Saturday, 2/14/2009 - 11:42 a.m. PST — East County
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As far as East County softball, it appears the two top teams will again be Freedom and Deer Valley. Freedom will be led by their four year starting pitcher who is a fantastic pitcher. Deer Valley will also be led by their pitcher ( a four year starter) that is a truly amazing athlete who could probably make Varsity in any sport and dominate.
In a rarity, I believe Liberty is also returning a senior pitcher who has been their starter for the last three years and could make some noice along with Heritage. Of course no one really knows about Antioch including their coach until the principal tells them who to start. I hope that didn't sound too petty.
East County shoud be represented by two powers (DV and Freedom) deep into NCS in my humble non-expert opinion.
I noticed Freedom's Pitcher on crutches on the bench two weeks ago for the Freedom girls.
I do agree with the pitchers back, DV and Freedom should be atop the BVAL.
Heritage, Liberty, Pitt and Antioch should be a crap shoot to fill out the standings the league.
According AHSgrad Pitt has Quesada at the helm, wasn't he at Antioch last year? So who is there now?
Thanks Clean, that is an interesting turn of events. Did the rest of the staff return? (Rebstock, Luis and the other guy?) Could make BVAL a little more interesting this season........
You are mostly correct except for you input on Cal High. I don't think the pitching is intact. I believe Miller graduated last year leaving the prime candidate to be Britanny Wright. She is a soph who was the varsity back-up last year but got very little pitching time.
The biggest change this year for Cal will be that they have recently fired Jones, the head coach. It seems he was telling Basketball and Soccer players that they would have to quit their Basketball and Soccer teams so that they could come out early for softball. One of the parents turned him in. The issue then got worse when Joy, the vice principal, found out that they were having full on practices with coach involvement in January. This is a direct violation of NCS rules so the administration immediately fired Jones because he had compromised their NCS eligibility for this year.
Yes, Hannah is on crutches but is expected back before the opening of the season. Playing Basketball may not have been a bright move for anyone protecting Freedom's star pitcher, but she should be fine. Freedom returns all impact players except Courtney Wiley, but has plenty to fill that void. Freedom will be front runner in BVAL, as long as Hannah can throw effectively.
Deer Valley has likely the best female athelete in the BVAL, if not the Bay Area in Emily, but DV has lost too mush star power from last season, so unless Emily can pack the team on her back and single-handedly win the BVAL, they may have trouble finishing 3rd in the conference - 2nd.
3rd - my choice is AHS. Yes, Luis is back, as too are Rebstock and his crew. This will add game management intelligence to that team and surely result in more wins in 2009. Maybe they will bunt when they can win the game, unlike last season when they were mismanaged into a mediocre season record with good ASA talent - 2008 could be surprise 3rd place finish.
Heritage does have their staring pitcher back for 2009, but too has lost too much without having adequate talent back-filling the void. Many seem to think a 2A title two years ago under Rebstock, not Rivers, was impressive, the reality is it was a nice run at a good time, but not the stuff that supports the long-term stamina needed to win in the BVAL....2008 was more a sign of the potential for a 2009 season that if all goes well, may result in a 3rd place finish, but more likely will produce a 4th place run.
Liberty will finish 5th, as they simply have not the horses to compete day-in, day-out in the BVAL - having to face all foes three times in league. They may finish 1 - 2 versus all but Pitt, but that is a best-case scenario, which will result in 5th.
6th - Sorry Pitt, but if your coach is really last season's AHS coach, you're in for a longer season than the 2008 campaign proved to be. Mis-managing a good team is one thing...mis-mangaing a mediocre team is something completely different - 6th with a possibility of a one-win season for 2009.
I know it's easy to pick the front-runner for 1st, but there simply are not enough players filling in the gaps at the other schools for some of the big bats lost from the BVAL last season. The removal of CV, Carondelet, and YV(?) removes two competetive teams from the BVAL, so anyone wanting to win the BVAL must not only beat Freedom 2 of 3, but also must survive the rest of their schedule. That's not too likely.
Hopefully I haven't offended anyone...just wanted to spice up the upcoming softball season...the rain really has me down!
So who did Heritage lose? I was under the impression that there was only 1 junior on the 2007 team that won NCS (who didn't really play that much) and last year there were no seniors. So just curious...
Upon second review you are correct....Heritage has not lost any players of significance, and in fact is returning almost an entire team that is one year older with 10 seniors no less. With the exception of every team in the BVAL except DV, most of the league is gaining a year's worth of HS seasoning, including Freedom. Freedom is returning 3 seniors, but the rest of that team is juniors and sophomores.
Escobar, and LEE are seniors and Wiley a junior and very good players. They combined to go 84 hits in 200 AB's or 0.420 BA last season. Take them out of Heritage's line-up and the team batting avergae drops from 0.258 to 0.180?
Of course you could make a similar point with most teams, but the comparison with Freedom is that if Hannah, Kortney, and Chrissy Stalf's bats are removed from the line up (0.389 BA combined). the rest of Freedom's BA drops from 0.313 to 0.278.
What does all this mean? Who knows, but the point is that Heritage just does not have much depth offensively. Could players be coming in that no one knows about...of course. My prediction remains the same, Heritage will finish 4th in BVAL this season, but could slide up to 3rd. I just can't see them winning the BVAL, but that's the fun of it....everyone still has to play the games, and if Hannah's injury is more serious than seems, it could be a wide open year in the BVAL.
No offense intended. I know Rivers, like him, and wish him well.
I also heard that Willis should be back to form this year for Heritage. She had a very good sophmore year and then played hurt all of last year. But you're right, with the coaching that Antioch has this year, they will probably slide into 3rd.
I can not presume to know who was in form or not in form one year to the next. I know who Willis is, however I must admit I have not been in this person's direct circle ever. Looking at her stats from 2008, 73 AB's and 20 K's, that is a bit high.
I recall one year someone telling me in response to what my daughter needed to improve on, they said cut down on K's as she was 1 K for every 10 AB's? That was good advice back then, because I'm a beliver in contact in softball makes things happen. Contact means people have to make plays and girls are rounding the bases. Without contact, it's simply the catcher throwing the ball back to the pithcer who is facing yet another batter?
