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CHCA pretty much always has a quality team, but there’s a big difference in the quality you can build between having 200 boys and having 1500. Really nice win for CHCA. Anybody know the last time St X was run ruled by a school that wasn’t D1?

Agreed. X should be Moeller’s chief competition. They’re clearly moving the wrong direction.

X shouldn’t have to rebuild. You’re right about that. But in 2013-14, they did have to rebuild. DD on the other hand inherited a team with multiple D1 arms, a couple D1 bats, and a solid lineup all the way through. That’s not to say they were set to compete favorably with Moeller, but they were...

Lot of rebuilding after the later Slinger/DiGiacomo years. Unfortunately those making the 2022 decision weren’t around to see that or at least the interim tag likely gets applied in 2023 if they didn’t go in another direction entirely. Look at Moeller’s records during that time. Pretty dominant...

That would be a major upgrade. As for the last five years, they were one game off the league title in 2018, shared it in 2019, and won it outright in 2021 (2020 season wiped out). Agreed 2022 was around .500 and we know about last season’s nosedive after a seemingly decent start. Hopefully a new...

Hopefully this IS that one more year. I understand Moeller’s roster is loaded, but throwing that one game out, they’re still 4-6. Too much talent including multiple D1 arms. I get that when their coaching search took so long they had to have someone for the 2023 season, but they should have...

Sadly, X doesn’t look like they’ll be there anytime soon. They competed well with Moeller, battling for league titles and having a significant advantage in their series from 2017-2021. Then in 2022 Moeller opens the type of facility St X had at one point talked about and in 2023 St X hires a...

The guy has had chances. Plural. He had a major role as an assistant in the era that ended with a 17-0 tourney loss, prompting that administration to understand that a major rebuild was required. The Bombers did rebuild (you even referenced its difficulty) and were getting the better of that...

Better to go 0-3 like this year under the new coach with each of those losses by at least five runs?

Maybe the drum is banging because that team won league titles in 3 of the 4 played seasons before 2022, two outright and one shared, while going 8-4 versus Moeller in that span. 2022 was a season without a D1 kid. It happens. This year with more talent they clearly regressed. Since I doubt they...

I figured that’s what you meant. Princeton seems like they’ve had a line of well intentioned coaches who were looking to build that program yet all of them, if they would have been able to do so, never stayed long enough to accomplish the feat. Maybe they just realized they didn’t have the...

Wow! Best season they’ve had in years and their coach seemed to have them moving in the right direction. Is he taking an open job somewhere, perhaps with better support to compete?

If this is true and for the reason I suspect, it would seem they’re more a victim of circumstance than anything else. Coach Sams was a longtime Hamilton assistant who I believe is employed by the district and that job just came open. If he’s the new coach there, then it sounds like just bad luck...

No St. X yet?

Not a St. X guy myself but definitely want to see things work out. The league is much more fun to follow when it’s competitive, and St. X is the only team to finish ahead of Moeller since 2016. This year’s team definitely seemed to have the talent, both preseason and early in the season. It...

Disagree. Teams tend to have two priorities: win the league and go as far as possible in tournament. If you pay attention, teams pitch their best and even save their best for league games. They also tend to play their best lineup in those games while giving spot starts to guys in non league...

I have also heard that specific reason of not wanting to be “that school” as the reason why they didn’t move forward, not from your source but through one I find extremely reliable. . Last year IIRC, to add insult to injury, the field was unplayable for the games with Moeller to the point where...

Unfortunately none of those 2020 guys got to play a senior year. They won a league title as juniors with a senior class that was…not the most talented. I was looking forward to seeing what that team could do, but we’ll never know. The job that staff did the year after was what impressed me...

Speaking of the tourney, does anybody know why St X chose the draw they did? If seeding holds, they’d be playing at West Clermont in round two then Fairfield. They could have gone with at Kings or Lebanon then playing the other next. I would have thought out of those four you would be looking to...

They had a senior class just very solid that year. They only had one D1 kid in Jaun but both he and Vogelgesang were tough as nails. I don’t know if Albrinck is pitching anywhere, especially since he wasn’t a high velocity guy, but he just pitched with some guts. I agree that team was...