Baseball Blog
Middleton
Come out and support the Upper Arlington High School Baseball program at Carsonie's on Lane Avenue. Carsonie's will donate 20% of all proceeds for the sales on February 7th, 8th, and 9th. This is good for Lunch or Dinner / Dine-In or Carry Out.
For IPhone and Droid owners, download the FREE Carsonie's Application to make ordering more convenient and faster. Carsonie's prides itself on making their World Famous Stromboli fresh to order. It takes 40 minutes to fully prepare a single stromboli. When you order from your application, you decide when you want to pick it up! We will also receive an extra 5% for all sales ordered through the Carsonie's App!
Make sure to say you are ordering in support of UA Baseball!!
Middleton
We will conduct our annual pre-season parent/player meeting for prospective high school players. The meeting will be heldon Wednesda September 14th @UAHS East Cafeteria 7:00pm. This meeting will also consist of sign-ups for our Booster Club. We have many things going on in the off season and season that we need help for. Mike Reed will talk about these opportunites at the meeting.
I will go over some important items for the off season as well as meet our new coaches. Please plan on attending with at least 1 parent. We will release the upper classmen after a short period and just speak with incoming Freshmen parents and players.
If you have any qestions, please feel free to contact me by email mmiddleton@uaschools.org or phone 614-202-2010.
Middleto
The 3rd Annual Bat-A-Around Golf Outing has come and gone and it was another success! Our first year we had around 60 golfers, up to around 72 last year. This year we had 100 golfers participate! The outing is growing and we hope to even add more next year. The golf outing helps off-set costs for our high school baseball program for the year.
Thanks to all of those that worked tirelessly preparing for the outing! It takes a TEAM EFFORT to make something like this happen and a TEAM EFFORT it was!
Thanks to all of those who attended this great event and hope to see you around the baseball field this upcoming spring as well as on the golf course next August!!
Middleton
Please check in to my blog for an update on the camp status before attending your session. Please plan on attending rain or shine unless you read otherwise from this blog.
We will take it session by session tomorrow and Tuesday with the weather. If we do happen to cancel your sons session, we will have make-up days on the following dates:
Monday July 11th and Tuesday July 12th. Same times and same location.
Middleton
So, last night I was watching the College World Series. Virginia and South Carolina wer tied 2-2 it seemed like forever. Both teams had plenty of opportunities to score in the later innings including extra innings. A few things I noticed: with home runs down this season because of the new bat specifications, the thought of a big inning would not have crossed my mind. There were 2 innings I can remember that the lead off batter got on but was not sacrificed over to second base with less that 2 outs. Virginia did try a hit a run and when the first 2 guys were on, they sacrificed them to second and third. However, they stranded the bases loaded 2 innings in a row after SC turned 2 inning ending double plays.
The biggest thing I saw was the inability to field bunts. People at times think we are wasting our time practicing bunt coverages and the proper way for our pitchers to field bunts. We work extremely hard on the proper footwork approaching the ball and then anticipating where to go with the ball, then getting our feet and shoulders square to the base. Not being able to lay down a sacrifice bunt nor being able to defense the bunt, will LOSE you games!
So, have it be a lesson for all the young coaches and players out there, have your players learn this at an early age. Make this a part of your practice plan, even if it is for 5-10 minutes. As the the players get older, the game gets faster and these type of things will win and lose you games throughout a season. Make sure your pitcher knows the importance of throwing strikes #1 but also once the pitch is thrown, they must be able to field their position and become an athlete!
Middleton
Reminder that our Golden Bear Youth Baseball Camp will be held next week June 27th-30th. We are still accepting registrations for all sessions! If you will be mailing the registration past Thursday, hold on to it and register at the concession stand on the first day of camp.
Session 1 - Grades Entering 2-4
9:00-11:00am
Session 2 - Grades Entering 5-7
11:00-1:00pm
Session 3 - Grades Entering 8-9
1:30-3:30pm
Middleton
The Summer Baseball Season has officially begun. This year we have combined with Watterson and Thomas Worthington for an 18U team called Team Columbus 18U. We decided to do this in order to challenge our players with a more competetive schedule. We have combined with just Watterson for Team Columbus 16U. We have kept our Freshmen players together for at least 1 more season and they too are playing a more competetive schedule as well as playing in more tournaments.
The Team Columbus 18U home field will be UAHS. The home field for Team Columbus 16U is Watterson HS and the home facility for the U15 Team Arlington is at UAHS. The teams will compete just past the middle of July when they will end their season. Each team will play approximately 40-45 games against good competition.
We look forward to our players getting better and coming back next year with a purpose and looking forward to a great year in 2012!