If her (Willis') K total was a result of injury then I agree healthy she could add impact to the squad and help push Heritage over the top, maybe 3rd or even 2nd? I never want to see any team win because another is hurt, but that's a fact of life. Teams have to have depth and talent to to overcome health proplems to eventually succeed. I hope all the girls of the BVAL are healthy and play 100% of every game, so there are no excuses in the end...only good games, played hard with nothing left on the table but the understanding that nothing more could have been given to achieve the objective....just win baby! I'm not even a Raider fan?!
How's the rest of the NCS field looking? I kow Castro Valley, Clayton Valley, San Ramon, CalHI to name a few are alwys tough. Castro Valley lost a lot of talent, but CalHi could be a tough team this year, not to mention the likes of Foothil? Chime in and lets see what everyone thinks? Don't forget Berkeley, James Logan and others.....?
I can not presume to know who was in form or not in form one year to the next. I know who Willis is, however I must admit I have not been in this person's direct circle ever. Looking at her stats from 2008, 73 AB's and 20 K's, that is a bit high.
I recall one year someone telling me in response to what my daughter needed to improve on, they said cut down on K's as she was 1 K for every 10 AB's? That was good advice back then, because I'm a beliver in contact in softball makes things happen. Contact means people have to make plays and girls are rounding the bases. Without contact, it's simply the catcher throwing the ball back to the pithcer who is facing yet another batter?
If her (Willis') K total was a result of injury then I agree healthy she could add impact to the squad and help push Heritage over the top, maybe 3rd or even 2nd? I never want to see any team win because another is hurt, but that's a fact of life. Teams have to have depth and talent to to overcome health proplems to eventually succeed. I hope all the girls of the BVAL are healthy and play 100% of every game, so there are no excuses in the end...only good games, played hard with nothing left on the table but the understanding that nothing more could have been given to achieve the objective....just win baby! I'm not even a Raider fan?!
How's the rest of the NCS field looking? I know Castro Valley, Clayton Valley, San Ramon, CalHI to name a few are alwys tough. Castro Valley lost a lot of talent, but CalHi could be a tough team this year, not to mention the likes of Foothil? Chime in and lets see what everyone thinks? Don't forget Berkeley, James Logan and others.....?
Clayton Valley used different pitchers each time Freedom played them last season. The first game 4/8/08 CV used either Amanda Moore or Stephanie Allen, juniors last season, and Freedom won 10 - 0. If I recall correctly CV made a bunch of errors to compound the problems they had that game.
The next game on 5/8/08 at CVHS, they used a freshman who was not listed on the varisty roster, and whose name I can't recall. The kid threw like 45 Mph, and once Freedom timed her they started hitting the ball hard late in the game. CV won 7 - 4, but it wasn't because of pitching, but rather defense that they won. Both the Chambers girls made game saving plays for them that prevented Freedom from capitalizing big with runners in scoring position. Kelsey made at least two big diving plays that day alone, one with bases loaded and two outs late in the game! CV played a good game and won, so they were stoked about the outcome.
To answer your question, whoever the freshman was was I do not know. CV lost a couple big players last season with the Chambers sisters, and the only other pitchers they had listed were Allen and Moore, who are both seniors this season.
CV moves out of the BVAL as does Carondelet. It will be interesting seeing how everyone fares this season with realignment?
Softball, where to start? So many subjects going on...
In the BSAL, it will be no surprise... St Patrick/St Vincent will run away with the title once again. With only 2 seniors on the roster, the entire line up contains girls who played on last year's NCS Championship team. Pitching after their #1 will be a question mark.
The DFAL, the CV freshman that pitched last year I believe was Dallas Cooney. Las Lomas returns their pitcher from last year and has to be the favorite, with College Park (did they go to the EBAL) and Alhambra, though losing key players from last year can show some offensive prowess at times, trying to make a challenge.
The BVAL, how can you not pick Freedom with Williams pitching and a speedy and proven supporting cast? Deer Valley should give them a challenge with a roster filled with some good athletes. Heritage has to redeem themselves after their strong first year and a lack luster 2008. Antioch lacks pitching, though have experienced players on the roster.
The EBAL will certainly be interesting. Livermore offers a seasoned team with offensive power, Cal High will have experience and a pitching staff to help their cause, Foothill and SRV should round out the rest.
Here's the fun part, predictions for NCS (remember they are all 12 team brackets this year): Div 1 - Freedom, Livermore, Deer Valley Div 2 - Concord, Las Lomas, Heritage Div 3 - Albany, Alhambra, Bishop O Dowd Div 4 - St Patrick/St Vincent, Justin-Siena, Berean
You are mostly correct except for you input on Cal High. I don't think the pitching is intact. I believe Miller graduated last year leaving the prime candidate to be Britanny Wright. She is a soph who was the varsity back-up last year but got very little pitching time.
The biggest change this year for Cal will be that they have recently fired Jones, the head coach. It seems he was telling Basketball and Soccer players that they would have to quit their Basketball and Soccer teams so that they could come out early for softball. One of the parents turned him in. The issue then got worse when Joy, the vice principal, found out that they were having full on practices with coach involvement in January. This is a direct violation of NCS rules so the administration immediately fired Jones because he had compromised their NCS eligibility for this year.
You are correct, Miller is a senior. I was mistaken.
No replacement coach yet. It is not clear as to whether the Asst was implicated in the NCS rule violation. Keep in mind they also are functioning without an AD because Fred Albino quit the week before so permanently hiring a new coach may be a challenge.
Here is the good news. Cal High has hired former San Ramon Valley coach Mike Nevin to complete this season. Nevin is Krista Miller's personal pitching coach so I am sure that had a great deal to do with the selection. Nevin has a reputation as a good coach and he should be able to right the Cal High ship quickly. I am hearing that he only committed to this year as Miller is a senior but he should be able to put Cal High on solid ground.
I guess we will find out quick enough next week at Queen of the Mountain. It looks like he will start against Antioch then get Granada and then Monte Vista at the Queen. His season will start fast.
Fair enough, I am guilty of assuming the favored team will win each game. However, there is rarely an upset in the first round of the QOM. The point here really was that Coach Nevin will not get any easy games to form his own opinion about his new team. Obviously, it all changes if Cal should lose to Antioch. In which case we will probably play Washington in the 2nd round.
