Game One: @ Kankakee

For our first games of the 2010 season, we traveled on the last Saturday of spring break, My and Myles Birthday! March 27th to face the Kankakee.

Temp: 45- High Winds- Kanakee's field is in a wide open space with no trees- so the wind was blowing out to left and kept the field pretty cold.

We learned a lot about ourselves in this first outing. One being I need to teach the players to keep better stats, Something we will work on this week! (so this recap is by memory- it will be better next game!)

Game One- Freshman Brian Summers- pitched the first 4 2/3rd's innings doing very well for his first time out. Only two walks and 4 strike outs. Brian gave up 4 hits and had a total of 72 pitches.
We kept the score close in the early-Scoring on a passed ball and fielders choice in the early innings, and giving up 4 runs through 4 innings. Sophomore Salman Khan came in to relieve the final 2 1/3 innings.
The Kays hit the ball pretty well and we had a few errors in the 4th inning.
final Score 8-3.
Highlight- Myles Kelley- Leaping Catch in Center Field.

Game Two- Freshman Myles Kelley- Starting pitcher- 2 2/3rd's innings- Myles kept battling- getting the second strike to a number of batters, before giving up hits late in the count. Gotta give credit to the Kay's for hitting the ball hard to open spots. Freshman C.G. Facer came in to relieve- striking out the final batter in each of the next 3 innings.
Final Score: 13-3
Highlights- Michael Thompson went 2 for 3 with 2 singles- and Kyle Ross had a Great diving catch in center field. Salman Khan and Curtis Clark played solid defense at short stop and third base respectively.

Coaches Comments: We need to cut down on some of the errors and lapses in concentration in the field. We are a young team and as our first games it was a good test as to what High School Baseball is all about. I saw some great things from this young team and know there are plenty of things we need to work on, we have lots of games to prove ourselves. Please post some highlights that you remember from the game!
Special thanks to parents for making the long drive, bringing food and cheering on our Tigers in the Cold and Wind! Game 3 in on Tuesday @ Home!
Go Tigers!