GF has scored 106 runs and have given up 11 in 13 games! Pitching is very strong but the offense can score it's a total team effort and they winning that's all counts!
I think they are getting better every game. I have seen them a few times. Better watch out!
Infiekd posted:I think they are getting better every game. I have seen them a few times. Better watch out!
You do make me laugh Infiekd. I'll give you that.
Indian River 11 Salem 0. IR pounded Salem pitching for 11 hits. Fuqua WP with 5Ks 0BBs 2H 0R in his 3 innings in 5 inning game. Spainhour 4Ks 0BBs 0H in his clean up 2 innings. IR pitching staff has 1.364 ERA for season.
IR has a talented team that is very scrappy. A definite ace in Fuqua and some good contact hitters. They are a Senior laden team though aren't they? Going to lose Fuqua, Spainhour, Kasiski and others this year. How's their crop coming up?
IR younguns are talented but very inexperienced and questionable fundamentally. IR JV program is now under new coach who stresses fundamentals which will pay dividends in future years. There are athletes, young good arms, some size and power. Just have to learn what it takes to play at Varsity level in the SED. Most of these kids don't have a clue yet.
Grassfield lost to Jamestown 8-0. Stallings pitched. Any insight? I wasn't there.
Jamestown swung it well. A lot of ground balls just hit where GF wasn't. Some hard hit balls mixed in. Jamestown threw a side arm guy that didn't throw hard but kept GF off balance all game.
Jamestown has some talent. Evan Lowry is one of the better bats in the state.
Oscar Smith 8-2 over Atlantic Shores.
Greenbrier Christian beats WB 2-0.
BaseballDad757 posted:Greenbrier Christian beats WB 2-0.
Nice win for GCA. I'm sure they would have preferred to beat a WB team at full strength, but it's a nice win nonetheless. Hopefully, WB can get healthy for the stretch run.
Oscar Smith beating Atlantic Shores soundly doesn't shock me in the least. I fully expected it.
I only know of one player missing right now and the lack of bats and many,many fundamental and mental mistakes I don't believe he can help. Gonna be a long season for them unfortunately. As far as players are concerned there is no senior leadership from what I see.
3Dbaseball posted:I only know of one player missing right now and the lack of bats and many,many fundamental and mental mistakes I don't believe he can help. Gonna be a long season for them unfortunately. As far as players are concerned there is no senior leadership from what I see.
3D.....you're partly correct. The players seem to be playing tight and not having any fun. There IS Senior leadership, trust me. I know first hand. It's a complicated season with youth and other things going on. They lost a teammate late last year and it just seems to have trickled down to a rough year. Much more going on with this team than outsiders know.
I thought they were young and a bit inexperienced but was unaware they lost a teammate. I wish them well.
Well they have a great coach and he will lead them far.
Indian River 5. Kempsville 0, Fuqua WP 0R 2H 2BBs 12Ks CG shutout
GF beats Atlantic Shores 17-1.
TriplePlay3 posted:GF beats Atlantic Shores 17-1.
Welcome to the SED Atlantic Shores
Grassfield 17, Atlantic Shores 1
Dwight Riddick, Ryan Shaver and Hunter Perdue had four hits apiece to lead the No. 3 Grizzlies, who scored a combined 13 runs in the fifth and sixth innings .
Garrett Stallings pitched a complete game for Grassfield (13-2).
Shores was within reach at 4-1 after 4 innings. Then pitching changes were made due to looming conference games and the floodgates opened....Grizzlies pounded out 13 runs in 2 innings. GF's Garrett Stallings was crisp and throwing in the low 90's. Shores' bats caught up to him numerous times but other than the first inning, were not able to string anything together. Without pitching depth, or a complete game by a dominant #1 or #2, most area private schools find it difficult, IMO, to compete with the most powerful SED and Beach District teams. Batting averages on area private school rosters are inflated against lesser pitching than is found at the top public programs.
Stallings is powerful, polished and mature on the mound, even when his defense breaks down behind him.
Gf 10- Lafayette 0 in 6 Perdue 3 hit complete game
Omigosh! Superb high school baseball game last night at Hickory High School where 2 teams, Indian River and Hickory and 4 pitchers played to the middle of the 10th inning in a 0-0 game only to have play suspended because of lightning. Hickory starter Gregory threw 7 innings 0R 8H 3BB 10Ks; River starter Fuqua matched his foe for 6 innings 0R 3H 4BB 8Ks. IR reliever Spainhour threw 3 innings 0R 2H 1BB 3Ks while Hickory reliever McCreight threw 3 innings 0R 0H 2BB 1HBP 7Ks. Wow, what a game and more to come tonight, weather permitting. On the gun Gregory was up to 89, Fuqua up to 87.
If Hickory and Indian River win out this week, they'll play a playoff game on Friday, May 20 for regular season Atlantic Conference title. Crazy thing is that both schools, I think, have their Senior Proms scheduled for that night. The Green Run upset win over Hickory threw these two teams into a tie in the Conference, befitting their marathon 10 inning 0-0 tie ended by lightning.
NotThatGuy posted:If Hickory and Indian River win out this week, they'll play a playoff game on Friday, May 20 for regular season Atlantic Conference title. Crazy thing is that both schools, I think, have their Senior Proms scheduled for that night. The Green Run upset win over Hickory threw these two teams into a tie in the Conference, befitting their marathon 10 inning 0-0 tie ended by lightning.
