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04-23-2012, 07:41 AM
Ben Maile won his 5th game of the season while giving up 2 runs on 6 hits and striking out 11 Dixie batters.
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04-23-2012, 10:24 PM
When Covington Catholic center fielder Brady Reese finishes a baseball game with a dirty uniform, chances are he’s done some damage to the other team.
Reese was covered in dirt, front and back, following Covington Catholic’s 11-2 rout of Dixie Heights on Sunday in a battle of Colonels for the championship of the Doc Morris Scholarship Tournament at Simon Kenton.
By the time the lead-off hitter dusted himself off for the last time, he had gone 4-for-4 and slid into every base except first and scored a career-high five runs.
“That’s the job of the lead-off hitter,” CovCath coach Bill Krumpelbeck said. “If you can’t do it, you sit.”
Krumpelbeck won’t be sitting Reese down any time soon, not with the senior bashing the ball to all fields and hitting .388, sliding into bases like there’s no tomorrow and catching nearly everything hit between the left and right fielders.
“I’m just hustling,” Reese said as a couple of Dixie players came by and gave him postgame congratulatory whacks on the bottom. A plume of dust wafted around him as he spoke.
Being around Reese during a baseball game is like tagging along with “Pig-Pen,” the boy character in the Peanuts comic strip who is, except on occasion, very dirty.
Against Dixie, Reese reached base five times, with a pair of extra-base hits, and stole two bases in support of unbeaten pitcher Ben Maile (5-0), who threw a five-hit complete game while striking out 11.
CovCath (19-1), the top-ranked team in the Enquirer Northern Kentucky coaches’ poll, won its 12th consecutive game.
CovCath beat second-ranked Holy Cross 4-1 in Sunday’s semifinals. Third-ranked Dixie (10-6) was a semifinal winner over fifth-ranked Boone County.
Following the switch to BBCOR bats, many local coaches have invoked the phrase “small-ball” to characterize the style of play that they expected to see from most teams.
CovCath has been playing that brand for 34 years under Krumpelbeck.
But on Sunday, the Colonels looked like they had turned the calendar back to 2011, with 13 hits, including four doubles and two triples.
Reese led off the fourth with a double and slid into third after slamming a sixth-inning triple to the fence in right. He and Krumpelbeck, the third-base coach, were enveloped in dust. Reese jumped up and grabbed his belt buckle with both hands, leaned forward and dumped a heap of dirt back onto the field.
He was doing it again two batters later after beating a fielder’s-choice throw home from the shortstop on an infield dribbler to give CovCath a 7-2 lead.
CovCath players, 12 of them senior classmates, met Reese at the dugout entrance amid hoots and hollers and helped him dust off with back-slaps.
“They’re a nice-hitting team with a lot of seniors,” Dixie coach Chris Maxwell said. “I think they’re doing a nice job adjusting to the bats.”http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...304220075/
Reese was covered in dirt, front and back, following Covington Catholic’s 11-2 rout of Dixie Heights on Sunday in a battle of Colonels for the championship of the Doc Morris Scholarship Tournament at Simon Kenton.
By the time the lead-off hitter dusted himself off for the last time, he had gone 4-for-4 and slid into every base except first and scored a career-high five runs.
“That’s the job of the lead-off hitter,” CovCath coach Bill Krumpelbeck said. “If you can’t do it, you sit.”
Krumpelbeck won’t be sitting Reese down any time soon, not with the senior bashing the ball to all fields and hitting .388, sliding into bases like there’s no tomorrow and catching nearly everything hit between the left and right fielders.
“I’m just hustling,” Reese said as a couple of Dixie players came by and gave him postgame congratulatory whacks on the bottom. A plume of dust wafted around him as he spoke.
Being around Reese during a baseball game is like tagging along with “Pig-Pen,” the boy character in the Peanuts comic strip who is, except on occasion, very dirty.
Against Dixie, Reese reached base five times, with a pair of extra-base hits, and stole two bases in support of unbeaten pitcher Ben Maile (5-0), who threw a five-hit complete game while striking out 11.
CovCath (19-1), the top-ranked team in the Enquirer Northern Kentucky coaches’ poll, won its 12th consecutive game.
CovCath beat second-ranked Holy Cross 4-1 in Sunday’s semifinals. Third-ranked Dixie (10-6) was a semifinal winner over fifth-ranked Boone County.
Following the switch to BBCOR bats, many local coaches have invoked the phrase “small-ball” to characterize the style of play that they expected to see from most teams.
CovCath has been playing that brand for 34 years under Krumpelbeck.
But on Sunday, the Colonels looked like they had turned the calendar back to 2011, with 13 hits, including four doubles and two triples.
Reese led off the fourth with a double and slid into third after slamming a sixth-inning triple to the fence in right. He and Krumpelbeck, the third-base coach, were enveloped in dust. Reese jumped up and grabbed his belt buckle with both hands, leaned forward and dumped a heap of dirt back onto the field.
He was doing it again two batters later after beating a fielder’s-choice throw home from the shortstop on an infield dribbler to give CovCath a 7-2 lead.
CovCath players, 12 of them senior classmates, met Reese at the dugout entrance amid hoots and hollers and helped him dust off with back-slaps.
“They’re a nice-hitting team with a lot of seniors,” Dixie coach Chris Maxwell said. “I think they’re doing a nice job adjusting to the bats.”http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...304220075/
04-23-2012, 10:24 PM
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