Danny here. Mr. Media. here. Here, Suarez here. Vice President Santiago present. President Paris here. We have a quorum. Okay. I'm looking for a motion to approve under G executive session item number three. Motion. Second. Motion by Commissioner Ciano and seconded by Commissioner Mahia. Roll call. Miss Bassford. Yes. Mr. Brun. Yes. Dr. Danny. Yes. Mr. Mia. Yes. Miano. Yes. M. Suarez. Yes. Vice President Santiago. Yes. President Paris. Yes. Motion to adjurnn. Motion. Second. Motion by Commissioner Bassford. Second by Commissioner Suarez. Have a great evening everybody.
Good afternoon, Clocker fans, and welcome to another exciting edition of Ashlin High School baseball. Today the Ashlin Clockers are taking on the Bellingham Blackhawks over at Ashlin High School and we're getting set up and uh they're going to schedule for a four o'clock start time. We'll see how close they get to that and we'll be ready to go. Stay tuned. Test test test. Hello. Hi. Hi. Testing. Hello. Testical audio. Okay. Thank you. Capture three. Capture three. Capture three. Capture three. Capture three. Capture three. You still got to bring it. Is that CG? Yeah, there's not a whole bas The outside that Yeah. Yeah. That's We're live. Quick check. Check check. You're good. Just want to turn the volume down a little bit. You good? How's that sound? You okay? That's Yeah. Can be good without being too loud and obnoxious. Yeah. Does that affect the uh sound input?
The volume that's coming through the head. Okay. Okay. Good to go. See, two minutes before four. So, good afternoon everyone and welcome to Ashlin High School varsity baseball here on WACA TV, your exclusive home for Ashlin High School sports. Today's Tri Valley baseball matchup features your Ashlin Hawkers taking on the Bellingham Blackhawks. I'm George Hubin bringing you tonight's action from the Ashlin High School baseball field adjacent to Ashlin High School and Ashlin Mass as you'd expect. And I'm here with the one and only John Laro. Good afternoon, George. It's good to be here with you. Great to be here, too. I think the last game we had, we were frozen. Slightly different weather conditions. Uh yeah, it was overcast. I can't believe it was much more than 35 degrees, probably a little bit less with the windchill, but today beautiful uh mid70s, nice cool breeze.
Uh um just the sky dotted with couple of clouds and and we're we're in for a good day of baseball, I believe. So, we're midway through the high school baseball season and after 11 games, the Clockers now stand at four wins and seven losses. As of Tuesday, the Clockers were ranked number 52 out of 71 teams in the MIAA Division 3 power rankings. Only the top 32 teams make it into the playoffs. So, the Clockers have a lot of work to do to make it in there uh for the rest of the season. See, we're underway here, but the Bellingham Blackhawks who were facing now has a record of one win and eight losses and are ranked number 42 in the MIAA Division 4 power rankings as of Tuesday. Um Ashlin is defin desperately looking for a win today and they're facing a struggling Division 4 team which hopefully will bold well for the Clockers.
That's a drop thread strike and they get a throw down to first uh for the first out. That was uh the froze a little bit high. It was a good job getting back on the base. Yeah. Yeah. Got away a little bit there, George. So, uh yeah, had to dig the throw on the outside of the line there. Yep. All right. Number two batter for Bellingham up. We have a We have Ryan Ryan Viscardi. He's a He's a center fielder. Pitching for Ashlin is Jared Grun. Yeah, Grun. up a lot of innings for Ashlin. Gets a a ground out uh from uh 53 there. Easy play there for Deon O'Brien to get it over to uh looks like Chris Baratica at first base. Yes. Yeah. Grumb uh curves change ups. He's got mixes a fast ball in, but he's got a lot of movement on this ball, doesn't he?
He does. Um Yep. good uh you know fast ball off speed uh selection uh when he's he makes good selection when he's hitting this hitting this strike zone he like I said he eats up a lot of innings for him follow back out of play balls followed out of play down the first baseline basically get lost in a thick woods here at the high school baseball field as the offer strike. Two strikes go behind the back. Yep. Another one in the dirt there, George. Yeah. his hockey goalie practice. Yeah. Yeah. Not that he plays goalie or hockey. No, that's He's an athlete though. Um we talked about that last game. You know, the number of guys on this team who are playing more than one sport and they bring that athleticism to the baseball field. Yeah, Luke Luke uh part of the football team suffered an injury unfortunately through the season but he was able to come back for the last few games for football.
