Sherando (1) Loudoun Valley (0) 13 innings

[Coach Milburn]

One of the best HS games I've seen. Chase Smallwood comes up bigtime in the clutch with walkoff blast!

Reid Entsminger competed his tail off on the bump and huge shoutout to LV's Danny White who was PERFECT for 9 innings.

The crowd that I was with watching the game with, including three college umpires ... we are all still trying to figure out how homeplate umpire had timeout when Sherando's 1st baseman overthrew pitcher and ball went past 3rd basemen to fence allow LV runner to move up to 2nd base. Homeplate umpire signaled that he had time and sent runner back. We all agree, the homeplate umpire invented the timeout.

Bottom line ... a classic high school baseball game!



This post was edited on 5/28 11:20 PM by Coach Milburn

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: Thursday Region II Semi's

Thursday:
Powhatan @ Sherando 7pm
Woodgrove @ Potomac Falls

 

[hamspear]

That was a bad call along with a inconsistent strike zone at times tonight. Both teams had chances to score runs. LV played excellent defense behind the outstanding pitching. The bats were not there tonight for the Warriors. Nice pitching duo performance between Entsminger and Bentley. Not sure how many innings if any that Bentley will be available for on Thursday now. Might see Whitacre and Loudoun pitching. In amy case need to wake up the bats to be successful in the next game.

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: VHSL new pitching rule

Looks Bentley is not available until Friday and Reid would be available 'til Saturday.

VHSL Baseball Pitching Regulations

For the purposes of this rule, delivery of one pitch constitutes having pitched in one inning.

A pitcher may pitch in a maximum of nine innings in one day but not more than fourteen innings in any seven day consecutive period.

If a pitcher pitches in one inning for four consecutive days that pitcher shall have one calendar day of rest from competition pitching beginning with the day following the fourth consecutive day a pitch is thrown.

If a pitcher pitches in two or three innings in one day that pitcher shall have one calendar day of rest from competition pitching beginning with the day following the first day a pitch is thrown.

If a pitcher pitches four to seven innings in one day that pitcher shall have two calendar days of rest from competition pitching beginning with the day following the first day a pitch is thrown.

Further restrictions regarding this section include:

- After two days of rest a pitcher may pitch a maximum of two innings.

- After three days of rest a pitcher may pitch a maximum of three innings.

- After four days of rest a pitcher may pitch to the limit of the rule.

If a pitcher pitches in eight or nine innings in one day that pitcher shall have three calendar days of rest from competition pitching beginning with the day following the first day a pitch is thrown.

- After three days of rest a pitcher may pitch a maximum of two innings.

- After four days of rest a pitcher may pitch a maximum of three innings.

- After five days of rest a pitcher may pitch to the limit of the rule.

This limitation applies to regular season as well as post season play.

Penalty

Violation of this rule constitutes use of an ineligible and forfeiture of any games in which such violation occurs. Additionally use of an ineligible carries a $100 fine for the offending school.

This post was edited on 5/28 11:36 PM by Coach Milburn

 

[hamspear]

Re: VHSL new pitching rule

Thanks for posting, be interesting to see who Pepper goes with on Thursday. Whitacre, Loudoun, Smallwood.? I have to think it would be Whitacre but could be any of the three.

 

[Bluetree]

New Scoreboard

I see Sherando got their new scoreboard up watching TV 3 high-lights.
This post was edited on 5/28 11:34 PM by Bluetree

 

[aw19752]

Kudos to Sherando's defense for holding on and Smallwood coming up big. I really don't know how to comment on the called the umpire made Milburn. That's was a critical moment from LV. Would have been a guy at 2nd with no outs. For such an excellent game it's a shame that it has to be tainted a little. Even in 7 year old baseball in the city league there's no timeout until the ball gets in the pitcher's circle. But that's in the past and Sherando has to bounce back after an exhausting game emotionally and be ready for Thursday.

I wouldn't say that the bats weren't there tonight. Valley's defense took away about a half a dozen hits from Sherando with excellent defensive plays. Actually it got to a point that the only way that you were going to get a hit against LV tonight was to hit it out the park

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: TV3 Sports video online now!

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This post was edited on 5/29 12:37 AM by Coach Milburn

Smallwood's Walk-Off Homer Sends Sherando to Semis

 

[Coach Milburn]

I agree too that the bats were there BUT Loudoun Valley was playing some serious defense and tracking balls down in their outfield. There were several balls hit on the nose for Sherando. IMHO, there were quite a few "quality at bats" for the Warriors.

There were some big defensive plays for both teams throughout the game.

 

[21base]

Yeah, there's a reason why Sherando had so much trouble getting on base. White sure didn't blow them away and I don't think he had many strikeouts. But he stayed consistent with his pitches and his defense keep making play after play.

The plays of the night had to be Smallwood backing up first on the overthrow and gunning out the poor guy heading to second (Loudan looked like the fielder in Major League 1 that says to Willy Mays Hayes 'Come on" and tags him on the helmet) and Grayson climbing the ladder big time at second base to rob Loudan of a sure hit.

There might have been only one run scored but you really have to give both teams a lot of credit for working their cans off for 13 innings.

Tough loss for Valley, but it sure had its chances. 14 LOBs is a recipe for disaster. Three gutsy pitching performances from White, Entsminger and finally, Bentley. Now hopefully for the Warriors, the rest of their staff (Whitacre, Loudan, Brown, and Smallwood) can slow Powhatan's bats down. That is going to be a chore against a team that is the defending state champs and has scored at least 10 runs in each of its four post season games.

The call by the plate guy was phantom, probably, but I thought he actually was consistent with the strike zone all game and sure didn't give either team any gifts. That's hard to do in a long game with someone's season coming to an end.

This post was edited on 5/29 12:24 AM by 21base

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: 3 college umpires were watching the game, not calling the game

Originally posted by 21base:

As far as college umps? I'm not sure any of the three ARE college umps, as one poster said. If the plate guy had done college, I will gladly stand corrected. But I really don't think he has. The three in question are always somewhere doing local high school softball and baseball anyway.

21base, I was standing watching the game along with 3 college umpires behind homplate. I didn't say there were 3 college umpires in the field.

This post was edited on 5/29 12:15 AM by Coach Milburn

 

[21base]

Re: 3 college umpires were watching the game, not calling the game

OK, my bad. Guess I'm a little tired from watching 13 innings.

We all make mistakes, now and again.

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: 3 college umpires were watching the game, not calling the game

Cowboy base ...

how in the world could one get tired from watching 13 innings of baseball?

 

[21base]

Re: 3 college umpires were watching the game, not calling the game


Try sitting in the same place for 13 innings around a bunch of people ... cowboy.

Peace, Mr. Milburn.

I did like the result, bro.

 

[Coach Milburn]

Re: NVDaily story online

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This post was edited on 5/29 12:39 AM by Coach Milburn

Smallwood's walk-off homer powers Warriors