Who did IR lose to?
Hickory in 1st Conference game, 3-1 on errors (1 earned run).
NotThatGuy posted:Hickory in 1st Conference game, 3-1 on errors (1 earned run).
Only one game counts toward conference record. The first go round within the SED is not part of conference play...unless they are playing a home and home with each team in the conference. I don't think that's occurring considering that Hickory played 3 games over Spring Break.
In the PenSouth each team only plays each other once.
Am I missing something?
I think the schedule format varies from conference to conference. In Hickory conference I think they do play a home and home... Earlier Gregory threw a perfect game for Hickory vs Green Run... But then a couple days later Green Run turned around and beat Hickory, if I remember correctly.
TriplePlay3 posted:I think the schedule format varies from conference to conference. In Hickory conference I think they do play a home and home... Earlier Gregory threw a perfect game for Hickory vs Green Run... But then a couple days later Green Run turned around and beat Hickory, if I remember correctly.
That sounds about right! I'm so over this conference crap.
Tiebreaker if all 3 teams tie at 2-2.Granby is the 4 seed a draw was made in Sept..but if Oscar Smith beats Western Branch they will play again on Friday.if Western Branch wins and Grassfield beats Granby. Granby will play Oscar Smith on Friday.If Granby beats Grassfield the tie breaker for that is Head 2 Head.
I just call Granby. Game has been move until Thursday vs Grassfield. Rain rain go away.
OS-WB is still on.
Maury at Indian River moved from today, 5/18 to Thursday, 5/19. In first matchup at Maury on Monday, both teams' pitchers were effective. Maury's LHP Rogan threw CG very well vsRiver. Game was won by Maury in bottom 7th, down 1-0. A leadoff walk, dropped DP ball at 2nd and crushed double to RF for 2-run walkoff by Maury's Thompson spelled loss for River and RHP Spainhour, also a CG thrower.
Who is the WB coach kidding.
He is over throwing arms all day.
Below Written by Jami Frankenberry
jami.frankenberry@pilotonline.com
The constant rain in recent weeks has South Hampton Roads baseball coaches playing the role of Dr. Frankenstein, plotting the best formula for preserving their pitching staffs.
“It’s like a mad science right now,” Western Branch coach Roland Wright said.
Wet weather during the past two weeks has scrambled the high school spring sports schedules, forcing most baseball teams to cram three or four games into one week before postseason begins. Western Branch, ranked 10th in South Hampton Roads, played three games in four days last week, going 1-2.
“This back-to-back stuff is killing us,” said Wright, whose team played No. 2 Grassfield, seventh-ranked Granby and Woodside last week. “It’s come in the later part of the season where you’re trying to keep your arms fresh at a crucial time. The weather came when you want to have your arms rested.”
The innings overload has coaches crunching numbers to follow Virginia High School League guidelines, which permit a pitcher to throw up to 14 innings during a seven-day period. There are further restrictions depending on how many innings are thrown each day, including: a day of required rest after pitching 2-3 innings and two days of rest after 4-7 innings.
Some teams are better armed to weather the recent storms: Grassfield (17-2) has a pair of college-bound pitchers at the top of its rotation - Garrett Stallings (Tennessee) and Hunter Perdue (Virginia) - and Logan Keheley tossed a two-hit shutout last week against Woodside.
Western Branch ace Corey Klak, a senior left-hander headed to Old Dominion, has been platooned in the rotation with freshman right-hander Antoino Velasquez and junior righty Jay Patto to keep the trio fresh.
"We’ve gone more to a platoon system because you have to pace it out,” Wright said. “Back-to-back games have really challenged coaches as far as figuring out their pitching."
Softball teams also are feeling the late-season crunch to squeeze in games, but there are no restrictions on pitching. Hickory played – and won – five softball games in four days last week.
More postponements this week prompted the Atlantic and Coastal conferences to push the start of their baseball and softball tournaments from Saturday to next week. Both baseball tourneys now begin Monday, and softball starts Tuesday.
“We have a number of (baseball) teams that would have to play four games in five days, or four games in six days, and I don’t think anybody’s got enough pitching to get through that,” Salem athletic director Mark Harrison said. “So basically the goal is for us to get the regular season finished by this Friday and let everybody rest on Saturday.”
Interesting article and quotes. I hadn't seen it. "Platooned"? Nice choice of words....
Wish Jami had the whole story. Who knows maybe he read this stuff.
Klak did pitch last week. A whole lot in fact .
Monday 76 pitches
Wed 125 pitches
That does not include warm ups or the 8 pitches in between innings.
Well over 250 pitches thrown on one day's rest. (Maybe more) No college guys do this, pretty sure no pros do this.
Wonder what the ODU coaches think?
It's a lot. A whole lot.
WB beats OS 4-0. Klak CG, 3 hits, 4 Ks.
How many pitches did Klak throw tonight? Just asking. Another CG
Infiekd posted:How many pitches did Klak throw tonight? Just asking. Another CG
You should really give it a rest. It's been a week since he's thrown.
GoHeels posted:Infiekd posted:How many pitches did Klak throw tonight? Just asking. Another CG
You should really give it a rest. It's been a week since he's thrown.
I'm inclined to agree. Last night was a low stress outing for the most part. On to the conference playoffs once GF plays Granby to decide the 1 seed.