Yeah, again, it's got that East wind. It's going to be cold. I think the key is going to be here throwing strikes, picking up the ball because both these teams have struggled to score some runs over the year. So I think it's going to be a defensive battle. Hopefully, you know, whoever it doesn't make, makes maybe the least amount of mistakes might come out on top. Well, that was, you know, one of the things about coaching here. It's always just so cold. And like you said, it's last game of the season, May 21st. And it's, you know, in the high 40s, probably in just not. It just makes it very difficult for kids to be successful and, you know, and playing in Sheboygan, you know, you wonder why the averages and stuff are always a little bit down compared to the others. But, you know, it is what it is. And you got it's fair for both teams. Yeah, everyone's playing through the same conditions. It's been a tough spring for everybody, really. I mean, golf had their regional today. No one wants to golf in this kind of weather. No one wants to run track in this kind of weather.  Well, of course, I set my notes somewhere. No, I don't know where I did with them. But Bill Horst will be announcing the starting lineups with South first. And then we'll have North taking the field. And I believe there will be some type of national anthem there as well. Park looks nice. It's another thing I was going to mention is just the second time they've played here this year. There's been a lot of work on the ballpark and things, which is kind of also kind of sad, huh, Schmitty? Yeah, this place is a special place to play. Obviously, with the new turf, it's nice to play there. But again, this place always is nice. I think Denny just needs to get a roof on here. And then this place will be even better. Yeah, a roof. And now with the nice artificial turf over there, that's also a nice thing at the field of dreams. That's for sure. Yeah, the turf probably saved them a few games this year. That's for sure. I mean, with the spring, the way it has been, it's been real wet. You can even tell it looks like the field here is a little wet in the infield. But again, the turf definitely had to save them many games. Well, one thing, too, being wet here in different two, it changes things. I watched infield a little bit. Just hitting ground balls, getting through that grass was really slow. And that was always one thing that we were always concerned about is, you know, having to cheat your infielders a little bit up because the grass slows it down. But then that creates bigger gaps to hit through. Yeah, it's definitely going to be different than the first time they played when they played at field of dreams in the turf. Some of those ground balls, you know, that got through the hole are not going to get through the hole today. You know, bunting could become key today. It's always a good bunting spot when the grass is kind of thick and wet. And yeah, we'll see what these conditions do.  And Norse now being introduced. Harry Feinberg, the fine center fielder is running off the center. He's number four. Of course, Brent Whitter, four time player here, playing shortstop. He'll bat second. And the other four time four year starter, Jacob Nasey. He'll be sitting next to him there. He'll be third. And the catching is Hunter Steger. He's just a sophomore. He's the future here. He'll be hitting in the clean up. Bennett Becker, now going to be playing some outfield. And then James Shear, playing first. I had a really nice senior season two, Ethan Sherg, back from his concussion situation. Pitched, I guess, last night against Preble in a 2-1 extra inning game. Lost. Number 22, Peyton Voight. Devin Lowensack is going to DH for Nathan Henricks. He'll play second base. And pitching tonight will be Peyton Voight, the junior. But we'll take a minute here and have the national anthem. It was really strange last year when I did the TV game here and seen Coach Gose and Coach Lomond's out here. For so many years, it was myself and Coach Clay from South. It was really weird. And it's strange for me to come back here and not see you out there, really. But Coach Gose has really kind of picked up right where you left off and has been doing a good job with these guys.  And obviously Coach Lomond has been doing a nice job over at South and trying to pick up that tradition where it used to be. Leading off for South is going to be Dylan Tim. Dylan Tim's playing third base. He's just a junior. Very nice kid. Can play a lot of positions too. I know he can catch, play infield, outfield, plays all over. South kind of strange as opposed to North. They've been scoring some runs. They just can't seem to finish the game. Even in the last game, there was lots of guys left on base for Sheboygan South. We're talking like 10 or 11 guys. Yeah, that's where today is going to come down to just making sure everyone can make a play. If someone makes a mistake, could really make a big inning. Probably come down to a couple clutch hits for both teams. Again, if South and leaving a lot of guys on, they're going to need that clutch hit. And North just needs to get something going here. They've been struggling to score runs throughout the year. Been a tough couple of years for South the last two years. And I think you made a good point. They're trying to start or build something going over South. You've got to get more kids playing in town. That's one thing for sure. Now we need to get people playing baseball all over the place, but definitely in Sheboygan. Get that, continue that tradition. Hopefully that Sheboygan Legion State title can maybe encourage and motivate some others to keep playing. Well, I think we'll see right away. I think strikes will be the key in picking up the ball in this cold weather. See, I just jinxed it right away there. Just a little high. Just follow there by Dylan. Attacking the fastballs, though, at the strikes, got a good pitch to hit. Yeah, not to give away any secrets, but I know Coach Go sometimes works backwards with his pitchers. Starts guys off with curveballs more often, probably than most teams. And there's a curve right away. You get some coaches that let's establish not even throw a curveball to the second time through. And at North, he really mixes it up. Schmidt, Eric Schmidt, I know does a lot of that, too. Yeah, I think Coach Schmidt is now calling the pitches for Coach. And I know that takes a lot. For Coach Go, is to give up that responsibility. But Coach Schmidt's has been doing a good job throughout this year. Yeah, he did that for me, too, off and on. Most of the time, no, I had my guys call their own. And then if we needed to, or if it was a big person, then we kind of talked, and Eric would call stuff.  Name of the game, throwing strikes and picking the ball up. And the lead-off walks usually come back to bite you. Elliott Peth on another junior. Today, he's playing in center, but again, a player that can play in a lot of different places. Good pitch by Voight there, Peyton to get ahead. Early in the game, Coach, what are you thinking?  I think because he walks, I think he's going to let them swing. But the way the weather is, I wouldn't be afraid to play small ball today, because I think runs are going to be at a premium. And this isn't going to get anything done. Yeah, I think when you're a struggling team, I think trying to get a lead early is always key. I think you get that mentality of when you've lost a bunch of games in a row, if you can somehow get a lead, some good things might happen. Here's Ben Soik, leading hitter for South, hitting 273 on the season. He scored 10 runs already this year. Just goes to show that South can put up some runs. It's hard to believe he's a senior already. But I guess I've been out of it for two years, too. He's played, I believe, at least three years on the varsity. Maybe got a little experience as a freshman. Good jump there by Dylan there on the steal. I think he probably would have had that bag taken, but attacking the fastball again looks like that's what their plan is at hitting. And you don't know if there was a hit and run on there but he was swinging. I have it. Wasn't there a strike on the first pitch? I had it one and two. I don't know what. I got two and one. Do you have two and one? I thought the first pitch was a strike two. You must be right. Opening inning. North-South last game of the season. Chris Wright along with Brian Schmitz. Mike Martin, I believe, is at the Brewer game tonight against another red team. There's a strikeout. Good job battling back there for Peyton coming back and tacked them with some fastballs there and got him swinging. Lars Krugel is senior. Lars is a three-sport athlete, football, basketball, and baseball. I love it. There's that curve ball again for a strike. Good opportunity to possibly run here and try to get in scoring position with two outs. Yeah, you might as well take a chance now. I would have probably gone on that first pitch and with the curve ball may have had stolen. Big jump. Huge jump. Might even get third here. So we're going to call that a stolen base. A wild pitch. And a wild pitch, huh? Or just a wild pitch. What do you think? I think the base would have definitely been stolen. No question of thought that. He got quite the jump. He was halfway to second by the time he delivered it. Now another wild pitch here. We get a run. I think that must have hit the plate or something. That makes the count one and two. Again, can South come up with that clutch hit, which eluded him in the first game so much. Hunter's got to be ready to block a pitch here if he's throwing a curve ball. Yep, there's the curve and a liner. Well, one walk for South. That runner has stayed after a half inning of play. It's nothing, nothing. Back at Wildwood Park. North's turn on offense. North comes in at, I have him at 7 and 14. 