regular season discussion

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Originally posted by RedRaiders:
Sorry to rain on everyones Class L and Class I parade but there are also 2 other classes in New Hampshire that produce ball players just as good as the "top classes" as you guys would call them. I totally agree with JBall in this case. Promoting your players is on thing but you leave other players out of the conversation that also play well thats a little one way. Cote from Winnisquam also threw a No-Hitter on Monday the 12th... I mean come on guys you obviously read the monitor seeing how you put a link on here from it, but you constantly leave out the class M teams...

So you're telling me I should write about players I don't know and games I didn't see? I'm not a sports reporter I just posts about the gusy who play for me or the games I see. If you want to talk about other players or games you saw or played in there is nobody stopping you. Quit complaining and start discussing.

Just got back from Chicago, trying to catch up on these threads. Did I read somewhere that someone wanted a Showcase League commercial?

Ask and you shall receive my friends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ture=player_embedded

p.s Saw the Cubs v. Brewers from Wrigley on Thursday, Wrigleyville is awesome.

Just in Bedford blanks John Stark 3-0. Seniors Kevin White and Matt Woodmansee combine for the shutout. White goes 5 in his first start of the year. More to come....

BG won today against West 7-2 or 8-2. Didn't get any details other than Alex Trammell going 2-2 with a single, double, walk. (He's the one who called me, so that's all the info I have.)

A South player just came in... they lost to Trinity 4-2. It was 1-0 into the bottom of the 6th and South tied it up, but Trinity answered with 3 in the seventh. South had bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th but only got away with 1 run.

Connor Lyons made a great catch in deep center against Ryan Gendron.

Alex Trammell is a great kid, one of my favorites he seems to be off to a good start too.

in New Durham today....
STA defeated Kingswood 14-1 in 5inn. Jonny Hayes threw well for STA. 5 hr for STA.
FYI...Weds game vs Bedford has been moved up to Tues 4/20 @ STA.

I watched the first five innings of Milford Vs. Lebanon. Tough day at the office for Milford having to face Jake Woodward. He blanked Milford through four and had an 11-0 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth. Lebanon made a bunch of defensive changes, apparently in an effort to get some kids in while anticipating a mercy rule win, and Milford put two runs on the board with two out as I left.

Milford used three pitchers through the first five innings. Starter gave up five, while the two relievers gave up three a piece. Very little offense from Milford, but that's to be expected against one of the best in the state in Woodward. He seemed to tire in the fifth as Milford did start to get the ball to the outfield and Lebanon played some sloppy fifth inning defense.

As promised, more on Bedford - 3 vs John Stark - 0. It was an umpire's dream game with zero walks issued by either team - played in a crisp hour and 25 minutes. White struck out 3 and Woodmansee 2 for Bedford. A shout out to Jeremy Bolton who pitched a complete game in the losing effort for the Generals. D. Woods (catcher) had both of Stark's hits, but left the game with an injury in the bottom of the 6th. The Bulldogs did hit the ball hard without a K, but were limited to six hits led by Zach Husband (3B,1B,1Run) and Nate Harrington (2B,2Runs). Joey Maher added an RBI single. Bedford now 2-1 travels to St. Thomas tomorrow (20-Apr) for an important early season matchup with the 4-0 Saints.

Alvirne lost to Dover today. Had a lead of 7-1 and ended up losing 8-7.

Just had a parent stop in. North lost to Salem 8-5 at Holman tonight. I wanted to go, but had a bunch of players in for hitting and workouts so I couldn't make it. North was up early but Salem scored a bunch of runs in one inning to take the lead. Poore pitched for Salem, but the parent didn't think he threw the whole game. He said Morency and Turner (edit - no McGowan) threw for North.

Londonderry beat Keene today 6-4. Not sure on details just got a message from a Londonderry Parent.

Milford vs Lebanon looked like it was going to be a quick mercy rule game, with Jake Woodward dominating Milford hitters. In the 5th, Milford put runners on for Me and I hit 2 in. We got 2 more in that inning but gave it quickly back in that next half inning. Jake stopped pitching in the 6th but it was too late for us. Milford vs Hollis in Hollis tomorrow. Should be a good game.

Any Somersworth updates? They had started the season 2-0.

I just saw on the NHIAA website that St. T mercy ruled Bedford, any reports? Who pitched for Bedford. Also today on WGAM out of nashua, Coach Bill Dodd was on talking about Class I, he mentioned that St. T had 3 Division 1 players, I know about Johnson and Coppinger who else do they have that is playing D1 next spring? Anyone know?

Pretty good match up tomorrow Bishop Guertin at Londonderry. This may be the final match up between BG's Londonderry resident and GSBA Fan Favorite Alexandar Trammell and his long time teammate Londonderry's Geoff Fisher. I have seen these two playing together since they were probably 9 or 10 years old, a Fisher v. Trammell match up would be pretty great, although I think that Fish pitches Fridays.

STA pushed past Bedford today in Dover final score was 13-3 in 6 inn. Jordan Bean started for the Saints gave up 1 run. Eddie Conroy tossed the last 2 inn. to finish it out. Olin and Obrien pitched for the Bulldogs. Sta jumped out to a 6-0 in the first inn.
STA is off until next Tuesday when they face Ports.HS in Cooperstown, NY.

