Early Shenandoah/Conference 36 Results

[longtimerhsfan]

I personally am ALL wrapped up in March Madness and will be until it ends, so baseball will have to do without me until then, but I have read in the local paper that our Shenandoah teams have at least tried to brave the weather and get the season started.

So with that in mind, I can report that so far Riverheads has beaten R E Lee 5-3 and East Rockingham has also knocked them off by an almost identical 6-3 score. So even though both were non-district games, I suppose that puts RHS and ER in a better position already than the Leemen for Conference 36 purposes, even though it is of course quite early.

Riverheads returns a solid pitching staff from last year but I was worried about them losing a pretty fair amount of hitting power. But I think I read that both the Gladiators and the Eagles touched Lee for 10 hits in those two games. So maybe they will be OK after all at the plate.

Will report more once the weather warms up and basketball is finally over.

 

[longtimerhsfan]

Riverheads at Wilson-- first big test

Since my last report, RHS has pitched shutout wins over Parry McCluer and Nelson County, the latter being a 6-0 no-hitter played just yesterday. Billy Coffin pitched for the Big Red in that one, and if I am not mistaken, he is considered our third pitcher in the rotation. So that sounds pretty good.

Today the Gladiators are scheduled to play at Wilson, which will be our first Shenandoah District game. The Big Red and the Hornets are the defending Division 1 and 2 state champions, respectively, so this game should show which one has returned the most talent toward a possible repeat title run.

The weather could interfere, as it has spit rain off and on today, so time will tell if they get to play this one.

Since I had mentioned East Rock in my earlier post, I think I read somewhere that they romped past their right-down-the-road neighbor, Spotswood, by something like 12-0 recently. The only other score I remember reading so far this season is that Luray beat Stuarts Draft I think, but again don't quote me. Still too much MM on the brain to be sure of anything related to baseball!!