5 and 12 in league play. North, to say the least, has struggled this year on offense. Schmini, 11 games. I have them out of zero and one run. And then I add two more games, excuse me, three more games of two or three runs. So over half the games this year, they have not scored more than a run. Yeah, that can hurt the psyche after a little while. But a lot of it could probably do with the weather too. We haven't had a very good spring. It's hard to hit in this cold. And a lot of, a lot of rainy, wet games. But I think their top of the order is going to be key. Hopefully they can try to muster and muster out a run and try to get a clutch hit today. And with the tournament starting, there's no question that, I agree 100%, that you got to get the first three guys going. You have three seniors, Feinberg with his good speed. And then of course, two great hitters in Witter and Maisie to back that up. And if those three guys don't go, then the team's not going to go. Yeah, hopefully they can start. All it takes is one.  It takes one good swing, one hole to find. And you know, I really can start snowballing from there. Now, Harry's gone through a little bit of a slump of the second half of the season. But I'll tell you, this kid takes a lot of pitches and follows a lot of pitches off. He's really a good leadoff hitter and an outstanding center fielder. Draws a lot of walks. And last night's game against Preble, he led off with a 11-it pitch at bat, got a walk against a Vanderbilt recruit. So you know, he's going to try to do whatever he can to get on. Troy Klessing is the pitcher. Oh, good job there by the catcher there, Colin Brennan, to move his glove a little bit. Good catcher like that can save pitches. And there's a nice, simple ground ball and an out. It's a great start for Trey. They're really attacking the hitters, and that grass really ate that ball up, too. It's going to be hard to hit one through the infield today. And here's senior Brent Whitter. And in that two holes since he's been a freshman. Sorry, I'm off with the curve ball.  That one rolled in on him. That was a nice pitch there by Trey. See where this 0-2 pitch goes. Not a bad pitch. Normally you don't want it that close, but that one could have drawn a strikeout. We had a tough play. Great play there. Wow. What a play by Tim and a really nice play by Soik on this end. I don't even know which one was the better play. That's great play by the third baseman and a great tag over there by Mr. Soik coming off the base. Here's Whitter trying to beat it out and then a clunk to the head. Good camera work there. Richard, that brings up Jacob. Naezy or Nice. Through the years, what we used to call him. Jacob, another outstanding hitter. Ninth in the league and hitting at 375. He had four hits against South and the last one, Schmidt. Yeah, he's going to be a key here. Like we said, hopefully they're going to need to get something going here with two out, but he's down early here, 0-2. We'll see what Trey comes with on the two strikes.  Great inning. Great inning for Quessig. Well, that ends our first. Is South going to come to bat? We have no score. Back a while with Park there. You can see by our fans just how chilly it is. They're all bundled up. We, of course, get the booth. Just nice. Now we have new windows, which you can up here, which is really nice. He used to never have windows that opened, Schmidt. I don't know if you knew that, but it made it very difficult to listen to the game in the summer. What does the umpire change in things, and it made it very difficult. So brand new windows in here. We have a new deck. Have they opened the windows all spring? Probably not. Well, we've only been here twice, so I doubt it. Trey Klessing, another really good athlete. Had a nice job pitching in that upper first, top of the first there. Good pitch to get ahead there from Peyton. Other than an opening lock, both these pitchers have really been attacking the zone. Good miss there. Not on two. There's a fly ball. Should be a nice, simple play there. Sherg on that catch. And with one out, brings up the designated hitter. Mason Kohler, he's just a sophomore. He follows that first pitch away. And again, as Schmidty mentioned, getting ahead of that first batter is Peyton Boyt. Nice shot of Peyton there. Peyton's a good kid too, Ryan. I know he also works at the grocery store. Seem every once in a while. Good pitch there. See if both these pitchers can keep utilizing those corners that they seem like they might be getting here today. That's a really nice curve ball there. And second strike out of the game for Boyt. That curve ball, he got a little more on top of the first one. He kind of spun in there, got on top of that one and really got some good bite. Brings up the catcher, Colin Brennan. Brennan hitting in the seventh spot. Wide receiver on the football team. First pitch was a little bit high. Colin, too, is just a junior. There was a good pitch. Good swing on a two-hole pitch. I like to see a good hard swing there on two-hole. Good hack. Pitch there went foul. One strike away here from a nice quick inning here for Peyton also. Yeah. Well, as we mentioned, I think this is going to be a quick ball game as long as they throw strikes. Runs are going to be a premium. Runs it full. And he got a second strike out of the inning. Ends the inning for South. At the end of an inning and a half, still no score. Leading off for North will be their catcher, Hunter Steger. He's hitting over 300 here in league play. And for a sophomore to be putting that four-hole behind Jacob Nasey and Brent Whitters, a pretty tough role for the young man. Yeah, talking to Coach Ghost today, he said that Hunter's really come on for them. He's kind of moved up the line up throughout the year and has had a really, really good season for them. And obviously, they haven't been scoring runs without them. They probably scored less. There's a double chance right there. Right down the line, Hunter going to be digging around first on his way to second. And it is a lead-off double. And just as Schmidt mentioned, Coach Ghost says he's been hot. And there you go. Great swing there. Took that inside pitch right down the line. Stayed fair and good hustle by the big guy. Carson Kramer going to be running for the catcher in high school baseball. You can, what they call, courtesy run, which basically means the catcher can have a seat and rest and get his gear back on. It's kind of more of a speed-up rule. But if I had kids that could run, I kept my catcher out there. Yeah, you always try to find that guy that can just be your courtesy runner. You're hoping a guy tries out that maybe is some kind of track star that you can utilize. And obviously, you still need to teach the game a base running. It's an art to be a good base runner. So first hit of the game for North has a man in scoring position. And here's Bennett Becker. And Bennett Becker is going to line one right up the middle on the first pitch. Coach Ghost is going to hold the runner there. Just like that, as did in the first game, it's the bottom of the lineup that is coming up big for North. It's a good base running there. I thought he had a freeze. You know, that ball could have kept Karen to the outfielder. Good freeze there. That's why he didn't score on that. But nobody out. You don't want to take a chance now. Becker at first. Kramer at third. And James Shear, who's having a nice season as well. The senior first baseman comes to the plate. And knowing Coach Ghost, things might be moving. It's an inside pitch that Shear fouls. Yeah, we'll see if the lefty, with the lefty in the mound, if that's going to try to control some of the running game. But as we know, Coach Ghost loves to be aggressive. And it's a great time to be aggressive here with first and third. Nobody out. There he goes. There's the throw cut back to the pitcher and gave up the stolen base. Well, now Norse is going to be looking for that clutch hit that we were talking about earlier today. It's going to come down to who can get that big hit. Nobody out. Need to put something in play, try to make something happen here. Norse, excuse me, self-playing their defense about halfway. It looks like Schmidti. And it gets knocked followed. With this infielder right now, you might have to play up just to get any kind of play for first. So I think where the middle infielder's are, if it's hit to them, I think it would be tough to make a play at home just because the grass is going to eat it up. Two and two count. If you're sheer here, you want to put the ball in play. That dove in there for a ball. Got to do what you can to put this ball in play and give a chance to score a run. That one's going to be put in play, but out of play. Foul. Right on the outside painted corner. Sheer looks at it, and that's out number one. This could be a good opportunity to maybe have a squeeze here with Norse. Norse struggling to score runs. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach Goals gets something going here with one out and guys on second and third. Ethan Scherga, senior, pretty good speed. He follows the first one back. Big punch out there by Klessing, but he still only has one out. Good pitch there, I thought, because that's normally a good time to squeeze. If you're going to squeeze, it's maybe on that after you get down in the count. It's been tough there. I think he's going to trust Scherga to put it in play. Let's of all go low. Normally here, you're just trying to have a guy hit something hard. But if you have been struggling, it never hurts to try to get something going. Some runners in action, and sometimes you got to put the pressure on the defense. There's our bunt. Looks like more of a safety squeeze there. Guy on third did not take off. Carson Cramer did not take off, so a little safety squeeze. But now we've got two strikes. Going to have to put something in play here. Nice job by Scherga there. Oh, it's going to give up a run. You know, with that ball there, by Slyke, when he had to go to the outside there, I think that was the right decision to do. Yeah, this early in the game, I think you got to try to get it out. Now, all of a sudden, you're putting yourself in, where you could give up a big inning here. And since runs might be at a premium, you don't want to give up two. You could have had two outs and only given up one, but now we've got guys on first and third. Yeah, I would have taken the out there. That brings up another senior, Devin Lowensack. And again, Scherga runs real well as two. So we'll see if he gets moving over there. And he grounds one up the middle. And that was just, did not know what to do with that situation on that slow grounder. So a fielder's choice, give him an RBI, runs scores, makes it two to nothing. Again, that's where that previous play can come back. Where they could have been the third out if they got an out there and only would have given up one, but now north up 2-0. It brings up the Devin Lowensack. Excuse me. At first, Nathan Hendricks at the plate, and something I don't like to do is lead off with my nine-hinter, but they're aggressive, and he gets thrown out. That'll end the inning, but north picks up two runs on a couple base hits, leaves no one stranded. At the end of two complete, it's north two, and south zero. Here it would be Cameron Meyer. Cameron's another nice player, senior.  And most important thing, as the old cliche goes, when you get two runs, you want your pitcher to throw strikes with the lead. Yeah, once you get that lead as a pitcher, you want to go out there and try to have a quick one, keep that momentum building. This should be, hopefully, try to be a shutdown inning to keep the momentum going. Yeah, you have the eight and nine-hinters up for south. Want to attack them. He's got ahead of the count here, so doing what he should be trying to do. And there's a strikeout. Three strikeouts in a row. He's got a nice little rhythm going right now. Brings up the right fielder, Colin Magnan. He's just a sophomore. Again, Void gets ahead in the count and keeps pounding that strike zone, and why not? Yeah, he has a real nice rhythm going right now. You could see his mechanics. Everything is coming right down the hill, and see what he could do with his O2 pitch. Good pitch, a little bit out, and there's another strikeout. That's now five in the game on south's first nine batters, and it brings back to the top of the order. Dylan Tim would do a walk back in the first. Well, Green Bay Preble, with a win tonight, they played up here. Will win another conference championship. They used both their big pitchers last night to beat north to at least get a share of the title. Is that four years in a row now that Lisa's share? I am not sure. And they got stud pitching for next year as well, coming back. Bayport, who now entered the rankings of states as in ninth in state, second in the league, followed by Depeer and Manitowoc having a nice year, and there's a second consecutive walk to Tim. Ashwabana is fifth in the league, followed by Pulaski, Notre Dame, southwest and north, and then south. Elliott Pethon at the plate for south. There goes Tim, and he's going to slide. Oh, my. Out. It's a call. I thought he had a nice slide there. Yeah, I thought he might have snuck in there, but again, we're a little farther away than the umpire. Wow, Ball did beat him, but I thought it was a nice slide. But that's going to end the south threat with a throw out at second. And at the end of two and a half, north, as you see, is up two to nothing. Leading off for north would be Nathan Hendricks. He was the batter when Longsaka thrown out. Any of your thoughts on running on an eight-hitter to lead off the nine? Well, it's not the pitcher in the NL, but I don't know. Sometimes your nine-hitter can be that second lead off. I think you take a chance, and all of a sudden, you steal more bases.  So I think you can always look at it in both ways. I always look at it as that I want to get my top around quicker. And the more of my best three guys, which are supposed to be my one, two, three guys, are there, the better. Just a simple thing. I agree with you when you're head two to nothing. And by golly, that's what coach Goals likes to do is run. There's no doubt about it. But that's what he does and likes. Yeah, you look at it where if Nathan can get on, all of a sudden, you've got another guy in front of your top guys also to give them maybe hopefully an RBI chance and try to get those top three going. But see if he can battle here behind in the count. Good pitch there by Trey Klessig right on the outside corner. Yeah, his third strike out. And it'll bring us back to the top, where Harry Feinberg is going to lead off. Harry didn't play for me. I think he was in Colorado or something, something like that, and he moved here. And so his last two years here, I didn't have him as a freshman or a sophomore. But when he came, we knew he could play a little bit. For the second consecutive time, he hits it right to second base. And an easy four to three, Meyer de Soik to bring up Brent Whitter, who grounded out to first on a, excuse me, the third on a great play by Dylan Tim to rob him of an infield hit. Brent Whitter has mentioned a number of times this year, headed to Evansville to play. Be a little warmer in Indiana to play than in Wisconsin for the next four years. I think he'll enjoy and enjoy that weather. He's going to have this weather already in early March down there. So he'll definitely enjoy the warmer weather. I've always, I've been saying through the basketball and baseball seasons with him, I'd take nine of him on my team any day. He's a hard worker, really good kid. Well, you know, it makes me feel old because he was my bad boy for a while, catch a few games. I think he told me he picked up at my bad after a home run. And that's kind of how his season's been going. Hitting the ball hard, but right to the opponent. So Whitter lines out in the third that ends the third. As you can see the score, still north to south, nothing. Whitter, two-hitter, Elliott Pethon. Unofficially, I have 46 pitches for Peyton. I don't know what you have, Shmitty. Yeah, somewhere around there. He also was batting in the last inning when Tim got thrown out, trying to steal. And we'll see if South can get something going here with their 2-3-4 up. This is a great opportunity, second time around, see if they can attack that fastball before he gets ahead with the curveball. The curveball is right there. It's a good pitch by Peyton. He keeps it down there. He's not going to get hurt much at all today. There's going to be a lot of balls hit on the ground. Both teams have played quite a few games. So they've seen a lot of pitching by now. You would think the offense has caught up a little bit. But as we've mentioned, both teams have struggled to score this year. And the weather feels like it still should be the first week of the season. Yeah, on the little up. Full count here, big pitch for both teams. That's skied out to Feinberg, and that's going to be an easy play for him. And there's one away. Brings us back to senior Ben Soik. Ben also catches, played some shortstop, now playing first. He can play all over. I know he did that last summer, too, for the lead team. Here at South, playing first. That first pitch there by Voigt's a little inside. And Voigt has a really nice curveball when he really gets on top of that. Every once in a while, he kind of drops down. It kind of spins. But when he gets on top, it's a real good curveball like that one right there. Yup. Some of the fans not happy, but I thought I agree with you. That was a good pitch. Yeah, a real good bite there at the end, got on top of it. And then comes back. That makes that fastball