Southeastern District Games: May 5-10

You're doing some serious work keeping up with the schedules!  

Been doing it for years too.  I think it is a good part of the reason why the SED gets so much chatter.

Woodside beat WB 16-13.   Wild game.  Woodside simply hit.  WB made 5 errors.

OS 3. GF 2.

Scoring by inning:
Woodside:  0523204

Western Br:1115050

 

Game ended with bases loaded for WB.

Love all of this stuff...I rarely chime in but always read, with amusement,some of the forum messages submitted each series of SED games.  Basically, folks have insulted Woodside by not really giving them much credit for their accomplishments on the field. Folks can blare their horns all they wish about which players are the best and which teams are the most talented but, for my money, I'll take the players and teams that win. You can have the pop times but I'll take the kid that makes plays and wins games. You can take your 60 times but I'll take the kid who knows how to run the bases, get good jumps, and wins games.  You can take your velocities but I'll take the kid who has great command of his pitches, stays calm, gets ahead of hitters,and wins games.  Numbers don't win games, winners win games!!!

Sounds like a good game.  Any details?

WB Reporter: 1 to 1 for much of the game, Smith scored 2 in top 7 and Grassfield scored 1 in bottom 7 and left the tieing run on 3rd. GF didn't play well.

MARISFAN.....calm down my friend.  Nobody even commented I Woodside lacking talent.  I even said they simply hit!!   Neither team tonight had pitchers that could stop the other teams hitting.  Woodside is very talented, and man do they come ready to play!  Far more energy and will to win.  Dangerous team with a lot of heart.  I like em!

Who threw for WB ?

I believe both Grassfield and Oscar Smith played a great game. Grassfield only had one error and Smith had two. The game truly came down to a pitcher in duel until the 7th inning where Smith just got the clutch hits they needed to get the lead in the game. Grassfield also had a clutch hit in the seventh but weren't able to get the second run they needed. Overall just a great game to watch.

Who was on the mound for grassfield and Oscar smith?

Morgan for Smith and Schneider for GF.

Smith had Morgan and Grassfield had Schneider (sorry if I misspelled that).

WB started Selby.  Then Klak. Then Rutherford. Then Roth.

BBallDad LOL

 

   I was not excited at all to be honest. I was actually talking about some posts from a week ago and not your post.  I should also mention that I am not new to this forum but rarely comment within it and, in this case, have no dog, at all, in the fight.

I have not seen Woodside play but your second post kinda tells it all IMO. You used words like  "Energy", "fight", and "will to win" and those are , indeed, critical attributes to possess and are way too often over-looked by those who would prefer profile data. The best players and teams are the ones that win games.  Plain and simple.

 

That being said, there is no denying the talent many of the teams in the area have (including WB, GB, GF, and the like) and I seriously doubt they lack energy, fight, or the will to win but, at times, one team may have just a bit more of it in a given game or during a given season than the other team(s) and that's how it goes.

 

At any rate, always fun, when I do chime in, to toss about some banter.

I arrived in the top of the 3rd and Klak was already pitching.  (Work sure gets in the way of 5:00 start times!)  Klak pitched in the 3rd and all of the 4th.  Rutherford pitched the 5th and Roth the 6th and 7th.  The only inning I saw in which Woodside was sat down in order was the 6th but Woodside came back with a vengence in the 7th, roughing Roth up for 4 hits.  (WB had 3 walks, 4 hits and 5 runs in the bottom of the 6th.)

Marian
Talent is a factor in a game but if a team comes with that fight and determination to win, anything can happen.... and nice comment.

That was Marisfan... sorry my phone has auto-correct.

Swagdad....really?   Hot?   How so?

The loss to Woodside was by 2 (score of 4-2.)  Sounds competitive.

NR over Phoebus in 5 innings.

Oscar Smith started a left handed Sophomore, he managed to keep Grassfields tough offense off balance the entire game And rack up 7 K's. if you like pitching, this game kept you very entertained. Smith has turned out some impressive performances lately.

