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Ryan Jones
Region D Player of the Year |
Dewayne Stanley
Region D
Coach of the Year |
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Haysi's Jones, Coach Stanley Earn
Region D's Top Honors |
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Ryan
Jones was one of four Haysi Tigers on the First
Team and the senior
standout also earned Player of the
Year honors on the
All-Region D Baseball team for 2006
in voting done by
Region D coaches.
Dewayne
Stanley of Haysi, who led the Tigers to
their first ever
Region D title, was tabbed as Coach
of the Year.
Jones was named to the first unit as a pitcher after
going 7-3 and
averaging nearly two strikeouts per
inning his senior
season. The Pikeville College
recruit also hit .577
for the Tigers.
Other Haysi
Tigers on the first team include catcher
Adam Hill and
outfielder Elijah Owens, both seniors.
Senior
pitcher/shortstop Kevin Viers made the first
unit as a Utility
player.
Hurley catcher Josh Childress, a junior, was named
First Team DH and
Honaker freshman David Keene made
the first unit in the
outfield.
Six local players made the All-Region D Second Team,
including two from
Twin Valley: senior pitcher
Jeremiah Lester and
freshman shortstop Hunter Simpson.
Honaker placed two players on the second team: first
baseman Michael Tiller
and outfielder Justin Hall.
Council senior Daniel
Lester made the second unit at
third base.
Haysi second baseman Justin Stanley was named to the
second unit despite
hitting over .560 and setting a
HHS
single-season record for base hits with 51.
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A
Ping is
Far From
the Sweet
Sound of
the Crack
of a Real
Wooden
Bat |
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Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
Baseball
is baseball, at any level.
Like a lot of fans, I get carried away with watching
big league and minor
league baseball and don’t always
appreciate the game as
much as I should at lower
levels.
Part
of that is aluminum bats. A ping is far from
the sweet sound of the
crack of the bat (i.e., a real
or wooden bat), but
college baseball does have its
moments.
I haven’t watched the college game that much since
USC out-pinged Arizona
to the tune of 21-14 in the
1998 College World
Series finals. That was when the
NCAA finally admitted
its bats were getting a little
too powerful.
This year I’ve watched more of college baseball’s
regionals and super
regionals than the NBA or NHL
playoffs combined and
it looks like football wasn’t
the only sport to
experience a major upgrade when the
ACC expanded.
Of the four ACC teams in this year’s eight-team
College World Series,
North Carolina has the best
chance to win and
I’m on the bandwagon.
The Tar Heels
have two starting pitchers taken in
first round of last
week’s MLB Amateur draft. One went
in as Baseball
America’s top prospect and was taken as
the sixth overall pick
by the Detroit Tigers.
Andrew Miller is a 6-foot-7 lefthander whose
nickname is Dr.
Destroy and who once struck out the
only 12 batters he
faced in a Cape Cod League game
that was called due to
fog last summer.
Speaking
of bandwagons, I’ve been on board with the
Carolina Hurricanes,
too. I couldn’t care less about
the Dallas Mavericks,
but Tar Heels, even the ones who
aren’t alumni or
natives, stick together and I want to
see Jerry Stackhouse
earn a ring.
I pulled for South Carolina in its super regional
against Georgia, but
that was because one of its
players said it’s
important to never step on a
baseline. If you
don’t understand why it’s important,
you don’t truly
appreciate the game. And, hey, it has
nothing to do with
superstition.
I appreciate the game because of my Dad. Father’s
Day is never easy
after your Dad is gone, no matter
how old you are. I got
to thinking about this the
other day after I
remembered something Don Newberry
once said to me.
He
said he appreciated me acknowledging my father in
my column from time to
time. Not everybody does that,
not in any sort of
public way, and he thought it was
great that I did. But
I’ve somehow gotten away from
that
the last two or three years.
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story, see the print edition of the Mountaineer, on sale at
newsstands now. For more information on how to subscribe to the Mountaineer,
call 276-935-2123 today.
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