seem a lot faster if he comes down with those two curveballs. Tough pitch to catch up to, especially up there at the letters. Yeah, one and two to count to Soik. That one's left out over the plate a little bit too much and fouled out of play. On deck is Lars Krugel, I believe. Not too bad of a turnout, though, for attendance for a cold May day with a lot of things going on at this time. But one time, didn't we used to play north-south games at night? Yep. Yep. I know Coach Goz wanted to do that too, and he was my JV coach, so he could get his kids to play out here, which was a nice thing to do, except that the games were like in early April, and it was 40 degrees when we played. Yeah, you would have think normally a game like today would have been a great opportunity, but it wouldn't have worked out really nice then either. And we could have seen the new lights. But the weather, the way it is, it's better that we do it this way, I think. Another full count. Nope, two and two. Yep, two and two. I have six pitches, four strikes, and two balls. And there's a little chopper foul. That's off his foot. Yeah. Good call there. The other day in the Brewer game, they couldn't see that one off our Seah's foot and then come to a nut, so we don't need to see anyone going nuts today. Yep, now we go full. So I'm making them work a little bit more here this inning, getting the pitch total off. He's had, I unofficially have him at 60, which we're going to talk about after strikes at bat here. About three years ago, they changed things to have 100 pitch minimum. And there's a sky ball. Again, Feinberg going to go on to that. Any thoughts by you on the pitch? Is it a good rule? Is it enough pitches? Should they have more pitches? Any? Yeah, I think it's, I think it was definitely needed.  But I think, again, the pitch total is probably at the right spot, just for the safety of the game. It's for the safety of the players. These guys are young. They're growing. Obviously, some of these guys are getting older and going to go to college. And they're going to be throwing maybe more pitches. At this rate, you want to try to take it as easy as you can on the arms and try to build that up. But I think the Baseball Coach Association did a good job with the WIA and trying to help them through it. And I think throughout the couple of years, they made a pretty good process. Yeah, I always thought there's a ball to Lars Krugo. I always thought it should be maybe 105. And my justification to that was 15 pitch innings.  Yeah, definitely rewards that contact guy. And that hurts a lot of teams. And I shouldn't say a lot, but some of our guys, there's a little grounder off to Jacob, throw over there to first. We're going to keep it here and finish up this conversation. I just always thought that 100 pitch was just a little like maybe 105, 110. It just gave, it hurts the strikeout guy.  And all of a sudden, like Vorpal had this year, been Vorpal for north through a 6 and 2 third no A. He ran out of pitches, and he couldn't complete his no A. No hitter. Yeah, something I would think about is earlier in the year, maybe having that pitch total where it is. And then maybe as you go throughout the year, maybe add 10 pitches as it gets a little warmer as these guys have gotten conditioned. Obviously, they added the one week ahead of official practice time to be able to have pitchers and catchers, which has helped. But I don't, you know, in the big leagues, they get there three weeks earlier, and then spring training is all about the pitchers. So I think sometimes maybe they could revise it a little bit, adding those pitches when you maybe the last week of the last couple of weeks of the year throughout the playoffs. So by that time, every pitch is kind of conditioned. And, you know, obviously, the weather's getting a little nicer then. Yeah, that was the only thing that I didn't. They had to make, I know when you mentioned the coaches association, they said it was one of the things was days off of rest, because that's something. So they had to kind of give and take. If they would have gone over the higher pitch count, they would have meant that a kid would have had to sit out like four days, I believe it would have been. And which, you know, coaches obviously don't want that situation, so there was a give and take. Yeah, it's definitely a change from the innings to the pitches, though, you know, when you're coaching, you definitely have to keep an eye on it before you just had, you know, you had seven innings within a certain amount of days. And definitely has changed the game a little bit. I think coaches probably even strategize a little bit differently, you know, you got maybe more closers that can go a little bit at that point, too. Well, leading off here is Jacob Nazy. Jacob balling a strike on him. We're in the bottom of the fourth, halfway through, two-nothing lead for North. And just like the first game, the damage has been done by the lower two-thirds of the North lineup with a walk and a hit. I know the board says three hits, but I only have them for one. I have a fielder's choice by Scherrg and a fielder's choice by Lowell and Sack. I have two hits, Stager and Becker. Stager and Becker. Double and then base it up. Oh, yeah, the double, you're right, yeah, the double. You're right. The double and the two hits is right. Back-to-back hits. Yeah, two hits is right.  Go ahead. Yeah, it's all about picking up the ball, right? It's all about throwing strikes and there's that grass kind of ate that up there. Hit her in the air. That's an air. It's an E-5. It's gonna be a tough play, it was hustling down the line, but I think it's one that you gotta make at this level. And mentioning those hits by North, Stager is the one who had the double right down the line and for the second time in the four innings, North has their leadoff runner on. In conference play, Jacobs only has one stolen base. Yeah, Jacobs more used to jogging around the bases, right? Yeah, I would say. And then the ball goes out of the fence. Running in the second on a double. And the old cliche goes too, if you just start walking guys, all of a sudden the defense falters and here a leadoff air leads to two quick balls by, plus in there was a high fly ball and the left fielder can't really see it. He comes in now and makes the play. That was an adventure a little bit. That's a big out right there though. I don't know if the sun peaked out, it doesn't look like it, but it looks like he really fought through it and got that out. That's a big out for South. You know, all of a sudden that drops and he got first and second, but now we have one out with one guy on. Here's Becker who singled up the middle. Now coach goes gonna count on him a lot next year. Bennett first pitch skins off the plate. Take up getting a nice big lead over there, not going anywhere. And it's a comeback earn again off the glove, plus he throws the first and gets the out. Did a real nice job recovering there and still able to get an out. Obviously he'd love to have got the lead runner or maybe turn a double play, but did a real good job recovering and get the out at first. Sets up a situation for James Sheer again. Came up with two guys in base last inning and did not come up with anything. We'll see what he does here the second time. First pitch is a bit high. Brennan trying to help out his pitches there with his glove movement. Here's an opportunity for North to get an honor and run in and make that air really hurt. They let off the inning. Good pitch there by classic pitches up. Unlike boy two numbers are in the 60s. I only have blessing in the 40s and there's a ground ball this time fielded by, and there's another error by Tim. Kind of nonchalant instead of going towards the base to throw that. He really didn't follow that throw over there. The third kind of just stood up, stood up, and when you stand up, when you're in field, and you don't stay low, bad things happen usually and that ball just kind of spiked in there. Good job for Ben Soik knocking that down. Saved a run. Yep. See if we see some action here with first and third. Possibly trying to steal second. Right back at us. Sheer's not a blazer. But I don't think I, I don't know. I wouldn't give up the out. But you're right. He likes to run. And there he goes. And it was kind of like trying to get that throw down there and getting a pickle and try to, you know, maybe find a way to score that run from third. But Self wasn't having any of it. No, and now Sheer, excuse me, Sheer is stuck in an O2 count as well. He goes right at him and he, there's a liner. It's going to be trouble caught. A great jump there from the center fielder. Oh, yeah, really got a good jump on that ball. And that ends the North threat here in the fourth. The end of four, he needs a play, it's still North two. South, nothing. Hit him off the fifth plate for the Red Wing. Pitcher spray, flush it. Looks like there, the outfielders are really playing on the pole with that swing. I think that's probably a good idea. And there's a ground ball over to Hendricks. Throw to Sheer, just like that, there's one away. As Mason Coller, the DH comes up. What do you miss about coaching? I miss winning, coach.  