 We're at Wildwood Baseball Park where tonight Sheboygan North hosts cross town rivals Sheboygan South in the first of two conference games. These teams will play this week. Joining me for the broadcast is Tom Grams. I'm Mike Martin. Tom, North comes in with a 3-0 record, 1-0 in conference. South is 0-2, 0-1 in conference. South hurt a little bit too because they have some kids gone on a band trip. Yeah, we understand that they're quite shorthanded. They got a bunch of kids missing and they are expected back, possibly tomorrow, and there's another North South game ready on Thursday and hopefully some of those players will be available for Coach Derek Lumans on Thursday at any rate. When we got the lineups for tonight's game towards the bottom of the Solst lineups, they do have a couple of JV players that will be pulling double duty. There was a game before this one. The South JVs defeated North by a score of 5-1. Hopefully we got a good one tonight. I know that South will be throwing their best picture, I think tonight, at least one of their more experienced players, a kid by name of Jacob Rice, who was actually starting quarterback for the football team. He was, I think, second or third team all conference. I think his dad is the coach, right? Exactly, yeah. He's a pretty good athlete. They also got a couple other kids that are not too bad. Ben Syke, Seth Stolpa, and another kid I remember from football, and from actually umpiring JV Baseball a couple years back, a kid by the name of Mason Prunek, who's a very fast runner. So it's not like they're totally down. You know, with the conditions out here tonight, Mike, too, it's tough. 45 degrees on my car thermometer coming in, and you know, with the season just getting started, and probably not a lot of outdoor practices under their belts. You know, it could be a struggle for both teams, but hopefully we'll see a good game. And of course, with this kind of rivalry, you know, people are ramped up for it. What you're saying is the weather could be a bit of an equalizer. Hopefully, we'll see a good game. I know it's nice and warm up here in the boot, if that makes any difference. I'm going to take off my Chicago Cubs sweatshirt. For North, they're going to be starting a kid that's played on the varsity for the last three years, Weston Yerck. He's a good one. The other thing that North has a big advantage over South is experience. Dylan Lindahl is going to be leading off at Short. He's played last three years, and he's a good one. He's going to be the college baseball shortstop. We'll be looking forward to seeing him. And a lot of times at the high school level, you put your best athlete at Shortstop, either a pitcher or Shortstop. And a lot of times, those positions are interchangeably even at the high school level. I got a reason why I didn't play Shortstop. You were left handed. And I wasn't that good. Well, you got two reasons. A couple other kids to look for in North's lineup. They do have two sophomores that started as freshmen. Kenny Nasey's kid, Jacob Niece. You can pronounce it Nasey. They go either way on that. And then the other is, and by the way, Jacob is going to play third base. The other one is second baseman, Derek Brent Witter, whose dad, Scott, I think you would know. He's a Sheboygan Falls kid. Sheboygan Falls guy. Scott was a good tennis player out in Falls. Actually, he was a good baseball player too. He played, I think he played for Howard's Grove a little bit and played the last several years, last couple of years with Cleveland in that Sunday East Shore League. But anyway, Brent and Jacob are two young kids that have been starting the last two years. Another kid that will help North is Eric Johnson. Dr. Mike Johnson's son, Eric has been playing baseball for a long time. He's a catcher. He's a pretty good arm. The other thing that makes him a good catcher, he's a hockey player. He's a goalie. Then he doesn't even have to wear any gear. No, as a matter of fact, I think he should be tough it out and not play with any gear on. Maybe you can, maybe we'll let him wear a cup. I'm not going there. Anyway, prior to the game, I did a couple of interviews with the Derek Lumens, the new head coach over at South, and a coach interview with longtime coach Chris Wright over at North. And we're going to play those. I think the way this is going to work is we're going to show the Lumens interview first, go to a commercial break, come back and do the Chris Wright interview, and then go to another commercial break and come back for the start of the ball game. So stay tuned and hope you enjoy the interviews with Derek Lumens and Chris Wright. Colin, what makes you qualified to coach a varsity baseball itself? Yeah, I played high school baseball at Waipan. We're a pretty successful program there. And then I came into the Sheboygan area and played my college baseball at Lakeland College. I spent one year down at Madison East High School coaching there. And then obviously the last couple of years with the A's. So I'm happy to be here and be part of the South program this year. I think South is happy to have you too. Coming into this year, having coach A's for a couple of years and all, you've been working with high school kids for the last couple of weeks really. That's all it's been. What's the difference? When we get guys at the level of the Sheboygan A's, we just get guys in kind of small refinements and they're there to get reps and get some work in now. With our kids here at South, we're trying to get a little bit more development. We're really young in terms of programs. There's a lot of development that's been happening in the last couple of weeks. Let's talk a little bit about some individual players. I know Jacob Bryce is a kid that I think I am part of like six of his JV games a couple of years ago. He's a heck of a player. He's