Dominion District Tournament

Midlo Dad you are correct.
The games will be played at Cosby with the Bird/Clover Hill game at 2:15 and James River/Monacan game to follow or at 4:30. Not sure about the next day as far as who will play when.

do all the District tournaments start on Monday?

FYI...

http://www.dominiondistrict.co...DBaseballBracket.pdf

do other districts have a site like this?

Thanks!

Central District Tournament: (Tuesday)

1)Dinwiddie vs 4) Prince George 5:30
2)Matoaca vs 3)Thomas Dale (30 minutes after first game)

All games at Matoaca High School

Capital District (all at Hanover):

Tuesday:

Lee-Davis vs Henrico 5:00
Atlee vs Hanover 7:30

Thursday:

Winners @ 7:00

All district tourney schedules for the Central Region were actually posted on p. C-3 of the RTD this morning. A rare case of our local paper being on top of things and helpful!

Bird beat Clover Hill 4 -1 and will play Manchester tomorrow at 2:30.
Monacan beat James River 7 - 3 and will play Cosby at 4:30.

isnt that an upset for James River to lose? Thought someone said Monacan was a big underdog

I would say that's an upset. Monacan has had quite a struggle this year, so this win is a big plus for the end of their season. JR has suffered from youthful errors all season long, but to score only 3 runs indicates they came in flat. Either that or the Monacan pitcher (Bays?) had the best game of his season.

But I didn't see the game. Did anyone here see it?

Did LCB use both Kaufman and Conner for its game, or did they manage to save one for tomorrow?

tournament website says kauffman pitched the entire game.

Monacan sounds like they are a very dangerous team right now...anyone would do well to take them very seriously

I have a feeling that playing Cosby on their home field today will bring an end to that, as it would have to JR had they won yesterday.

Kaufmann pitched the entire game for Bird so they will have Conner and Lohr to throw at Manchester.
Monacan players came out hitting big yesterday and Bays kept the JR hitters off balance all game. Very effective and efficient against them. I'm not sure who they have left to throw at Cosby today, but they have to be pumped about the win against JR.

Yes, James River was flat. Bays was hitting spots and keeping the young JR hitters off balance. They did not know what was coming, and a few were popping up consistently early in game with the wind at their face. IMO they did not adjust to seeing Bays the second & third time through the line up. Monacan was agressive and had some really good at bats that led to extra bases and RBIs. Monacan also pressured the young JR pitchers/catcher when they got someone on base resulting in many more fastballs than they would have normally seen. Hats off to the Monacan battery for pitch calling and execution.

Monacan outplayed James River in every aspect of the game, and then put them away in the 7th. They picked a good time to get their fourth win of the season. I don't know who their second pitcher is but we're about to find out.

LCBird has Hunter Lohr and Nick Connor (and the kitchen sink) available to pitch today.

Someone just pointed out to me that the JR coach is district coach of the year after finishing fourth and losing first game of the tournament?
Is that accurate?

True it is. Don't possibly know how Ricky Saunders could not have been picked as Coach of the Year.....

I assume he is the Manchester coach ?

Is there a specific criteria for being coach of the year?

Who votes or nominates peolple for that?

There is no specific criteria to be COY. The coaches vote on it just as they do for players. Most of the time it goes to the Coach of the Regular season champ. Every now and then we have a situation like the one we are speaking of and it ends up being a coach who didn't win the title. To be fair to River's coach, he didn't win it either year his teams' won state titles. Kind of ironic...

Then maybe it was a "make up" call?

On a different note, I have a question about who advances to the regional tourney.

I know that since Manchester was the regular season champ, they move on no matter what.

The second team to move on is whoever plays Manchester in the final or whoever wins the tournament Thursday if the Manchester bus can't find the Cosby field today?

Yes, that's right. Manchester will play Central District's #2 team next Tuesday at 4:30. The #2 team from the Dominion will play at Dinwiddie at 7 next Tuesday, as well.

It wouldn't surprise me if someone did honor Coach Schu on sort of an accumulated basis, given that he has missed out to others in his first three years as head.

This year may have been his best job yet, given that they start 7-8 freshmen and sophomores and they finished THIRD (not fourth) in the district.

These votes are taken before tournament play, so that didn't factor in.

James River should contend next year. By 2012, they have a chance to dominate the region along the lines of what Manchester did this year.

The first state championship he won was impressive- some could argue the work had already been done and he had to just not mess it up !

I guess even if that is the opinion sometimes not messing with what works is an accomplishment in itself

However, when they won the second one THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE. Made alot of people take notice and realize this coach is the real deal...too bad he wasnt rewarded with recognition....my guess is he would tell you the ring(s) he probably has is recognition enough

Who was coah of the year in that District the year he won his second state championship back to back?

Lowery (Both times, I believe)

The 2007 JR team was just flat out loaded. Though the two pitchers most relied on were juniors then, the rest of the team was hip deep in quality seniors. There were no weak links on that team. Lowery won COY that year, though, due to his having built Cosby into a contender in its first year, despite having absolutely no seniors at the school in 2007.