Your last game was at the state tournament. And that had to be special. That was quite the experience, yeah. It was special to go out there. And there's going to be the first hit for South as it gets between the two fielders. Yeah, as you know, coach, what you miss is you miss the coaches. You miss that hanging out with those guys.  There's nothing like the bond you make with the coaches and players. And you and me still have a great bond. And you like making those relationships and trying to help these young guys grow. You miss the competition, the competitiveness? Yeah, you miss competing. But I think you can find competition in a lot of different aspects in life. And obviously, golf course, I compete a lot. And I don't get any better. But I sure compete a lot. But yeah, you miss competing. You miss winning. I don't miss the losing part in trying to get home and try to fall asleep and try to think about, how are we going to get better? Or I don't miss thinking about how we're going to fundraise $10,000 so we can do this or do that. But you know, it's definitely missed. And I'm sure I'll get back at it sometime soon again. And unfortunately, too, at the state tournament, of all the teams you had to play, you had to play your conference rival, Sun Puri, which is never a good draw in conference play, non-conference play, tournament play, or at the state tournament.  Definitely, our kids were very motivated. Because it's the one team that, when I was in Boyd, we never, ever beat. It was the one team we never beat. We lost many one-run games like we did at the state tournament. We lost a tight one, close one, one-run game. But a lot of respect for those guys. They've had a great program for a long time in Sun Puri. And it's one of those programs you look up to. You want to try to become. And you try to keep that tradition. And a lot of times now, they win because of tradition. Yes. Yep. And it just builds. Colin Brennan, now up with three in all count. And we have one out, and a runner on. And there's a nice pitch there. I would think. I'm not going to say what's going to happen here. But I would think that possibly that Ben Vorpel could be your bullpen guy today. And there's a walk in. I would think that someone might be getting loose here soon. Because this could be a scary point of the time here with guys on first and second. It looks like Schmidt is going to come out here, try to maybe buy some time in the bullpen. Yeah, you have the bottom of the order up. But I'll tell you, Cameron Meyers, a tough out. But a good time to settle him down after giving up the first hit for South. Peyton Voight's really pitched a great game, though. I mean, he's really attacked the hitters. He's gotten out with three walks, only giving up that one hit. But for the most part, he's really throwing a lot of strikes. And you throw strikes in this weather, you're going to get some quick outs. And when he has the chance, he's had some strikeouts also. On a fish lay, I mean, it's 73 pitches. Remember, the magic number is 100. And so pitch-wise, he's doing a very pitch count wise. He's doing a nice job. All it takes is one pitch here to get out of this jam. They're probably looking for a ground ball to the shortstop winner here, and he can turn on himself. See what Meyer does here on the first pitch. He's going to drag, bunt one, not a bad play. That was a great idea there. Third baseman was back. That's one foot to the right in fall territory. That's a base hit, and we got the bases loaded with one out. You know, it's a game of inches coach. That falls in there, and totally changes things for a. Looks like they're conferencing here. I think Coach Goh's asked that if he was out of the box when he hit that. No way. Good idea to ask, but. Always a great idea to ask, but I don't think that that was the case then. Because especially the so outside of a pitch, if he was out of the box, there's no way we would have reached it there. Coach Lomons talking to Coach Goh's. Coach Goh's talking to Coach Lomons. He wants to not be too cold out there, because Coach wanted to delay that a little bit, so. Now Jacob's up on the grass. There's a high pitch, and we're going to get a throwback, and almost hit the umpire. Witter cheating over for the left-hander, and. Not a good idea there, but sometimes, you know, a runner could take advantage of that also. You can see things you're going to do that, take off to third, and you know, some more bad things can happen. Hunter not afraid to throw that. There's a nice cut, but he's got to keep that front foot in, Coach. Great swing, good pitch to hit, probably wanted that one back. Now he's down on the count, going to have to battle here. And he does. This is trouble. Good job not throwing that. That would have been bad things happening if he throws that the first. That was a. I think he pulled his head and everything, and the ball just kind of curved in there. Welcome to spring baseball, Wildwood. Second hit of the inning is trouble. That's the game of baseball, though, right? Those are the inches we were just talking about. Basically, he tried to bun one right there, and he ends up swinging one. And I believe we're going to have a pinch hitter here. Number 23, Matt Steffen. Going to be doing some pinch hitting here. He's in the nine spot. He's a junior. Big opportunity to hear pinch hitting. Bases loaded, one out. Got to be looking for something that he can hit right now in the outfield. I'd be playing double play depth. If I was Nathan Hendricks, I'd be cheating up a little bit. More for that double play. I think he's playing pretty far back. I think any kind of ball hit to him, it's going to be tough to turn that double play because the grass is just eating it up.  Two nothing north. 2-0 on the pinch hitter, Matt Steffen. Dylan Tim on deck. And on a 2-0 pitch, Steffen swings on an inside pitch. I like the aggressiveness, but that one might have been a little up. Might have been a little up. I would have been taking big time there. 2-0 pitch, nine hitter. And that time Hunter tried to get that extra. So now it's, instead of ball four, we have a 3-1 count. Real big spot in the game. Top of the order on deck. Way to come back there. They even up the count. No place to put him. Two inside fastballs. Got Steffen. I would go right back there if I was Voight. And he does. But this one has followed off. Got to love the battle, though. Might have been a little up, but he's trying to protect. He's not trying to go down looking. What are you throwing? Got to throw a shrike. You don't care where it is. Whatever you can, you got to throw a shrike. He does. And that one's followed off, too. That one was a little bit more over the plate. Won the handle there. Steffen a little slow getting the hands through. This point of the game, you can't be trying to hit one on the right in the corner. You got to just try to make sure you're attacking, try to make them beat you. Oh, and there's ball four, and he strikes them out. You know what happens at that point? You're getting kind of that swing mode.  Brings up the leadoff hitter, Dylan. Tim, Dylan has not put a ball in play yet. He's got two walks in the first and the third, and that one's right down Main Street. If I'm Colin Brennan at second, I've got to make sure I'm getting a real good second here so I can score on a hit. I agree with you. I was just thinking the same thing, and there's a nice slurvin' curve and white battling back. Hunters got to be ready to block a pitch here again. Two strikes, might bounce that curve ball in. And again, South comes up empty, just like game one, leaving runners on base. Voight gets out of it with a couple of big strikeouts, which it'll take us to the bottom of the fifth. North two, South zero. Fouls are pretty dumb.  Underage drinking and driving, the ultimate party foul. OK, so we drowned the fire, stirred it, drowned it again, and now just feel if it's cold. Yeah. Cool. Smokey just gave me a bear hug. I know. Already posted it. Back here at Wildwood, Chris right along with Ryan Schmitz, like Martin, not here tonight. It's our last broadcast for WSCS. But I know for sports we're done, but I know we'll be doing the fourth of July parade in July. Didn't know I did that, did you? I did not coach. I did not know that. Marty and I are jack of all trades. Guys do it all. How long have you guys been doing this now? Oh, boy. I started probably when you were still in high school. When I was coaching fresher basketball, I would do some games. And Coach Destatelle allowed me to do home games and stuff for TV after I coached my freshman games. Devon Lownsack up, so I would say. What a generous guy, Coach Destatelle. 