a fast runner. What does he bring to the table for you? We're going to ask a lot of Jake this year just because he's one of our few seniors that's got a lot of experience at the varsity level. We've only got three or four kids who are varsity rich in experience and he's one of them. We're going to ask a lot of him out of the mound. He's going to lead off for us a lot this year and he's going to move to center field and use his speed to try and track some balls down for us. Mason Prunik's another kid, very aggressive football player and I know he's a pretty good baseball player when I saw him as JV and he's a very fast runner. What do you expect out of Mason? That's one thing our team does have is a little bit of speed on the bases. Mason's kind of in the same role as Jake. He's got a lot of the varsity experience that a lot of other guys don't have. We're going to rely on him in the outfield as well and he's going to try and kind of bolster our energy in our lineup in the back half for sure. And who are some other kids that we should look for in tonight's game? We've got a pretty good core group of sophomores. Ben Soik and Bailey Pursuti have been doing a lot for us so far and we've got a couple kids on a band trip like Jacob Bowman and Lars Krugel who will help us out this year as well. You mentioned you're missing about eight kids from the baseball program on this band trip. Are they going to be gone on Thursday too when we do the second Norse health game? Luckily they come back Wednesday night but they haven't had practice for a week now so we missed them a little bit here especially because we missed four of our varsity guys there. So it'll be nice to get those guys back but we'll scrap our lineup together tonight for sure. Alright thanks a lot coach and good luck this season. Can you spot my motto, safety first. They could be dangerous. I think we should call animal control. Animal control. Don't worry. It's a new motto. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection. When you throw away money on wasted electricity you're throwing away everything you could have bought with it. Saving energy saves you money. Learn more at energiesavers.com They said a bottle was just a bottle. Joining me is my longtime partner Chris Wright. He's even been a longer time the head coach at Sheboygan North. How many years has it been Chris? 30 years 28 with the varsity and we kind of talked before. I said it seems like it's gone really fast. It's hard to believe from the 80's and now we're in 20,000 17 and pushing in. Joining me is my longtime partner Chris Wright. He's even been a longer time the head coach at Sheboygan North. How many years has it been Chris? 30 years 28 with the varsity and we kind of talked before. I said it seems like it's gone really fast. It's hard to believe from the 80's and now we're in 20,000 17 and pushing in. It's really gone fast. There's a lot of players, a lot of kids. It's hard to remember what kids were in what class but I've enjoyed the ride and North really treated me well. Last year was a little bit of a long year and I know you had some injuries. You had a great start to the year beating Payport. One of the better teams in a conference I might add. How did things stack up for North High this year? You're right Marty. Last year we had a lot of injuries. We lost Jackson Pottis and Ben Miller before the season started. We lost Western York during the year and we lost Kyle Moyer during the year and Dylan Agar came off of an injury and so we really struggled with injuries last year and just could never get over the hump and I think this year with the success of the Legion program the North and South teams doing well and kind of learning how to win and if we stay healthy and eligible hopefully we can win some games. Arguably you got one of the better players in the conference and Dylan Lindo. What part is he going to play in your team this year? Well three years in a row when you can put one guy at the top of the order and lead off. That really helps and he's an outstanding infielder. He's an outstanding lead off hitter. He knows how to take pitches. He's really smart. He's kind of one of those kids that's kind of quiet, kind of leads just by his presence but we're hoping that Dylan can play some college ball in his future and he's kind of been our leader there and kind of the guy that's been healthy for us. Western York has been another kid that's been pretty productive for you over the years and played I think since his sophomore year moving up. He's a senior this year. What is he going to bring to the table? Well he's going to be on the mound tonight Marty and he's really pitched really well against Bayport. One thing he does is he kind of mixes his pitches a little bit but most importantly he throws strikes and the other day you know he didn't strike out a lot of guys he let his defense take care of it and I think we got a pretty good defense so we're going to let him you know take care of that. When he's not pitching he'll be anchoring for space. Yeah two young kids Witter and Niece or Nieze talk a little bit about them and what they bring to the table. By the way they were playing regularly as freshmen. They're going to be sophomores this year. Yeah they're real special and they're hitting in a two and three hole and you get to see baseball or you get a chance to watch this. You should come and see these kids. They're pretty special and to have them both you know just sophomores I'm pretty lucky both Brent is kind of a guy that kind of really takes care of the box a little bit and knows how to hit the other way and he can punt and he's really good contact hitter and Jacob kind of drives the baseball and they're both outstanding defense. Jacob can just chuck it from over a third and then Brent at second turns a mean double play and we'll be playing