Eastern Regionals

Cox 6, Bethel 4

Cox scored five runs in the sixth inning.
Cox will meet Western Branch on Wednesday at 5:00 pm.

Indian River 9, Granby 4

Dean Ali pitched five strong innings and gets the win. Granby scored three runs in the top of the seventh to make the score a little closer. Errors hurt Granby tonight.

quote:

Originally posted by WB Reporter:
Indian River 9, Granby 4

Dean Ali pitched five strong innings and gets the win. Granby scored three runs in the top of the seventh to make the score a little closer. Errors hurt Granby tonight.

This looks just like my blog.

Wgarlick, Guess we watched the same game. I dictated the result, via cell, to my spouse and I certainly was not following your blog at the field.

WB vs Cox
IR vs Menchville

not so sure if WB can win without Thompson on the mound, but still should be a good game

Ali did not throw very many pitches, so IR should be able to throw a balanced attack at Menchville; not very familiar with the Monarchs, who else can throw if Carter is unavailable?

WB should do fine with Johnsonbaugh (am assuming that he will pitch) on the mound. Should be a good game.

Imagine that Crissmon will throw for Menchville versus Indian River.

First want to say great job Coach Wright, Thompson and the rest of the WB Bruins... represented very well against a very tough Maury team with Cowgill on the mound.

In our game, Granby allowed our sloppy play to go unpunished as they made quite a few errors of their own.

Nonetheless, I'm very proud of Dean, as he was able to hold the Comets to no runs & 2 hits over 5 innings, striking out 8 on a day where he didn't have his best stuff.

Alley (1-2, 2 R, BB) & Dickason (3-4, 3 R) were there table-setters, and Cartwright (2-3, RBI) & Shockley (2-run 2B) hit the ball hard and produced some runs.

Menchville will have Chrismon (ECU-signee) on the mound Wednesday. He has a live arm (87-89) with a fairly sharp breaking ball and good control, similar to the Cotton kid that threw last night, just about 5 inches taller and about 50 lbs bigger...

They have a staff over there... we'll see what happens.

Agreed, Menchville has a pitching staff worthy of many colleges. Don't be surprised to see Cotton come in and try to close it out should Chrismon run into trouble. That kid looked better than Carter to me

Congratulations to all the winners yesterday at regionals. Looks like menchville's pitching was pretty dominant against a good hitting team from First Colonial. Looked like Carter wasn't as sharp as usual, but made the pitches he had to make in a big game. That's what great pitcher's do. You are not goiny to have your best stuff everytime out. You have to be able to adjust and that's what Carter did. The cotton kid and along with Austin Chrismon and Matt Armstead, this is one talented group of pitcher's. That's your opinion who you think is better, but I would take anyone of them on my team. Good luck to Austin and his teammates tomorrow night against Indian River.

Wasn't meant to be a knock on Carter at all...just an indication of how good I thought Cotton looked. For all I know, Chrismon and/or Armistead may be better than them both. Amazing to have that many elite pitchers at one HS.

Menchville does have good pitchers but fc also didn't play small ball.The umpire behind the plate wasn't good.I was wondering why he stood away from the catcher.it did look like intereference at 1b from the runner.But u have to give credit to menchville they won.

Cox 3, Western Branch 2

Cox scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. A lead off single by the number eight hitter (Mattes), a sacrifice bunt which was mishandled, an intentional walk to Chris Taylor and a single to right field through the infield by Kyle Profilet scored the winning run. No outs when the winning run scored.

Cox also scored in the first. A lead off walk to Chris Taylor followed by two stolen bases and a run scoring single. Centerfielder Jordan Kidd cut down a runner at home to prevent a second run.

Matt Batten hit a double down the right field line to give the Bruins their only lead, 2-1, but Cox added a second run shortly thereafter.

One other play of note was Chris Taylor's attempted steal of home during the middle of the game. Catcher James Fiorella tagged Taylor out for the third out of the inning. (I do not remember the inning).

Ryan Mattes pitched a complete game for Cox. Shane Johnsonbaugh started for the Bruins and pitched five strong innings. Matt Batten pitched the final two innings.

Congratulations to both teams, especially Cox who advances to the finals of the Eastern Region on Thursday at 6:00 pm.