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Short recaps
Short recaps usually come in with the score.
Example: MHS 3 NBend 2 2R HR Reed, McClintock 9 k's 7 inns
Line drive triple play to end game.
Longer recaps are welcome too, in fact I love them. But they usually come in past my bedtime and I don't post until the next evening.
They are usually much more detailed than what is in the papers and the players appreciate seeing their names for double plays, rbis, clutch hitting in pressure situations, squeeze plays, sac bunts, etc. See the example of a longer recap in the right hand column of this page
An example of a long versionrecap from a school with it's own recap page is on the right - this reporter usually wrote three to five paragraphs. I would normally get the recap game night or the next day and then post it to the teams recap page. .
Colts Even Series with Willamette
4/16/07
Defense Turns Stingy as Thurston Beats Willamette 6 to 0.
Grant Willis tossed a seven hit shutout, and Kyle Hoover and Colin Schauermann traded off turning big double plays with each other as the Colts move to 3 and 2 to overtake the Wolverines in the standings.
After 2 and 1/2 scoreless innings the bottom of the order came alive for Thurston in the bottom of the third inning. Jordan Branham singled to center and Willamette threw Schauermann's sac. bunt into right field to put runners on 2nd and 3rd bases with no outs. Danny Urness' single up the middle scored Branham and after a wild pitch moved Urness to second, once again the Colts had runners at second and third with no outs.
Skip Spencer's single to center scored Schauermann and Urness giving Willis more than enough runs for the win. Spencer also doubled and scored in the fifth inning as did Branham in the forth and Tyler Bradley in the seventh inning.
Photos: Email photos and I'll try and post them. I usually catch up on photos on the weekends. I usually shoot two or three games a week. If the sun isn't out a lot and it's a dark day at the game I am shooting, the pictures just don't 'pop'. So to increase the odds of getting good photos of your team I rely a lot on parents to email photos to me.
FYI, I have a 400mm lens on a digital SLR so it's like a 600mm lens on a 35mm film camera.
1) I try and set up galleries for each team.
2) I usually give the teams that have contributing photographers and reporters copies of my photos at the end of the season. I also email 6 mega photo files to parents on request.
MWL Alumni Updates Apparently people like these pages as I get a lot of corrections. If you know of former MWL players who are in college, minor or major league ball or got drafted, let me know.
If you know of old timers who went on and played at higher levels, let me know that too. This website is a good place to capture your schools baseball history until the school sets up its own baseball history. I 'm a little slow updating this page, but I usually get to it on a two week cycle. Resubmit your request in a couple of weeks if you don't see your request posted. If it's not up in a couple of weeks I probalby messed up.