some shortstop first in our future. Last question has to do with Jackson Potts. Injured all last year. How is that going to play into this year and what do you see in his future? Good things. Good things. He's a D1 prospect. We'll be having some colleges come up to see him. Here's a kid that can throw mid to upper 80s already. Left handed big kid really can bring it. Now he's not going to throw tonight. He'll probably throw on Thursday for us but you know again you don't get kids like this in the city very often and he's working hard and kind of learns the game a little bit. He's got the skills and the talent. It's just if he puts things together he could be a D1 player. Alright thanks a lot Chris. Good luck tonight and good luck this season. Sheboygan South is taking infield right now. North took theirs during the interviews and umpires are down by the North dugout. Jimmy Rush is one of the umpires and Paul Hauser is going to be the other. I think Paul is a fiat teacher out in Falls Tom. Yeah I think at the elementary school you know I've been gone for quite a few years. You've been gone forever. At least from there you know. Went to Howard's Grove a couple different times after leaving Falls but yeah I do believe at least I know he was a fiat teacher out there. In case our fans don't know there they are Jimmy Rush is on the right hand side with the ball bag on his hip Hauser is the other one and Steve Peterson is the coach talking to him. Tom was a long time Tom Graham is my partner tonight. He was a long time staff member out at Sheboygan Falls taught history I believe it was social studies and then was a principal and what were you principal of the world that one year? State of Wisconsin. Okay that's close enough. 2004 I think it was. It couldn't be quite a few years ago now. And then also did a couple of stints out at Howard's Grove too. Played baseball here for the Sheboygan A's for quite a few years but probably you know Did you play at this field ever? Never. We were retired before then. Did you ever play here? I played here for three games. It was against the Wade House old time team. I did actually play here. He had an alumni game or something. Yeah that's right I played in that one too. That dog on Wilkie hit one out on me. He joined the ranks of many. Come on. We had some good times playing for the A's though. Oh yeah that's part of the reason I asked you to come on board and by the way when we have the game on Thursday hopefully the weather will be nice and it'll be a little earlier in the afternoon that will be nice. But anyway Dave Gehr is going to join us. Dave also played with the A's. He's a hall of famer for the show. Dave was a much better player than you were. Yeah he was one of the great ones played a long time too. Well he also played at UW La Crosse so he's you know when we were coming up that doesn't mean anything. I made the team at La Crosse one year yeah. They didn't have any high school baseball when I graduated. Yeah me either South and so you know my baseball experience was little league baseball and then playing in the I was in the Air Force after high school for four years and played fast pitch softball actually but not baseball. They bring it there. Yeah and then it took me a while to get acclimated to baseball when I got out of the service and came back here and went to school and played in the summertime. You know and when we played with the A's I mean now they play between 50 and 60 games. When we played it was between 20 and 30 maybe a little over 30. Yeah I was thinking about 35 if you'd ask me but that seemed like a lot. Yeah it did. And you know the kids that are playing nowadays too. I mean you're working all day and then you're hustling to get here or go on the road and you know that not everybody lives in Sheboygan. Some of those kids are driving from out of town. Well and they I think they take many more longer trips now than we did when we played too. But even then you know we're getting back at midnight or whatever and if you got to get up the next day to go to work you know that gets to be tough. And I remember Donnie Deener always talking about how he you know I think he was working for a distributor then and he was you know carting around those big quarter barrels or half barrels of beer and you know he's physical job. Yeah it's tough to throw those things around. And then to go out and pitch no innings. Yeah we had some characters back there you know Carl Beringer managed at first when I started playing I don't know he was probably gone. He was he when I first started he was the manager. He was okay. And Chuck Zeichert was a player of course I think it was Chuck took over for Carl for the rest of the time I played Chuck was the manager right. Yeah you came on board I think a year or two after I had started was it 70 70 I was 71 maybe I got out of the Air Force in 72 and so but I got out in July so I didn't start till 73 73. I didn't play much in 73 because like I said I was just getting acclimated to baseball again after basketball but then starting in probably 74 and from there on played pretty regularly. So we really only played together for two full seasons 74 75. What year did you start then so you actually summer of 68 I played right out of high school. Yeah and then I was in the service actually for a couple of years when you were playing and I was gone then from 72 to 74 I missed three years and then we played together in 75 and then I went out to Howard's Grove after that okay. How many years did you play with him? Oh boy that's a good question. Ten years. I'm trying to think but here was my son born because I know I quit when I hurt my knee and my wife was pregnant with him and he was 37 so he would have been born. Alright all the teams are lined up for the National Anthem and we're going to stand up in the booth and