Diamond Dandy

No....I don't think any of the Boone County schools are state caliber this year. I should have stated NKY 6A.

I thought that Boone might have lost too much last year, but I guess not. Looks like the 6A crown will come from Boone County this year. Either Boone or Ryle or Conner.

7- Conner 5- Ludlow 3- Campbell 2- Ryle 1- Walton TB = Conner

Raiders in a close one, 28 - 21

7 NCC 5 SK 3 Colerain 2 HC 1 Carrol Co Tie Breaker NCC

Makes for a long ride home from Canton.

Not a bad test for the young Raiders. With a few more games experience they won't make those two or three mistakes.

7 Mooney 5 Holmes 3 NCC 2 Tates Creek 1 Grant Co Most Points.....Mooney

I am not upset with T and X, they have built tremendous programs over the years and that's why most of the tallent in Louisville want to play there. Just explaining that it's hard to compete with that kind of tradition, when you get whatever tallent lives within 25% of your county. Would Cov Carh be competitive if they were restricted to 25% of the kids that live in Covington? Not everyone can work for the BOE, and I doubt many would change jobs just so their kids could pay ball.

I am sure if Ryle or Conner drew kids from 4 or 5 counties like T or X instead of drawing them from a quarter of Boone County, they would compete.

Did Tate catch any balls today? Looks like the kids might get to practice on the new field soon and get off that cow pasture. LOL Not a bad start playing to a draw with CCH, who is supposed to be decent this year. Highlands will be the true test opening night.

Haven't seen Hemple under center yet but he looked very promising on the diamond. Might be an even better baseball player. BTW, Ryle's new field looks great Luvthemraiders.

The Princeton HS team was not a powerhouse, but the summer team made up from a half dozen Cincinnati school players and a couple from Northern Kentucky was. Could we have formed a better team by taking the top 2 players in each Region in the state of Kentucky? Without a doubt.

Actually, you are trying to compare the tallent pool of a city to the tallent pool of an entire state. I 've seen the best of AABC, ( we played in the 15U AABC Mickey Mantel World Series in Norman OK 5 years ago) and the best of Kentucky ( we played there in 2007 ) and the wider tallent pool had the best tallent by far. Enough said.

I disagree. We played AABC for 8 years, 3 of those years we played with one of the better AABC teams in Cincinnati. The homefield was Princeton HS so naturally we had several Princetton kids, as well as kids from Elder, Moeller, LaSalle ect. That's a bit like saying the tallent pool from 8 Cincinnati schools, 120 kids is going to be greater then the tallent pool from 200 State of Kentucky schools, maybe 3000 kids. If I was going to start a team from scratch and I had my choice of looking at 120 kids or 3000 kids I think I would have better odds from the larger pool. Besides playing AABC and watching the 2, 9 inning games with Kentucky's best 38 to 40 players, I don't think there is a school in Cincinnati that could have competed with either the East or West Kentucky All Stars.