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Gotcha. My bad.

TOG, if you know, can you provide an update of the district game standings (wins and losses) for CCH, HC, and Beechwood?

I certainly look forward to seeing young Mr. Barickman throw next year. As Clyde said, if he truly throws with that velocity, he would be a very, very unique high school pitcher for this area - or any area for a high school pitcher, for that matter. Hope his injuries heal up well.

Would still be an awfully big jump to be throwing almost 90 mph this year. 90 mph high school pitchers are a rarity in general and practically unheard of in this area.

I would put it more alongs the lines of a collossual disappointment. Makes me think back to the scene in Spinal Tap when the band was expecting an 18' replica of Stonehenge to be lowed onto the stage, but they made a mistake writing the order and an 18" replica was received instead.That kind of level of diappointment. No, actually, for anyone who gets the pleasure of meeting Clyde, he's a first-rate guy with an great interest and knoweldge in many a sport and well as culrtual events and, frankly, a fun guy to be around. Especially when he's treating me at the snack bar (and I'm assuming this compliment just earned me a deluxe burger and fries?)

Neat idea. Hope it really takes off. :ylsuper:

Would like to meet Habib. Union guy who obviously very intelligent (or does a good job faking it?), so we have a lot in common. :lol: Well, I live in Union anyways.

Very solid start to the season so far for the Colonels. Would hope to see them ranked in the state poll soon. (Or are they already?)

Barickman has 7-8 mph MORE on his fastball than Teegarden?! I would put Teegarden in the 80-82 mph range, so are you saying Barickman is pushing 90 mph on his fastball? Won't disagree with you since I haven't a clue who this Barickman player is, but do find it somewhat hard to believe. Frankly, I thought the kid who relieved Teegarden was pretty darn good. When I first saw him warmup, I thought Ryle would tatter him after having seen Teegarden's fastball for 4 innings. But this kid really mixed up his pitches very well and has excellent control and Ryle did nothing to him whatsoever.

For a high school pitcher (especially in this area), I would say he throws hard. Not blistering hard, by any means, but he's touching 80. I thought he and Teegarden threw about the same velocity, perhaps a small edge to Teegarden. The thing about Downs, however, is the unbelieveable movement he gets on his fastball. Stand behind the plate and watch his fastball tail - it's pretty impressive.

I believe three runs scored in this manner. Two of them were wild pitches without question IMO. The third was debatable and possibly a passed ball. Teegarden threw a fair number of pitches in the dirt in this game. Blaming the umpire for this loss is baseless and whiny. Teegarden's good - dang good. Fun pitcher to watch because he usually has excellent control, can get all his pitches over the plate (including a pretty lively fastball), and also handles himself very well on the mound. But when he has an off night, let's just man up and call it that and not blame "biased" umpires and teammates.

Downs is a very, very good pitcher. Throws hard, terrific curveball, great control, and nice presence on the mound. Without question, has to be one of the top (if not the top) pitchers in NKY.

Ridiculous. The plate was called the same for both pitchers. Claim all you want that it was a tight plate (I didn't think it was), but it was no tighter for Teegarden than it was for Downs. Downs outpitched Teegarden, pure and simple. Give the Ryle pitcher credit and quit making excuses. Teegarden is a heckuva player and heckuva pitcher, but he didn't have his best stuff in this one (did the umpire also cause the wild pitches that allowed a couple runs to score?) and Downs did.

Should be super pitching duel between Teegarden and Downs. Downs is the real deal (not that Teegarden isn't ) and I think he shuts down Boone's offense and Raiders go home winners in close, low-scoring game.

I'm going to take a guess that it was not the district seed game. Boone-Conner are scheduled to play one another again in a few weeks and this is, generally speaking, a tad early to be playing a seed game. Again, just a guess on my part.

I was just going by the line scores posted on the site. If so, that's a pretty nice jump for the young man - going from freshman team to the cleanup hitter for one of the larger and better teams in the area.

Yeah, seriously. I hadn't a clue. Get a grip, sport.

Maybe Cooper didn't either. They played Ryle last night and may have used them then. Couldn't care less whether HC used their top pitchers or not - if you can play as bad as Cooper apparently played and still be in the game to some degree, it's at least a small positive.

11 chargeable errors would be almost impressive to watch - kind of like staring at a car accident. That being said, if you can play that miserably and still be in the game, it would qualify as a small silver lining.

Did Trey Martin play for Ryle's freshman last year? Did they move? (Not trying to stir the pot, I honestly don't know, assuming it's even the same kid.) Will he hit cleanup regularly for Boone?

No, the 9th region is regularly overlooked in polls like this, which are stacked primarily with Lexington and Louisville teams. Maybe 9th region coaches do not heavily participate in the voting and that accounts for the reason. But year in and year out, you only see 1, 2, or maybe (rarely) 3 teams from the 9th (or NKY in general) ranked in this poll.

He threw a punch. Yes, it was ridiculous. But he received a stiff penalty, manned up to his mistake, and has behaved admirably since then. Not sure what else you think is necessary. Case closed. Nice to see kids learn from their mistakes and move on. All part of growing up.

They will also have to inbound the ball a little better in tense situations than they did tonight.

I changed it, so as not to look quite as ignorant.

Kilpatrick was HUGE tonight. Rough shooting night for Cashmere, but made a big pullup jumper late to put the Cats up by 4. Cashmere's going to have to have a very solid game to knock off OSU.