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High School Season

H HighspeedMember
Freshman sons HS tryouts start today. He is very excited. We attended a college fair they had at his school last night. I think was a good motivator for him. When we were leaving he asked if we could swing by the indoor cages and get some BP in, we did, and he seemed a bit more focused. I heard they typically have 60 – 70 kids try out for both Varsity & JV. I’ll let you know if he takes the first step to playing at a higher level and makes his HS team. Weather - 30degrees right now high 47, at least no snow or rain.
D 24&34Dad10+ posts
First day of tryouts. 34 is a sophmore who started as the JV catcher last year and was called up to varsity for the playoffs. After a lot of cage work and conditioning, he is primed. For the past week or so he has been counting the minutes so that he could get back on the field with his teammates. With seven seniors gone from last years state semifinal team and a few freshman coming in who know the game and can play, plus a pair of junior transfers, it is going to be an exciting week of tryouts. Both JV and Varsity should have solid squads.

Looking forward to some warm weather Smile and the first pitch. Games start 3/22.
BaseballmomandCEPBaseballmomandCEP1,000+ posts
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It did not get below 70 degrees last night.



2bMOM I had to LOL at that picture ----you Southerners ARE wimps! Wink You should SEE the layers we wear in spring and fall ball in CT. (I can only imagine NH and Vermont baseball!) I wear almost all the layers I have for skiing, plus we all bring sleeping bags or quilts to wrap around us. One of the dads is going to bring out a portable chiminea this spring as long as the fire marshall doesn't mind.

But I just can't wait!!! 2 more weeks til official conditioning (but they have been indoor as a team since January), 3 weeks til school tryouts, 1st game exactly one month away, I hope the snow is gone by then!
JMoffJMoff1,000+ posts
We had our first "points game" which in AZ means one of the 18 that counts towards seeding in the tournament.

JR had a no hitter deep into the 5th (meaning he had two outs and an error prevented the third out). Then gave up three unearned runs before he restored order for his first win of the season.

A good way to start the "official" season.
GM Gingerbread Man500+ posts
Whew...I can finally breathe again! Sons HS tryouts finally finished and son made the varsity team. He is looking forward to the challenge of varsity on the one hand and a little nervous on the other that some of the older kids didn't make it. He hopes that it doesn't create any hard feelings with his older peers. I believe he was the only freshman to make varsity this year and was told that he needs to perform. He and I are both nervous and excited though and really hope for the best for the entire baseball program at our school. It is pleasing for him to set a goal and achieve the first step of that goal by making the HS team. His next goal is to be able to perform at that level against the older kids and just fit in with the team.
2Bmom2Bmom1,000+ posts
Congrats to all of your boys! We had a good game on Tuesday night - won 5-1. Tomorrow night we play away against the team that we were playing when a collision at 3rd took out our catcher. Hopefully there will be no drama and we can just play the game. (and win again Big Grin)

Golf tournament fundraiser on Saturday. High of 78 expected. Cool
J Johnkc6622010+ posts
First day of practice for freshman son. The team started tryouts and practice at the beginning of the week; however son wasn't able to attended due to the fact that he was participating in State for bowling. He's a little nervous about missing the first week, but wouldn't have traded the experience of being 1 of 7 freshman making across the state to make it to State Bowling.
W WinBuc44100+ posts
Yesterday was a 'wake up and smell the coffee day'. It's been unseasonably warm here SC the last couple of weeks and us parents have been spoiled by it the last few scrimmage games. Sitting around the field in shorts and tee shirts but our scrimmage game yesterday in the upstate under bone chilling cold rain was a reminder of the cold evenings ahead as the regular season starts.

It was one of those days where you have to drive an hour and a half to get to the other school and the weatherman is calling for rain all day. Before leaving the house you check the radar on TV and all you see is a big green/yellow blob about to cover up the HS destination the game is being held at.

You almost don't want to make the drive thinking that it's going to be cancelled anyway when you get there. The wife is complaining that the coaches should call and tell parents that the game is either on or off and I remind her that we go unless you hear from the coach or our son that it's cancelled. If there is one thing we learned over the last 14 years it's you show up unless you hear otherwise. Rain, hurricane, tornado, hail, a-bomb. If the coach doesn't say its cancelled....be there.

