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  1. Whoever Bev is, I can assure you he is not a Carthage baseball parent, and he is certainly NOT our coach. I'm a Carthage football and baseball parent. We have nothing but the greatest respect for the players, parents and coaches at Spring Hill. The Spring Hill starter shut down Carthage the first few innings Thursday night. It's a shame that adults have the time to get on Smoaky to use high school athletics as a launchpad for arguments. After the game Thursday night, the Carthage and Spring Hill players shook hands, texted each other and got on Facebook. These young men are friendly rivals, and we can learn a lot about sportsmanship from them.
  2. Game 3 of the Carthage - Pleasant Grove series will be played at 5 p.m. today, Saturday, in Pleasant Grove. Original time was 3 p.m. but time has been changed because of weather.
  3. Carthage Coach called this morning to tell us game time will be 5 p.m. in Pleasant Grove -- not the original 3 p.m. start time.
  4. Spring Hill had good defensive play by the outfield. Brown struck out three batters in the first four innings.
  5. Spring Hill was ahead 5-1 going into bottom of fifth. Carthage scored 6 runs in fifth inning. Spring Hill put B. Robbins on the mound at that point.
  6. Dylan Brown pitched the first 5 innings for Spring Hill. Brandon Robbins came in during the fifth inning and completed the game. For Carthage, Gavin Williamson pitched 5 complete innings, then Brian Landreneaux pitched the sixth and seventh.
  7. Gutsy play by both teams in a crucial game with lots on the line. Errors are going to happen in high school games -- no sense pointing fingers at individual performance. All these kids are playing their hearts out, doing their best for the win. Good coaching and good sportsmanship were evident tonight. Congratulations to both sides for a good contest.
  8. A successful football program "floats the boat" for Booster Club fundraising efforts through concession and spirit sales. Other sports benefit from the funds raised during football season. We, too, fight the perception that the Booster Club is concerned only with football. When a volleyball, basketball, softball, baseball, track, cross country or other sport's parent works the concession stand during football season, that effort benefits all the school's athletic programs. Committed volunteers make the difference. It's frustrating to see parents show up for games but never "have time" to help with the Booster Club fundraisers. My favorite excuse is "I can't. I work." About 99% of the volunteers in our Booster Club work full time outside the home, and the others work at home on their farms or ranches. Everybody works. Some people manage to find the time to devote to supporting their children's activities. Also, each year we lose great parents because their children graduate. Other parents step up to take their places, but we have to go through the learning curve to know what we're supposed to do. Parents who don't bother to help with Booster Club activities need to realize that we are all doing the best we can. We are going to make mistakes. We are going to mess up shirt orders. We may let a typo slip through on a football program. But we are out there in the trenches working on these projects. Please don't stand on the sidelines and find fault with us. Jump in and help out. The more people that become involved in Booster Club, the more money we can raise to help out all athletic programs. For those parents with small children or other commitments that prevent them from actually taking a turn in the concession stand or helping with spirit sales, you can still pay your $20 to become a Booster Club member. Every little bit helps!
