Thursday 5/8 Playoff Updates

SLC defeated Martin in 8 after trailing 5-0. I think the score was 9-8.

West leads 11-2 in the top of the 2nd at Longview.

Poteet 5
Sulphur Springs 1

bottom of 5th

J T Files hit a solo homerun

Plano West 14
Longview 4

5-inning rr.

wow are you kidding southlake won, i had to leave after the top of the 4 and it was 7 - 0 and the way Martin was hitting you would have never thought this could happen. congrats to Southlake should be another good one tomorrow night.

Martin did let one get away from from today but congrats to SLC for a great win and for not giving up when they were down. Tomorrow should be another good game, Ross Stripling vs Shane Griffin.

Sulphur Springs-----1 5 2
Poteet-------------5 4 0

WP-Johnny Riley
SV-Tyler Dowse
LP-?
HR-JT Files

Coppell at Arlington Lamar
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Coppell 8 Arl. Lamar 5


R H E
Coppell 8 7 2
Arl. Lamar 5 6 7


Individual Pitching / Hitting
2B--COP: Austin Elkins 1. COP: Greg Higginbotham 1. LAM: Ben Walker 1.
HR--COP: Andy Pratt 1. LAM: Chris Arocha 1.
Sv--Michael Apple
WP--Danny Malone
LP--Kyle Arnsberg


This one looked easy earlier for Coppell but Lamar battled back and Arocha hit a grand slam to bring Lamar back to be down just 1 at 6-5 after three. Michael Apple came in with three innings of scoreless relief to close the door but Lamar did have the bases loaded in the 6th on 2 hit batters and error in the outfield but couldn't score. Lamar had 7 errors in the field and Coppell made each one count. Andy Pratt hade a nice HR to left for Coppell.

Sanger beat Burkburnett 7-0

ACowboyFan

Congrats on the Cowboys win. I just wished Lamar would have played without all the errors. I think the game would have been an even better game. You are right, Coppell made Lamar pay for making the errors but I think we can agree that it was a much closer game than even the score indicates. I think it hurt us to take 5 or 6 third called strikes looking especially when we had the bases loaded. Oh well, hope we can give you guys a better game tomorrow night at your place.

Here some Houston scores of note thanks to our friends from H5AB - it looks like they have a few more real hard Round 2 matches than up here in Dallas.

Cedar Park 1 Tomball 0
Georgetown 2 Klein Collins 0
Westside 1 Cy-Fair 0
Lamar 8 Langham Creek 7
Alvin 5 Atascocita 3

quote:

Originally posted by Lamar Fan 08:
ACowboyFan

Congrats on the Cowboys win. I just wished Lamar would have played without all the errors. I think the game would have been an even better game. You are right, Coppell made Lamar pay for making the errors but I think we can agree that it was a much closer game than even the score indicates. I think it hurt us to take 5 or 6 third called strikes looking especially when we had the bases loaded. Oh well, hope we can give you guys a better game tomorrow night at your place.

Lamar Fan, at first I thought the home plate umpire just could not decide what a strike was or wasn't and that caused problems for both the hitters and pitchers...on both sides....but then when Apple came in and threw strikes the umpire had no problem calling strikes that were strikes. As far as the errors I would have loved to seen cleaner play from both sides then I think the game would have been a better example of what these two teams are capable of playing. Like you said we can only hope for that tomorrow.

By the way you have great fans especially Arnie's mom...go DBAT!!!!

Denton Ryan beats Cleburne
Ryan 9, Cleburne 0

WP – Curtis Petersen (11-2). LP – Shane Ingram. 3B – R: Bubba Roddy. HR – R: Will Klausing. Records: Cleburne (27-9), Ryan (26-5).

quote:

Originally posted by ACowboyFan:
Lamar Fan, at first I thought the home plate umpire just could not decide what a strike was or wasn't and that caused problems for both the hitters and pitchers...on both sides....but then when Apple came in and threw strikes the umpire had no problem calling strikes that were strikes.........

I thought the umpire did a nice job. He looked pretty consistent in his calls. He didn't like to call high curve balls but he would call low pitches a little wide (both ways). He even seemed to raise and lower the strike zone based on the height of the batter... something many don't seem to do.

ACowboy,

I completely agree...I thought the umpire was fair both ways. He gave the corners, and was fairly consistent with it. I don't know why our kids couldn't adjust. You are taught from little league to protect with two strikes and our guys didn't do a good job of that last night.

Anyone have the line on the Forney loss to Nacogdoches? It's not in the DMN today.

You have a PM

Go get'm Kindle Ladd and the Bulldogs!!

We will be pullin for y'all!!

quote:

Originally posted by Lamar Fan 08:
You are taught from little league to protect with two strikes

Ironically, stats show the best MLB hitters have a good eye and are the best at not swinging at bad pitches with two strikes. The cost is that they have some called third strikes. Maybe we were taught wrong!