Anyway, the game was held, the rain started at first pitch. It was cold. The 7th inning was played and then the umpires left, but you probably know what happened next. The coaches of each team conferred at the plate and on we went into the 8th, sans umpires. Then the ninth. Then the top of the tenth just to give one of the home guy's pitcher a chance to throw some. Almost all of the 'home' parents had left. Half of our parents were in their cars with the heat blasting to thaw out various body parts that had been in direct contact with frozen aluminum for too long. Finally, three and a half hours from the first pitch we were free. The kids all grabbed a hot dog and chips plate kindly supplied by host school and it was over just like that.

But ya know? It beat the he-ll out of being cooped up at home watching TV. I loved it!
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2Bmom2Bmom1,000+ posts
We're now 10-0. But that means we're almost halfway through the regular season! Frown

Good night for 2B last Friday with the grandparents watching against our best district rival. Complete game 2-hitter, 10 Ks, 3 for 4. When he would come out to warm up between innings, the home PA would play Sesame Street songs. We started hollering for the Barney song, the Oompa Loompa song, then they finally just played Hell's Bells. It was the walk-up song for their first hitter that inning, but it was appropriate. Big Grin Away win last night, bottom half of the lineup came through big; another away game tonight, then back home on Friday.

I wish we would play some of these good teams on this board!
JMoffJMoff1,000+ posts
2012 LHP son threw a one hitter tonight against the defending state champs. Last year's player/pitcher of the year was on the mound for the opposing team. We won 8-0.

Things are looking up. We're 4-4, but 3-0 in games that count in the "power points" which determine state championships.

[bragging on] Son is 17 innings into the season with 0 ER. [bragging off]
W WinBuc44100+ posts
This is my kids third and last year playing HS ball and every year the day he pitches his first game I get those same unwanted worries and anxieties running through me afer not seeing him throw competetively over the winter months. Will he still know how to pitch? Will he give up 5 runs the first inning and get yanked? Will he walk everybody? Will he look just plain awful? Will he still have it after such a long layoff? Has he lost it? And then the game finally comes and he throws a complete game 2 hitter racking up 10 K's in a classic pitcher's dual 1-0 win. I don't know if other parents of pitchers feel like this before that first game but I surely hope it isn't like this when he plays in college. But at least I relax after that first ones's out of the way.
2Bmom2Bmom1,000+ posts
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When he would come out to warm up between innings, the home PA would play Sesame Street songs.


I thought there were rules against things like that.


As long as time is called and whoever's doing the music pays attention to when time is back in, it's no problem. Or are you talking about the Sesame Street songs? That's fine, too. Bring it! Smile
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W WinBuc44100+ posts
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Originally posted by Momof1B:
WinBuc, I am with ya...I am a pacer when 1B pitches for his high school team. I immediately get up from my chair and pace. Sending telepathic messages to him on the mound...


Yep. I'm a wanderer too. His Mom sits in the bleachers the entire game but does keep a book to keep her calm. I gotta be movin. I start out in the bleachers, then the left field line, then next to the snack bar, then back up to the bleachers and so on. In really tight games or when he's got a no hitter going by the 5th I'm in the street looking through the fence! I have made a pact with him and his Mom that other than "that a boy", I'm not allowed to say anything else. It is very hard to not yell some sort of instruction to him when you see him struggling a bit but I'm able to refrain mostly because of the great respect and confidence I have in his coaching staff.

I'm hoping next year the seating layout in the stadium will keep me in one place...but I doubt it!
S slbaseballdad100+ posts
I'm sure its not a proper reflection of the entire U.S., but, I continue to be amazed and impressed by the number of underclassmen that make varsity teams on this board.

I've seen the rosters for my son's HS for the past 6 years. In not one of those years was there a freshman on the varsity team and maybe 2 that were on the JV teams in the same 6 years. This year, all freshman are on the Sophomore team except 2. Fortunately my son is on the Soph team and the starting catcher.

I don't think its because we are a powerhouse. Must be philosphy driven. (I guess)

Alot of great stories here.
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