TCIS 2009

Cape Henry might do better than your projection. They return seven starters and their entire pitching staff from last year (but they're still young, the only senior on the team is Tyler Faubert - one of the best hitters in the TCIS). They split with Greenbrier last year, their loss (4-2)in the tournament semis coming via a walkoff homerun by TCIS Player of the Year Sammy Sarafin.

GCA-Mike Olivo, Josh Richardson

cape henry has a core of high quality sophomores starting with pitcher/shortstop- Tyler Ballard, and pitcher/first basemen- Michael Kroll. Look for cape henry to finish well ahead of 5th

1) GCA
2) NSA
3) Cape Henry
4) Bishop Sullivan
5) Norfolk Academy
6) Norfolk Collegiate
7) Norfolk Christian
8) Hampton Roads Academy
9) Peninsula
10) Walsingham

saw catholic got beaten solidly by na yesterday, i think that rating might be high based on what ive heard from them.... no pitching

Agree....I would slip Catholic to 5th behind NA. Pitching not the issue, at least 6-7 errors committed by Catholic defense up to the top of the 6th when I left the game.

1) GCA
2) Cape Henry
3) Nansemond Suffolk Academy
4) Norfolk Academy
5) Bishop Sullivan
6) Hampton Roads Academy
7) Norfolk Collegiate
8) Norfolk Christian
9) Walsingham
10) Penninsula Catholic

two questions:

Heard Beasley hurt his arm? Whats going on there?



Caught word the the scout from the Cubs, Swoope, has his young sons playing at Catholic, and theyre helping out. Anyone know anything?

apparently its just a little tendonitis and the coaches have just been cautious about it. should be back on the mound in the next week or so

Both Swoope boys are starters at Catholic. Each one has contributed to a line up that had only two consistent bats last year (John Leidig and Brandon Valentine). Soph transfer Josh Mason has shored up the defense and offense there as well. Another soph transfer, Kyle Miller adds speed to the lineup and some offensive punch as well.

Catholic is still pretty week. they lack real talent and confidence to be a good team. the TCIS only has two teams this year with Cape Henry and Greenbrier Christian. Serrafin, Richardson, and Olivo will lead Greenbrier, while Cpe Henry has Faubert, Whited, Kroll, and Ballard. Cape Hnery did beat Greenbrier with freshman pitcher last year Kroll, who already has thrown a no-hitter this year, and took them into the seventh inning of the semi-final game last witht the lead with another fresman last year Tyler Ballard. The game between cape henry and greenbrier should be another good one this year

i saw greenbrier play some yesterday.i think there decent.i dont think they would dominate public schools.yes when i got there greenbrier was down 5-0.so i dont saw how the def. played except for a saw a missed popfly as we came up to the field.hampton christian pitcher has a attitude.it is so stupid the c went to the mound and the pitcher stopped him.

GCA played real sloppy for both games Saturday. Normally their infield is as solid as anyone’s with Josh Miller-3B/P(VA Wesleyan), Josh Richardson-SS/P (Liberty), Sammy Serafin-2B (Norfolk State), and Mike Olivo-1B (VMI). HC took the early advantage scoring 5 runs in the 1st. Luckily; GCA got it together and came back in the 4th with a frustrated HC pitcher. With a very costly error on HC, GCA tied the game in the 6th and went on to escape the loss in the bottom of the 7th. Sometimes you have to be lucky to win. The luck ran out against St Anne’s. Even though GCA had runners on third and second with 1 out in the bottom of the 7th , just couldn’t produce the hit we needed. GCA will be tested again next Saturday against Bethel and Phoebus at GCA.

Ace - are those games scheduled for 1 and 4 as well?

Saipan - As of now, we will play Phoebus at 1600 and Bethel at 1800. Phoebus and Lawrence Academy will play at 1300. All at GCA.

Now that the TCIS Tournament starts tomorrow, looking for the final rankings and who plays who??