Ellen Wright's going to put on the tape and play our National Anthem. It wasn't Wayne Messmer. So Billy Joel. So were you paying attention to National Anthem or were you figuring out how many years you played with him? I wasn't even thinking about it. I think about 10 years it was though. Okay so you had a pretty good run. I played six I believe. Six or seven somewhere in there. I did play one year when I was in the Navy I played on the baseball team and then one year I played with the they started a league it was more like a college league but I was able to hook up with the team and played one summer baseball out in Virginia. That was pretty much fun it was the interesting group of guys. Yeah you get to be good buddies with the guys you're in the service with and you're living and working together all the time. Right. Now you were stationed overseas right? I was stationed in Italy for a year and a half and you'll notice we haven't had any problem with the Italian since then. Really it's amazing how long that relationship can last when you get the right people from the beginning. Right. Now you see Weston Yerick warming up. His catcher is Eric Johnson. Let me run through the defense for Norris since they're going to start on the field. Yerick is pitching. Johnson catching. Jackson Potast is at first. Brent Witter at second. Dylan Lindow who's all conference caliber players at short. Jacob Nazy is at third base. Nick Askilevich is out and left. Sal Parra is in center and Ben Miller will be manning right field. For Sheboygan South their lineup fits like this. Jacob Rice will be batting leadoff. He's the pitcher. Bailey Presudi will be playing third and batting second. Brendan Thimler will be hitting third and playing first base. Seth Stolpa is out and left. Batting fourth. Mason Prunik in center. Batting fifth. Ben Soik is catching. Batting sixth. Elliot Perron is at short. And batting seventh. Jackson Penny is playing right and batting eighth. And Cam Meyer is playing second base. And DHing for him is Colin Brennan who is the DH batting ninth. And those kids, those last three names I mentioned are JV players. Good to the band trip. Yeah, so South had a little bit of a disadvantage. First pitch by Yerke is in the strike zone and Rice falls it off. And we're off and running. 15 minutes late, not too bad I guess. No, you know with a JV game preceding this one it always tends to delay things a bit, but not too bad. Dress up the field a little bit and both teams did take infield. Helen Wright was a little worried they weren't going to do that. She said you can't start a game without taking infield. She was right. Pitch is down a little bit. It's a one in one as a count. You know I actually, Mike, with the temperature being at 45 or so, it's pretty cold. But there's not much of a breeze. What there is, it's blowing out towards center, but it's just barely moving the flag. So it's not as uncomfortable as it could be when the wind was howling on a night like that. I was telling people this afternoon I was working in the garage and cleaning stuff out and putting out some of the things for the summertime and once you get moving out there it wasn't bad. I assume with these guys once they get moving around a little bit and get acclimated it won't be as bad as you might think. Line drive fall. I'll tell you Rice has been driving them down the right field line. A little bit late and that pitch was up and it's hard to turn on a pitch way up there. That probably was a ball, but he didn't quite get around on it. Town is one ball and two strikes. You're going to have to give Dave Garakal and tell him all the funny is missing. Ball bouncing the dirt, but good block by Eric Johnson. He throws out Rice at first. Next hitter up for the Red Wings is Bailey Presudi. Third baseman. Presudi is 10th grader. Young guy. Now when I look at my rosters Presudi was with the varsity grouping. So even though he's a sophomore he was starting on the varsity. Nice running catch by the third baseman. Easy. A little pop down the third baseline. Too quick up and down for the Red Wings. Brendan Thimler up next. First baseman. A left handed first baseman. Oh Tom you should know. They are the big thumpers. I actually did lead the A's and home runs one year I think. Would you have two? No I think I had four. When you don't play that many games that's still pretty good. That might have led the A's two years ago as they didn't hardly get any home runs. Well we played at Legion Park remember and if you could pull the ball down the line. Oh there's a nice shot. Drive down the right field line. It's fair. Presudi makes a turn at first but it's going to hold but that was a great base hit. Line drive down the right field line. Just inside the follow line. And those left handers can really hit. And I actually think I led the A's and stolen bases when you were with about three also. There weren't a lot of high records in those days. Hey a record's a record. You lead them for the season. You lead them for the season. It doesn't matter. First pitch is bounced to a Pottest at first and he makes the play unassisted. And at the end of a half inning a play saw nothing north coming to bat. Top of the first. Most strikeouts. Rush wiping off home plate and we're ready to start the bottom of the first leading off for north is their shortstop Dylan Lindow. Lindow like I mentioned earlier Tom is a all conference player is looking to play possibly at St. Norbert's. I think there was another D2 school. I can't remember what Chris said the name of it was. But the point is Lindow is a good player. Chris's notes that he's started and led off all his last three years so with that kind of experience portends well. Right exactly. The south defense is Timor at first, Meyer at second, Peton at short and Presudi over at third. In the outfield it's Stolpa and