The problem with Stamford over New Home is New Home didn't pitch a "playoff" pitcher against Stamford. It was the only game the kid lost (3-1) but looking at their Gamechanger he didn't make an appearance in the playoffs. When you are playing tournaments and playing 5-6 games in a weekend or even 3 games backed up against District doubleheader on Monday as in the case of this Stamford-New Home game, a lot of times it's not about winning the game but getting kids at bats against playoff caliber pitching.cowboyz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 7:31 pmWindthorstfan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:53 pm Centerville 6 New Home 1 for the Div I State Championship
Food for thought...
Collinsville 6 Tom Bean 2
Collinsville 6 Tom Bean 5
New Home 5 Tom Bean 1
New Home 5 Tom Bean 3
New Home's 5th trip to the State Tournament without a championship. Holliday has 12 trips without a title so New Home still has a ways to go to get that unfortunate record.
I prefer Stamford over New Home 13-6
Collinsville over Stamford 6-1, 6-1
Different divisions now so no more consolidated champions. I suppose we’ll have to let Maxpreps final rankings decide!
Our 1 and 2 did not lose a tournament game, but when we had to go to others to get us through games against playoff teams we didn't fare well. Ropes 3-19, Peaster 3-4, Gunter 2-8, Muenster 5-8, Axtell 0-8, Bosqueville 8-10, Lovelady 0-8. Most years I think if we can get to a Game 3 we will be ok, but this year I figured we needed to sweep to advance against a team of Collinsville caliber so when our #2 won in game 1, thought we were in pretty good shape!
But Collinsville and their speed puts a lot of pressure on defenses and when we made an error allowing the Collinsville an extra out, they made us pay and well the rest is history!