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SO word on the street is that Matoaca lost to TD today.

 

PG won the coin flop so TD and Matoaca will meet again tomorrow to see who gets to face PG on Friday (or Monday apparently) for the #1 seed and auto birth to the Regionals.

 

What a week!!!!

Rich Graham

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Wish I'd seen that note about the starting time change at Freeman!  I got there around 6:50 and it was in the 3d inning of a 1-1 game.  Both pitchers were very effective and runs were hard to come by.

 

Godwin finally got to a 3-2 lead in the 5th I think it was, but also had a screwup that may well have ultimately cost them the game.  With runners on 1st and 2nd and 1 out, Godwin started both runners, and the batter hit cleanly through the SS hole to get the lead.  LF's throw went all the way home, catcher attempted the tag but call as safe (no question there), C then throws to 3B where runner was also safe.  Somehow in all that, the batter failed to get to second base.  Later, I think with 2 outs now, batter hits a grounder deep to the SS hole.  Gerstenmeier makes a nice backhand, pivots and fires to 2nd for a force out.  Had the guy made 2nd earlier, Gerstenmeier would've had no play anywhere.  This cost Godwin a key out and at least one run.  Big time play by Gerst but with proper baserunning it would not have been available to him.  (Doh!)

 

So, you guessed it, Freeman gets bases loaded in the bottom of the 6th, Ethan Payne nailed a shot high off the LF fence and the tying and winning runs score.  Trevett made short work of Godwin in the 7th, and with that, Freeman takes the district title 4-3.

Colonial District Baseball Tournament

 

Quarterfinals, Monday 5/20 at campus sites

#6 Maggie Walker GS at #3 Patrick Henry, 6pm

#5 J.R. Tucker at #4 Hermitage, 6pm

 

Semifinals, Tuesday 5/21 at J.R. Tucker HS

#1 Douglas Freeman vs. J.R. Tucker/Hermitage, 5:30pm

#2 Mills Godwin vs. Maggie Walker GS/Patrick Henry, 7:30pm

 

Championship, Thursday 5/23 at J.R. Tucker HS

Semifinal winners, 7pm

Originally Posted by R.Graham:

any word on how things shook out in the district with Hanover, Atlee, L-D and the rest?  The name of that district escapes me at the moment.

From Twitter:

 

"Atlee wins 5-3 over Glen Allen! Eliminating GA for district tournament! Hanover gets the 1 seed, Atlee 2, LD 3, and Varina 4! ..."

Colonial District Baseball Tournament

Quarterfinals, Monday 5/20
#3 Patrick Henry 2, #6 Maggie Walker GS 1
#4 Hermitage 6, #5 J.R. Tucker 3

Semifinals, Tuesday 5/21 at J.R. Tucker HS
#1 Douglas Freeman vs. #4 Hermitage, 5:30pm
#2 Mills Godwin vs. #3 Patrick Henry, 7:30pm

Championship, Thursday 5/23 at J.R. Tucker HS
Semifinal winners, 7pm



Gamble for PH paid off - they didn't throw Palmer against MWGS and (barely) won.  Great season for Maggie Walker, the best season they've ever had that didn't involve Will Roberts.  PH now has a shot against Godwin, although the Eagles are still the favorites.  I'll be covering that game for at least a little while tomorrow night to get highlights.

 

Tangent: For those of you who don't read my weekly (FREE) wrap-up columns, I've been devoting quite a bit of space this season to the history of Central Region baseball.  These pieces appear as the second half of my Week-in-Review articles.  They normally run on Monday, but, due to the tie-breaker game today, this week's runs tomorrow.

 

I've covered topics ranging from the first Central Region championship (Highland Springs in 1968) to the 1994 Clover Hill state champs to the 1979 Colonial District title race, and several other stories.  Tomorrow's topic is the 2007 James River Rapids state championship squad.  You can find these on www.VirginiaPreps.com, and, as I said, these are all free articles.  For anyone who knows about / cares about the history of the region, I hope they're fun reads.

I've seen two RTD line scores indicating games where Patrick Henry got one-hit, with Ches Harrington getting the only hit both times.  Today's report shows PH getting only 4 hits, 2 by Harrington.

 

What has happened to the rest of the lineup's bats?  I realize they have managed to save Palmer for a big game, but no matter who is pitching, you can't win if you don't score.

BTW though obviously biased I would still rate the 2007 JR squad as the best I've personally ever seen.  The pitchers got a lot of attention, but what made them truly the best was how strong they were 1-9 in the lineup and especially defensively, led by catcher Tyler Gruhl in particular.  Somewhere I have data on how few runs they gave up in their 19-0 start.  They played in a district that featured 5 opposing future pro draft pitchers in Midlothian's Tyler Wilson, Clover Hill's Sean Tierney and Hunter Ackerman (who later moved to Cosby), L.C. Bird's Matt Laney and Cosby's Ronnie Shaban.  That was the heyday of Dominion District baseball!  It took a strong lineup just to score consistently that year.

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