SED Week 3 Mar.30-Apr.3

Hickory at Indian River rescheduled to March 31 @ Indian River 5:30PM

8-0 WB IN 5th. 6 errors by infield and 3-4 passed balls by catcher

11-0 in 4th WB over GB

16-0. Top 5 WB. 8 errors by infield of GB.

WB beats GB 16-2.

16-2 final WB over GB.

14-1 GF over DC

NR 5-1 over Oscar Smith.  NR bats starting to warm up a bit.  A solid performance by both teams.  NR used five arms with Matt Holt getting the win.

Who pitched for Oscar Smith?

Morgan, a lefty, started and went for about 4 innings.

How was Matt's velo?

Not sure in regards to yesterday.  So far this spring (if that's what you want to call it) I would say that he has been pitching around 84-86, topping at 87/88.  The eye test says that yesterday was more or less the same.  As it warms, it wouldn't shock me to see him consistently in the upper 80s.

Hickory 12-0 over Indian River. S. Polansky 3-run homer off 1st year IR pitcher Spainhour was crushing blow to IR hopes of upset. 4 more in 2nd inning allowed Hawks to cruise. IR managed only 2 hits.

GF 2 OS 1

Mike Lasko walk off single in the bottom of the 7th. Brett Smith started for Grassfield and went 6. Stallings threw a clean top of 7 to pick up the win. Packert went all 7 for OS. Threw well.

Kings Fork scores two runs in the top of the seventh to beat NR 2-1.  A few key themes seem pretty consistent thus far:

 

1) NR has lost three games. In all three, the opposition scored the winning run(s) in the 7th inning or later.  To piggyback on that theme, NR has consistently squandered scoring opportunities that would have given them much more compelling early leads and changed the composition of each of those games.

 

2) NR pitching has given up a combined 11 runs in five games.  Thus far, no team has scored more than 3 runs against NR, yet NR is 2-3 on the season.

 

3) Finally, and stating the obvious...NR hasn't shown the ability to score runs.

WB beats IR 6-5 in 8 innings.

Great Bridge over Deep Creek 9-2. Shaky infield play continues for Great Bridge. A lot better than game against WB tho.

Hickory over Lakeland 10-0

Sounds like a very good game.  OS has made some strides to be competitive with the right matchups.