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| Strawn, ISD Baseball Field |
The season is starting to get underway. I will freely admit it is harder to locate
baseball scores than football ones! If
you want to send me any information about your team, news, stats, scores, items
of interest, or complaints please email me at: leman.saunders@gmail.com
I try to pass on scores on twitter if that interest you at all you can follow me @LemanSaunders
News & Notes:
Tournaments dotted the HS baseball landscape this past week
and some 1A schools had some strong showings:
-Round-Top Carmine hosted their own tourney and advanced to
the championship game, but were rained out and cancelled.
-Abbott advanced to the championship game in the Mexia
tourney against Riesel, but that game was also cancelled due to weather
Saturday.
-Ira finished 3-0 in the Hamlin tournament, finishing off
Anson in the final game 13-10.
-Savoy won out in the Saint Jo tournament beating Tioga 10-1
in the final game.
-D’Hanis had a great showing in Crystal City Tournament
going 3-0.
-Trent, who is playing an outlaw type schedule this season,
was entered into the Hawley JV tournament and walked away 1-1-1, with the final
game a 10-10 tie against host Hawley JV that ended due to time regulations.
It is more than worth noting that Allen Lambright is trying
to keep tabs on all 1A/2A action over at txhighschoolbaseball.com they provide
a newsletter and have district breakdowns with many teams schedules available
to view. Their NEW 1A Top 15 rankings
are out! I suggest following them on twitter as well @2ATxHSBaseball and if
they are missing scores or you schedule let them know!
Link to their rankings:
http://txhighschoolbaseball.com/2a/1a-top-10-2a-top-25-march-6/
Full Count:
In this section I will try to pass on some feedback from
coaches about the new UIL rules on pitch counts. I will use direct quotes from coaches, but will
leave it as anonymous unless given permission to use their name. Coaches were asked to give their “Thoughts on
new rules regarding pitching and pitch counts”
Coach 1: “It’s a good idea to try and protect kid’s arms. I think
it’s going to decrease the level of baseball being played because teams won’t
be able to throw their stud every game. Especially in 1a, there will be teams
with only 1 or 2 good pitchers and if those guys are unavailable then it could
make for a long game for both teams.”
Some scores from
around 1A:
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Round Top-Carmine 7 North Zulch 6
Bryson 16 Saint Jo 2
Hermleigh 15 Westbrook 5
Abbott 6 Blooming Grove 0
Kernes 20 Fruitvale 0
D’Hanis 10 Crystal City 8
Springlake-Earth 1 Morton 1
Sulphur Bluff 6 Bllomburg 1
Slocum 13 Leverett’s Chapel 3
Merkel 17 Baird 7
3/2
Medina 7 Junction 6
Tulia 20 Springlake-Earth 0
Dimmit 15 Springlake-Earth 0
Union Hill 4 Ore City 1
Bryson 10 Saint Jo 3
Savoy 12 Bryson 3
Savoy 11 Saint Jo 0
Abbott 4 McGregor 3
Colorado City 5 Hermleigh 0
Rotan 6 Hamlin 2
Ira 12 Baird 3
Benbrook 7 Milford 0
Blooming Grove 9 Milford 1
Karnes City 17 Runge 4
Como-Pickton 15 Ector 0
Big Sandy 8 Sulphur Bluff 4
Mart 12 Fruitvale 0
Wells 6 Neches 3
Wells 7 Leverett’s Chapel 0
Newton 19 Burkeville 1
Midland Classical Acd. 16 O’Donnell 6
Gorman 9 Strawn 2
3/3
Kress 8 Muleshoe 6
Kress 6 Hale Center 3
Stamford 12 Rotan 2
Union Hill 4 Bloomburg 1
Brookeland 6 Kennard 5
Hermleigh 15 Baird 5
Round-Top Carmine 15 Somerville 14
Round-Top Carmine 14 Milano 4
Abbott 2 Axtell 1
Abbott 9 Rio Vista 2
Booker 12 Claude 2
Booker 12 Boys Ranch 2
Poolville 12 Northside 0
Tioga 14 Northside 0
Trinidad 4 Mount Calm 1
Trent 7 Seymour JV 5
Jim Ned JV 23 Trent 5
Ira 9 Hamlin 5
D’Hanis 7 Lytle 3
D’Hanis 8 Crystal City 3
Collinsville 9 Ector 2
Bishop Gorman 5 Sulphur Bluff 4
Holland 24 Fruitvale 2
Hardin 22 Chester 0
Onalaska 12 Chester 1
Olney 10 Cross Plains 4
Santo 5 Gorman 3
3 / 4
Saint Jo 9 Northside 5
Trent 10 Hawley JV 10
Poolville 18 Bryson 0
Hale Center 9 Springlake-Earth 6
Savoy 10 Tioga 1
Ira 13 Anson 10
Holland 15 Fruitvale 6
Bartlett 16 Fruitvale 0
Cumby 10 Ector 1
Arp 10 Sulphur Bluff 0
Colmesneil 4 Wells 3
Amarillo River 15 Booker 1
Slaton 5 Kress 2
Baird 6 Rotan 4
Cross Plains 3 Lipan 3
Comanche 16 Gorman 0
Famous Small Town,
TX Baseball Players:
Baseball Hall of Fame Brothers “Rube” and Bill Foster were
both born in Calvert, TX. Both were star
players in the era of segregated baseball, Rube Foster first began pitching for
the Fort Worth Yellow Jackets in 1897, he helped create the Negro National
League in 1920, he was a star pitcher and it is rumored that John McGraw, great
manager of the New York Giants, sought out Foster for advice…and it is rumored
Rube taught Christy Mathewson his famous “fade-away” pitch (now called a
screwball). Bill was also a star pitcher
in the 1920s and 30s, he later became a baseball coach at Alcorn State
College. Rube was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 and Bill in 1996.
Calvert, with a HS enrollment of 54 students, does not play
HS baseball, but the Trojans have had great success in 6-man football and 1A
basketball.
Did You Know:
The Little League World Series began crowning a champion in
1947 and a team from Texas has only won the championship twice…both times it
was a team from Houston, in 1950 and 1966.
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| 1966 Houston Little League team |
Out of Left Field:
Back in December I decided to start reading Baseball books
on an epic level once again thanks mainly to the podcast “Baseball By the Book”
by Justin McGuire I stumbled upon one day.
I recommend this podcast to everyone who enjoys baseball. My favorite episodes are the interviews with
“Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” author Charles Leerhsen, which will show you how a
real historian doing proper research can rewrite history; “Ahead of the Curve”
author Brian Kenny as he discusses the new stats and the sabermetrics era in
baseball going on now. I have ordered
these books because of this podcast and can’t wait to dive into them! You can follow them on twitter @BaseballBookPod
Link to them in itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-by-the-book/id1183076342?mt=2