20, 21 years maybe been doing this. On 98, 96, 97, did games at the Armory. We had a, Stu Huffinsburger was another announcer we had, and he was excellent. He did play-by-play in Madison. And he was, he couldn't always make it, so, or Marty couldn't. So I was kind of like the sub guy. And then he left and Marty took over. We've been doing it ever since. And there's a three-and-one now count to Devon Lownsack, senior. Reached on a fielder's choice in the first inning. I'll ground her up the middle. And there's a nice strike on the corner. Again, clustering it, not in trouble for pitches. And there's a shot by Devon right down the line. And there's going to be our third hit for North to bring up Nathan Hendrickson. Looks like down the line, Ben Borpel is warming up for North. Oh, yeah. He could be the next pitcher, maybe even this next inning. Yeah, I have a point at 88 pitches unofficially. And watch for Nathan to put one down here. Great bunting opportunity here with your nine-hitter up. Nathan's got great speed. So again, if he gets a good bunt down, could be an easily a base hit. Yeah, the bullpens are under construction, so you have to warm up on the warning track or the track around the inside. I guess it's not the warning track. But watch for him to put one down, Marty, outside. If I'm still dealing with Tim, I'd come up even more. I'm going to expect this bunt. There's the bunt, but it's fouled. That's what it looks like. He was trying to be a little greedy with trying to get, maybe, for more of a base hit instead of really trying to give himself up for a sacrifice. Here's a nice bunt. Nobody's at second. Nobody's at third. I mean, that's a great move. But a sacrifice, nonetheless, very good job there, is making sure you got the bunt down and got the guy over for the top of the order. So here we go. We got our top three guys coming up, like we mentioned earlier in the game. Yep. None of the three have a hit yet. Fineberg, as I mentioned, great eye at the plate. And three balls. The last thing you want to do is put two guys on base for Witter and Nasey. Looks like classic could be getting a little tired. And when you get tired, that ball really starts coming up. And they're trying to steal on 3-0? Not. And looks like there was definitely a difficult tag there. I think he tagged them with the glove and had the ball in his hand. Not sure if he got the ball there also, but I'm not really sure why we're running there, coach. Fooled me. 3-0 with your best hitters coming up. You don't want to take that opportunity. You shouldn't even be in this opportunity of trying to beg for a call from the umpires. Where's Coach Loomis? Here he comes. I think that might be the right call. I think he did tag him with the glove and had the ball in his hand, but. I agree with Dylan, Tim. I think he had the ball in the glove. And when it came out, when it came out, I can understand why Coach goes, sorry, it wasn't like it was.  He didn't catch it bare-handed. And I'm still just shocked the guy was running. I was too. I was too. Sometimes you wish that umpires would just make the call because it wasn't the right play. I don't know. Yeah, if I'm Coach Loomis, I'm not very happy there, though. I think you had the first call. You know, if he dropped it. I can see it, but I thought what Dylan did was correct. He hung out with two hands. And there's the base hit to knock him in because the infield was playing in. Harry delivers an RBI single. And now that call looms, no pun intended, large. I think there was a call like that on the first Norse out game over there down in the third base when they were stealing third. And I think the whole play at umpire overruled it all. So you don't see that very often on a steal play like that, where you're having the whole play at umpire over turning. Well, I know Harry's really quick. He's almost automatic going to be on second. Yeah, those are the breaks. You know, for a South team that has been struggling here, it seems like when you're struggling, you never can get a call like that. And it just seems like it keeps kind of piling up on you. And you know, those are the breaks you need sometimes to try to get out of a little funk. But Harry did capitalize, came through with a nice swing there, drove that ball through the hole. Almost a great play by Ben Syke. But getting a nice swing there going the other way. You think Coach Loomis is saying stuff about the umpire here? That might be one of those meetings where you're talking to the umpire and trying not to. Yeah, we got rolled on this play so we can see what we can do. And you just talk loud enough so we can hear him. Trying not to show him up, Brad. But you're making sure he can hear you. And I don't know what Syke is thinking here. But yeah, that's not what, they're not going to be bunting Brent Witter.  He's going to be saved. Oh, good throw. Great throw by Ben Syke. And you knew he was going to go. There you can see, here's a replay. And I think you're right there. But he was going to be called no matter what on that one. That's a tough play. That's a real tough play. Those are plays that you work on in early spring. But for Ben Syke, you know, you made a real good throw there. I didn't think there'd be a chance for them to get him. When he caught it, he was already three quarters away there. And if you're the shortstop there, you've got to be calling inside or outside based on where the runner is. And you've got to step in and throw away. Good, you're right. Something we work on in the gym a lot. But once you get outside, which of course you can't practice much outside because it's cold and rainy all the time. But you sometimes don't use that play. And that was a nice play by Syke. And there's Witter with a grounder. And this time he's going to hang on. But Nor strikes with a base hit by Feinberg and a base hit by Launseck. They get a run. It's now Nor three and South still yet to score. Let me tell you, when frustration, a tool, seem easy and giving up impossible. I make an old subject feel like a fresh thought and unconventional methods common. I'm a teacher. I make. Knowledge, you can make amazing world. Come with me. My team and I groomed the halo world to life. Is that you? That is me. I wasn't a math genius. And I knew nothing about coding. But you guys do.  I want your job. I want you to have my job. Back at Wildwood Park, Chris right along with Ryan Schmitz. Not a chilly day. Glad the cameraman are outside if we're not. Scott Milos got the heat on in the truck. So who is your biggest rival at Beloit? Or is every game just a, it's got to be a warrior in that, a war in that big eight conference. Or did you have something that you just. Big eight conference, obviously every game was going to be a challenge. There was no, no freebies. But the big, the big rivals were probably the Janesville schools, both Janesville Parker and Janesville Craig. That's nice. Yeah, so both of them would probably be the big rivals down there. But there's not like a rivalry like this, you know, north-south. I don't think there's anything that you can compare the north-south rivalry to down there. Again, this is always something that I think the players love. Obviously you're all kind of friends. You all play together throughout the growing up. You play in the Legion. But you definitely want to have the breaking rights throughout the summer. I would think over there, Middleton and Sunpury had to be pretty good clashes when Schmidty was there. And that had to be some, some battles. Yeah, throughout the big eight, that would probably be the biggest, biggest battle. They actually always did a nice thing. They had to have a strikeout for Cancer Day when they played against each other. They did a great fundraising job. Another big rival was actually Madison West and Madison Memorial because they actually played at the same field, which is kind of odd. But in Madison, they shared a lot of fields. They don't have, kind of like here, yeah, Shboygan North, Shboygan South, share the same fields. Not sure what the discussion is going on here with Coach and the umpires. I have no idea. Coach Moyer is talking to the umpires. I guess they must have thought the game was going too fast, Coach. You know, it's time limit or something. I have no idea what they're talking about. I must say I have a question on the pitch count. Because Tim Moyer does the numbers, goes to South, vice versa. How do you guys do the pitch count here in this conference? Coach, does the home team have the tiebreaker? Yes. I think it's in general. Yeah, that's the WI. And we actually, you know, kind of ironic is we always had somebody do it for us. That way, we don't have it. And then after every inning, we walk back and forth. But I'm not sure why they would begin the umpires. Because technically, umpires have nothing to do with the pitch count. So I'm not sure why they're involving the umpires. If it does have something to do with the pitch count, I don't know if it was talking about some kind of lineup change, but I don't see any lineup change out there either. You might have to try out those lights if we keep having a conversation like this. Well, I have no idea. I, according to my numbers, he's not over the limit. And uh, I don't know. Jacob Gus goes over to Peyton and goes, just throw the ball over the plate. Let's go. And uh, L.A. Pethon, I'm going to lead off the inning for south, south golden opportunity in the last inning. Bases loaded, one out, could not push a run across. Down three now with two innings to play. I think you have to find a way to chip away here. Got to try to find a way to score a run or two this inning so you have a chance here in the last. 3-0, I believe it is, not 2-0. And that one's right down the middle. I think it's 3-1. Yeah, it's 3-1. If you're Peyton here, you just got to be attacking, trying to let him get you with the bat. And there's another strike. Back to full. South trying to get that lead off runner on. They've yet to take advantage of that. Chance to save it there. They got one again. This is the second time, not since the first, that that has taken place. And I'll swipe up. That was a big run that Nor scored in the fifth. Ryan. Yes, it was. And again, with the call kind of being overturned a lot of things could have changed around there. But they took advantage of it and got that run. That's a big insurance run. Soik got all of that one. But it went foul. And again, if you're South trailing by three, limits your aggressiveness on the bat pass as well. Can't give a way out. That's why it was such a big run there by North. And he got hit that time.  