Your point brings up an interesting question, how do you all think the first round will go? Here are my picks.....
Coach Jones is a good, longtime coach, I find it hard to believe he would tell kids to quit. I just hope these things were brought up by sour grapes parents......Not a good time to lose a coach when games are right around the corner.....
So, with Cal Hi seemingly in disarray, who are the dark horses for NCS 3A? Foothill seems like a logical choice, but they did lose some big players, as did Castro Valley?
Livermore isn't much of a choice as the only reason they do well every season is they play in a weak conference and seed themselves in the easiest bracket at their Stampede tourney each year?
I like Los Lomas who went deep last season in NCS 3A?
Your right about livermore giving themselves a easy bracket at Stampede but you are way off on calling the EBAL a weak conference. The EBAL has has more teams in the NCS 3A playoffs than any other conference every year and all the teams in that league are 3A (now Division 1). The EBAL always has a very high win percentage against the other leagues. Their records are not as good because they have to play each other twice.
Regarding Las Lomas.... They were a 2A team last year and lost in the 2nd round of the NCS playoffs. They were neither a 3A team nor did they go deep. They will not contend in Division 1 (the old 3A) this year because they are in Division 2.
My money is on Freedom and Foothill. I don't think anyone else has the horsepower.
Krista Miller is most definitely a senior this year. She made first team all league in volleyball this year for Cal. Too bad about the situation with the coach. I sure hope the team doesn''t get penalized for the acts of the coach and miss NCS, as her volleyball team missed NCS because the coach was late to the coaches meeting and they were disqualified. That would really make it a tough senior year for her. If they remain eligible, adapting to a new coach might be a little easier in softball than other sports such as football or basketball where there is a lot more scheming going on. Not to say it will be easy on them, but perhaps somewhat easier in softball to get a new coach a week before the season starts? Good luck to them.
The EBAL is ussually a strong league, although Livermore tends to cruise on easy street in their own tournament until the final brackets, the league is tough. I don't think that it is very easy to adjust to losing a coach at any point in a season. Adjustments will need to be made by players and coaches alike, since the player have probably found their comfort zone with Coach Jones and will not know what to expect from their new coach. Hopefully they will be able to hold it together. As far as favorites, Foothil is ussually the EBAL favorite, but unsure of Monte Vista this year. Castro Valley finds ways to win its league. Newark and Logan are always around in the end too..... Looking forward to the upcoming Queen of the Mountain tournament and all of the preseason games getting underway.
My apologies, not sure why I said Los Lomas, I meant James Logan as a potential 3A dark horse.
I guess I was thinking Livermore wasn't in the EBAL? I often wonder who they are playing and how they get into 3A each year? I guess I need to just give credit to whose there, not necessarily wonder how they get there.
Speaking of the Logan team, I was at the In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon last week and I ran into the Logan Varsity Softball team. They had just finished a scrimmage against Monte Vista. They said that Monte Vista actually looked pretty good and gave them a pretty hard time. The girl I talk too said that Monte Vista started several younger players and then sent them over to the JV field in the third or fourth inning when they put in what looked like their starters. She said they hit the first pitcher pretty well and scored three in the first inning but that was it and they did not do well against the second or third pitcher that MV used. I am not sure who all these pitchers are because I heard that the MV pitcher transferred to San Ramon.
I heard last weekend that Antioch, Liberty, and San Ramon scrimmaged last weekend.
Liberty supposedly had a couple injured key players and did not do too well, but Antioch and San Ramon look pretty good. Pretty much predictable.
Should be a good set of scrimmages this weekend, weather permitting, at Foothill. Starting about 9AM will be Foothill, Freedom and Sheldon.
Hannah is on the field and practicing at Freedom. Only throwing and pitching only right now. The point is she is on the field and preparing for the upcoming season. No idea when she will be ready to take the mound, but according to her, sooner rather than later.
Don't know of other scrimmages, but this weekend should be the kickoff to the start of the spring sports HS season.
Someone is reporting false information. The open field clinics were non instructional and appproved by the District for the 5th+ year in a row. These are the same as football and basketball clinics, done year after year. No player was asked to come out to softball try-outs before their season was over. One of the basketball coaches approved for a player to attend since there were no conflicts in the try-outs and their season. Tom Jones sent this player back to the office to get the approval from the Atheltic Director. This school is trying to come up with something but meetings are still pending with the District to right the wrong by removing the head coach.
Krista Miller is a senior and returning to the team.
Kathy Jones and Joy the acting AD don't seem to be on the same page. I guess I don't understand why they would fire him, especially at this point in the season. Is there something else going on here?
By the way, Joy said they posted the Coaching job with the school district for applicants at the end of last week.
Altho not able to make scrimmage yesterday between Freefom, Foothil, and Sheldon (work gets in the way?), I heard Freedom took it to Foothill and starter, Keri Ball, in first scrimmage game winning something like 8 - 2. Evidently Hannah Williams was there, but did not play for Freedom, the Freedom line-up hit Keri Ball often and hard. Not sure if perhaps Keri was just not yet in form, as Freedom went up like 6 - 0 in two innings, yet there were no errors by Foothill to speak of?
Foothill was mostly quiet on offense, altho Keri Ball and the Foothill 1B hit bombs that would have been out if a fence were up. Freedom pitched 1B Chrissy Stalf (hasn't thrown in years) and sophomore Brianna Visentine, who was a JV pitcher last season as a freshman. Both did well, and Freedom's defense made some big plays throwing out Foothill runners trying to take extra bases. Interesting scrimmage for two big NCS programs looking for a rematch in nonleague play on March 19th at Freedom.
Freedom had the favor returned in game two versus Sheldon however. That game was close for about four innings as Sheldon put two runs up in 1st and 3rd innings. Score remained close for four innings then Sheldon put it away 7 - 1. Freedom top half of order had trouble making contact against Sheldon hard thrower's on the mound. This game will be a rematch at Sheldon on March 13th, and Freedom will need Hannah Willims to try to respond. That and a little more contact at the plate.
Any other reports of scrimmage's yesterday in the BVAL?
I saw the 3 scrimmage games. It was great to see some softball, but it definitely looked like early season softball.
