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Mason and Lakota West are off the great starts. Mason has 9 seniors and seem to be on a mission in this, Coach Castner's last season. Wednesday's Mason v Lakota East will be yet another big game in the GMC.

What is anyone else seeing in the GMC this season?
 
 
I think that the usual "powerhouse" teams are doing well. These are Lakota West, Lakota East, Fairfield, and Mason. Hamilton and Colerain have been tough in previous seasons, but both are struggling this year and will probably finish in the middle of the GMC. As usual, Princeton, Oak Hills, Middletown, and Sycamore are weak in the GMC and will fight for the bottom four spots. It will be interesting to see who finishes first in the conference and how well the top four teams will do in the tournament. Good Luck to all!
 
East put up a 4 spot in the sixth. A couple of rare Mason errors, a couple of walks, then a couple of clutch hits for East. You can't have an inning like that against East or West.

Too early to call the race. Mason plays West twice and East one more time. East plays West one more time.
 
Greenville 4
Mason 0

Mason gives up some hard hits to Greenville's line up. Greenville goes to 10-0 on the season.
 
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The Cards are off to a slow start.
The defense and offense has had their moments but; they are inconsistent in both areas.
They have the talent and a good mix of power and speed.
In the first six games I have not seen a team with more than talent than what they have and they should be able to compete with anyone in the GMC.

Colerain lost tonight 4-1 to Lakota West.
Very Fine pitcher for Lakota but; Colerain Hitters helped her out too much with watching get ahead 1st pitch strikes and the fielding allowed two unearned runs.
Sid Morris pitched a very good game for Colerain and deserved better tonight with a couple of more timely hits.
 
Mason 5 Lakota West 1

Lakota West got on the board with an rbi hit in the top of the first. Mason took advantage of an error, a walk and two hit batters to take the lead 2-1 in the bottom of the second. Both teams settled down after that.

Mason broke the game open in the bottom of the sixth on three consectuive rbi hits

Lakota West left two runners in scoring position in the top of the 7th as the game ended on a line out to short.

Another instense battle in the GMC.
 
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Colerain hammers Hamilton 6-0. Colerain had a chance to score more but some base running mistakes cost them.
Sidney Morris pitched a great game and the defense backed her up.
Katie Hoelmer and Chelsie Bridges were the team leaders on offense.
 
A little off the subject, but does anyone know why it takes the stats on the gmcsports website so long to update? Is it the system, or are the stats just not being input in a timely manner?

Thanks!
 
crunchtime said:
A little off the subject, but does anyone know why it takes the stats on the gmcsports website so long to update? Is it the system, or are the stats just not being input in a timely manner?

Thanks!
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Basket stats are input into the computer as the game progresses and it is submitted to the league as soon as the game is over. I don't think that is the case with softball. It would be nice if the stats could be updated within a couple of days though.
 
softball coaches usually gets them in before league selection as much as possible.
on the soccer side, its missing a few games for my daughter's school
 
gocards said:
Basket stats are input into the computer as the game progresses and it is submitted to the league as soon as the game is over. I don't think that is the case with softball. It would be nice if the stats could be updated within a couple of days though.
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Softball/baseball coaches enter stats into a central site that feeds the Enquirer and conference stat sites. Once a coach enters the stats, it shows immediately on the conference stat site.
 
The whole system relies on moving computer files around, game files and cumulative season files.

A school may have their computer input person on site for one game scoring the game on his/her computer as it happens and within seconds after the game ends the scorer using the computer hits the send button and the results are available and posted immediately on the league site, sent to the Enquirer, a printout handed to any reporter present, etc.

At the next two games the computer input person may be on spring break so the only record of the games are in the scorebook that's kept, usually in the dugout. The computer input person collects the sheets when he gets back from the break loads them into his computer and hits the send button but unlike in the previous case these two games go in a week or so late.

Sometimes when the computer person looks at the score sheets from past games he can't make out what happened at some juncture in the game so must go back and get it interpreted by the head coach and if the next game is a couple of days away he might just wait to talk to the coach then. In this example the the stats may go in a week and a half after the game.

In these three examples, same league, same school, same scorer, the stats might go in anywhere from seconds after the game ends to a week or more later depending on a variety of factors. (those just mentioned plus, computer went down, scorebook sheets got misplaced, etc.)
 
Bob Ashby said:
The whole system relies on moving computer files around, game files and cumulative season files.

