Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Daily Pooch Punt: 3/19/08
Errors. Errors. More errors.
The Little Giants baseball team, a season removed from its Group AA Final Four appearance, can’t get the hang of something out in the field. Mainly fielding.
Waynesboro put five errors on the board against Charlottesville on Monday but somehow managed to sneak away from the KC with the win. On Tuesday, it committed four miscues against old Valley District foe Spotswood and it came back to bite the Giants. Big time.
“I don’t have a whole lot of comments about it,” said veteran Waynesboro coach Jim Critzer. “But it will be corrected.”
Darn skippy it’s going to be corrected because, and let’s be honest here, if the Giants have any hope of competing in a Southern Valley that may be Stuarts Draft’s to lose, the errors must stop.
Of course, having Critzer as your skipper gives Waynesboro an added advantage. As he said above, “it will be corrected,” and if the years of the Jim Critzer era have proven anything, it’s that he can fix things wrong with a team.
Errors. Errors. More Errors. That’s what wrong with this team right now.
And another thing: Since we just talked about Draft, wasn’t the problem last year with the Cougars hitting? Well, let’s take a look at how well they swung the stick in their 12-7 hammering of Harrisonburg on Tuesday: Ricky Dimitt 2-for-4; Stephen Showalter 3-for-3, two runs scored, two RBI; Zach Marion 2-for-5 with three runs and an RBI; Mickie Holbert 3-for-5 with two doubles.
So, yeah, I don’t think hitting is a problem anymore in Draft.
Speaking of Final Fours: Chris Key scores four goals in Riverheads’ boys soccer win over Parry McCluer. Sure, it was the Blues, not exactly known around these parts as a soccer powerhouse and, sure, it’s only the second game of the season for Dickie Bell’s Gladiators. But did you see who scored four goals? Chris Key. Yep, he was on the team last year. He knows what it’s like to win and head down to Radford.
Let’s go back to Draft: Tielor Detrich and Alex Wood both score hat tricks for the Cougars. The team has 12 seniors left over from a 2007 squad that looked like it was on the cusp of winning the then-Valley district. Now in the Southern Valley, the Cougars could be favorites to win this thing too (you know, kind of like baseball), but leave it to second-year coach Chris Loomis to remind everybody of where the power is still at.
“We’re not assuming anything,” he said. “We are in the same district as Waynesboro.”
Southern Valley soccer fans along the Target Turnpike, you best get your soccer-watching shirts on.
One last thing: Football, futbol. It doesn’t matter to Draft’s Chris Mahanes.
Say What?
Still haven’t heard why Secrett Stubblefield didn’t go to the All District Voting or Regional Voting for that matter. Is anybody going to clue me in?
— Jack
Don’t know what this has to do with her turning around a moribund basketball program and leading the Little Giants to an undefeated district record, the tournament title, the Region III title (including an upset of then-No. 1 Turner Ashby) and an appearance in the Group AA title game. That should make her coach of the year, not attendance at a meeting. Am I wrong? Didn’t think so.