O’Connor
Baseball Scoreboard
March 14 – Lost to Mountain
Ridge 3-1
March 17 – Lost to Mountain
Ridge 15-0
Upcoming Games
March 22 – Home vs.
Montgomery Bell (Tenn.)
March 24 – Home vs. Pinnacle
March 25 – Home vs.
Faith Lutheran (Nev.)
March 27 – Home vs.
Highland Ranch (Colo.)
March 28 – Home vs.
Monarch (Colo.) |
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Eagles
can't shake Mountain Ridge
OHS to play out of state teams during spring
break
by
Jason Stone
DVUSD - Don't fault Sandra Day O'Connor baseball coach Jeff
Baumgartner if he doesn't want his team to see Mountain Ridge
anytime soon. After the Mountain Lions pounded the Eagles
last week for the second and third times this season, Baumgartner
said his team needs to take a good look in the mirror to get
its season turned around.
"We are going to reassess some things," Baumgartner
said March 17 after Mountain Ridge blasted O'Connor 15 0,
the Eagles' second loss to Ridge in the week and the team's
sixth loss in seven games overall. "We are going to go
away from the democracy and go back to the dictatorship. I've
been real loose with the team because they're young, but it's
time to tighten the screws and get back to our baseball."
O'Connor
spotted the Mountain Lions six runs in the first inning in
last week's second game. Eagle pitchers walked four of the
first nine batters, and nine overall in the shortened five
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"We just
fell apart," Baumgartner said. "Our pitchers were horrible.
When we give them that big lead, it was shutdown mode with our
young guys. It's one of those things that shouldn't happen against
a team that was supposedly your rival."
The performance was a far cry than the one O'Connor turned in
three days earlier in a 3 1 loss to Mountain Ridge. In that game,
the Eagles had a runner at third with less than two outs twice,
but couldn't bring either run home.
"We played them good on Tuesday," Baumgartner said.
"We just couldn't get a hit here or there to break it open."
The Eagles will try to change their fortunes with a packed schedule
of games against mostly out of state teams in their own Eagle
Invitational. Starting March 22, the Eagles will play seven games
over nine days and will face teams from Tennessee, Oregon, Colorado
and Nevada.
"That's the good thing about baseball," Baumgartner
said. "We have a lot of games upcoming. Some of the teams
we have some history with, but for the most part it's nice to
play people we don't know.
"But to be honest, it's more of an adjustment of how we're
going to play. We need better pitching and clutch hitting."
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