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Woodland defeats Wilby 21-4. The team combined for 17 hits and Pitchers Jack Brunetti and Dan Keogh combined for 11 strikeouts in the contest. Keogh picked up the win on the mound. The Hawks are now 8-3 as they travel to Ansonia on Wednesday. #ctbase

The Red Sox going full on Ari Gold from Entourage today on the coaching staff might be the most fitting end to this clown car of coaches.

Woodland edges one out over Wolcott 5-4 at home. Charlie Napoleone threw 6 strong innings striking out 10 and George Mudry was 1-3 with an RBI double. The Hawks are now 7-3 at the halfway mark. #ctbase

What an absolutely wild #ctbase game in Beacon Falls today. All of the game's runs were scored from the bottom of the sixth inning on in a 4-3 @WRHSHawkBase walk-off victory over @SeymourHS.

Congrats to Vic on an amazing accomplishment! One of the best guys around!

Brewers just rattled off three straight bunts to take the lead

Loving Jesus is fun, try it. 🤎

The stone wasn’t rolled away so Jesus could come out. It was rolled away so you could see what God already did.

I got some nerdy shit to say but everybody in the player development travel baseball world will understand. Parents, the player development is in the boring. There are a lot of coaches out there that are probably scared to do the appropriate things to develop your child because in practice it’s boring. Cuts and relays are boring. Bunt defense is boring. First and third defense is boring. Base running is boring however, if you ask college coaches, they will tell you physicality and metrics are at an all-time high while baseball IQ and getting simple jobs done is at an all-time low. I truly believe this is because people are worried players will leave their program. If the things they do are not flashy they think parents will complain and kids will check out which actually happens but let them. There are 16 u first baseman out there every summer that have to be reminded to hold a runner on first base. There are third base out there every summer that need to be reminded that they are the cut off man on a single to left field to home plate. Starting pitchers do not know how to hold runners or have multiple pickoff moves. Hitters do not know their approach should be based on the outs the inning the score and the base runners so they go up there blindly without any objective in the world. Ideally, you wanna find a program that can teach your child how to play baseball while also developing their strength and improving their important data points. I’ve seen it firsthand when teaching players that continuously forget easy responsibilities on the field. They check out when you talk about the things they consider boring. Explain to them that you are relaying messages that you were getting from coaches at the college level and hold steady in teaching the kids the things that will help them be able to get themselves relied upon at the next level.

When you have a tee time in the final group at the Masters on Sunday, but first ... there's church. Cameron Young said earlier this week that his family tries to find a church to go to every week on the road. Sunday in Augusta is no different. CAMERON YOUNG: Our faith is very important to us. It's something that I feel like brings us together. It's very important, I think, for all of us to kind of have that part of our lives be a central portion of what we do, individually and as a family. It's a nice opportunity for us to be together, to kind of share something together. Yeah, we find a different church every week. Wherever we are, we find mass to go to. That week it happens to be right by the golf course. So it's a little bit different pulling in in the tournament car, unloading my kids out, and having people kind of look at you the whole time. I get a lot of really, really nice comments, people saying, hey, thanks for setting a great example for my children or whatever it is. Honestly it's great to hear because I don't feel like that's the case all the time, and that's one area where I'm really happy to be able to bring attention to that part of our life. I just think it's a great opportunity to show other people that's what we do. (Getty Images)

The Hawks defeat Holy Cross 6-2 to improve to 3-1 on the year. Jack Schwenger was 3-3 with 3 doubles driving in 2 runs. Jacob Trumbley was 2-3 with a triple driving in a run as well. Tyler Yoxall went the distance picking up his 2nd victory of the season. #ctbase

“From Injury to Triumph” Sr. @WRHShawks @erik_pulkk suffered a major leg injury during the #cthsfb season. From there rehab and building the body mentally and physically to pre injury form was the key. @CoachBainer 📺: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZCkx…

The Hawks erupt for 20 runs against Kennedy on the road to win their second game of the season 20-2. The Hawks host the Class M defending state champions St. Joes on Thursday. #ctbase

Happy Easter!

Woodland opens the year with a 3-1 win over Wolcott. Tyler Yoxall (W; 1-0) and Jack Schwenger (SV; 1) combined for 16 strikeouts on the mound in the victory. George Mudry was 2-3 with a double. The Hawks travel to Waterville park Monday to take on Kennedy High School. #ctbase

Hitters Fight your ass off with 2 strikes. Spread out, choke up, take the plate away and refuse to strikeout. It's you vs the man on the mound. Don't let him beat you. It's personal. It's a competition. Remember. The only time it's acceptable to strikeout looking is with a full count on an expanded strike call. Shrink the zone and don't expand in full counts. Expand the zone with 2 strikes until the count goes full. Then shrink the zone.

Senior year / Stats/ Highlights Undefeated Season / 26-0 Conference Champions 1st Team All Conference 1,000 point scorer 45% from the arc 4.2 GPA High Honors Connecticut Superintendent Award for leadership, community service, and academic performance. Championship game - Saturday 3/21 1pm - Mohegan Sun

Going to clip that Judge throw and tell guys ‘if you’re gonna throw past your cut, this is how it better look.’

A memo to our HS baseball players who’ve been locked in for months: The athletes you’ve been watching every night this week in the World Baseball Classic didn’t stop strength training the moment they reported to spring training…

Hurdle-isms for having a high standard