A school may have their computer input person on site for one game scoring the game on his/her computer as it happens and within seconds after the game ends the scorer using the computer hits the send button and the results are available and posted immediately on the league site, sent to the Enquirer, a printout handed to any reporter present, etc.

At the next two games the computer input person may be on spring break so the only record of the games are in the scorebook that's kept, usually in the dugout. The computer input person collects the sheets when he gets back from the break loads them into his computer and hits the send button but unlike in the previous case these two games go in a week or so late.

Sometimes when the computer person looks at the score sheets from past games he can't make out what happened at some juncture in the game so must go back and get it interpreted by the head coach and if the next game is a couple of days away he might just wait to talk to the coach then. In this example the the stats may go in a week and a half after the game.

In these three examples, same league, same school, same scorer, the stats might go in anywhere from seconds after the game ends to a week or more later depending on a variety of factors. (those just mentioned plus, computer went down, scorebook sheets got misplaced, etc.)
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All true...and then there's the system where the coach calls in the score to the newspaper, then puts the stats into the system that evening on his own. It takes 15-30 minutes, depending on whether there was a blow out or close game. We update our stats nightly.
 
sportster57 said:
All true...and then there's the system where the coach calls in the score to the newspaper, then puts the stats into the system that evening on his own. It takes 15-30 minutes, depending on whether there was a blow out or close game. We update our stats nightly.
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As I understand the system the home team submits the game file to the league. If the visiting team coach goes home and loads the stats into his computer out of his scorebook after an away game they may not be putting in the same version as the home team has sent in to the league. Your files are up to date but the game may still not have shown up on the GMC site because the home team did not submit them promptly. When the home team does submit the official GMC version it may not match your team files when they finally do show up because the home and visiting teams typically keep separate scorebooks and seldom take the time to resolve any differences. There are other procedures for resolving these discrepancies which some people use and others just don't worry about. The point is there's no easy way for you to get the official stats updated nightly and even if you do there's no way that I know of to ensure that they will be up on the GMC site that night where the public can see them.
 
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Bob Ashby said:
As I understand the system the home team submits the game file to the league. If the visiting team coach goes home and loads the stats into his computer out of his scorebook after an away game they may not be putting in the same version as the home team has sent in to the league. Your files are up to date but the game may still not have shown up on the GMC site because the home team did not submit them promptly. When the home team does submit the official GMC version it may not match your team files when they finally do show up because the home and visiting teams typically keep separate scorebooks and seldom take the time to resolve any differences. There are other procedures for resolving these discrepancies which some people use and others just don't worry about. The point is there's no easy way for you to get the official stats updated nightly and even if you do there's no way that I know of to ensure that they will be up on the GMC site that night where the public can see them.
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The system used is Sidstats. This feeds the league stats and the newspaper stats. Usually, the home team enters the line score, and the individual stats for their own team. The visiting team enters their own individual stats. I enter them every night, and they show immediately on the league site.
 
Looks like Mason will clinch the GMC.. even if they are beaten another time this week. My prediction was right in the pre-season but someone deleted that board.
 
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Mason and West look to be the dominant GMC teams.
C-Rain should be able to compete however: they play too much small ball and do not take bases when they should while lacking the hitters to drive the ball.

C-Rain takes toooo many first pitch strikes and they seem to lack the ability to make adjustments at the plate.

Unless C-Rain can make adjustments ......... sorry one and done Harrison 10-2.

Fix the problems and C-Rain will compete.
 
In my opinion Mason is well ahead of Lakota West. West has not played a very tough schedule and has some losses that they were not expected to give up. Mason seems to have prepared themselves well for the post season.
 
Congratulations to Coach Castner and the Comets for clinching their first GMC title.

Anything can happen in the tournament, but this Mason team has 9 seniors and at least four starters have played in the Final Four.
 
Mason won the GMC but couldn't beat Lakota East this year. East beat them 2-0 tonight and 4-0 a while back giving them their only two losses in the league.

But next week none of that matters and GMC match ups are very common deep in the tournament. The the top 4 teams can all beat eachother on any given day (Mason, Fairfield, East, and West).
 
The Castner brothers round robin was interesting to watch this year.

Brian's Mason team beat Keith's West team twice. Keith's West team beat Steve's East team twice, and Steve's East team beat Brian's Mason team twice.
 
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