Comments on: Live North Coast Section championship coverage

By: Friends that care

Friends that care — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:00:19 +0000

Not to change the subject but what about Track NCS 400 meter runner from Tennyson High School Alex Roache. He is going to NCS. He deserves some publicity for HAAL.

By: SoftballBob

SoftballBob — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:33:17 +0000

Wild, wild, wild win for Falcons at FHS!!! Already posted as 10 – 8, but there were four bombs, three by DV and on grand slam by Freedom’s D’Amico to push 9 run inning to 10 – 8 Freedom lead!! Starting pitcher Austin Wiggins hit two bombs himself, as the other DV HR was by Dante Redhead!

Luquet left starting pitcher, Wiggins, in way too long. Late reliever Eagle did good job shutting Freedom hitters down, but brought in 1/2 inning too late?

DV jumped out to 7 – 0 lead, then gave up one about the fourth. With DV leading 7 – 1 in top of sixth, Freedom plates 9 with about six balls in the infield, three hits, one error, and one that could have gone as hit or error? This rally included a 2B and a Grand Salami for D’Amico!!!

Freshman reliever Joe Navilhon, replaced starter Jordan Alexander, and pithced 4 1/3 effective innings giving up only the 2nd bomb to Wiggins.

Fun game, and worth the NCS price of admission.

By: Falcon

Falcon — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:03:36 +0000

Freedom wins 10-8 over Deer Valley after scoring 9 runs in the 6th.

By: Ballfan

Ballfan — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:32:34 +0000

No live coverage of tonight’s games? No twitter?

By: Jimmy Durkin

Jimmy Durkin — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:58:14 +0000

I’m not sure how my AV-DLS story makes me a DLS fan, especially since I talked about how ugly both teams (including DLS) played, but every one is entitled to their opinion. Since that was the first time I’ve covered either team (I work out of the Tribune and generally cover Oakland area teams), I couldn’t have fewer ties to either team. If your upset that I didn’t write about the annoyance of the music, that’s not part of the game and there would be no reason for me to mention that. If I did (which I never would), it would be at the expense of mentioning what happened in the actual game.

Ballfan,
Unfortunately I don’t think we got a call to report the results of the St. Mary’s game on Saturday. Since the game was out of the area we couldn’t have anyone there, so we had to rely on a call. Thanks for posting the box here for everybody and hopefully we’ll be able to get something from Napa on Wednesday.

By: Ballfan

Ballfan — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:53:31 +0000

I understand (few reporters and a distant venue), but was still disappointed that the St. Mary’s/Lick Wilmerding Div IV qtr final appeared to be the only NCS playoff game Sat that didn’t have a story or even a box score posted. For those following the Panthers, the BSAL or Div IV here is the line score, box score and highlights:

R H E
Lick 000 000 1 1 3 2

SM 020 032 X 7 9 0

Lick: Yankowski, Cory(5) and Foley; SM: Kershner and Elliot, Malatesta (7)

SM Highlights: Kershner CG, ER, 6K, BB, 3H; Syren 2X3; Wilder 2X3, 2B, RBI; Chechetti 2 RBI, McCree 3 SB; Richard 1X1, 2B

St. Mary’s takes on second seed Justin-Sienna in the Semis in Napa on Wed. at 5 PM.

By: HSbbguru

HSbbguru — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:15:25 +0000

Junior, VERY VERY TRUE

By: junior

junior — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:54:51 +0000

baseball is unique in team sports in that one dominant pitcher performance can win a game. of course, a little offense helps (ask MV), but pitching is so important that almost any team (with the right pitcher) can beat anyone.

By: ProudAVFan

ProudAVFan — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Durkin you must be a DLS fan. Your write-up in the paper this morning really proves it. The music there was quite irritating and the “heroics” of Perio was quite embarassing. Coach Steen agrees with the way he ran around the bases? Definitely not the way our AV team would “act” like. This all coming from DLS! Goes to show you that $$$ doesn’t buy everything.

By: GrizzlieBBFan

GrizzlieBBFan — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:04:03 +0000

The only difference in D1 vs D2 is enrollment size. There are fantastic baseball players at all levels. I know in the past, Clayton Valley has done well against larger sized schools. They have a consistent program in baseball. I would imagine that Arroyo is very close to enrollment size to go to D1.