Foothill has a huge roster and batted 16 in each game. Freedom and Sheldon batted 9. Sheldon only has 10 on their roster.
Freedom had no Hannah. Sheldon & Foothill split the pitching each game with about 1/2 for the #1 and 1/2 for the #2.
Sheldon was clearly the best of the 3, and neither Freedom nor Foothill's batters could do anything against Sheldon's #1 pitcher when she was in the game.
More early season softball...I heard that Livermore played a round robin scrimmage out at Rodriguez High in Fairfield and had a real tough time with Pleasant Grove. Didn't hear about the other games, but both Rodriguez and Pleasant Grove are very good teams.
Also heard that DV played San Ramon to a 1 - 1 tie in 5 innings beore starting to place runners on base to test out defensive alignments, etc. Sometimes hard to get exact info to this regard, but taken at face value, sounds like SR & DV are in good form if only able to plate one run? Allard not there as she's still in NCS basketball playoffs.
DV contact said SR looked pretty solid as well.
Come on out there...where are the reports on scrimmages?
These two teams played a very solid 4 innings, in which Freedom led 1 - 0 on a line drive Hannah Williams' HR. Both teams looked ready for the season to open. Hannah Williams was on the rubber for Freedom and looked dominant allowing only one hit before changes were made in the top of the 5th.
Freedom scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th off CalHi's Brittany Wright, who replaced Krista Miller. The first run was earned, but the last three were not. Hannah hit a line drive to the fence that became a ground-rule double. Freedom sacrificed coutesy runner, Chelsea Hennings to 3rd. CalHi then made a mental error (new coach sleeping?) as with infield back Chelsea scored on a soft grounder to SS, that also could not get speedy RH hitter Jackie Zepeda at first? Zepeda stole 2nd, and Padilla hit a soft liner that landed in no man's land behind 2nd base. Padilla stole 2nd uncontested, and with runners on 2nd & 3rd, Wood popped up a ball that caused CalHi's secondbaseman to back pedal afterwhich she dropped the pop-up. Zepeda raced home causing a throw which then started the ol' ball-chasing-the-the-runner process. When that ended Padilla was at 3rd and Wood at 2nd. The next Freedom hitter k'd, and Westlund then hit a semi-hard line drive right at the drawn in SS who could not catch the ball. Padilla scored, Wood to 3rd - Westlund stole 2nd, and the throw down to get her allowed Wood to steal home.
So with the score Freedom 5 - 0 and wholesale changes made by Freedom after 4 innings, CalHi scored 5 of their own in the top of the sixth. All 5 runs were unearned as with one out a routine pop-up at 2nd was dropped, and then with two outs and two runners on, a throwing error was made by Freedom's SS, that opened the floodgates for CalHi. There were some good hard hits by Cal after these two errors, but the runs were all unearned.
CalHi did score two runs in the top of the 7th, and the game ended after CalHi's at bat and without Freedom getting to hit in the bottom of the 7th, as the umpires called the game on time.
Looks like Freedom and CalHi will be tough in league this season and won't face off against each other again unless it is in the NCS tournament.
Turn2 -
The website is www.montevistasoftball.org
There is a link to it on the schools website.
I also found it by googling "Monte Vista Softball"
There are some good out of the area teams in the Stampede. Archbishop Mitty, Rodriquez, Spanish Springs, and Sheldon. None of which ended up in Livermore's pool.
Livermore's pool is Castro Valley, College Park, Alameda.
Well.....congratulations to Liberty on their QOM Championship. Who would have thunk it? Perhaps Barios early on who said in the CCT that he thought this could be a special squad early on. Good news for 7 - 0 Liberty who are going to have to battle in the BVAL with the likes of Freedom, DV, Antioch and Heritage. It appears as though they may be prepared for the fight ahead.
Antioch also performed well in the QOM, but not sure if they finished 5th or 6th, as that last game at QOM is not posted yet. Still though AHS is off to a 4 - 1 start, and themselves look much improved over 2008. It helps to have a healthy Erin Jones, and with Rebstock back on staff with Luis, this is a much improved squad.
EBAL in this tourney was strong however many teams were missing key players during the crucial games. SR was missing its starting first baseman and second baseman as well as the left fielder for the championship game due to the junior prom. Monte Vista was missing a junior who was still in state for basketball. Foothill opted out of QOM for the Stampeed Tournament. Liberty played an excellent game either way.
Basher.......How does Freedom, who was scheduled to play a league game last Thursday, end up playing Foothill in a non-league game, then San Ramon on Friday? What happened to league play?
Livermore Stampede starts this Thurs at Robertson Park/Ernie Rodrigues Fields. See website for pool play schedule, and Sat brackets. Updates will be posted on website. should be some exciting games!
What is going on over there? Any updates? I figured since the CC Times does such a fine job posting the HAAL they would have front and center of the High School section.
Posted on Friday, 1/30/2009 - 6:18 p.m. PST — by fastpitch1
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Top 3A teams based on last year....
Freedom...defending NCS champs, pitching intact, returns a lot of players
Cal...NCS runner-up, pitching intact, lost some players
Castro Valley...new pitcher and lost key players, but program is usually solid
Foothill...pitching intact, must replace losses at SS & 3B
Livermore...good hitting
Clayton Valley...good hitting
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for dfal...alhambra, las lomas, alcalanes
then...campo, dublin, miramonte, dv
pitching & good crop of returning players, some big shoes to fill at campo but they might surprise people
not sure what DV & the new FR class might bring though!
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As far as East County softball, it appears the two top teams will again be Freedom and Deer Valley. Freedom will be led by their four year starting pitcher who is a fantastic pitcher. Deer Valley will also be led by their pitcher ( a four year starter) that is a truly amazing athlete who could probably make Varsity in any sport and dominate.
In a rarity, I believe Liberty is also returning a senior pitcher who has been their starter for the last three years and could make some noice along with Heritage. Of course no one really knows about Antioch including their coach until the principal tells them who to start. I hope that didn't sound too petty.
East County shoud be represented by two powers (DV and Freedom) deep into NCS in my humble non-expert opinion.
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Freedom probably returns the most key players, but DV should still give them a battle.
