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April 13, 2009 Check Out previous Blogs
This will get it going... the best baseball conference in the STATE from top to bottom is the Gateway Conference-South Division! Not one team is below .500, overall 51-16 accumulative record, two teams have only 1 loss. Check out these records: Ft Z South 9-1,Troy 8-1, Ft Z West 9-2, Howell North 8-3, Howell 7-4, Howell Central & Holt are each 5-3 !! League competition will soften some of these records but who can match it from the bottom to the top...we'll keep looking around. Your ideas ? bryan@prepcasts.com
In games between equally matched teams, one "big" inning can determine the outcome. The strong teams capitalize to the "max" on these opportunities to score several times. For example, Plattsburg (4-0) remained unblemished as they plated all 4 runs in an inning in their 4-3 win over E.Buchanon. Likewise, Chillicothe scored 4 runs in the 3rd inning to raise their mark to 7-1 with a 6-5 win over Higginsville. Jacob Rockhold led the way offensively with 2 hits and 2 RBI's.
Pitching gems--goose-egg games (lots of zeroes on the board) of the week.. Maryville Spoofhounds led the way with a sharp 1-0 whitewash over Cameron. Out hit 4-2, Maryville scored the lone run of the game in the 3rd inning.
Another "goose-egg" game saw the SLUH Jr Bills edge DeSmet 3-2 in MCC conference play. The Jr Bills bunched all 3 of their runs together in one inning (See paragraph above) to grab the win.
Troy shutout St Charles West 4-0 earlier in the week. Kyle Frantz hurled the 4 hit shutout with 4 K's.
BEST RALLY GAME OF THE WEEK belongs to the Parkway North Vikings. In a game with Webster Groves, the game see-sawed back and forth in the early going. It was 4-0 WG after 2 innings; 8-6 North after 4 innings; it was 12-9 WG after 6 innings. Exploding wildly in the 7th, the Vikings crossed the plate 8 times to walk off with a 17-13 win. Culver Plant of North was the hitting star with a 3 of 5, 8 RBI's a double and HR ! Whew...a week of hitting in one day !
There were several other football-like scores this week.
At the top of the list was the FT Zumwalt West game with Washington. Ft Z West 25 Washington 12. The Jaguars banged out 20 hits! 13 different players recorded hits in this contest. The Jags raised their record to 9-2 with the win.
Another wild one was Northwest 16 Lindbergh 15 in 10 innings! A grand total of 41 hits rang around the ballpark during this ballgame. Two players from each team had 4 hits-- for NW, it was Lucas Fortner & Ryan Wilkenson. The Flyers 4-hit batsman were Bryan Livingston & Joe Francis. The winning pitcher for the Lions gave up 8 runs in 4 innings but notched the win.
Lindbergh wasn't through hitting the ball all over the field or through with extra inning games for the week. They beat Eureka 12-11 earlier in the week. Logan Parsons, the starting pitcher, led the way with 3 hits for the Flyers. Richie Rhodes had 3 hits and 3 SB to lead the Wildcats in this 8 inning affair.
TEAMS THAT ARE RED HOT during this chilly, wet week of baseball were: CBC Cadets(7-1) who have won 6 straight including an impressive win over Howell North; Parkway South (5-0) who knocked off Kirkwood and were rained out against CBC on Thursday; Highland (4-1) after their 5-0 shutout victory against Wesclin (7-2); Edwardsville (6-0) who hasn't been held under 10 runs in any of their games this year. Their latest win was a sound 10-3 win over Vianney prior to the rains moving in the area.
Prepcasts is a terrific schedule this week. Check our home page--it's loaded with good games !!
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