I don't believe he did. Um it was a question of whether he'd be able to come back um in time for the baseball season. U I believe there was question of you know still feeling it um in the collarbone there in the shoulder um but uh he was able to fight through that first few games and I think he's you know more or less on in a groove here now at this age a lot of kids just want to come back and play but you know they don't think about their long-term health so I think it's I'd rather er on the side of making sure you're completely 100% healthy versus trying to trying to push it for uh Get him there. That was a good throw over. Yeah, it's called safe. Jared also he has a good move to first base. I think he's uh you know for a right-handed pitcher, I think he does as good as anybody I've seen on the team.
Yeah, a good shot right to Michael Shriber short stop. Takes it himself. There we go. That's uh bottom of the first inning. No, no. Uh, no runs. Still zero to zero as we go to the bottom of the uh the first. So, let me So, um, while we have a little break here, John. Sure. Um, so what's your take on the clocker season so far? Yeah, I mean the last we we spoke George um back during the drafting game that was um I think their first one of the season, you know, so they started off 0 and three and since then um a decent 500 um record since then. You know, they're now four and seven. I I know speaking with coach earlier, that's one of the things um that he talked about is how they they've kind of turned things around or they're in in the process of turning the corner.
They really like to get this one today and um evidence that they've got the train um rolling and going in the right direction. So, um definitely um moved moved a couple of guys around. Um still trying things here and there that I can see. Um I think guys are starting to fall into position in terms of where they'll expect to play. Um where coach is starting to see them in their um I guess position of highest value or guys who are of highest value in this specific position. So, um yeah, we're in for we're in for a good one um here today to see how that plays out um and see how the um the coaching strategy plays out. Definitely. Yeah. A lot of times, especially for this team, I think for all teams, there wasn't a lot of time between kind of first practice and first game and some of the kids are, you know, coming off of other where some of the kids are in there practicing hitting and baseball is their sport.
They don't do a winter sport. Yeah. So to get kind of everybody on the same page and get, you know, get all the rust off and it's not to get their heads in baseball mode depending upon how many kids you have in your team that are doing winter sports. It could be harder or or easier to get things going. So hopefully um that's where we stand now. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody's kind of in the groove. um they've they've taken enough repetitions that that familiarity with with reading pictures, that familiarity with uh reading ground balls or or fly balls, uh you know, coming in and out of the season, you know, you take for granted as a fan of of the game of baseball that all these guys are are it's just second nature to them. You know, it's not necessarily at this level like you say, if they're coming off a season playing basketball, playing hockey, it's not it's not always it takes some breaking in.
Takes some breaking in each season. Yeah. Chris at the leading off here. Yeah. Chris is u um probably their top hitter and um he's going against uh their the Hawks best pitcher here, Payton Young. Um he's up there in in the um Tri Valley League in terms of RA in terms of uh strikeouts. He's talking with coach TJ um Japone. He's um he's their top guy. Yeah, I was um I was looking um at some of the stats for Tri Valley and you believe it or not, Chris Baratica leads the strikeouts with 37 strikeouts. Um and Payton Young is actually number two with 36. He's got one less than uh than Bradica. In fact, because Brad's not pitching today, he has a chance to move ahead of him here. Yep. And Chris is at bat. He's gonna make sure that doesn't happen. Oh, it just happened to him.
Now they're tied. Unfortunately. Oh jeez. I guess I shouldn't have said anything. I kind of jinxed the whole situation. That's okay. Chris will want that one back. Um uh you know, he's seen him now, so we'll see his second time through uh how that how that matchup plays out. Yeah. Um I think we've got a We got we got one guy on the roster card here and another guy in the box. This looks like Oliver Laro um at the plate. Swinging early in the count there. Yeah, aggressive swing. Yeah, seems like he he throws some heat. One. Ball's down in the dirt. Just a good transition there by that uh shorts stop. Yeah. Very good play there by uh Sam Elliott. No, not Sam Elliott. Brock Brock Barry. Brock Barry. Yeah. Yeah. Brock Barry is another one of uh their better players bring pretty high in batting average.
And now it looks like Devin O'Brien is at Yeah. And he gets a good piece here. George piece but right at the right at the left fieldielder. I thought that was that was ball was sinking fast and it just didn't sink fast enough. Nope. Nope. Good contact there. And you know, I think that um the last time um we did a game, George, it seems like uh kind of repetitive or at least the approach here today is a little bit of the same by coach Messer. He's got um couple of those guys swinging early in the count and really attacking the ball. So, we'll see if that produces offense here today. Yeah, the clockers seem to be I look up the stats, but they seem like they're making good contact. Not not a lot of strikeouts. Um, but a lot of good, you know, getting getting the bat in the ball.