  9. --Following NCAA rules changes, the Texas UIL has mandated that for 2012 Texas HS players must use the "BBCOR" bats that have a dampening effect on the exit speed of a ball off the bat. --The goal is to approximate the exit speed of a baseball off a wood bat. For the 2011 season aluminum barrel bats are legal--but not bats with composite barrels. --For college players in 2011 the result of using BBCOR bats has been a dramatic reduction in home runs; battings averages have also been reduced because line drives and grounders do not fly off the BBCOR bats as fast as they did on the aluminum and composite bats. I.e., the scorching grounder hit with an aluminum bat often becomes a slow roller. --Purists have always objected to the aluminum bats, and back in the eighties and early nineties they had a strong case to make. Some of you old dawgs might recall that Pete Incaviglia hit 50 dingers one season at Oklahoma State, and, in three seasons at OSU, Ink smacked 100 HRs in 213 games. A Florida State player cracked six HRs in one game. At that time, the "drop five" was legal, though I don't know if that is what Incaviglia was using. In the mid nineties the "drop three" was mandated for high school and college. I.e., a 33-inch bat had to weigh at least 30 ounces. This rule change dramatically reduced BAs and HRs, but purists continued to complain. They didn't like the "ding" off aluminum bats (as opposed to the beautiful "crack" of a wood bat.) They complained that the "sweet spot" on an aluminum bat was too large, and that the ball came off the bat too fast. There were too many homers, and batting averages were too high. These arguments fell on deaf ears because players, coaches, and fans have preferred "big ball" to "small ball" ever since Babe Ruth started blasting away for the Yankees in 1920. --But finally the purists found an argument that gained traction: SAFETY. They argued that aluminum/composite bats were unsafe, and they found some tragedies to make their point. Of the miliions of pitches thrown by college and HS baseball players, it was inevitable that batters would bounce a few off the heads of players, and for a few players the results have been tragic. --I do not wish to minimize what happened to those unfortunate players, nor even to argue against the rule changes here. But I do wish to pose a few questions. --First, we all know that probably the most dangerous play is sports in the kickoff return in football. Recently, the NFL has ruled (laughably, I think) to move the kickoff to the 35 yard line, supposedly to make that play safer for pro FB players. But this raises a larger question. How far can we go with rules to make inherently dangerous games safer? Do you hear a hue and cry to eliminate the kickoff return from HS football? I don't, and I wonder why. --Are wood bats actually safer than aluminum bats? Wood bats shatter. We have all seen pitchers, fans, and players in dugouts duck the pointed shaft of a broken bat. Maple bats are blamed for this phenomenon. Will maple bats be banned? Furthermore, baseball players and coaches suffer serious injuries and even death from line drives hit by wood bats. (A big guy can still hit a ball 80-90 mph off a wood bat.) --What happens to the high school and college records set in the past twenty years? Are they to be treated like the "home-roids" hit by certain pro baseball players? --For which players will the new rules be an advantage? I'm thinking the big guys will benefit most because they will have the power to hit harder line drives and scorching grounders even though their homerun numbers might fall. --And, finally, are we going to have a better game because the exit speed of a ball coming off a BBCOR bat is 5-6 mph less than the exit speed off an aluminum bat?
  10. Unravelled is a bit strong. After Cage's HR, the score was 4-1 going into bottom of third. Lions scratched out one run on one hit in first and did not get another hit off Williamson until bottom of fifth. As for CHS v SHHS, Carthage has played a tougher schedule--but SH is the real deal. Both teams will pitch their aces, both teams hit and field among the best in the state. And BTW, several of the the Dawgs' players played select ball with the old SH Texans for two years. They're friends but if anything that should make the competition even more intense. Don't miss it! This game could be the start of one of the great rivalries in East Texas. PS We like out Yankee coach. He's got a lot of bulldog in him from playing hockey in Minnesota.
  11. I don't think that attendance figure can be correct. We had a great crowd. Did anybody get a program for the game? We were told that the UIL wouldn't allow us to have our own printed keepsake programs like we've had for every playoff game. Apparently the UIL had an official program for the championship game, but they weren't available when we came in the gate with our tickets, and I never saw anybody selling them. If I missed it, I want to track one down and purchase it for a keepsake.
  12. Thanks for the good information JR88. It's a thrill for a high school junior to have an opportunity to play on the new Dallas Cowboy field.
  13. How's the parking? How much? Any tips on directions? What's the temperature inside? Is the roof open or closed? (Can we leave our blankets at home?) Do we need to take our stadium seats? What about the concession stands? Good food? Reasonable prices? Any other information you want to share about your "JerryWorld" experience would be greatly appreciated. Carthage plays Coldspring at 4 on Friday. Congratulations Henderson on your state championship, and congratulations Chapel Hill on a great season!
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