Tuesday 5/5/09 all games at 4:30:
First teams listed are home:

GCA vs Norfolk Christian
Norfolk Collegiate vs HRA
NSA vs Bishop Sullivan
Cape Henry vs Norfolk Academy

As mentioned, game time is 4:30 for GCA vice what the paper said. That is, if the game is on.

GCA vs NC has been postponed to Wednesday at 4:30.

Another rain out for us (GCA) today.

Thursday game is a wash. Re-sked for Friday. The Semi-final and Final game for the TCIS is TBD.

Finally we get the game in tonight at 4:30.

Saturday 5/9/09 as follows:
Semi-Finals:
9:00am Winner of GCA and Norfolk Christian vs. Winner of Cape Henry and Norfolk Catholic @ GCA
11:00am Winner of NSA and Bishop Sullivan vs. HRA @ GCA

Finals at 3:30 @ GCA

GCA and Norfolk Christian has been moved to 6:30 @ GCA tonight.

TCIS tournament has been cancelled.

Cape Henry plays GCA monday

It's true. The 15 year tradition lives on. TCIS games will be played next Monday (Semifinals) and Finals on Tuesday @ GCA.

TCIS is delayed again.  The games will be played Tuesday and Wednesday they will be starting at 4:30.

Semifinals:
Cape Henry vs GCA
HRA vs NSA

Games are still on for today.

GCA 2 - Cape Henry 3

What started out to be a pitchers duel ended up with a victory for CH. With Richardson on the mound he had 14 SO’s but would not be enough. In the 5th GCA had an error at 3rd, then a hit to LF, and #6 came up worked the count full then hit a HR to LF. That proved to be the winning runs. GCA had only 3 hits; 2 from Tiller and 1 from Richardson. CH had only 2 hits.

Season over.

Still the GCA team made a noise around Tidewater. Glad to be part of the program.

Congratulations to GCA on a very successful season. This has been an excellent team who just didn't seem to be able to get up again after a dramatic win in the state championship game. We look forward to seeing a number of these kids playing at the college level.

Congratulations to Cape Henry on a well played game. They simply got the job done in the TCIS semi-finals. Congratulations and good luck in the TCIS championship game.

Freshman lefty pitcher Jack Wynkoop pitched six stellar innings, allowing two runs and three hits (he walked two and both runners scored) to get the win. Soph Tyler Ballard hit a three run homerun in the 5th, and came in to pitch the 7th with no outs and runner on first to get the save. With the exception of two hits in the fifth inning, GCC pitcher Richardson was dominating, allowing a total of, I believe, four base runners. A well played game by both teams.

NSA 5 CH 4 Final NSA TCIS 2009 winner

TCIS 2010 PREVIEW:

1.GCA
2.CHC
3.Catholic
4.HRA
5.NSA
6.NA
7.Norfolk Collegiate
8.Peninsula Catholic
9.Walsingham
10.Norfolk Christian
any other ideas? who is to watch?

I think the 1/2 picks are pretty solid. GCA and CHC probably will finish as you picked. The debate is usually over the 3 to 6 slots in the TCIS. I expect that each of the teams you listed 3-6 (and probably Collegiate as well) will battle it out for those slots. I don't know that any one of those teams is dominant.

GCA, with Mcdonald and the addition of Curry from Landstown to go with other strong arms on the staff should be able to take the # 1 spot in the TCIS for 2010.

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Originally posted by jaguars:
GCA, with Mcdonald and the addition of Curry from Landstown to go with other strong arms on the staff should be able to take the # 1 spot in the TCIS for 2010.

Agree; that's what nymetsman was predicting as well. We probably need to start a 2010 TCIS thread as this one has spilled over from 2009.

Having GCA #1 makes sence. Having not seen CHCS last year, what makes them #2?

CHC is number 2 and has a very good chance to challenge GCA for number 1 because they were TCIS runner ups last year and have all 9 starters from that tournament returning for the 2010 season. they beat GCA last year in the semi-finals. CHC is still pretty young again for the third year in a row with only 2 seniors and all of those young starters have experience.