The mystery is Heritage, don't all the players from the 2007 championship team return?
Antioch has lots of unknowns.
Liberty??
Pittsburg, Quesada returns to coach.
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I noticed Freedom's Pitcher on crutches on the bench two weeks ago for the Freedom girls. I do agree with the pitchers back, DV and Freedom should be atop the BVAL.
Heritage, Liberty, Pitt and Antioch should be a crap shoot to fill out the standings the league.
According AHSgrad Pitt has Quesada at the helm, wasn't he at Antioch last year? So who is there now?
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Coach Luis is back at Antioch.
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Thanks Clean, that is an interesting turn of events. Did the rest of the staff return? (Rebstock, Luis and the other guy?) Could make BVAL a little more interesting this season........
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You are mostly correct except for you input on Cal High. I don't think the pitching is intact. I believe Miller graduated last year leaving the prime candidate to be Britanny Wright. She is a soph who was the varsity back-up last year but got very little pitching time.
The biggest change this year for Cal will be that they have recently fired Jones, the head coach. It seems he was telling Basketball and Soccer players that they would have to quit their Basketball and Soccer teams so that they could come out early for softball. One of the parents turned him in. The issue then got worse when Joy, the vice principal, found out that they were having full on practices with coach involvement in January. This is a direct violation of NCS rules so the administration immediately fired Jones because he had compromised their NCS eligibility for this year.
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Yes, Hannah is on crutches but is expected back before the opening of the season. Playing Basketball may not have been a bright move for anyone protecting Freedom's star pitcher, but she should be fine. Freedom returns all impact players except Courtney Wiley, but has plenty to fill that void. Freedom will be front runner in BVAL, as long as Hannah can throw effectively.
Deer Valley has likely the best female athelete in the BVAL, if not the Bay Area in Emily, but DV has lost too mush star power from last season, so unless Emily can pack the team on her back and single-handedly win the BVAL, they may have trouble finishing 3rd in the conference - 2nd.
3rd - my choice is AHS. Yes, Luis is back, as too are Rebstock and his crew. This will add game management intelligence to that team and surely result in more wins in 2009. Maybe they will bunt when they can win the game, unlike last season when they were mismanaged into a mediocre season record with good ASA talent - 2008 could be surprise 3rd place finish.
Heritage does have their staring pitcher back for 2009, but too has lost too much without having adequate talent back-filling the void. Many seem to think a 2A title two years ago under Rebstock, not Rivers, was impressive, the reality is it was a nice run at a good time, but not the stuff that supports the long-term stamina needed to win in the BVAL....2008 was more a sign of the potential for a 2009 season that if all goes well, may result in a 3rd place finish, but more likely will produce a 4th place run.
Liberty will finish 5th, as they simply have not the horses to compete day-in, day-out in the BVAL - having to face all foes three times in league. They may finish 1 - 2 versus all but Pitt, but that is a best-case scenario, which will result in 5th.
6th - Sorry Pitt, but if your coach is really last season's AHS coach, you're in for a longer season than the 2008 campaign proved to be. Mis-managing a good team is one thing...mis-mangaing a mediocre team is something completely different - 6th with a possibility of a one-win season for 2009.
I know it's easy to pick the front-runner for 1st, but there simply are not enough players filling in the gaps at the other schools for some of the big bats lost from the BVAL last season. The removal of CV, Carondelet, and YV(?) removes two competetive teams from the BVAL, so anyone wanting to win the BVAL must not only beat Freedom 2 of 3, but also must survive the rest of their schedule. That's not too likely.
Hopefully I haven't offended anyone...just wanted to spice up the upcoming softball season...the rain really has me down!
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So who did Heritage lose? I was under the impression that there was only 1 junior on the 2007 team that won NCS (who didn't really play that much) and last year there were no seniors. So just curious...
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Upon second review you are correct....Heritage has not lost any players of significance, and in fact is returning almost an entire team that is one year older with 10 seniors no less. With the exception of every team in the BVAL except DV, most of the league is gaining a year's worth of HS seasoning, including Freedom. Freedom is returning 3 seniors, but the rest of that team is juniors and sophomores.
Escobar, and LEE are seniors and Wiley a junior and very good players. They combined to go 84 hits in 200 AB's or 0.420 BA last season. Take them out of Heritage's line-up and the team batting avergae drops from 0.258 to 0.180?
Of course you could make a similar point with most teams, but the comparison with Freedom is that if Hannah, Kortney, and Chrissy Stalf's bats are removed from the line up (0.389 BA combined). the rest of Freedom's BA drops from 0.313 to 0.278.
What does all this mean? Who knows, but the point is that Heritage just does not have much depth offensively. Could players be coming in that no one knows about...of course. My prediction remains the same, Heritage will finish 4th in BVAL this season, but could slide up to 3rd. I just can't see them winning the BVAL, but that's the fun of it....everyone still has to play the games, and if Hannah's injury is more serious than seems, it could be a wide open year in the BVAL.
No offense intended. I know Rivers, like him, and wish him well.
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I also heard that Willis should be back to form this year for Heritage. She had a very good sophmore year and then played hurt all of last year. But you're right, with the coaching that Antioch has this year, they will probably slide into 3rd.
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"they will probably slide into 3rd."
But the real question is: Will they be tagged out or slide in safely?
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I can not presume to know who was in form or not in form one year to the next. I know who Willis is, however I must admit I have not been in this person's direct circle ever. Looking at her stats from 2008, 73 AB's and 20 K's, that is a bit high.
I recall one year someone telling me in response to what my daughter needed to improve on, they said cut down on K's as she was 1 K for every 10 AB's? That was good advice back then, because I'm a beliver in contact in softball makes things happen. Contact means people have to make plays and girls are rounding the bases. Without contact, it's simply the catcher throwing the ball back to the pithcer who is facing yet another batter?
If her (Willis') K total was a result of injury then I agree healthy she could add impact to the squad and help push Heritage over the top, maybe 3rd or even 2nd? I never want to see any team win because another is hurt, but that's a fact of life. Teams have to have depth and talent to to overcome health proplems to eventually succeed. I hope all the girls of the BVAL are healthy and play 100% of every game, so there are no excuses in the end...only good games, played hard with nothing left on the table but the understanding that nothing more could have been given to achieve the objective....just win baby! I'm not even a Raider fan?!
