End to a great season!!!

We lost 3-1 last night to Southwest in Districts to end our year at 20-5. I would be lying if I said I feel like we under achieved. But the things we did do is and will always be a total year that ended up a great year. 20+ wins in back to back seasons, Conference Champions, individual honors, and numerous memories. The Seniors will go out as one of the most winning classes in school history. With a combined record of 125 wins and only 43 loses. They will all be missed and hard to replace. Our job as a program is to get better. Go out and throw a baseball, take swings, take grounders. We have all got a part in the big picture. Get it done!!!!!!

20th win of the year!!!!

For back to back season's, we have topped the 20 win season with a 5-1 win over College Heights. We started slow, but ended with 4 runs in the last part of the game to take a win. Drew Williams pitched 5.1 innings in relief to get his first varsity win. Cameron Terry picked up the save. Tyler Scott had 2 hits and 2 RBI's to help his pitchers. We play Southwest tonight at 4:30 at Ash Grove. This will be a challenge for us. We look forward to seeing you there.

Another Close Game

We lost 3-2 last night to the Number 1 team in Class 2, Clever. Alex Mareth was the star of the night with 5.1 innings pitched and only allowing 1 earned run. He struck out 6 and gave us a chance to win in only his 2nd Varsity start. He was also 1-3 with and RBI single. Devon Bennett had another RBI single. Reese Stevenson also had a hit to give us only 3 hits on the night. Clever scored an unearned run in the 7th to beat us. I was pleased with our pitching and defensive effort. Our hitting has to get better if we are going to go deep into the playoffs. We play at noon on Saturday at Ash Grove vs College Heights in the first round of Districts. Come out to Ash Grove to watch us play.

May 9th rankings!

Class 2 Rankings (May 9, 2012) 1. Clever 2. Crystal City 3. Summit Christian Academy 4. Purdy 5. Chaffee 6. Valle Catholic 7. Russellville 8. Conway 9. Linn 10. Clearwater Others receiving votes: Marion C. Early (Morrisville), Eugene, Scotland County, Elsberry, Hartville, Dixon, Schuyler County

Helping Others

Coach Snider and I have agreed to help Coach Bell out with his fight with ALS. Coach Bell has been a fixture to the SW MO baseball community for a long time and has won more games than I could imagine. He will be honored at numerous ball parks over the next few days and this will be a way for us to help his fight with this horrible disease. Here is the email that Coach Snider sent me. A great idea, great cause, for a great man. Thanks Josh, We are planning doing a pass the hat fundraiser to help Coach Howard Bell out at Glendale with his battle with ALS. I am planning on giving a small speech right after the game with both teams standing on their respected lines, and then I was wondering your thoughts on having your Srs go to our side of the stands and my Srs go to your side as a show of unity and having donations collected in our kids hats. This money will all be put together and given to the Bell family Sunday. Thoughts? Justin Snider Clever Public Schools Physical Education/Body Conditioning Head Baseball

Double Header Sweep

We beat Galena 11-0 and 5-2 in a Varsity Double Header. We played well and had some key hits early in game one. Cameron Terry pitched a CG shutout for his 7th win. Devon Bennett pitched 4.1 innings to get the win in game two and Drew Williams pitched 1.2 innings to hold the lead before Cameron game in to get his 4th save on the year. We are now 19-3 and will be at Clever on Thursday for a 5pm start. See you there.

Tough Lost To Cassville

We lost a great battle on the baseball field to Cassville last night 3-2. We scored 1st in the 4th after a leadoff double by Reese Stevenson and a Sac bunt by Austin Hancock that lead to Reese scoring on an error. Cassville scored 3 runs in the 6th and we answered with a run in the bottom of the 6 by a sacrifice fly by Cameron Terry. With 2 outs in that inning, Devon Bennett smoked a single up the middle and Austin was thrown out at the plate on a bang bang play. We held them in the 7th and came up a little short in the bottom of the 7th. Reese pitched 6 2/3 innings striking out 8 and only allowing 2 earned runs. All 6 seniors, Britten Hardwick, Quin O'Hagan, Drew Williams, Devon Bennett, Reese Stevenson and Cody Hall were all honored before the game for senior night. All 6 will be great young men in our society and I look forward to seeing them be successful in everything they do. Thank you for the 4 years of allowing me to be a part of your lives. Thanks Coach Hughes

2012 Interesting Statistics

Here are some team stats. We have given up 2 runs or less in 14 games. Record 14-0 We have given up double digit runs in 2 games. Record 1-1 We have scored double digit runs in 9 games. Record 9-0 We have been involved in 9 run rules. Record 8-1 We have been involved in 3 one run games. Record 3-0 We have scored 72 runs and allowed 7 against district opponents. Record 7-0 We have scored 37 runs and allowed 7 against conference opponents. Record 4-0 We have out scored our opponents 164-52. Record 17-2 Team Batting average before last night is .328 Team ERA before last night is 3.76 We have 25 errors, an AVG of 1.32 errors a game We have 73 stolen bases on the year We have 150 hits on the year, 32 doubles, 9 triples, 7 homeruns

Seniors

We will be honoring our seniors on Monday, May 7th. The schedule shows a 4:30pm start time, but we will be starting at 5:00pm to allow more time for the senior family members to be there. Please come out and see these seniors get one more home game and try for another win. They are combined in 4 years 122-40 in varsity contests. 3 Conference Championships, 2 District Championships, and numerous individual honors. That is pretty impressive for a group of seniors.

It Feels Good!!!!!!

We went to Strafford last night and came home with a 5-2 victory. We scored 3 in the first and 1 in the 2nd and 7th innings. Cameron Terry, Devon Bennett, and Austin Hancock all had 2 hits. Cameron Terry pitched 4 innings and gave up 2 runs on 3 hits while striking out 7. He did not allow a walk in moving to 6-0 on the year. Reese Stevenson picks up the save in going 3 innings and striking out 5 and allowing 2 hits and 1 walk. It is his 2nd save of the year. We will have senior night next Monday here vs Cassville. See you there.

Game tonight!!!!!

I got us a game today. We will be playing at 6pm, Varsity only at Strafford. We will be playing at 6PM to allow his kids to get home and get there stuff. He said he had some kids that couldn't get back till after 4:30, so, we will see you at Strafford tonight. The Bus will not leave till 3:30pm

#1 Seed!!!!

May 12th 3 Miller vs 6 Ash Grove 10am 1 Purdy vs 8 College Heights 12:30PM 4 Diamond vs 5 Southwest 3:00pm 2 Pierce City vs 7 Sarcoxie 5:30pm May 14th 1/8 winner vs 4/5 winner at 4:30 2/7 winner vs 3/6 winner at 7:00 May 15th Championship at 6:00pm

Great Win

We beat the number 9 team in Class 2 MCE of Morrisville 5-2. Reese Stevenson picked up the win and Cameron Terry got the save. They combined to stikeout 10 and only allow 1 earned run. Cody Hall was 1-2 with 3 RBI's and a 2 run homer in the 7th to give us some breathing room. Austin Hancock was 2-3 and drew a two out walk in the 7th to get Hall a chance. We are now 16-2 on the year. No games until Monday as of now. I am still trying.