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Score it 1-4-3!

Hello Everyone – Keep the good stuff coming in.

 

Today and tonight I have posted season previews on Wisconsin Heights (Capitol South), Wayland Academy (Midwest Classic Midwest Division), Little Wolf High School –Manawa (Central Wisconsin Small), Belleville (Capitol South), Wilmot Union (Lakeshore Conference) and a Lakeshore Conference preview that we were able to get and put together. Thanks to the coaches who followed up with our request to get those previews in.

 

I got my first look at the first draft of the game reporting form that will be available to all teams when your games get started. It won t take you very long to fill in the spots to complete the form. There is a line score by innings with runs, hits errors at the end of the lines; winning pitcher and her strikeouts and walks, losing pitcher with strikeouts and walks, a place to type in other pitchers who worked in the game, four leading hitters where you can list their AB, R, H, 2B, 3B, HR and RBI and a place at the bottom of the form to type a game summary in sentence and paragraph form or just list highlights of the game. That form will be able to be e-mailed to media outlets of all kinds, newspapers, radio, TV etc.

 

Some of the coaches in the state will really like using it while others will probably tell me that they don t have enough time to do all that. My answer to that remains, somebody within your program has the time to do it and would probably enjoy doing it.

 

Here is how you will access those game summaries. When you check the statewide scoreboard where the scores of all games reported are listed, there will be an indicator therein that tells you to click on it and you can go to that game score report and see all that information. It will be a bit different from the Fastpitch Chronicle scores by day and week but pretty similar. I think you will enjoy it.

 

It seems that the Appleton Post Crescent sends out a form for coaches to complete and return so the paper can do pre-season outlooks on your teams. I got one from Jim Roenz of Little Wolf. I simply printed it out and used it to write the season preview that I posted on wissports.net so you can just e-mail me that form as well if that works for you.

 

You might also want to browse around the entire softball site at wissports.net because there is more information there than yesterday. For instance, I have added a link to the Kewaunee County paper that ran pre-season outlooks on Kewaunee, Algoma and Luxemburg-Casco high schools. They are all well written and good reading. Just go to the Daily Stories area and click on those links.

 

Player updates – Kaleigh Curran, a former Tomah softball player is a freshman at Winona State and is on the softball team there. Melanie Bisek a former McFarland player is a senior at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC and owns a 6-1 pitching record at this point of the season. Michelle Erickson, a former McFarland player attended Ripon College, played softball and is the new Head Softball Coach at Cambridge High School (Capitol South). I hope she hears about us at wissports.net because I haven t heard from here yet in terms of getting on our coaches mailing list and haven t received a pre-season preview on the Blue Jays either.

 

In the Players to Watch category – Devon Furtak, a sophomore hurler from Butternut/Glidden is one of the state s top sophomore pitchers. She throws hard, has several pitches that move well and is a fine hitter as well. As a freshman she batted .450 overall and .750 in the Indianhead Conference where she earned All Conference honors.

 

Here is a play for you to ponder tonight. A runner at first takes off on a steal attempt of second base. After catching the pitch the catcher throws the ball up into the air in the infield in the area of the shortstop. A fielder starts yelling "Get Back, Get Back". The runner, confused, thinks that her teammate must have hit a ball into the air and after having stolen second heads back to first whereby she is tagged out by the shortstop.

 

I actually saw this situation take place during one of the first year s I coached high school softball.

 

Ruling: It s verbal obstruction and the "umpie" (that s what Canadians call an umpire) should call out "obstruction" and signal a delayed dead ball then award the base stealer second base.

 

Hey, have a great day! It s now within the WIAA season regulations to play a game.

Play Ball!

Keep it Rising!

Bob