South is in business here to try to chip away. And I think Ben Vorpal time. Here he comes. Yep. Nice job by Peyton today. Going to finish with just a two-hitter. He's responsible for both of the runners on base. Ben Vorpal, a future big star for North. Pitch is basically only for the varsity and plays regularly for the JVs. And after using Shurg and Hendricks yesterday, this is what you have here. Nathan Hendricksey throwing the start of the game last night. Nathan twice played Preble and really shut them down. Yeah, North played Preble really tough both times, which, again, it's got to give them some confidence to be able to play with some of those top teams. And again, they've lost a lot of one-run games throughout the year. And another close game here. So they're used to these close games. North played all throughout the season. And another three-sport athlete kid, big kid. I was looking forward to having him part of the program when I was there. Remember when he shined around as a middle schooler a little bit? His dad, who's the tennis coach. He's kind of ironic because Brent Witter's dad is a tennis coach too, playing baseball in here. Ben, a baseball player as well. Oh, Ben comes in a tough spot here, guys, on first and second.  And you're supposed to have your four hitters supposed to be able to do something for you. Yeah, I think it all depends on the hitter if you have a real good bunter and a guy that can maybe even be one out. It could be a win-win. But I think they're probably going to hit away here and try to hit something in the gap. I agree with you. And now, whoops, now Hunter threw on him. Oh, he did square around like he was going to bond. And now we're going to get a situation where we have. A lot of action on that play, coach. Had a square around bond like he was going to bond. And then he took off the third and threw it in the left field. Oh, no. Are they going to call interference? They're going to call interference. You've got to be kidding me. Can we have a replay of that, Scott, if you have it? That is unbelievable. And goes and follows out with lumens. So they're calling interference on the batter, right? No, they're calling interference on the runner when he dove into the plate. He's tried to avoid just slid. But they're saying he interfered with the catcher. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Do we have a replay, Scott, of that at all? I don't know. That's a tough break. It's going to take the run off the board. That's just here's the play at the plate. And oh, he didn't slide. And the catcher tried to catch it over here. And that's where he hit him. Bang, bang, bang, play. Tough call. He didn't slide. But he did not slide. In a simple situation again, that's why you have a guy sitting at home going down, down, down. And here's the replay. Here you're going to see the throw over his head. Then late, he's standing on the base. Why are you standing on the base for one thing? You should be off the base watching the situation because you can come back. And then when he came in, he did not slide. And therefore, they called him out. So here's the play one more time. Well, we saw it all. We have a stolen base. No air now. No air now. Except you couldn't call an air on the runner. They probably advanced as a second on the air because he wasn't stealing the base. And again, this is, they're still arguing over where the runner should be. Coach Gose is now out here arguing for some reason. He wants the runner back at first base, but he was already at second. Yeah, so he should stay on second base if they're calling the interference on the catcher there or on the guy diving into the whole play. The guy's going to stay at second. He advances second still on the stolen base. And once again, you know, because he did advance on the throw right here, you can see now the guy is running the second base. He's going to second now. He's on second. Now he takes off. See, he's well past second base there. And here's a pitch. And Hunter tries to get it, but he can't. That's a big turn of events there on a one play. You know, we go from first and second, nobody out. Obviously stealing, but either way, now you have one out, a guy on second. Big turn of events. At that point when he did steal the base, I think when he hesitated, you almost have to stay at third base there. When you hesitate, you know, especially you're down three. You know, we're down three runs in the 16-ing. I thought he was going to be thrown out of the plate. I really did. I didn't think it was the right play. Here's a fly ball by Kruegel. And now we're going to get a guy thrown out at third when you're down by three. And it just gets worse. And it's just for self. But after end of five and a half, it's now still three to nothing. We are back. It's here. And interesting top of the sixth, no doubt about it. Talking in the booth with some guys about, do you have to slide? And the answer is no. And what makes it interesting is, number one, he didn't slide. And number two, the throw is off the target, so he had to reach back for it. Then he interfered with them.  Like, somebody better be out there telling them to slide, slide, slide. If not, I would have been on the guy behind home plate not telling them to slide. You know, then when you mentioned before, you can't get, when you're trailing by three runs, you can't give away outs. Yeah, that was just an interesting inning. You know, number one, stealing third there at that point even was interesting to me. There was nobody out. Again, then obviously hesitation and going home. Just, you never know what you're going to see in a baseball game, right? I mean, we've seen a lot of interesting plays here at third base today. There's been more calls at third base than I've seen in a long time. That's what makes baseball so interesting. And now we're in the bottom of the sixth. And one thing about baseball that everyone said it's boring, but every play, you can second guess. We can sit up here, pair and second guess. Why do you steal? Why didn't they bunt? Why did they bunt? Why didn't they take there? Why are they trying to, maybe we should be stealing, not stealing. Everything can be second guessed in baseball. It's such a great game. There's so much strategy to the game that people don't think about. Putting the ball in play, not putting the ball in play. Where should you put the ball in play? Where should I be on every situation in play? I think it's such a great game. And my uncle, Dave Gare, who played for the A's, always said that baseball's like chess. If you play the game of chess and you got to strategize and think a couple moves ahead, that's what you do. Chest on grass is what it is, chest on grass. But you know what my uncle used to tell me as Hunter gets his second hit of the day? We didn't have very good chess players on our team. Yeah, when you have guys that don't know how to play chess, it's a tough game to play. Good swing there, though, by Hunter, man. I'm very impressed with his swing. His nice short to the ball.  