left Prunek. One of their fastest runners in center and Penny out and right. Soik is the catcher and Rice is the pitcher. He mentioned about Jacob. A good athlete was in all conference quarterback. I think second or third team, second team probably. But he's a good one. Added something to the program that's for sure. Flag is hanging absolutely limp out there now. So yeah no breeze at all. It's a good thing it's not coming off the lake. Oh boy. Right there. Rice is having a little trouble finding the strike zone. It's 3-1 to lead off hitter Lindow. By the way Tom, I don't know if you're aware of this. The WIAA instituted a new rule this year with pitch count. I remember reading something about it but I couldn't tell you what it is. Yeah I should. Ellen's going to get the sheet for us. I'm a counter. Not tonight. But they have certain levels that when you reach it then you have to get so much rest. No pitcher can go over 100 pitches. The only time they could is to finish off a batter. And then you'd need 4 days rest. So who does the official counting? There's a, like if I was doing it for this game I'd be somewhere in the stands or maybe up here doing it. And then you go down each half inning and you share your right to confirm. Because usually what a team will have is counting in the dugout also. That way you match it up, make sure everything is correct. I think that'd be a pass ball that got through the catcher. Lindow walked and they had a pass ball. You're right. Anyway I was thinking about the implications of that. If you had a team that could take pitches, you could wind up making it pretty tough for the starting pitcher in terms of just taking a pitch or two. Nice pick by the first baseman. Hard ground ball down the third baseline. Good base running by Lindow to take third after the throw. Presudi? Is that the third baseman's name? Yep. Nice pick and one hop to throw to first. Bailey Presudi over at third. Picked it up nicely. So we got a man on third with less than two outs. So he'd be able to get him in. Maybe a fly ball. He wants to make contact. That's for sure. Jacob Nasey's up. Mentioned Nasey's a sophomore. Plank third base tonight. He played third base from the start of the season. Tom as a freshman. Witter started the season on the JVs and was moved up part way through the season and finished with them. Started on varsity basketball this season as a sophomore. Good athlete. You do that at North. That's saying something. They've had some awful good teams. Yep. Rice having trouble finding the strike. So when I was looking at the middle of the infield, Chris, they're pretty far back. Tom, I think anything hit in the middle of the infield is going to score a run. I think they're conceding that up at third but even the first baseman's back. Nice play. Steps on the bag to the out but Lindow comes in and scores. A hard hit balled on the first baseline and a nice pickup by Timmler. Maybe if he had been playing up a little bit closer, he could have gone home first but they took the shirt out and probably early in the game like this, that's not a bad idea. You've got two outs now and nobody on. So I agree with you there. Next up for North is Nick Askalevich. Now there's a name when you look at it. Try to pronounce it. I'm glad that you pronounced that one. Like the Greek freight, they call him the alphabet. Right. How do you pronounce his last name? I don't know. I'm actually asking if I don't because I don't know. Yeah. It's a dandy. Giannis. Yeah, there you go. Vox, I've had an interesting year this year. I normally don't follow much pro basketball but this year, for a couple reasons they're more interesting and Malcolm Brogdon who plays for them is from Virginia and my son works with the Virginia basketball team so I know Malcolm a little bit. He got us some tickets for a game down there. Oh sweet. He's really a good guy and so I followed them a little bit more closely than I might have. Pitch is inside. Missed the batter but even the count at 2 and 2, they got 1 and 2 on the scoreboard. I might be wrong. Hard to believe, Marty. I know. That couldn't be trouble. Ball out to right. It is. It drops in. Not able to get that ball was Jackson, Penny and in with a double is Askalevich. Yeah, that would definitely be a double. I think he got a glove on it but it would have been a heck of a play. Slicing away from him. Next up for the Raiders is their pitcher, Weston Yerick. Yerick comes into the season with 1 RBI. He's 2 for 10 but it's early. He's got experience. Third year on varsity. Pitch is inside for ball one. Steve Peterson with on our screen now the first base coach for the Raiders. Looks like having a little trouble keeping his pitches down. He's got a lot of stuff up there. Even like that flair down the right field line for the double, that pitch was up and if you can get the bat on the ball there, you've got a chance of dumping it over the infield. Looking at the notes on Askalevich and during the summertime, he plays for a team out of Appleton. He doesn't even play for the team here in Chicago. Did you find kind of interesting? There must be some kind of connection over there. Yeah, I'd like to keep those kids that are good players sticking around. There was a Recolitis boy a couple years ago. Played on a traveling team one summer and then his senior year, he came back and played with the Legion team that year. I think overall, I believe I talked to him about it once. He said it was actually more fun playing with his friends and kids he knew. Is he playing at UWM now? Yeah, I believe so. He was last year. I haven't heard anything about this year. I talked to Mary over at Saltaia a couple weeks ago and both boys seem to be doing quite well. They see their grandpa Wally at the Wally MCA. He was quite an athlete himself. In good shape for his age, working out every day at the