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Really was a complete team effort today. Jeb Brown a couple of quality hits, Jacob Carney with a monster across the road homerun. And Reid Entsminger pitched possibly his best game of the season. Good luck tomorrow Warriors. Yes, protect the field.
This lineup really is TOUGH, top to bottom.
Consider:
1) Loudan (second-team all-NWD, utility and shortstop) ... His glove has saved a few runs in the post season too.
2) Whitacre (second-team all-NWD, outfield) ... Great speed, very good bunter, will probably get the start on the bump Sunday.
3) Carney (first-team all-NWD and first-team all-Region II, second base) ... Such a clutch guy at the plate. Hits for average as well as any kid I have seen in our area over the last five, six years.. Then, a blast today. Senior-up!
4) Smallwood (first-team all-NWD and first-team all-Region II, catcher) ... One of the best, if not the best, behind the dish in AA. Super breakout year when the pressure was on for him to lead. Co-region tournament MVP, in my eyes.
5) Entsminger (first-team all-NWD OF, NWD position player of the year, first-team all-NWD P, first-team all-Region II OF, second-team all-Region II P) ... Outstanding post-season for this guy, who has had an impact in all five games, region tournament forward. Shares the co-region tournament MVP (just my call, but hopefully most agree). His improvement as a baseball player is one of the main reasons Sherando gets to play on the last day.
6) Bentley (first-team all-NWD P, NWD pitcher of the year, first-team all-Region II P) ... The guy threw 7 INNINGS all of last season. Now he is 9-0. Good job, Bodie, all I'm sayin.'
7) Angel (first-team all-NWD , first-team all-Region II, first-base) ... How many other teams around the commonwealth can say they have a first-team all-region position player batting in the seven-hole? Anyone? Another kid that went to work this season to fill a team need.
8) Brown (second-team all-NWD, outfield) ... Two RBI singles today in a state semifinal? Great clutch hitting from a senior that has also made the most of his opps. A converted catcher that plays a corner outfield position above average, too.
9) Stevenson ... Sophomore has had a few quality at-bats in the post season and is sure to be hitting up in the lineup when the first lineup card is turned into the umps in March 2014. His season highlight though was catching Smallwood's perfect game back in early April.
Yes, this team is solid, top to bottom. Good luck SHS on Sunday.
This post was edited on 6/8 11:45 PM by 21base
This post was edited on 6/8 11:47 PM by 21base
Consider:
1) Loudan (second-team all-NWD, utility and shortstop) ... His glove has saved a few runs in the post season too.
2) Whitacre (second-team all-NWD, outfield) ... Great speed, very good bunter, will probably get the start on the bump Sunday.
3) Carney (first-team all-NWD and first-team all-Region II, second base) ... Such a clutch guy at the plate. Hits for average as well as any kid I have seen in our area over the last five, six years.. Then, a blast today. Senior-up!
4) Smallwood (first-team all-NWD and first-team all-Region II, catcher) ... One of the best, if not the best, behind the dish in AA. Super breakout year when the pressure was on for him to lead. Co-region tournament MVP, in my eyes.
5) Entsminger (first-team all-NWD OF, NWD position player of the year, first-team all-NWD P, first-team all-Region II OF, second-team all-Region II P) ... Outstanding post-season for this guy, who has had an impact in all five games, region tournament forward. Shares the co-region tournament MVP (just my call, but hopefully most agree). His improvement as a baseball player is one of the main reasons Sherando gets to play on the last day.
6) Bentley (first-team all-NWD P, NWD pitcher of the year, first-team all-Region II P) ... The guy threw 7 INNINGS all of last season. Now he is 9-0. Good job, Bodie, all I'm sayin.'
7) Angel (first-team all-NWD , first-team all-Region II, first-base) ... How many other teams around the commonwealth can say they have a first-team all-region position player batting in the seven-hole? Anyone? Another kid that went to work this season to fill a team need.
8) Brown (second-team all-NWD, outfield) ... Two RBI singles today in a state semifinal? Great clutch hitting from a senior that has also made the most of his opps. A converted catcher that plays a corner outfield position above average, too.
9) Stevenson ... Sophomore has had a few quality at-bats in the post season and is sure to be hitting up in the lineup when the first lineup card is turned into the umps in March 2014. His season highlight though was catching Smallwood's perfect game back in early April.
Yes, this team is solid, top to bottom. Good luck SHS on Sunday.
This post was edited on 6/8 11:45 PM by 21base
This post was edited on 6/8 11:47 PM by 21base
Winchester Star story - Sherando Beats Amherst In Semis
Posted: June 8, 2013
By KEVIN TRUDGEON
The Winchester Star
PULASKI - Graduating from high school is an achievement meant to be shared with friends and family celebrating the culmination of a long journey towards a singular goal.
So it should come as no surprise that the impromptu ceremony held behind home plate at Calfee Park in Pulaski Saturday afternoon seemed especially appropriate for the Sherando baseball team and its six seniors.
