ChiefWahoo

not a surprise outing by Abeling at all, the kid has pitched very well all year.. He doesn't blow anyone away, but has a pretty good change-up, and a well above average curveball, does a good job of mixing it up too. Ryle did hit him hard at times throughout the game, but it always seemed to be right at someone, just a day where it the ball rolled the right way for HC, the game really could have gone either way, a great game from two pretty darn good teams imo

5) In the case of a three-way tie for the district winning

position, the tie would be resolved in the following

manner. If any of the tie-breakers results in one of the

teams being ahead of the other two, the tie is broken.

If any of the tie-breakers result in two teams remaining

ahead of the third, then the two-way tie breaker shall be

used to determine the winner between those two.

a) The tie-breaking mechanisms (in order) shall be:

i) If the tie remains between all three teams, the

record in the second game played against all district

opponents involved in the tie.

ii) If the tie remains between all three teams, the

record in the first game played against all district

opponents involved in the tie.

iii) If the tie remains between all three teams, then the

total points allowed in all seeded games shall be the

next tie-breaker.

iv) If the tie remains between all three teams, then

the total points allowed in the second of each of the

seeded games shall be the next tie-breaker.

v) If the tie is still unbreakable, then a blind draw among

the three teams shall break the tie.

b) Additional tie-breaking mechanisms could be added,

and would be uniform for all three-team districts.

According to the link given by strike three the above tiebreakers are only for a three way tie in a district with three teams. A seeding plan for a four team district must be agreed upon by the coaches/principals of the schools, therefore this seeding plan does not necessarily apply

Roenker, freshman from Holy Cross, has been pitching pretty well at the varsity level thus far

I wouldnt be so sure about Ryan, he did throw on monday against NewCath..

well i havent seen them play much this year but they looked pretty solid defensively, i dont think they made an error... they didnt hit the ball exceptionally and if i was thier coach i might want to talk to them about adjusting to an umpires strike-zone, i'll admit some of those pitches might hav been out of the strike-zone but he was calling it all day and for both teams, they also struggled to get a bunt down, HC had a hard time fielding the ones they did manage to get down so its hard tellin' what would hav happened had they been able to get all those other ones down.. Harris threw well minus the one inning he gave up 3, all in all if they cut down on the walks and make teams put it in play they'll be a tough team to beat. I hit here and there wont hurt them but when give people free passes those singles turn into RBI's and the fielders can't do a thing about it

he looked good.. the umpire's low, wide strike-zone helped a lot, there had to be atleast five or six strikeouts looking on a ball low and away. Correct me if I'm wrong but i dont believe he gave up more than one earned run. HC's defense can definately improve, but Jim threw pretty good from my vantage point. You know him and his coaches thought he was doing a pretty good job when they intentionally walked to bases loaded for Harris

Yeah, they walked 3 people in the bottom of the seventh.. not a good way to hold a two run lead

Holy Cross beat NewCath 5-4 on walk off single by Joe Sullivan. The Breds Got off to a 2 run lead before the Indians scored 3 in the 5th. NewCath Scroed 2 of their own in the top of the 6th due to HC's inability to field a bunt. However HC scored just enough in the bottom of the 7th to squeek out the win.

I agree. Beechwood should make some noise next year. They should have at least two solid pitchers again this year. It will be a little hard to replace some of their players from last year. They were rock solid in 06. However I did not follow the JV last year so they maybe a bigger surprise to me than I realize.

My only problem with Beechwood is the district. The 35th is loaded and its gonna be tough for Beechwood to find its way to the region

CovCath- Popham, Maile

Holy Cross - Sullivan, Baker, Ryan, Cross, Abeling

Ryle- Murray

I wouldn't say that CovCath is a front runner even with that great sophomore class they have. Since they will be a young team this year, they probably will be streaky to some degree. I'd go with the more experinced teams at least for right now.

I'd hav to agree. The colonols will be able to beat any team with the talent of their sophomore class and guys like Bleser and Popham mixed in but because of their inexperience there is a chance they could lose to anyone so I'm not entirely sold on them yet. The experience that teams like Ryle and Holy Cross hav is just gaudy. I know Holy Cross will be starting 5 seniors this year that started as sophomores (The top 5 hitters in their lineup last year), and from what i gather Ryle is in a similar situation. So I'd say give CovCath a little time to mature before we load on the expectations, and for right now Ryle is #1 followed very closely by HC imo

Don't know about other schools, but Ryle probably had half dozen freshmen on the varsity. Started the entire infield as sophmores 2 years ago. Not that uncommon.

Holy Cross is the same way... Baker, Ryan, Cross, Abeling and Sullivan all saw the varsity field at sometime or another their freshman year