I'm very, very impressed. Fifth hit. Fifth hit for North, which will get us to, I believe, this is Bennett Becker, betting here. Bennett, one out of two. He had a single up the middle in the first inning. Trey Klessig has really been throwing a good game, though, here, too. I mean, both Peyton Voight and now Trey Klessig. I've been impressed with both the starting pitchers today. Trey Klessig's throwing a lot of strikes, and he's gotten out of some jams. On deck is Owen Dominguez. He's one of those seniors that we were talking about, trying to get him in. Owen did a little pretty well at scholarship night last week, to say the very least. Oh, Owen's a great kid. He's a great kid. Had him in class, and very, very nice, and polite, and very, very hard worker. He deserves everything that he got. He's a 5-0 student, ran cross country in the fall. There's a ground ball by Becker. Is Owen going to get a chance to hit? Yes, he is, as Becker beats it down the line. Pretty good turn there by the second baseman, Cameron Meyer. Didn't think they'd even have a chance there to turn that double play, but he made it pretty close. And here's Owen Dominguez coming up to a bat. Well, coach, it's kind of been the kind of game that we predicted to be, a low scoring. Not very many hits. Yep. And again, South could have limited the damage twice. They should have only allowed one running that first inning, but chose to go home. And Owen's going to ground out to the pitcher. And that'll bring up the top of the seventh. We'll keep it here for this last inning here. Technically, it could be a very simple one-to-nothing ball game. And South had chances to score, too. They had the bases loaded. They had opportunities there at first and second. And nobody out in the sixth ended up with nothing, not even a runner left on base. Yeah, the last two innings, South has had a lot of action on the bases. And that could have gone the other way, where they could have probably taken the lead. But now they got a three-run deficit, which is always tough to come back from. Key is here trying to get that first lead-off guy on. And if you're north, you want to first out as the key one. Well, I'm glad you could join us here. I don't know what's going to happen here with this. But thanks for filling in for Marty. I know I called you late. The reason I called him late was I'm on jury duty as of this week. And I was supposed to have a trial today. And so I didn't want to make plans. I was, if I had to be on jury, I was assuming or hoping it would be canceled. Or second, I wouldn't be picked. But I just wanted to wait till last night to make absolutely sure. But thanks for filling in. Thanks for calling me. I was planning on coming to the game anyways. But it's warmer up here. It is a little warmer up here, a little more conversation up here. And it's been a pretty good ball game so far. And for some of these seniors, this could be their last high school experience here. While Woodland ensures many of these kids will be playing in the summer. Let's start with the pitcher, Trey Klessing, who's pitched a very nice ball game today. He's only allowed five hits. He's got to get on base somehow. Some ways, some how. He's got to scrap himself on base. Vorpal does the right thing and gets ahead. I was always nervous until I got that first out, Ryan. Yeah, when you have a lead like this, the first out is really the big one, right? I mean, and if you're trying to come back from a deficit, that lead off guy is really the big one. You need to try to find a way that gives you life, gives your bench some life that you think you can do this. And there's a shot out to right. But that's going to be playable for sure because he sees it in. That's a big out for North getting the first one. Can breathe a little bit easier. Again, trying to just be simple, right? Trying to make the simple play here. Mason broke up the no-hitter in the fifth inning with a single. One out of two. That was against Peyton Voigt, who's up for the win. Purple trying to pick up a save. Purple's done a nice job coming in here throwing strikes.  But coming in and attacking the zone, throwing a nice little hook there, too, get ahead of this 0-2. Oh, that went off. I want to thank Scott for helping us out to do some baseball. And we love doing high school sports. We hope we'll be doing more in the fall. Marty's already put together a football schedule. But we're going to maybe need some sponsors or something for that magic to happen at the consistency that we do. Now there's a plate of winner and automatic for him. 6-3. And south down to their last out is Colin Brennan. Colin drew a walk back in the fifth, struck out in the second, then just a tad high. Both these teams will start regional play next week, Tuesday. Yeah, brand new sectional with all the summer teams in, all the West bends, the slingers, both north and south, hoping to get a little luck to win two games to get the sectional. We're trying to catch a little lightning in a bottle for both squads. It's interesting to see who the pitchers will be. Klessing pitched good here, so I assume he's going to be interesting. I would think North is going to go with Schurg. Nathan Hendricks, he's been pitching well. Four pulls, OK. I would think South would go with Klessing. He's looked really, really well. I've been very impressed throwing that fastball and curveball. And I think North would go with Schurg. Nathan Hendricks, he's not the best of starts this year, but he's been pitching very well for North as of late. Pitching actually hasn't been a problem for North. It's been the offense struggles and woes. Once again, the top of the order for North today with no hits. And that, you just, they got to get, that's not true. Feinberg got that base hit on the liner there. Those guys got to go. They got to get four or five hits a game if they're going to go in the tournament, that's for sure. I see Terry Brickovitz is here. He'd done a lot of work in this field, a lot of work in this field. 2-0 for Ben Vorpel here. North needing one out to sweep South. There's a shot. This is going to get over his head. Schurg playing up. And I told you Kevin Meyer's OK. We're going to settle right there. And right now, South not done. They're going to have their re-entered player, Colin Mangan going to bat. And if he can get on, we have the top of the order for South. Cameron Meyer really, really drove that ball well. Really just kind of dropped the head of the bat on it down in the end. Those lefties love that down and in pitch and really drove that over the right fielder's head. And obviously this is pretty simple to say, but obviously the batter that North wants to get. Good pitch to get ahead there after giving up the double. Three hits now for South. That one's slapped, following on 0-2 situation here. Mangan's got to find some magic. Find some grass in between some hitters. I can see the caduceus are right here in the dirt. There it is. And it was not in the dirt. It was up. I don't know what that was. It's a curve ball that got away, I think. That's well struck. You just got to do whatever you can here. Just kind of keep battling. Hope maybe you can keep battling, see a few more pitches. Put something in play. You got to put some kind of pressure on the defense. Now, takes that approach again. He can knock it over to a right. And here's the pitch. I guess the ball. We're going to see another. Good curve ball there for Old Mangan. And the umpire. 2-2, 2 outs, 2 on. There's what I said. If he slaps it in the fair territory, but that one goes foul. That's just what I thought he could maybe possibly do. But he's got to get it down to sheer a little bit. I think he comes back here with a 2-2 curve ball. He's been kind of going every other. That is a big kid. Big, strong kid. He fought it to full. Did what he's supposed to do. But yeah, tough one to take. And there's a little slapper. Florpal picks it up air-handed, throws it away. And now Saltz is going to have the tie and run at second and third. I don't understand why Meyer is just rolling into third base there with 2 outs, but. Yeah, with 2 outs, you're thinking probably you're running hard. He should have easily scored. But either way, getting the tie and run now is at second base from the top of the order coming up. And I'll tell you, that was a great at bat by Mangan. I know I'm going to mention this a couple times.  For most people don't know, Ryan was one of the top team's three batters of not striking out.  We're right up there in the rankings. What was the work for that? Well, a good thing I'm not playing now, because that's too old school.  But I guess, growing up, you always just wanted to put some pressure on the defense and do whatever you can. I hated striking out. And I didn't want to definitely strike out looking.  You get on top of that play. And you just start fighting off pitches until you get yours. And sometimes I think even hitting two strikes, pitcher makes more mistakes. So you hit their mistake. But again, it's always tough. You just got to battle. It's a mindset. And same thing here now, mindset for Sal. They got a chance. One little bloop, one little air again. And we got a tied ball game. Yeah. And Ben did the right thing there. He bare handed it. If you just stepped in through. But again, it's 40 some degrees outside. If it was 75 degrees, I'm sure that would have been an easy play. But it's a lot tougher here. Yeah, he just rushed it a little, did a good job. He just didn't really step in. Kind of stood up again, kind of like we were mentioning earlier in the game. But this time of game, that last out, it's always a tough one to get. Yeah. Tim is old for one, walked twice. And here's another chance. This one's off the end of the bat. And this one will end the game, though. Well, that's going to be it for the ball game. Norris going to come away with three to one. I was going to say senior day, but senior day for both clubs. And both teams battled hard and could have gone either way. Ryan, thanks so much for joining us again. Yeah, thanks for having us. And good luck to both North and South here in the tournament as it gets started next week. Absolutely. Well, we're going to close off our season right now. And again, we want to thank our crew for their sitting out in the cold. And thanks for all our sports this year. As Marty always closes out the year, he says we'll see you down the road. And Marty's not here, but folks, we hopefully will see you down the road next fall.