Unable to make their graduation back home earlier in the day, Taylor Loudan, Justin Angel, John Bentley, William Nicholson, Jacob Carney and Jeb Brown accepted their diplomas on the diamond as the final act of what had already been a history-making day for the Warriors.
Taking on undefeated Amherst in a Group AA state semifinal game that was postponed three times due to weather, Sherando rode the arm of starter Reid Entsminger and an array of contributions up and down the lineup to a 4-2 win and the program's first ever trip to the state championship.
The Warriors will take on Tunstall, which beat Woodgrove 3-2 in the other semifinal, at 1 p.m. Sunday at Radford University in a state final that, much like graduation, was a long time coming.
“It’s probably going to be the biggest moment of my life,” said Carney (2 for 3 with an RBI and run scored), whose solo home run over the big wall in right field in the fifth inning proved to be the winning run. “I’m not going to lie, words can’t really describe how I’m feeling right now. I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet, but hopefully we can get one more win.”
Sherando (24-1) will have the chance for that magical 25th win thanks to yet another top-to-bottom performance that’s become its calling card this season.
Brown drove in the Warriors’ first two runs of the game from the No. 8 spot in the lineup, sophomore Adam Whitacre gunned down a runner at the plate with a laser from center field, eight of the nine Sherando batters reached base at least once and Entsminger dominated on the mound.
Entering the game with a sub-0.50 ERA, the junior right-hander scattered seven hits and struck out 10 in a complete-game effort that had coach Pepper Martin shaking his head afterwards.
“I’ll tell you, Reid Entsminger has ice water running through his veins. Nerves of steel, whatever type of analogy you want to use, he’s incredible,” Martin said. “He’s one of the greatest competitors I’ve ever coached.”
Going up against Amherst (24-1) ace Jesse Stinnett, who came in with a sterling 9-0 record and 0.89 ERA of his own, Entsminger won the battle on the mound and the Warriors won the battle at the plate.
After the Lancers took the lead in the bottom of the first on Stinnett’s RBI single to score leadoff hitter D.A. Christian, the Sherando offense went to work.
Entsminger missed a home run by about a foot on a monstrous shot to dead center, instead settling for a leadoff double, and Brown (2 for 3 with two RBIs) provided the first of his two, two-out RBIs by lacing a single to right to tie it up at 1-1.
With the score still the same in the top of the fourth, Bentley (2 for 3 with a run scored) beat out a ground ball in the hole, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Angel and came around to score on Brown’s RBI single to left that gave the Warriors a lead they would never relinquish.
“Last night when we were eating team dinner I said, ‘Jeb, I’ve got a feeling you’re going to have a big game tomorrow. Give me a couple hits,’ ” Martin said. “It was just harmless banter, but then he comes out today and gets the hit to drive in the first run and the second time we move the runner up to give him the opportunity to drive in another run and he did. He stepped up both times.”
The Lancers, who had made a habit of late-game heroics over the past couple weeks, made things interesting in the fifth and sixth innings, but the Warriors, who know a little something about drama themselves, were up to the task.
Junior Will Keesee’s single to center in the bottom of the fourth looked as though it was going to score teammate Hunter Floyd to tie the game, but Whitacre fielded the ball on a hop and fired a perfect strike to catcher Chase Smallwood to beat Floyd by a step for the third out of the inning.
One batter later, Carney ripped a moon shot down the right-field line that just stayed fair for the first home run of his high school career to stretch the lead to 3-1.
“[Sherando] played really well. They’ve been playing really well all season and they’re a very good baseball team,” said Amherst coach Joey Crawford. “They pounded out 11 or 12 hits off our best pitcher. They hit the ball when they needed to, they had a lot of big hits with runners in scoring position and that was the difference in the game.”
Entsminger would run into trouble in the sixth when a pair of walks and a single loaded the bases with one out, but he only allowed one run to cross the plate as he got Floyd to ground into a fielder’s choice and Keesee to fly out to right.
Clinging to a one-run lead heading into the seventh, the Warriors got a big insurance run when designated hitter Connor Stevenson led off with a double to right-center field and pinch runner Zachary Henke later scored on a throwing error by Amherst catcher Logan Pingley, and Entsminger took care of the rest.
He struck out pinch-hitter Tyler Carter and Christian for the first two outs of the inning and, with the Sherando faithful on its feet, got Jacob Orme to fly out to right to end the game.
“Coach [Bodenschatz] asked me after the sixth if I could close out the game and I said, ‘Yes sir, I can close it,’ ” said Entsminger, who threw 124 pitches in the win. “This is a dream come true. Ever since I was little and lived in Texas and the baseball team there went to the state championship I’ve said I wanted to go to a state championship one day in baseball. And what do you know, now we’re there.”
This post was edited on 6/9 6:39 AM by Coach Milburn
Posted: June 8, 2013
By KEVIN TRUDGEON
The Winchester Star
PULASKI - Graduating from high school is an achievement meant to be shared with friends and family celebrating the culmination of a long journey towards a singular goal.