In Regard to STA players next year....Coppinger is @ Canisius(D1), Johnson in @ Tampa (D2), Others players may be going to D1 schools but not to play baseball.

I noticed some strange Class I schedules when I was on the nhiaa site today. I understand the break for april vaca but it seems odd to play one game per week over the next two. I was looking at the Bedford schedule specifically thinking they could throw their best pitcher three games in a row on full rest.

Congrats to STA...they hit the hell out of the ball (my book had 12-28, .431 clip) and Jordan Bean pitched well. Three home runs by STA, including one by Coppinger in the bottom of the first on the first pitch thrown by Olen. Coppinger, as usual, was strong in center field...Ben Johnson had three hits, while his brother(didn't get his first name) had a double and a home run. Mucher also homered for STA. 12 hits on the afternoon for the locals. Jeff Gancarz had two hits for Bedford, while Joey Maher hit a two run double. Ryan Gancarz pitched well over the final 2 1/3 innings for Bedford. These two play again on May 5th in Bedford. Strong showing by STA. Would like to be in Cooperstown next Tuesday to see the Portsmouth/STA game.

What's the story with Jordan Bean? Is he a senior?

Glad to see R. Gancarz on the hill, I'm a fan. Has Joey Maher pitched other than his no hitter this year?

I believe Bean is a sophomore. That was Ryan's first appearance of the year...and Joey's only appearance so far has been the no hitter.

I work up in the Albany NY at the college which is about an hour plus drive to the Cooperstown area. What field are they playing on, possible Double Day Stadium. If you know of the field or have additional info like time and possible other games to see, please respond back I wouldn't mind driving up to watch the game.

Doubleday Field.. 1:30 PM, 4-27-10

Ben is playing DII at Tampa.. and the center fielder is playing for a D1 school but I think thats it. They are strong this year. I was talking to Ben a couple days ago.. Hes been hitting the ball pretty well so far this season.

Nice to see Trinity off to a good start.
They will need as many early wins as possible. The schedule gets rough in the 2nd Third of the season.
Obviously they are getting major contributions from a few Sophs. Good for them.

Souhegan moves to 2-0 on the season with a 10-3 victory at John Stark today. Matt Schagrin picks up his second win of the season going five innings.

Nashua North bats finally came alive as they beat Keene 11-1 at Holman in a mercy rule game. Kyle Turner had 2 Homeruns and Alex Morency had 1 to lead the offense. Kevin Mcgowan was strong on the mound for his 2nd win of the year. North plays BG at Holman at 7:00 Friday night.

EATMAN I was at the game, must have missed you, although I sat right behind home plate not behind either dug out.

Merrimack 7 Timberlane 3

In a battle of Class L Aces Tom Hudon got the better of PJ Singster on this occasion.

Timberlane was out in front early with a 2-0 lead with two down in the bottom of the third things unraveled for Timberlane. Colby Hoyle, Tom Hudon, Chris Kinney, Pat Parker, all had consecutive hits followed by some more solid hitting by the end of the Tomahawks order for a six run 3rd. Merrimack would add an additional run in the fourth and hold on to win. Hudon 7IP, 2 ER, 8 ks.

Timberlane 1B Dan Armstrong had a shot RBI Double for the visitors.

I also took in the Keene vs. North game at Holman tonight.

As Eatman said the bats really came alive, Kyle Turner had a two run homer that scored Morency. Mike Muse double and scored on a Joe Breen sac fly early. In the fourth Kevin McGowan had a 2 run double followed by a double by Breen which scored McGowan and made it 7-1. That was followed by Alex Morency hitting a two run homer which sailed over the Toyota sign at Holman. The next batter was Kyle Turner who hit his second homer of the night, making it back to back for Morency and Turner and a 9-1 Titans lead. The Titans coach emptied the bench and got the reserves into the game. In the sixth a leadoff walk followed by a Keon Jenkins single which moved the runner to third and into scoring position for freshmen catcher Mortin who singled to end the game with the mercy rule.

Goffstown took care of Alvirne today 9-6. It was a fairly sloppy game with Goffstown coming out to an early lead on a couple home runs and taking advantage of some errors. Alvirne clawed back to make it 7-6 in the 6th, but couldn't get any closer. I don't know many of the Goffstown players, but I know Riley Palmer had three hits (two doubles) and he got the save. I believe their catcher hit one of their home runs. Ryan Houle and Alvirne's leadoff batter both had multi hit games for the Broncos.


Londonderry beat BG 10-0. I guess they pushed the final run across with a squeeze... Makes sense if they are trying to save arms. (The ten run rule should only be in effect if the hitter is swinging away. How is it "mercy" when they are squeezing in a run???)

With a chance to mercy rule Keene tonight Nashua North pulled almost all starters, that was the right thing to do they still go the 10 runs but it was on hits by reserves.

