Beach District Tournament

Stoney,

The tournament starts this Saturday....

May 17, 8 vs 1 10:00 a.m. (Landstown vs.....
4 vs 5 1:00 p.m.
2 vs 7 4:00 p.m.
3 vs 6 7:00 p.m.

I think the rest of the tournament is Monday, 19 May and Wednesday at 21 May.

Thunderstorms are forecast for Friday.

Concern is that the tarp may have to stay on the field overnight in order to have the field ready for Saturday's games.

Dilema, Landstown is scheduled to play in the first game at 10am. I hope they (the players) don't have to get their early to pull the tarp and then play.

I am sure Coach Mungin has a game-plan for this scenario.

Thats what JV players are for

anyone have any idea what the pairings are?? seems to be a log jam in the middle

If the tie break is head to head, I think this would be the correct final standings:

LN 13-2
PA 12-4
Cox 11-5
OL 9-7 (2-1 in tie break games)
BA 9-7 (2-2 in tiebreak games)
KL 9-7 (1-2 in tie break games)
SA 7-8 (holds tie break over Kemp and FC)
KM 7-9 (holds tie break over FC)
FC 7-9
TW 2-14
GR 1-15

The Tarp is being pulled off the field as I type.

The weather forecast calls for Sunny/mid 70's.

The concession stand will be open and stocked with alot of food and cold beverages.

The day is going to be long full of baseball............... This must be Heaven.

I'll see you there at 1PM. I might need a recap for the first game. I'm hiring my daughter to take pictures. I dont know if she realizes it's for three baseball games.

have fun.

Landstown 4 Kempsville 0
Ocean Lakes 9 Bayside 4
Salem 7 Princess Anne 5
Kellam 5 Cox 1

What a great day for baseball. Got a little sun, tired and worn out, but loved every minute of the day.

Real good games today with some upsets aplenty.

Home Runs hit today by OL Pat Hall; Baysides Zaine Jack and Kellam's Ryan Kilmon. (Ben Tomchick just missed the left-field 330 mark by 3-4 feet)

Halls was an instant no-doubter as was Kilmon's; great efort by the OL outfielder trying to get to Jack's and bring it back.

Kilmon's was the biggest, a Grand Slam which broke a 0-0 tie in the third.

Most impressive pitching performances is a toss-up between Landstown's Michael Curry in relief of the Eagles starter Cameron Butler at the top-half of the 6th (Butler struck out 9 allowing only 3 hits). He came in with a 1-0 lead and allowed 0-hits and zero runs.

Ben Tomchick came in relief of PA starter Dylan Hudson trailing 6-2 and pretty much shut-down the Sun-Devils offense with only un-earned run.

Salem pitcher Rey Centeno (chksp)did a nice job in relief; coming in the 2nd going 52/3rd's strong innings before the Cavaliers started to catch-up scoring 3 runs with two-outs.

But,the performance of Kellam's Jeff Difulgo was probably the most gutsy keeping the Cox Falcon hitters off-balance with a nasty splitter.

The best defense performance; Landstown. Ocean Lakes,Kellam and Salem were all solid. Landstown turned several double-plays and did not commit an error.

Small-Ball: Both Landstown and Salem executed suicide-squeezes for runs and several sacrifice bunts. The best bunt for a hit was by Kellam's batter in the top of the 7th (sorry didn't catch the name).

Players of the Day:
Concession workers and Field crew and great job by the Game(s) Announcer; I really liked the music selection.

Tuesday / May 20th
4:00pm Landstown vs Ocean Lakes
7:00pm Kellam vs Salem

Photos by Kim Garlick

Beach district Photos

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Originally posted by wgarlick:
Photos by Kim Garlick

Beach district Photos

Great job Ms Garlick

Great photos.. I am a little partial to the photo #39 of the Freshman Catcher for Ocean Lakes.. best shot I got to see all yr!!!

Thanks for the photos. Very nice!

well Landstown is already in playing granby game 1.the other spot will either go to a 4 seed or 6 or 7 seed.Cox and kempsville will not be back in the eastern region this year.

I think that goes to show how tough the beach district was this yr.. everyone beating up on each other.

i wouldn't really consider the beach to be a tough year this year...it was basically a year on what team could play consistent. there aren't nearly as many standout players this year as there have been in the past

The measure of how good a district is in a season, is how their two qualifying teams compete in the region. This is where it matters if you want to win something significant.

i agree and i don't think we will be seeing any beach teams in the state tournament this year

Anyone know if the games are still on for today??

As of this minute.....yes.

SEMIFINAL

Ocean Lakes 10 Landstown 4

Salem 12 Kellam 2

Note: Missed the first game.

OL put a 5 spot on the board in the first off starter K. Lawhorn. Jesse Mcartney followed in relief in the 2nd (a pre-game decision)pitching a real nice 3 innings of shut-out ball.

With the score 5-4 favor of OL,a walk-a-thon ensued in the top of the 5th with Landstown pitching failing to find the strike zone.

Arrived with Salem in the lead 4-0 only to watch them tack on 4 more for a 8-0 after 1.(I was told Robbie Newman tacked on another HR???)

The pattern for both teams in the tourney has been to get out to a big lead early.

Big Championship game for bothe teams with the winner joining Landstown in the Regionals.

Best of Luck to both teams.

Newman didn't hit a HR, what he did hit was a long fly ball to right field that the fielder turned and ran towards the fence and never looked back for.

It dropped behind him for a base clearing triple.

Ocean Lakes hammered Salem, I believe 11-0. It was also announced that Indian River beat Hickory 4-1... Lots of parity in the area, apparently.

Congrats to both Ocean Lakes and Indian River.

10am Landstown vs Granby
1PM Hampton vs Indian River
4PM Maury vs Ocean Lakes
7PM Western Branch vs Bethel