So it should come as no surprise that the impromptu ceremony held behind home plate at Calfee Park in Pulaski Saturday afternoon seemed especially appropriate for the Sherando baseball team and its six seniors.
Unable to make their graduation back home earlier in the day, Taylor Loudan, Justin Angel, John Bentley, William Nicholson, Jacob Carney and Jeb Brown accepted their diplomas on the diamond as the final act of what had already been a history-making day for the Warriors.
Taking on undefeated Amherst in a Group AA state semifinal game that was postponed three times due to weather, Sherando rode the arm of starter Reid Entsminger and an array of contributions up and down the lineup to a 4-2 win and the program's first ever trip to the state championship.
The Warriors will take on Tunstall, which beat Woodgrove 3-2 in the other semifinal, at 1 p.m. Sunday at Radford University in a state final that, much like graduation, was a long time coming.
“It’s probably going to be the biggest moment of my life,” said Carney (2 for 3 with an RBI and run scored), whose solo home run over the big wall in right field in the fifth inning proved to be the winning run. “I’m not going to lie, words can’t really describe how I’m feeling right now. I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet, but hopefully we can get one more win.”
Sherando (24-1) will have the chance for that magical 25th win thanks to yet another top-to-bottom performance that’s become its calling card this season.
Brown drove in the Warriors’ first two runs of the game from the No. 8 spot in the lineup, sophomore Adam Whitacre gunned down a runner at the plate with a laser from center field, eight of the nine Sherando batters reached base at least once and Entsminger dominated on the mound.
Entering the game with a sub-0.50 ERA, the junior right-hander scattered seven hits and struck out 10 in a complete-game effort that had coach Pepper Martin shaking his head afterwards.
“I’ll tell you, Reid Entsminger has ice water running through his veins. Nerves of steel, whatever type of analogy you want to use, he’s incredible,” Martin said. “He’s one of the greatest competitors I’ve ever coached.”
Going up against Amherst (24-1) ace Jesse Stinnett, who came in with a sterling 9-0 record and 0.89 ERA of his own, Entsminger won the battle on the mound and the Warriors won the battle at the plate.
After the Lancers took the lead in the bottom of the first on Stinnett’s RBI single to score leadoff hitter D.A. Christian, the Sherando offense went to work.
Entsminger missed a home run by about a foot on a monstrous shot to dead center, instead settling for a leadoff double, and Brown (2 for 3 with two RBIs) provided the first of his two, two-out RBIs by lacing a single to right to tie it up at 1-1.
With the score still the same in the top of the fourth, Bentley (2 for 3 with a run scored) beat out a ground ball in the hole, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Angel and came around to score on Brown’s RBI single to left that gave the Warriors a lead they would never relinquish.
“Last night when we were eating team dinner I said, ‘Jeb, I’ve got a feeling you’re going to have a big game tomorrow. Give me a couple hits,’ ” Martin said. “It was just harmless banter, but then he comes out today and gets the hit to drive in the first run and the second time we move the runner up to give him the opportunity to drive in another run and he did. He stepped up both times.”
The Lancers, who had made a habit of late-game heroics over the past couple weeks, made things interesting in the fifth and sixth innings, but the Warriors, who know a little something about drama themselves, were up to the task.
Junior Will Keesee’s single to center in the bottom of the fourth looked as though it was going to score teammate Hunter Floyd to tie the game, but Whitacre fielded the ball on a hop and fired a perfect strike to catcher Chase Smallwood to beat Floyd by a step for the third out of the inning.
One batter later, Carney ripped a moon shot down the right-field line that just stayed fair for the first home run of his high school career to stretch the lead to 3-1.
“[Sherando] played really well. They’ve been playing really well all season and they’re a very good baseball team,” said Amherst coach Joey Crawford. “They pounded out 11 or 12 hits off our best pitcher. They hit the ball when they needed to, they had a lot of big hits with runners in scoring position and that was the difference in the game.”
Entsminger would run into trouble in the sixth when a pair of walks and a single loaded the bases with one out, but he only allowed one run to cross the plate as he got Floyd to ground into a fielder’s choice and Keesee to fly out to right.
Clinging to a one-run lead heading into the seventh, the Warriors got a big insurance run when designated hitter Connor Stevenson led off with a double to right-center field and pinch runner Zachary Henke later scored on a throwing error by Amherst catcher Logan Pingley, and Entsminger took care of the rest.
He struck out pinch-hitter Tyler Carter and Christian for the first two outs of the inning and, with the Sherando faithful on its feet, got Jacob Orme to fly out to right to end the game.
“Coach [Bodenschatz] asked me after the sixth if I could close out the game and I said, ‘Yes sir, I can close it,’ ” said Entsminger, who threw 124 pitches in the win. “This is a dream come true. Ever since I was little and lived in Texas and the baseball team there went to the state championship I’ve said I wanted to go to a state championship one day in baseball. And what do you know, now we’re there.”
This post was edited on 6/9 6:39 AM by Coach Milburn
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