How's the rest of the NCS field looking? I kow Castro Valley, Clayton Valley, San Ramon, CalHI to name a few are alwys tough. Castro Valley lost a lot of talent, but CalHi could be a tough team this year, not to mention the likes of Foothil? Chime in and lets see what everyone thinks? Don't forget Berkeley, James Logan and others.....?
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I can not presume to know who was in form or not in form one year to the next. I know who Willis is, however I must admit I have not been in this person's direct circle ever. Looking at her stats from 2008, 73 AB's and 20 K's, that is a bit high.
I recall one year someone telling me in response to what my daughter needed to improve on, they said cut down on K's as she was 1 K for every 10 AB's? That was good advice back then, because I'm a beliver in contact in softball makes things happen. Contact means people have to make plays and girls are rounding the bases. Without contact, it's simply the catcher throwing the ball back to the pithcer who is facing yet another batter?
If her (Willis') K total was a result of injury then I agree healthy she could add impact to the squad and help push Heritage over the top, maybe 3rd or even 2nd? I never want to see any team win because another is hurt, but that's a fact of life. Teams have to have depth and talent to to overcome health proplems to eventually succeed. I hope all the girls of the BVAL are healthy and play 100% of every game, so there are no excuses in the end...only good games, played hard with nothing left on the table but the understanding that nothing more could have been given to achieve the objective....just win baby! I'm not even a Raider fan?!
How's the rest of the NCS field looking? I know Castro Valley, Clayton Valley, San Ramon, CalHI to name a few are alwys tough. Castro Valley lost a lot of talent, but CalHi could be a tough team this year, not to mention the likes of Foothil? Chime in and lets see what everyone thinks? Don't forget Berkeley, James Logan and others.....?
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I don't know her personally either. I just heard some people talking the other day.
Who does Clayton Valley have pitching this year? Didn't their pitcher graduate last year?
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Clayton Valley used different pitchers each time Freedom played them last season. The first game 4/8/08 CV used either Amanda Moore or Stephanie Allen, juniors last season, and Freedom won 10 - 0. If I recall correctly CV made a bunch of errors to compound the problems they had that game.
The next game on 5/8/08 at CVHS, they used a freshman who was not listed on the varisty roster, and whose name I can't recall. The kid threw like 45 Mph, and once Freedom timed her they started hitting the ball hard late in the game. CV won 7 - 4, but it wasn't because of pitching, but rather defense that they won. Both the Chambers girls made game saving plays for them that prevented Freedom from capitalizing big with runners in scoring position. Kelsey made at least two big diving plays that day alone, one with bases loaded and two outs late in the game! CV played a good game and won, so they were stoked about the outcome.
To answer your question, whoever the freshman was was I do not know. CV lost a couple big players last season with the Chambers sisters, and the only other pitchers they had listed were Allen and Moore, who are both seniors this season.
CV moves out of the BVAL as does Carondelet. It will be interesting seeing how everyone fares this season with realignment?
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Let's have some commentary on the other divisions. BSAL ? Western county teams?
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Softball, where to start? So many subjects going on...
In the BSAL, it will be no surprise... St Patrick/St Vincent will run away with the title once again. With only 2 seniors on the roster, the entire line up contains girls who played on last year's NCS Championship team. Pitching after their #1 will be a question mark.
The DFAL, the CV freshman that pitched last year I believe was Dallas Cooney. Las Lomas returns their pitcher from last year and has to be the favorite, with College Park (did they go to the EBAL) and Alhambra, though losing key players from last year can show some offensive prowess at times, trying to make a challenge.
The BVAL, how can you not pick Freedom with Williams pitching and a speedy and proven supporting cast? Deer Valley should give them a challenge with a roster filled with some good athletes. Heritage has to redeem themselves after their strong first year and a lack luster 2008. Antioch lacks pitching, though have experienced players on the roster.
The EBAL will certainly be interesting. Livermore offers a seasoned team with offensive power, Cal High will have experience and a pitching staff to help their cause, Foothill and SRV should round out the rest.
Here's the fun part, predictions for NCS (remember they are all 12 team brackets this year):
Div 1 - Freedom, Livermore, Deer Valley
Div 2 - Concord, Las Lomas, Heritage
Div 3 - Albany, Alhambra, Bishop O Dowd
Div 4 - St Patrick/St Vincent, Justin-Siena, Berean
Play Ball!!!
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You are mostly correct except for you input on Cal High. I don't think the pitching is intact. I believe Miller graduated last year leaving the prime candidate to be Britanny Wright. She is a soph who was the varsity back-up last year but got very little pitching time.
The biggest change this year for Cal will be that they have recently fired Jones, the head coach. It seems he was telling Basketball and Soccer players that they would have to quit their Basketball and Soccer teams so that they could come out early for softball. One of the parents turned him in. The issue then got worse when Joy, the vice principal, found out that they were having full on practices with coach involvement in January. This is a direct violation of NCS rules so the administration immediately fired Jones because he had compromised their NCS eligibility for this year.
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I'm pretty sure Miller is a senior this year. Has Cal High hired a replacement for Jones yet?
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You are correct, Miller is a senior. I was mistaken.
No replacement coach yet. It is not clear as to whether the Asst was implicated in the NCS rule violation. Keep in mind they also are functioning without an AD because Fred Albino quit the week before so permanently hiring a new coach may be a challenge.
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Here is the good news. Cal High has hired former San Ramon Valley coach Mike Nevin to complete this season. Nevin is Krista Miller's personal pitching coach so I am sure that had a great deal to do with the selection. Nevin has a reputation as a good coach and he should be able to right the Cal High ship quickly. I am hearing that he only committed to this year as Miller is a senior but he should be able to put Cal High on solid ground.
I guess we will find out quick enough next week at Queen of the Mountain. It looks like he will start against Antioch then get Granada and then Monte Vista at the Queen. His season will start fast.
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SoftballFan, the only known game at the Queen of the Mountain is the first round game!
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Fair enough, I am guilty of assuming the favored team will win each game. However, there is rarely an upset in the first round of the QOM. The point here really was that Coach Nevin will not get any easy games to form his own opinion about his new team. Obviously, it all changes if Cal should lose to Antioch. In which case we will probably play Washington in the 2nd round.