Wally. That's amazing. You know, it's something I could never get myself to do on a regular basis was work out. Well, you know, when you got a body like yours you don't, you know, it's already finally tuned. That's kind of what I was thinking. Eric just hanging in there tipped that ball fall. Count is two and two. There's two outs. We got a runner on second. It's one to nothing north on top. Rice on the mound for south. Trying to work out of the inning. Walked the lead off man. Lindo and he wound up coming around to score. That would be a wild pitch. Yeah, for sure. Got a runner on third now, but with two outs so we just need to take the batter here and get out of this inning. You look down at the fans and the stands. I mean, it's a little bit chilly, but it's not like it's freezing out there. Nobody started any fires yet. No one understands. That pitches low and out and Yerke draws the walk and that brings up Eric Johnson and we're going to give Yerke a jacket. I thought they might be having a courtesy runner but Mr. Wright is not faster than Weston so they'll keep him at first. So the situation, we got two outs. Runners on first and third. Johnson up and Rice has struggled this half inning. Yeah, his control is stolen base. I think that's to be expected early in the year. You know, pitchers control. There's one thing that's quite a bit different at this level is throwing down, you know, with a man on third and a steal attempt. Strike call there. Oh, and two now so he's ahead better. The years that you played with the A's, Tom, who was the best pitcher you came across? Oh, there was a gift run. Who was the best pitcher you played with? Played with or against? No, with. Oh boy, we had some good ones. Bob Sager pitched an awful lot. More known for his consistency would pick it up while, you know, he was always out there. Rick Rice could throw very well. Yeah. We really struggled with our pitching. That was probably the weakest part of our team when I was playing. I was thinking that's yeah, I was thinking that's part of the reason why they were throwing up Bob Sager as much as they did probably for Bob. He had to answer the bell so often, but he was a workhorse. Big guy too. You know, if you're going to have a workhorse type pitcher, he'd fit the mold. I think I'm probably forgetting somebody in there. You played before Casper and Eckert? Yes. And was Ronnie here done? Ronnie here was on the team like his last year of actually pitching was my first year and you know, he was a little bit older at that point and his arm was giving him problems. So I didn't certainly see him at his best. And did we get Mr. Grahams on the mound at all? No. I was lucky I could throw it in from first base. Jackson Podd asked, the first baseman is up now for North and right back where they were just a few pitches ago with runners on first and third. Now it's Johnson who just drew the walk at first and Weston Nelson, pardon me Weston Yerick over at third and I think he can look for Johnson to take off maybe first pitch. I would guess so, yeah. They probably won't even throw down. Otis is a big guy. Yeah, so you know, I was noticing the size actually, North's got a bunch of pretty good size players. Pitch goes outside there. You see Johnson number four at first being held on by Timmer 5 just off the glove of the third baseman foul. Our crew tonight, we have Robert Ingram is our director. He's being assisted by Nathan Free on graphics. The cameraman tonight giving you that shot is Greg Zablaki. Camera one, Richard Bartzen down the right field line giving you that shot at camera two. Tom Grahams doing color tonight and I'm Mike Martin doing play by play and that's your crew. I think if he's still around Corey, I didn't get his last name was helping out before we went on the air with setup. Give a shout out to him also. And we'll be right back here on Thursday. Thinking about that pitch thing, Mike. He's got a bunch. He's thrown a lot in this first inning. I think the first benchmark was at 30 pitches and he's got to be pretty doggone close to that. Stealing second. Got a full count now with runners on second and third and two outs. Two to nothing north hit here. Could really do some damage now. A good rip at that ball but followed it straight back and that looked like one of Rice's better pitches too and he had it down and he had some hop on it. I'll thank Coach Lumens from South and Coach Wright from North for getting us the lineups and the rosters and the current stats for tonight's game. We really appreciate their efforts with that. This Jackson podcast. Have any hits this year, Tom? Three for eight. He's fouled off a couple of good pitches here. He's got some good rips at Rice. Another walk. That is the fourth walk in the inning. Ben Miller is up. Lumens coming out to the mound. Settle his pitcher down. Miller is another kid, Tom, who's played a lot of baseball over the years. I think he's been on the varsity the last three years. Chris mentioned last year was a kind of a lost season for him because he had a lot of injuries. One of the guys injured was Miller and I think he missed all season because he had a football injury actually. Ben Miller? Yep, he's up to bat now. Yeah, it says on the notes that he tours ACL and football. Good kid. He was a pigeon river boy. So was Johnson, the catcher and Yerick the pitcher. They're all from a pigeon river school. First pitch by Rice is a ball. Sometimes he has problems like this. Miller, that'll score two. He knew Rice had to come in with him because he's been struggling with his control. They had a meeting on the mound right before that and I'm sure Lumens said you've got to get the ball over. We can't keep walking these guys. He was ready for it and hit it up the middle. Well, Rice has worked his way through the order. This is the number nine hitter, Sal Parra. He's