 straight games. They travel to Lloyd this Friday night. HC 20 15 31 23 - 89 CC 12 34 28 11 - 85 Holy Cross (14-5) - Meyer 43, Ward 22, Z Arlinghaus 9, D Arlinghaus 8, Gibson 5, Lehmkuhl 2 Campbell Co (8-10) - Hamilton 32, Davie 29, Gross 9, Smith 5, Sorgenfrei 4, Siry 4, Jackson 2

New Cath deserves a lot of credit. Holy Cross jumped out to a big lead but the Breds kept chipping away and took their first lead at 63-62 I believe. Holy Cross responded finished on a 20-7 run to end the game. Was very impressed with Jase Iles and Caleb Eaglin. Both only Sophomores.

Unofficial from Holy Cross Radio HC 23 22 14 24 - 82 NCC 10 24 23 15 - 72 HC (13-5) - Meyer 41, Ward 24, Gibson 5, Lehmkuhl 3, Pulsfort 3, Z Arlinghaus 3, D Arlinghaus 2, Hoffman 1. NCC (5-10) - Eaglin 19, Jase Iles 17, Butts 16, Joel Iles 6, Luhn 5, Simons 5, Runyon 4. * Holy Cross will play Sayre in the first round of the state tournament at EKU at 9:30 pm on Thursday, January 27th. ** All Tournament Team - NCC - Butts and Simons HC - Hoffman, Ward & Meyer (MVP) *** Jacob Meyer scores 45, 48 & 41 the last 3 games vs BW, St. Henry & NCC.

71-65 is the correct score

Unofficially from Holy Cross Radio we had Jacob Meyer 20/24 from the field. He was 18/25 against Beechwood on Wednesday.

Friday night semi-finals at Villa high School 5:30 pm - NCC vs Dayton 8:00 pm - Holy Cross vs St. Henry * Finals will be 7:00 pm Saturday at Thomas More.