Your point brings up an interesting question, how do you all think the first round will go? Here are my picks.....
PROHIBITIVE
Granada over Washington
Amador over Campolindo
San Ramon over Irvington
Monte Vista over Miramonte
CLOSE GAMES
California over Antioch
Livermore over Benicia
TOSS UPS
Concord over Berkeley
Liberty Over Arroyo
What are your thoughts?
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Coach Jones is a good, longtime coach, I find it hard to believe he would tell kids to quit. I just hope these things were brought up by sour grapes parents......Not a good time to lose a coach when games are right around the corner.....
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So, with Cal Hi seemingly in disarray, who are the dark horses for NCS 3A? Foothill seems like a logical choice, but they did lose some big players, as did Castro Valley?
Livermore isn't much of a choice as the only reason they do well every season is they play in a weak conference and seed themselves in the easiest bracket at their Stampede tourney each year?
I like Los Lomas who went deep last season in NCS 3A?
Who else is out there?
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Your right about livermore giving themselves a easy bracket at Stampede but you are way off on calling the EBAL a weak conference. The EBAL has has more teams in the NCS 3A playoffs than any other conference every year and all the teams in that league are 3A (now Division 1). The EBAL always has a very high win percentage against the other leagues. Their records are not as good because they have to play each other twice.
Regarding Las Lomas.... They were a 2A team last year and lost in the 2nd round of the NCS playoffs. They were neither a 3A team nor did they go deep. They will not contend in Division 1 (the old 3A) this year because they are in Division 2.
My money is on Freedom and Foothill. I don't think anyone else has the horsepower.
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Krista Miller is most definitely a senior this year. She made first team all league in volleyball this year for Cal. Too bad about the situation with the coach. I sure hope the team doesn''t get penalized for the acts of the coach and miss NCS, as her volleyball team missed NCS because the coach was late to the coaches meeting and they were disqualified. That would really make it a tough senior year for her. If they remain eligible, adapting to a new coach might be a little easier in softball than other sports such as football or basketball where there is a lot more scheming going on. Not to say it will be easy on them, but perhaps somewhat easier in softball to get a new coach a week before the season starts? Good luck to them.
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The EBAL is ussually a strong league, although Livermore tends to cruise on easy street in their own tournament until the final brackets, the league is tough. I don't think that it is very easy to adjust to losing a coach at any point in a season. Adjustments will need to be made by players and coaches alike, since the player have probably found their comfort zone with Coach Jones and will not know what to expect from their new coach. Hopefully they will be able to hold it together. As far as favorites, Foothil is ussually the EBAL favorite, but unsure of Monte Vista this year. Castro Valley finds ways to win its league. Newark and Logan are always around in the end too..... Looking forward to the upcoming Queen of the Mountain tournament and all of the preseason games getting underway.
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My apologies, not sure why I said Los Lomas, I meant James Logan as a potential 3A dark horse.
I guess I was thinking Livermore wasn't in the EBAL? I often wonder who they are playing and how they get into 3A each year? I guess I need to just give credit to whose there, not necessarily wonder how they get there.
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Speaking of the Logan team, I was at the In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon last week and I ran into the Logan Varsity Softball team. They had just finished a scrimmage against Monte Vista. They said that Monte Vista actually looked pretty good and gave them a pretty hard time. The girl I talk too said that Monte Vista started several younger players and then sent them over to the JV field in the third or fourth inning when they put in what looked like their starters. She said they hit the first pitcher pretty well and scored three in the first inning but that was it and they did not do well against the second or third pitcher that MV used. I am not sure who all these pitchers are because I heard that the MV pitcher transferred to San Ramon.
Anybody else hear anything about scrimmages?
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do they have a coach yet? what is going on over there?
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I heard last weekend that Antioch, Liberty, and San Ramon scrimmaged last weekend.
Liberty supposedly had a couple injured key players and did not do too well, but Antioch and San Ramon look pretty good. Pretty much predictable.
Should be a good set of scrimmages this weekend, weather permitting, at Foothill. Starting about 9AM will be Foothill, Freedom and Sheldon.
Hannah is on the field and practicing at Freedom. Only throwing and pitching only right now. The point is she is on the field and preparing for the upcoming season. No idea when she will be ready to take the mound, but according to her, sooner rather than later.
Don't know of other scrimmages, but this weekend should be the kickoff to the start of the spring sports HS season.
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Someone is reporting false information. The open field clinics were non instructional and appproved by the District for the 5th+ year in a row. These are the same as football and basketball clinics, done year after year. No player was asked to come out to softball try-outs before their season was over. One of the basketball coaches approved for a player to attend since there were no conflicts in the try-outs and their season. Tom Jones sent this player back to the office to get the approval from the Atheltic Director. This school is trying to come up with something but meetings are still pending with the District to right the wrong by removing the head coach.
Krista Miller is a senior and returning to the team.
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Kathy Jones and Joy the acting AD don't seem to be on the same page. I guess I don't understand why they would fire him, especially at this point in the season. Is there something else going on here?
By the way, Joy said they posted the Coaching job with the school district for applicants at the end of last week.
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Altho not able to make scrimmage yesterday between Freefom, Foothil, and Sheldon (work gets in the way?), I heard Freedom took it to Foothill and starter, Keri Ball, in first scrimmage game winning something like 8 - 2. Evidently Hannah Williams was there, but did not play for Freedom, the Freedom line-up hit Keri Ball often and hard. Not sure if perhaps Keri was just not yet in form, as Freedom went up like 6 - 0 in two innings, yet there were no errors by Foothill to speak of?
Foothill was mostly quiet on offense, altho Keri Ball and the Foothill 1B hit bombs that would have been out if a fence were up. Freedom pitched 1B Chrissy Stalf (hasn't thrown in years) and sophomore Brianna Visentine, who was a JV pitcher last season as a freshman. Both did well, and Freedom's defense made some big plays throwing out Foothill runners trying to take extra bases. Interesting scrimmage for two big NCS programs looking for a rematch in nonleague play on March 19th at Freedom.