out in the center field today. Sal's a pretty fast runner. Breaking ball is up high for ball one. Four to nothing north. Parra, that's a major league baseball playing name, Nanny Parra. And there's another Parra too, isn't there? Geraldo? For the Brewers a couple seasons. Yeah, I think there's a couple Parra's up in the big leagues. Yeah, right. Nanny's gone. Good rip at a pitch. Good throw by Rice. Got it right down the middle for a strike. One ball and two strikes. That was close. Yeah, I was just thinking he's having trouble getting that breaking pitch in and you mentioned it with Miller when you got to come in there. They're waiting on it. They're sitting on that fastball. He's run the count full again. Yeah, really. It's going to mess up my score book. I have to go into a second inning and we're not even done with the first. It'd be interesting to see what that pitch count is. I know. We can send Ellen down to get in on the conversation. He got him. Struck him out on a good pitch. But productive inning for North. They score four and at the end of one complete, North on top four to nothing. Food it nourishes brings us together and adds flavor to life. That's why it's important to wash hands, surfaces and fresh produce. Keep raw meat poultry and seafood separate from ready to eat foods like fruits and vegetables and cook to proper temperatures using a food thermometer. Enjoy and refrigerate leftovers within two hours. For more tips on safely preparing foods visit Home Food Safety I'm gonna go fix the lamp in your room. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of children in foster care who will take care of you. You make me wear my bike helmet. You taught me never to run with scissors. To follow the swimming rules. You tell me to stay away from drugs to always buckle my suit down. So why do you keep a loaded gun in your door? How safe is that? You ask them to follow some safety rules. Now they're asking you. In fact they're counting on you. Never let your gun get into the wrong hands. Remember always lock it up. Leading off the inning for South is their center fielder, Mason Prunik. Got to like that number 25. How's my A's number? It's not retired I know that. You know who wore that number? Not too long ago? No I don't. Jacob still. Oh is that right? Yeah and I let him know you got some big shoes to fill man. Jacob's in medical school right now. Right yeah. He's gonna be an orthopedic surgeon. I saw him not too long ago. Just a couple weeks ago he was subbing over at Jefferson. Really? Yeah. Looks good. Good family. Right yeah. Jeff is a good athlete. His dad. Yeah. Jeff is one of the assistant basketball coaches at South and it'll be interesting to see what happens with him as South looks for a new coach. Right yeah. Good point. Prunik falls that pitch back. Another subbing here for some lucky fan. Oh no. Give it back. Ben Syke the catcher picked it up off the screen. Put it in his pocket. I think she's gonna bring it up to the plate with him. Give it to the ump though. You know we'll take it home. Prunik got around on that pitch. Drove it full count. Three balls. Two strikes. Weston Yurik had a pretty good first inning. Didn't throw too many pitches. No but South made some contact against him so. Yeah. No strikeouts. You're right. Oh. Call third strike. Looked like it might have been just a bit outside. Prunik doesn't say much Coach Lumens is questioning the call maybe Robert Ingram can give us a replay of that I don't know if he had him. Maybe he didn't check his swing. It was hard to tell but I think you got it right Tom. Just a bit outside. Close enough probably to swing out though with two strikes. Right you can't. There's a good rip but it's full Ben Syke is up now the catcher You don't want to leave it in the hands of the umpire Not that they're bad. No I think the bad ones are retired I'm just kidding Mike used to be an umpire and Mike was a good one Let's give him a little shot there. I think back to the umpiring part I can honestly say most of my thoughts when I think back the memories of umpiring have been positive and you always run into a couple situations or a couple players that maybe aren't very well grounded but for the most part it was a great experience I think when you're umpiring high school ball it's probably not too bad sometimes when you get the amateurs semi pro kind of stuff guys are a little bit more vociferous more opinionated. Yeah for sure ball bounces in. Even as a count at getting pretty dark now definitely need the lights on I remember Tom. Yeah another one. I can remember early on in my career with the TV station and the equipment was not the quality that it is now. The camera would get the infield. You had a hard time seeing the outfielders beyond that and anything that was hit out there you know it's just about impossible for the camera to capture but you look now I mean it's almost like a day game when you're looking from the home plate camera. The camera actually it looks brighter on the TV screen than it does looking out at it. You know these lights are not the best as a matter of fact the Schwagen A's are in the midst of trying to raise money to have these lights replaced. You know baseball. Send your checks to Denny Ware. I'm sure Denny would appreciate everything. But you know unlike softball you know the quality of the lighting that you need in baseball is much much more right. The ball's so small. You know on the speed and everything it's just you know I'm sure that you know where else they were really bad. I mean these are you know they're not good for what they should be but they're not that bad but where I think they were really bad was Legion Park. They weren't as high even as these poles and to think that they used to play minor league baseball there. Right. But a lot of character in all Legion Park that's for