Grassfields offense isn't THAT tough.   Just being real.  Not saying they aren't talented, just not deep 1-9.

I would argue Grassfield has a lot of power in their line up and hit well tonight.

7 Ks.  2 runs.   8 total hits.   Sounds like any other lineup.   I've seen them play.   Hell, I've coached for and against damn near all of them.   They are good, but not great.  Congrats to OS for the win, but they need to do more than beat GF to raise eyebrows.

Do you believe OS has more power in their line up than GF

No, I don't.  But a pitcher on his game beats offense most of the time.  Defense almost always finds a way to win.

Let's not forget GF off field drama.  Those kids have to deal with a lot.  Not fair.

Just FYI... Grassfield averaged 10 runs per game over their previous 4 games going into tonight and scored 8 against one of the best teams in South Carolina (Wando).... All SINCE the drama.

I agree there is drama but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's not fair because everyone has drama at some time and remember they have had drama before too.

And WB scored almost 100 runs beating OS, Hickory (Eason-virginia commit) and GF (stallings) amongst others.  Teams get hot.  Then cold.  It happens.

Drama had nothing to do with GF stranding 10+ guys on base tonight. When GF gets production from 5-9 in the order is when they can put some runs up as they did the previous games before tonight.

When ANY teams 5-9 produce, they score!  Listen, OS isn't bad.  Just not elite. And not deep enough, IN MY OPINION, to factor much.

Well, whatever the case may be, my point is Oscar Smith has a solid team that can hang with anyone on any given day, and they may not get all or any of the respect that they deserve. This was a huge win for those Smith boys tonight!

And the drama....really? C'mon now....

For tonight,it's tough to say GF played "poorly." They made one error that had no bearing on the game and their pitchers threw strikes (1 walk all night).  It was simply a great pitching performance by both Schneider for GF and Morgan for OS.  Both pitchers mixed 3-4 different pitches for strikes and kept the other off balance all night.

 

Smith happened to get the clutch lead off double to start the 7th by Quinones, followed by a great sac bunt-turned single by Morgan, then a delayed steal to get both runners in scoring position, followed by the clutch 2-run hard hit single up the 1B line By Miklosovic (All 3 players are sophomores).

 

After 2 quick outs to start bottom 7, Burmeister dropped a double into RF (off the RF's glove on a sliding catch attempt), then Bullock lined an opposite-field shot that the OS LF dove for and missed, allowing Bullock to end up with a triple. Burcham fouled off 4-5 two-strike pitches before swinging through a breaking ball to end the game.

 

Grassfield left 9 men on base, OS left 5 men on.  

 

GF's top 4 in order had 3 hits off of Morgan in 6 innings, while the bottom 5 in the order had 3 hits as well.

 

I don't know, just maybe, OS deserves a little credit for how they played and earned a key conference victory? Kind of like Woodside deserves more than what they've gotten?

 

By the way, in MY opinion it takes ZERO talent to sit behind a keyboard and criticize young men and coaches based on zero facts and logic. But that's just my opinion.

Now that Woodside has wrapped up the conference and the regional berth we should move on.

 

OS is improving but is a couple of players short of being a consistent threat.  They will probably end up in the 4/5 game with Kec. which is a coin flip.  GF is 3rd and will beat Bethel.  WB rights itself and wins out for 2nd.

 

Woodside slides into the Conference championship over either OS or Kec. 

 

WB and GF duel for the last playoff spot in the regional. 

 

GB and NR are moving toward Conference titles but do they come with the regional berth?     

I think GBs conference does, I know that NR's conference does not.  In that Conference (Ironclad), you have to make the Championship game of the tournament to move on.

 

I wouldn't give the conference title to GB just yet.  They have another round with Hickory, and are playing short-handed at the moment.  Don't know if anyone has enough to beat them while they are injured, nor do I know how long it will take for their respective players to heal up.  I do know that Hampton kept it to a one-run game.

 

Speaking of Hickory...do they still play baseball?  I haven't heard much about them since Spring Break. (3 weeks)

 

Kings Fork is quietly having a solid season.