Unfortunately, a lot of fly balls or, you know, ground balls running right right to the position players. But, you know, first thing you got to do is get the ball in play. Yes. So, so, you know, at least that's happening. Yeah. That's what we've seen, you know, game. some of their their top guys. They're still, you know, top in, I guess, uh, some of the efficiency or production stats offensively. Um, maybe just not on a batting average. Okay. Uh, percentage-wise, George. Um, they are hitting the ball, so maybe they're getting on base uh, with an error field's choice. Um, you know, they're moving guys moving guys along, but a lot of balls. Yep. Um just um not finding the grass in the outfield or not getting through the infield. Yep. Yeah. But certainly uh improving from the first couple of games. Yep. All right. Go top of the second inning.
Yeah. This is the short stop. Brock Barry just uh just made the um play to finish the uh bottom of the first there. That ball's low. That's a foul. One ball, two strikes here. Berry just outside. Good pick there by the catcher loop O'Brien. Two and two. Just up. Just up. Luke Luke is trying to frame it. Yep. Yeah. He had me fooled. It's on the ground right to Chris Bara. one out here. Yep. That and that's what um Grunbum will get you, you know, with the um with the the those breaking balls um low in the in the zone. Uh he'll he'll get balls in the in the dirt that you can get over to first base there for the out. So, foul tip there. hit somebody. I don't know who that went right back off of Luke or if that that's off the umpire there.
Yeah, I think he's uh Yeah, I think it's off the umpire. He's just kind of walked off a little bit and bat is Nicholas Fantini. Gets a piece of it. Is that going to drop? That's a diving catch right there. What a play. That was a great catch by Unbelievable. That's Ian. And uh he's made a few catches here this year, George, that have been um you know, like not to rank the whole team or, you know, but he's he's one of their top outfielders. The way he's played this year, um he's made some spectacular catches like that coming in diving. um some over the shoulder um you know going back o over the opposite shoulder that we've seen when watching the game Georgia if you recall and so um that's just a great play and I at bat now he's quickly down 0 and2 that's outside for a That ball's ripped.
That's in the gap. Let's see who can get here. Wow, that's a great play. Who's that? That was a great catch. That was I think that was that Ollie Laro kid. Never heard of him. Um yeah, so that's uh that's both good communication there. So, um, if you're if you're Bellingham, those those are just bad breaks to some of the, you know, better outfielders out in the field who track the ball well. Obviously, good communication right there, too, to, uh, make sure they're not, uh, running as full steam right into each other. Yeah, that that that usually doesn't end well. Yes. One, I thought I'd share, you know, there I was uh, looking up some stats. Yeah. um max preps and y interestingly uh Chris Bradica up to a few minutes ago led the league the Tri Valley League in in strikeouts. Yeah. Uh with 37.
Now Payton Young I think has 37. I don't know if you got another one. Yeah. And there's another there's another uh pitcher on Bellingham that actually is number 11 in strikeouts. So they got a couple of um you know good pitchers there. Brad's also ranked number 17 in RA. the 2.66 erra. Yeah. Um then when you look on the other side when it comes to batting average, uh the top Ashlin player again is Chris Brado who's ranked number 22. He's batting 333. Yeah. Uh Bellingham has a player that Brock Bry who was you mentioned earlier. Y um he's also ranked number 22 with a 333 batting average. Yeah. What I thought was interesting is in Tri Valley Yeah. there's 11 kids that are batting over 400. Wow. And there's one a kid from Norwood who's batting 577. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, it goes to some of the stuff that we were talking about before the game with coach, and I don't know if, um, either of the coaches ascribed to it, but, you know, smaller schools playing in in a division with bigger schools, you know, being, um, you know, competing against the bigger schools.
And, uh, you know, that's one stat you can tell that there's some big there's some big players out there that that these guys have to go up against, um, two, three times a week. So, um it's it's um it's one of the reasons, you know, uh word that's coming out of, you know, both sides of of of uh both dugouts uh um coaches is is the compete level. You know, we're going to have to compete to to um do well today and and that's how the their players are measured. So, it's interesting. You know, the Tri Valley League is a, you know, league of schools in the area, but it kind of overlaps the divisions and divisions are based on, you know, school size and and things, you know, records and things like that. And yeah, you can be in division three and play teams in division two, division one, division four.
Yep. Um or worse, you could be in division four and have to play division one, two, and three teams. Yeah. If they happen to be in tri I don't think in Tri Valley has any division one baseball. I don't think they do. I know in hockey I think there are, but Yeah. All right, Michael Shriber at bat. Um, two balls, one strike. Yeah. Um, hard foul ball there. Another one of the underassman for coach Messer and um and he's actually moved into the four hole for today. He's usually up second or third. Um yeah, I think Michael Shribe has been playing great ball uh behind the plate and on the field. Yeah. And that and that ball gets through. Hard hit ground ball to the shortstop, but you know, bouncing. It just got over his glove. Yep. That's a tough hop. Um that's a tough hop to handle right there.