Louisville 26, Akron Hoban 3, 5 Innings

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The unranked 15-1 Lady Leopards demolished Akron Hoban 26-3 yesterday. Louisville has 16 homers on the year and is closing in on several HR records. Read more here:

http://louisvilleleopards.org/lady-leps-ig-knight-offense-in-26-3-win-against-hoban/

 

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The unranked 15-1 Lady Leopards demolished Akron Hoban 26-3 yesterday. Louisville has 16 homers on the year and is closing in on several HR records. Read more here:

http://louisvilleleopards.org/lady-leps-ig-knight-offense-in-26-3-win-against-hoban/

You should be prould of yourself highlighting a score like this.

 

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You should be prould of yourself highlighting a score like this.

I'm not sure if you realize that the author has posted every article here he has published so far regarding his coverage of Louisville softball this season (he independently covers all Louisville high school sports).

I dont believe he differentiates whether he writes/publishes/shares articles depending on wins/losses or margin of score difference either way. Granted, Louisville is doing pretty well this season so it may seem that way, but he posted the article of Lsvl's loss here also in the same fashion. From what I know of the author, he would be publishing/sharing articles the same if Lsvl had lost 26-3 and not doing as well as they have been so far.

You can read about his motivation/background for writing about Lsvl sports here ... the guy is simply a young fella who is nearing graduating college with a degree in mass communications - and he decided to merge two things near and dear to his heart currently (career and love for Lsvl sports as a Lsvl alumni)

I think it would be wonderful if every small community had this type of coverage of their HS sports because the kids deserve coverage just the same as larger schools who seem to naturally receive theirs from city newspapers. We're lucky enough in Louisville to have a young guy starting his career in media who wanted to both establish a portfolio and support the school he's from.

 

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I'm all for covering the girls, but 26 runs can be avoided in 5 innings when the other team has 0-3 runs.

 

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I'm not sure if you realize that the author has posted every article here he has published so far regarding his coverage of Louisville softball this season (he independently covers all Louisville high school sports).

I dont believe he differentiates whether he writes/publishes/shares articles depending on wins/losses or margin of score difference either way. Granted, Louisville is doing pretty well this season so it may seem that way, but he posted the article of Lsvl's loss here also in the same fashion. From what I know of the author, he would be publishing/sharing articles the same if Lsvl had lost 26-3 and not doing as well as they have been so far.

You can read about his motivation/background for writing about Lsvl sports here ... the guy is simply a young fella who is nearing graduating college with a degree in mass communications - and he decided to merge two things near and dear to his heart currently (career and love for Lsvl sports as a Lsvl alumni)

I think it would be wonderful if every small community had this type of coverage of their HS sports because the kids deserve coverage just the same as larger schools who seem to naturally receive theirs from city newspapers. We're lucky enough in Louisville to have a young guy starting his career in media who wanted to both establish a portfolio and support the school he's from.

You totally missed the point of BDD's post. 26-3 scores happen, but there is no need to highlight it.

 

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You totally missed the point of BDD's post. 26-3 scores happen, but there is no need to highlight it.

I got his BBD's post, and I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with it - but I didnt know if they posted knowing that it wasnt necessarily somebody simply blaring a score like that vs someone who consistently posted game articles regardless of specific outcome.

My point was that I believe a similar article would have been posted if Louisville would have lost by such a score, and it wasnt I believe a case of selective cherry picking posting.

I'm all for covering the girls, but 26 runs can be avoided in 5 innings when the other team has 0-3 runs.

My comment here was by no means an endorsement of the score or game, more rather just a little background of the article writer.

 

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I'm all for covering the girls, but 26 runs can be avoided in 5 innings when the other team has 0-3 runs.

just curious, what would you propose? Does the losing team feel better knowing you aren't trying? The bench was emptied. the #1 pitcher was not in the game.

 

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You should be prould of yourself highlighting a score like this.


At what point should folks not report the scores from games? 8 runs, 10 runs, ???

 

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When my DD's team had games like this the coach changed pitchers and unloaded the bench. Base runners were base to base on errors. ect.. There are ways to to this. I have coached in these situations as well as umpired in them.

When the score was posted it was posted like: Team A over Team B.

 

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Comment 1: I consider LeopardNation to be media. It is the media's responsibility to publish a truthful article. He does write for a particular school so the articles are written to highlight that school's players and accomplishments. Fair enough.

Comment 2: I was involved in a game today where, due to prom and other academic commitments, had only 6 varsity players. We had 6 JV come up to play. In the second inning, our team sent 19 batters to the plate. About halfway through this inning, we stopped stealing bases and stopped moving bases on PBs or WPs.

But...I want our JV players to get a chance to get some at-bats. Whether they put the ball in play or not is up to them but I was still coaching and teaching. I'm still working on them getting their lead-offs. So, I am torn be between how to gracefully get out of this game and getting our JV players some playing time/experience. We could have easily just had runners leave the base early, which we did to end an inning twice, but if you do it too much, then I feel you are doing the opposition a dis-service. The opposition wants to work and get those outs themselves.

 

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just curious, what would you propose? Does the losing team feel better knowing you aren't trying? The bench was emptied. the #1 pitcher was not in the game.

We don't find ourselves with big mismatches often, but we have had runners leave a base early after quietly letting the field ump know. They can be creative. The losing team won't feel much better, but the pain ends sooner. Maybe the word "demolished" rubbed me the wrong way.

 

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Purposely making mistakes seems cheap to me. If I had to do one or the other, I'd rather bring JV in and if the pounding continues it continues.

Louisville didn't schedule Hoban, planning on beating them that badly, getting an easy win. Hoban's having a down year.

Louisville was up 18-1 after the 2nd inning. What, I guess is the point I'm coming to, is the best 'spirit of competition'?

Should the team getting killed fall on a sword - forfeit - and mercy the game early instead of having to be humiliated either by playing vs JV or players that are not trying? Is that less 'shameful' than the winning team having a pity party with their varsity, or sending in the JV to play your varsity?

If the team getting 'killed' doesn't want to give up, then they are fair game. Play on.