Freedom had the favor returned in game two versus Sheldon however. That game was close for about four innings as Sheldon put two runs up in 1st and 3rd innings. Score remained close for four innings then Sheldon put it away 7 - 1. Freedom top half of order had trouble making contact against Sheldon hard thrower's on the mound. This game will be a rematch at Sheldon on March 13th, and Freedom will need Hannah Willims to try to respond. That and a little more contact at the plate.
Any other reports of scrimmage's yesterday in the BVAL?
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I saw the 3 scrimmage games. It was great to see some softball, but it definitely looked like early season softball. Foothill has a huge roster and batted 16 in each game. Freedom and Sheldon batted 9. Sheldon only has 10 on their roster. Freedom had no Hannah. Sheldon & Foothill split the pitching each game with about 1/2 for the #1 and 1/2 for the #2. Sheldon was clearly the best of the 3, and neither Freedom nor Foothill's batters could do anything against Sheldon's #1 pitcher when she was in the game. More early season softball...I heard that Livermore played a round robin scrimmage out at Rodriguez High in Fairfield and had a real tough time with Pleasant Grove. Didn't hear about the other games, but both Rodriguez and Pleasant Grove are very good teams.
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Also heard that DV played San Ramon to a 1 - 1 tie in 5 innings beore starting to place runners on base to test out defensive alignments, etc. Sometimes hard to get exact info to this regard, but taken at face value, sounds like SR & DV are in good form if only able to plate one run? Allard not there as she's still in NCS basketball playoffs.
DV contact said SR looked pretty solid as well.
Come on out there...where are the reports on scrimmages?
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These two teams played a very solid 4 innings, in which Freedom led 1 - 0 on a line drive Hannah Williams' HR. Both teams looked ready for the season to open. Hannah Williams was on the rubber for Freedom and looked dominant allowing only one hit before changes were made in the top of the 5th.
Freedom scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th off CalHi's Brittany Wright, who replaced Krista Miller. The first run was earned, but the last three were not. Hannah hit a line drive to the fence that became a ground-rule double. Freedom sacrificed coutesy runner, Chelsea Hennings to 3rd. CalHi then made a mental error (new coach sleeping?) as with infield back Chelsea scored on a soft grounder to SS, that also could not get speedy RH hitter Jackie Zepeda at first? Zepeda stole 2nd, and Padilla hit a soft liner that landed in no man's land behind 2nd base. Padilla stole 2nd uncontested, and with runners on 2nd & 3rd, Wood popped up a ball that caused CalHi's secondbaseman to back pedal afterwhich she dropped the pop-up. Zepeda raced home causing a throw which then started the ol' ball-chasing-the-the-runner process. When that ended Padilla was at 3rd and Wood at 2nd. The next Freedom hitter k'd, and Westlund then hit a semi-hard line drive right at the drawn in SS who could not catch the ball. Padilla scored, Wood to 3rd - Westlund stole 2nd, and the throw down to get her allowed Wood to steal home.
So with the score Freedom 5 - 0 and wholesale changes made by Freedom after 4 innings, CalHi scored 5 of their own in the top of the sixth. All 5 runs were unearned as with one out a routine pop-up at 2nd was dropped, and then with two outs and two runners on, a throwing error was made by Freedom's SS, that opened the floodgates for CalHi. There were some good hard hits by Cal after these two errors, but the runs were all unearned.
CalHi did score two runs in the top of the 7th, and the game ended after CalHi's at bat and without Freedom getting to hit in the bottom of the 7th, as the umpires called the game on time.
Looks like Freedom and CalHi will be tough in league this season and won't face off against each other again unless it is in the NCS tournament.
What other action occurred this weekend?
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Has anyone seen a Stampede schedule yet?
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I saw a copy of both the Queen of the Mountain and the Livermore Stampede schedules on the Monte Vista website.
and yes, Livermore has taken good care of themselves again.
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I was unable to find the MV website, can you post a link to the softball schedules.
Thanks
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Turn2 - The website is www.montevistasoftball.org There is a link to it on the schools website. I also found it by googling "Monte Vista Softball" There are some good out of the area teams in the Stampede. Archbishop Mitty, Rodriquez, Spanish Springs, and Sheldon. None of which ended up in Livermore's pool. Livermore's pool is Castro Valley, College Park, Alameda.
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Well.....congratulations to Liberty on their QOM Championship. Who would have thunk it? Perhaps Barios early on who said in the CCT that he thought this could be a special squad early on. Good news for 7 - 0 Liberty who are going to have to battle in the BVAL with the likes of Freedom, DV, Antioch and Heritage. It appears as though they may be prepared for the fight ahead.
Antioch also performed well in the QOM, but not sure if they finished 5th or 6th, as that last game at QOM is not posted yet. Still though AHS is off to a 4 - 1 start, and themselves look much improved over 2008. It helps to have a healthy Erin Jones, and with Rebstock back on staff with Luis, this is a much improved squad.
What happened to the EBAL in this tourney....?
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EBAL in this tourney was strong however many teams were missing key players during the crucial games. SR was missing its starting first baseman and second baseman as well as the left fielder for the championship game due to the junior prom. Monte Vista was missing a junior who was still in state for basketball. Foothill opted out of QOM for the Stampeed Tournament. Liberty played an excellent game either way.
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Basher.. Where's that Freedom vs Foothill report?
Liberty continues to roll beating DV!!
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Basher.......How does Freedom, who was scheduled to play a league game last Thursday, end up playing Foothill in a non-league game, then San Ramon on Friday? What happened to league play?
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Livermore Stampede starts this Thurs at Robertson Park/Ernie Rodrigues Fields. See website for pool play schedule, and Sat brackets. Updates will be posted on website. should be some exciting games!
http://livermorehs.schoolloop.com/stampede
Thank you!
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That was a big win for Antioch yesterday at the Queen of the Mountain.
Anyone know how that game went down?
AHS 2 - CalHi 0
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Sheldon 1 - Freedom 0 in 11 innings!
Great pitcher's battle, ending with a one-out RBI single by Sheldon in bottom of 11 with runner placed on 2nd due to Int'l Tie-breaker.
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What is going on over there? Any updates? I figured since the CC Times does such a fine job posting the HAAL they would have front and center of the High School section.