The 2008 JR team struggled as a lot of new guys suddenly found themselves starters. They hit their stride late in the regular season and put together a winning streak to win the state championship. Lowery again was COY as Cosby won the regular season title and JR, at the end of the regular season, appeared to have had an inconsistent year to that point. Frankly I thought then that the Cosby team was more talented top to bottom and had it not been for the weather disruptions to the state quarterfinal round games, Cosby might well have won it all. But weird things happen in single elimination.

Last year JR had almost nothing returning and yet came within an out of making the regional tourney after finishing second in the regular season. If anyone had any lingering doubts about Schu's ability to mold a team, 2009 should've put them to bed.

This year was really a year for building experience among a strong group of young players. I can definitely see them rising high the next two years, maybe even for a 3-year run. One thing they definitely will have is 2 top quality pitchers in Kirby and Roberts. Kirby is a sophomore lefty running 87-89 with a nasty curve and more. Roberts is only a freshman but already 87-89 with strong arm-side run and developing secondary stuff. Both play tough travel schedules from June through October, so both figure to progress well year to year going forward. Should be good years for Rapids fans. Expect lots of college and pro scouts in the stands, RADAR guns blazing.

And that's to say nothing of the young stud bats they have. I don't know where sophomore Collin Lawless' average wound up, but it's sky high. Mac Caples hit a bunch of HR's, and is the first freshman I've ever seen bat cleanup for a contending varsity team.

To be fair, I don't see where Cosby or Manchester are going to fall back, either, so the next few years could make for some great contests to watch. I'm just glad they moved starting times back to 4:30 so I can get to a few games here and there.

Certainly these coaches get some good kids to work with in the Dominion District...think how much money is being spent on hitting, pitching, weight trainig, speed training and the like to put these kids on the field!

Bird just beat Manchester in 8 innings. Manchester was up 9-2 going into the 7th, Bird ties it up to go into extras. They then score 4 in the 8th and shut Manchester down. What a comeback!

Forgot to mention that the Cosby / Monacan game was postponed due to the Bird / Manchester going into extra innings. They did not want to start a game and have to call it due to darkness, so they will play tomorrow at 4:30.

I still can't believe LCBird came back in the top of the 7th to steal that game. If I wasn't there myself, I would not have believed it. As the old saying goes....."that is why they play the game". Two upsets so far in the District tournament, could there be more?

I'm glad to see the final will mean something as either team has to win to advance.

was a good central district match up last night in matoaca- matoaca advanced to play dinwiddie with both of those teams guaranteed a spot in regional tournament
sounds like that manchester game was unbelievable- wish i could have been there but at the same time had to be hard to watch

Bird does have Conner for Thursday game. They pitched Lohr and Vaughan through six. Conner threw 15 pitches to close out two innings. Bird is very young team this year made up of mostly Sophmores and Juniors they have 8 returning starters back next year.

Fenway,

How many pitches did Kaufman throw on Monday? From what I read it sounded like he had a pretty efficient outing that day.

I'd think LCB would prefer to get what it could out of him and then close with Conner, but that all depends on whether Kaufman is good to go/safe to go.

Game time decision maybe?

If both guys are good to go, then LCB has a real shot with a full game's worth of strong pitching to put out there. The key for them is to turn in a 21-out defensive effort. If they do that it can be a dog fight. If they don't, it can be a Cosby romp.

BTW, somebody needs to stand up and notice that Bryce Harman kid. 2 hits Monday, 4 on Tuesday, only a freshman folks!

Is the Dominion District tournament the only one where the second regional bid is on the line?

In central Matoaca and Dinwiddie are in

In colonial DSF and Godwin are in

Not sure about Capital- Think i heard LD lost so maybe that one is up in the air?

Alot of baseball left to be played in teh Dominion it seems.

I assume Cosby has all its pitching to work with?

In the Capital, Henrico upset Lee-Davis, and Hanover beat Atlee, setting up a loser goes home showdown between Henrico and Hanover on Thursday. Winner heads to Freeman next week.

So we know so far....

Matoaca @ Manchester

Monacan/Cosby/LCB @ Dinwiddie

Henrico/Hanover Winner @ DSF

Godwin vs. LD?

I have to be out of town next Tuesday. I hope it rains! I'd like to see at least one of those games.

Midlo - We'll both find out tomorrow what the LCBird pitching plan is. I'm not going to guess, because I've been wrong all year! I just hope my plane gets back in time so I can see the final game.

I imagine LCB's # 1 pitcher will see limited pitches after a 100+ outing on Monday- may be safe to get an inning or two from him...that even questionable after two days-
Likely starter has to be Conner then fill in the middle and try to get #1 on the mound to finish it.

Who does Cosby have available? Someone said they used their #1 yesterday to beat Monacan