Name your favorite
May 4, 2008 @ 9:12 a.m. by Joannaby joanna
We’ve got tennis wrapping up at the end of this week, golf and swimming aren’t too far behind. Even baseball, track, soccer and softball only have a few weeks remaining.
So who’s the best team you’ve seen? Who’s the best players? Anyone have a shot at winning state titles?
I haven’t seen Maize soccer, but I’d say that team has a real shot at the 6A title. In baseball, it would seem Campus has an edge — Campus sweeps Goddard which sweeps North…
The best softball teams I’ve seen are Goddard, Carroll, Heights and Northwest. Best athlete is probably Heights sprinter Audacia Moore. By the way, saw Heights’ 4 by 1 girls relay team — with Moore and a few youngsters — beat Southeast at the Derby invite. The Buffs have some of the state’s top sprinters, so it’s a pretty good win.
In tennis, Southeast’s Nate Kirk won’t have a chance to defend his 6A singles title — he lost in doubles competition during regionals on Thursday.
OK, there’s a few of my thoughts about some of the teams and athletes, let me know who you have been impressed with.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hay Joanna
Go to WSU Monday and see two good teams play high softball!
May 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Goddard Softball Dominates. That is all.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Maize softball is 13-3 right now (Split with Goddard 2-0, 0-3 and lost to the 2 time defending 5A state champs Ark City 2-3, 3-4). I know you haven’t seen Maize play yet but keep them in consideration. They have an extremely tough week ahead of them with Carroll tomorrow and NW on Friday.
When it comes to baseball you have to mention Maize (16-3). There only blunders were losses to Blue Valley 7-9 and Goddard (2-4, 1-5).
Campus baseball has got a good team this year but you can never expect which team will show up. Will it be the Campus team that beat Bishop Carroll 4-2 and Goddard 8-7, 5-4 or will it be the team that lost to Salina South and Valley Center?
North is in the City League……… almost 50% of there wins are against joker teams like East, South, Southeast, West,
My Picks for who wins the State Titles
6A Softball: Olathe East ( 4 time defending state champs)
6A Baseball: Maize ( 6 infield errors against Blue Valley, 18 runners stranded against Goddard)
6A Soccer: Maize (Currently undefeated and has outscored their opponents 76-0 in 15 games).
Consider, that these picks are based about my opinion and support for maize.
May 4th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Maize Baseball will be lucky to make it out of regionals. Of course they will though, just because of their overpowering pitching.
Their hitting is absolutely horrible outside of Hege, Marasco, and Cocking. They dont have the hitting or defense to go far in state.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Maize Baseball is averaging 10.84 runs a game. Kind of hard to do with just “3 key batters”
Defense?- Only giving up 2.68 runs a game.
Pitching- Very overpowering……
Don’t get me wrong though. Goddard, North, Campus, NW, Free State, Manhattan, BV West. All these schools are totally the other contenders for the 6A state title.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
softball fan-
Who is playing “high softball” at WSU on monday?
May 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
AVCTL - I top batting averages in today’s Wichita Eagle lists 7 Maize Eagles and 6 Goddard Lions. Given that Maize and Goddard have played nearly the same teams across the board and both teams are dominating in hitting, Maize apparently has more than 3 guys who can get the job done. Mix that with it’s solid pitching, I say Maize has a very good chance of doing well at state.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Goddard baseball swept Maize baseball. It doesn’t matter how many hitters are in the top of the league. Look at the results. Maize does have more than three good hitters though, and should do well at state.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
North was swept by Goddard (8-3, 8-5). Vs Northwest (#2 in CL) North won game 1 (6-1) but then got killed (15-0…yeah, they had already won the cl title so it didn’t mean much) and against the #3 CL team, Bishop Carroll, North split (6-10 & 9-0). That’s a 2-6 record vs the top 3 teams they have faced. If regionals are awarded based upon records alone then Goddard and Maize (16-3) will get two of them while either Campus (15-3) or North (16-4) will get the 3rd one. More than likely the 3rd and 4th best teams will be in the same regional so North will have to face Campus. Another thing that North needs to correct is their momentum. Losing 3 of 4 to end the season (and the win was 2-1 vs Heights) doesn’t bode well for them. I just hope they can pull it together! North and Northwest are the City Leagues best chances at bringing home a state title. Good luck!