I pretty sure Francis Howell is 10th in the nation i think! And congrats to Ronnie Scott good pitching and good hitting for the tigers out there today!

his hardest pitch of the game was his 139th /140 pitches.. i was pitch counter :)

Very impressed. I only got to see Cape play once so far. They must be improving everyday

140 pitches??? Seriously?? What are you thinking coach? NOBODY should ever throw 140 pitches. I don't care what the situation is! If that were my son, I'd be ******!

Has anyone seen the Graves kid from Francis Howell throw. He was at a showcase my son was at and he stole the show at 94-95 mph. He has signed with Mizzou but a scout I talked to said he would never see the campus.

Coach williams kept ronnie in the game because he was throwing the ball great throughout. The only sign of fatigue was that he started leaving the ball a little higher in the last inning but he has some great stamina. He said today that his arm isn't any more sore than normal.

I don't care how good his arm felt today, 140 pitches is way too many. My question is, how many pitches has he thrown in previous starts? Don't be surprised if he end up with arm trouble late in the season if he is throwing over 100 pitches on a consistent basis.

Im not disagreeing that 140 is a lot but its hard to take a pitcher out when he says he feels good and he isn't showing signs of fatigue. He normally throws in the 70s-low 80s.

not if he still wants the ball and is throwing consistent strikes and hard.

Its called working the count..some pitchers go right after a hitter..others go deep in the count. Its all about your pitching style

I don't think it matters what the paper thinks the outcome might be. When you have the number one team in state player the home town team who plays cometitively every year and you choose to cover a soccer game across the street between a lack luster central team and worse than normal ND team is really bad. Not to mention that the soccer game didn't even start until we were in the 2nd inning. Its not even the lack of a photographer that im concerned about, even though there was a person all the way down in bluff to take pictures for ND, its the fact that the article written for us was pitiful at best. It was around 1/3 the size of the soccer column and even smaller than the ND vs bluff story. There were pictures of christian and andrew from football season and the only time andrews name was in the article was for him going 3-4, or whatever it was that day. They failed to get a picture of the ronnie Scott, the pitcher who threw the complete game and shut down argueably the best hitting team in the state. Throw in a picture of him pitching in a previous game for all I care. Maybe the thing that took it all over the top was that on the top of the front page of the paper it says Notre Dame slays Central 4-1, or something like that. Not only was franscis howell 1st in state but they were #12 in the nation according to USA Todays poll, that alone should let you guys know that the cape central baseball field was the place to be last tuesday. The Southeast Missourian really dropped the ball on this one.

Excuses, Rachel, excuses.

BINGO!! CHSballer...Rachel needs to give this one up..That is a terrible excuse.

And just how does the SEMissourian make money off of SEMOBALL?

I wasn't really interested or trying to make any excuses. I was pointing out a pet peeve. And it's still a pet peeve. I could go through and address each thing CHSballer said, like the fact that I'm guessing whatever Bluff-ND photos he or she is talking about came from the Poplar Bluff paper and not from any Missourian resources, but it appears that a useful conversation isn't going to happen here and it certainly appears that it's not a conversation anyone is interested in having.

But by all means, please continue to attack my work and livelihood. I definitely deserve it and you all definitely know more than me how things work. I can't possibly answer questions or address issues that you may have in a reasonable manner. It would be foolish of me to even try, especially given the hard to understand (no sarcasm here) setup of semoball and the way the sister papers work together.

I am not infallible. And no one that works for the Missourian or other papers is, but I would have thought I deserved a little more credit than I got here to have a conversation and give some answers if that's what you're interested in.

HITTERS work the count, not pitchers! Throwing a good game consists of hitting ur spots and keeping ur pitch count down. U obviously never played baseball, jungledud!

Looks like I touched a nerve. Rachel, it was nothing pointed towards you directly but more at the missourian as a whole.

No, the thing that surprised me is that it didn't get deleted right a way.

Cape had plenty of press during football and basketball.. I guess back to back let downs got to them.. Sorta like the boy who cried wolf?

I'm glad this forum said sikeston in it.. Oh waitttttt

I was just trying to help solve the problem as to why they weren't there.. I mean let's be honest.. Cape has choked a lot this year.. So I mean why wouldnt they against a good team.. But they won congrats..

And I said nothing about sikeston?