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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Now that the professionals have had their say, I’ll take my crack at it. And unlike others, I’ll tell you how I’m gonna go about this. So here are my totally unscientific & highly flexible guidelines.
Class counts only in how dominant the player was relative to players from the same class. So if a class [...]
Joplin Globe All-Area Baseball Team
Monday, June 30th, 2008The Globe released their All-Area Baseball team yesterday. In what has become a trend for the Globe, co-MVPs were named. Chance Sossamon of Webb City and Zak Porath of Carl Junction. Both deserving of such an honor, there’s not much statistically to split the two. I personally would have made Sossamon [...]
News-Leader All-Ozarks Baseball
Monday, June 30th, 2008The News-Leader released their All-Ozarks Baseball teams over a week ago. And I struggled with mentioning it because, as with all the News-Leaders All-Ozarks team, it was heavily slanted to the immediate Springfield area and to the larger schools. Of the thirteen players named on the first team, only four are not [...]
News-Leader athletes of the year
Friday, June 27th, 2008Earlier this week the News-Leader announced their male and female athletes of the year. Matt Jordan of Ozark on the boys side. And Waynesville’s Katie Pritchard on the girls. Both excellent choices and good articles on both. Ozark fans will sorely miss Jordan after the huge role he played in [...]
Missouri Sportswriters/Sportscasters All-State Baseball Team
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The Missouri Sportswriters/Sportscasters Association announced their All-State Baseball Teams today. Excellent Ozarks representation across all 4 classes. The final four teams (Stoutland, Conway, Webb City, and Ozark) all had multiple selections. Blue Eye, Forsyth, Miller, Purdy, and Rolla also each had 2 selections.
When the coaches all-state teams were announced, I questioned the exclusion of [...]
Midwest Nationals tourney
Thursday, June 12th, 2008The Midwest Nationals kick off their Nationals Classic today at Meador Park and Nixa High baseball field. It runs through Sunday. Games start at 1PM at both locations today with 4 games at Meador and 1 at Nixa. Friday and Saturday start times are 8:30 at Meador with 6 games to be [...]
Class 3 & 4 all-state baseball teams
Monday, June 9th, 20082008 MHSBCA CLASS 3 ALL STATE TEAM
FIRST TEAM
PITCHERS
Charlie Lowell, SR, Winfield
Joseph Kassanavoid, SR, Lawson
Jacob Turner, JR, Westminster Christian
Chance Sossamon, SR, Webb City
CATCHERS
Ben Turner, SR, Westminster Christian
Dustin Ran, SR, Boonville
INFIELDERS
Johnny Coy, SR, St. Joseph Benton
Alex Larkin, JR, St. Dominic
Jordan Hammerman, JR, Ladue
Larry Schimsa, SO, Pacific
Luke [...]
Class 1 & 2 all-state baseball teams
Monday, June 9th, 20082008 MHSBCA CLASS 1 ALL STATE TEAM
FIRST TEAM
PITCHERS
Logan Kirchhoff, JR, Santa Fe
Blaine Abbott, SR, New Haven
Tyler Abma, JR, Miller
Zach Dady, JR, Leeton
CATCHERS
Brock Chaffin, SR, Stoutland
Kenzie Thorp, SR, Santa Fe
INFIELDERS
Kody Campbell, SR, Oran
Jeremiah Bryan, SR, Wheatland
Aaron McCraig, JR, Cooter
Nathan Geile, SO, Valle Catholic
Taylor Wesley, JR, [...]
All-State baseball teams released
Monday, June 9th, 2008For any parents that are looking for their little baseball player to make the all-state team someday, I have two suggestions. Make sure their team makes it to the final four, or change their name to some variation of Zack.
The all-state team of all four classes were littered with players from the final four [...]
State class 3 & 4 baseball finals
Sunday, June 1st, 2008The high school sports season comes to a brilliant, triumphant end as the Ozark Tigers claim the last championship of the year defeating the Francis Howell Vikings in dramatic fashion 3-2 to claim the state class 4 baseball championship. Matt Jordan was the hero for Ozark throwing the complete game, getting 3 hits, and driving [...]
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