My first year coaching in New Hampshire I was coaching the Freshmen Team at Merrimack and we were getting trounced by Spaulding they were up 9 runs and stealing bases to try and get the mercy rule. After the game I told the opposing coach I thought that was ridiculous to be running up the score on 14 year olds. The varsity head coach Ryan Anderson was at the game and the Spaulding coach turned to him and said something like "You let your coaching staff talk to oppposing coaches like that?"

Anderson said "were you running up the score on freshman boys?" The Spaulding Frosh coach said "We were going for the mercy rule" and Anderson said "You hit into the mercy rule, you don't run into the mercy rule."

Obviously paraphrasing the convo but you get the idea.

I just updated the GSBA website to include post tonight, emails and txt messages received visit http://www.granitestatebasebal...School_Baseball.html for todays action. If any parents want to contribute to our site and don't want to identify themselves that is not a problem, just please include score, players names and what they did in the game. If anyone has pictures or videos they want to share please email me at mcampo@granitestatebaseball.org. Also on another note I exchanged emails with Eric Emmerling from the Union Leader he told me that he does a weekly column on High School Baseball, this column is in every Thursday issue, which comes out tomorrow.

Fortin had quite the day. He caught all 7 innings for the JV game and actually scored the walk off run for the win.

Congrats to EATMAN's son on his two homer night tonight!!

Recap of Souhegan/John Stark game from the Nashua Telegraph.

SOUHEGAN 10, JOHN STARK 3

Junior Matt Schagrin threw five strong innings, striking out three, and helped his own cause at the plate with two hits to lead the Sabers (2-0) to a win over the Generals in Weare.

Nick Hession threw the final two innings, striking out three while Chris Almeida and Terry Dugdale each drove in two.

Winnacunnet won 3-2 against Manchester Central on Wednesday. Winnacunnet's Brent Edmunds out-dueled Central's Kevin Veilleux on the mound. Both pitchers went the full 7 inning but Edmunds' 7 strike-outs, 2 walks and 1 earned run helped Winnacunnet get the win. Edmunds also hit two line-drive singles off Veilleux. One in the 5th to tie the score 2-2. Brian Klapes connected in the bottom of the 7th and hit in the go ahead run. It was a great game.

Winnisquam improved to 3-1 with a 10-0 win over Gilford yesterday. Kyle Pratt doubled and drove in 3 runs and Justin Dorr finished 2-3 with a double and 2 runs scored. Jordan Cote struck out 7 in his 3 innings pitched and gave up 1 hit, the first of the season. Brian Wadleigh took over on the mound in the 4th with a 10-0 lead and struck out 1 and gave up 1 hit in his first varsity outing. This was Winnisquam's third mercy rule win of the season.

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Originally posted by SMAN14:
My first year coaching in New Hampshire I was coaching the Freshmen Team at Merrimack and we were getting trounced by Spaulding they were up 9 runs and stealing bases to try and get the mercy rule. After the game I told the opposing coach I thought that was ridiculous to be running up the score on 14 year olds. The varsity head coach Ryan Anderson was at the game and the Spaulding coach turned to him and said something like "You let your coaching staff talk to oppposing coaches like that?"

Anderson said "were you running up the score on freshman boys?" The Spaulding Frosh coach said "We were going for the mercy rule" and Anderson said "You hit into the mercy rule, you don't run into the mercy rule."

Obviously paraphrasing the convo but you get the idea.

Ando... I played AAU for him for 3 years. He's one of the biggest influences on my baseball career and he's definitely a "respect the game" kind of guy. I can see him saying all of that "paraphrasing". The 10-run rule allows (promotes?) decisions that can disrespect the other team. Talking to a BG player last night, I told him they shouldn't have been down 9-0 in the first place. There are factors... protecting arms, losing daylight, locking up the win, getting home in time for sportscenter...

Story time... my soph year, we were beating Concord 10-1 after the top of the 6th and we left runners on that inning. For 5 1/2 innings, we were dominating. Then Concord scored 15 - fifteen - runs in the bottom of the 6th and we lost 16-10 after a 1-2-3 7th. We just couldn't get outs. Our record was 14-2 going into the game... and we just got beat. Baseball is a funny game. I just like full games... you never know what's going to happen.

Was expecting more from Clayton Welch on the mound yesterday based on previous posts on him.

He was pretty average, a few walks and several good solid hits off him.

The 4 balks really stood out.

It is true his defense didn't help on several plays, but from the previous posts I would not have recognized him in person on the mound.

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Originally posted by bbl4life:
Winnisquam improved to 3-1 with a 10-0 win over Gilford yesterday. Kyle Pratt doubled and drove in 3 runs and Justin Dorr finished 2-3 with a double and 2 runs scored. Jordan Cote struck out 7 in his 3 innings pitched and gave up 1 hit, the first of the season. Brian Wadleigh took over on the mound in the 4th with a 10-0 lead and struck out 1 and gave up 1 hit in his first varsity outing. This was Winnisquam's third mercy rule win of the season.

What impresses me the most about Winnisqquam is their hitters ability to foul off pitches when they have two strikes. They keep battling when they are down in the count, an even if they don't get on they will where down an opposing teams starter.