Yesterday's HS games

[Steve M]

We've been pretty fortunate in this area of Pa to have some extremely good pitching and some solid high school teams in one of the leagues. I got the call to do the plate in an early afternoon quarter final between the 2-seed and the
6-seed. Both these teams are in the same league and they split durng the regular season. Anyway, the 6-seed lost by 2 runs. I had all the bangers in the game - 3 plays at the plate. If the losing team's catcher learns how to hang onto the ball, they win. I made 2 calls from the 3rd base side and one from the infield side - each time in perfect position to see the catch and slide and then to see the ball on the ground. After the game & a short post-game, I hopped on the interstate and went to watch the team from the town I live in. The pitcher missed perfect game by 3 outs - glad to see that it was clearly a hit. They won
1-0, taking advantage of the speed of the shortstop & then pulling off a well-done suicide squeeze. 5 senior pitchers in this league & all going to good programs next year - what's even cooler is that my association covers those conferences.

[Edited by Steve M on May 26th, 2001 at 10:42 PM]