sure. Interesting. I remember when we did that Denny Moyer show and you and Dave were talking and I think Dave made the comment about yeah I had character but it had the stones on the infields and I remember Jean Mandwin when we asked him about it and he said with the power alleys being over 400 to left and right center I'll take wild with any being a power hitter. There's a drive to left. That good. Going back as Askelavich he can't get it stops on the right near the foul line and in that second with a double is Elliot Peton. A well hit ball. Got a round on that one. So with two all it's south has a runner at second and that brings up Jackson Penny. Jackson Penny is a junior playing out right field and let's see what we got for Jackson on his bat and average. He's a 0 for 1 kind of forced into service with the band people being gone. Takes a pitch right down the middle for strike one. On deck is Cam, not Cam Meyer, but Colin Brennan the DH. Yeah that was a really nice hit. Well hit ball yeah. So when you think back of your playing days Tom what umpires do you remember not counting me but good or bad. We had a lot of land of lakes umpires you know from the Johnsons I think from Sockville and oh what is this bug we got? Is it a big one? You're in charge of bugs. Penny struck out and West West and Yerick wound up striking out the side at the end of inning a half north on top four to nothing we'll be right back. That was a big one. So he threw it down to second after Rice's warm ups and we're set to go in the second inning and right back to the top of the order north batted around in the first scoring four runs it's back to Lindow Lindow walked and scored and hopefully Jacob Rice can go this inning because his pitch count had to really be high in that first inning. First pitch goes inside for ball one. So we had the Johnsons from land of lakes. Any local guys you remember? It seemed like when I remember when I played it seemed like we had a lot more. Cubby space was a good umpire I don't remember him. You don't remember Cubby? They called him Cubby because he was a Cub fan. Big Cub fan. I'm surprised you don't know him. You know I was at a Cub game last year or two years ago with the Horsens and the Spath family was down there at the game. They had a big family. They had a lot of... Well they had that Toys for Tots. Yep, that's right. They had a team just made up of Spaths. Jim Diamond? That Jim Diamond umped a lot of games. That's going to be quite a few years ago Mike you're asking me. Right, it is. So 30 years ago Yeah, I mean over 30 years ago. Right, over 30. Every once in a while Rice can bring it. It's just a matter like you said keeping it in the strike zone. Yeah, his control he's struggling with but he looks like he throws the ball pretty well. I mean he's got a little hop on it. Two balls and two strikes. Lindahl leading off the inning for the Golden Raiders. Sal's got somebody throwing over there. I don't know if that's a pitcher that potentially didn't have to come in with the pitch count or not. Oh he threw a curve ball. Got that lake and pitch in. Well I mentioned about the different thresholds. The one that you really want to know about is the threshold for when you have to leave. And that's at 100 pitches unless you're still pitching to a batter. And let's say the first pitch to him was your 100th pitch. You could continue pitching to finish him and then you have to leave. Well driven out to right. Right at the right field. There are also two pretty quick outs for Jacob Rice in the second. That's exactly what he needed. Kenny making that catch out and right. Jacob. Nazy. Nice shim. Nice shim. And then you have to leave. Now we remember his dad Kenny Nazy when he played. He was an outstanding third baseman for the A's. Good hitter. Didn't play a lot of years. I don't know. You're right. That was the thing. He didn't play a long time. But the reason I bring this up is we knew him as Kenny Nazy last year when I think I did one game they were saying it was Nice. He had changed around. Well then we asked Chris before tonight's game and he said yeah they go either way now. So we're sticking with the old way Nazy. Cause we're old. Yeah exactly. I was thinking before when you were talking about me throwing and they moved me to first base. I played left field actually my first year that I played quite a bit and John Moyard he played first base. I remember I played with John. If you remember he was the long time Usberg basketball coach and really an excellent baseball player from New London Wisconsin and played for UW La Crosse. Did he? Yeah. And left handed hitting first baseman and he only played for the A's for one or two years and then when he left they immediately got me out of the outfield. Said we gotta get this guy closer so he can get the ball in. That was actually a good plan by Chuck because that way you could throw infield in half inning and strengthen your arm. Exactly. Yeah it was part of my weight lifting program. Throwing the baseball. Next up is Nick Askeliewicz. Askeliewicz looking for that pronunciation I had it written out. Right gets ahead with a fastball there. He is throwing the ball a bit better now I think this inning than the first inning. It was really really good for him to get those first two guys out. Right too bad he couldn't finish it off quicker. Yeah. Nasi will be running. There he goes. Drive to right. Be out of play. We're in the bottom of the second north on top four to nothing they got the big hit in that four run first was Ben Miller's two out bases loaded single that drove in a couple. It was two to nothing at that point. That was the key hit of the inning and Nasi not running on that pitch Tom. You know he was all the way over the third on that last pitch so maybe they're going to catch his breath but he'll be going now a bit. Yeah could be. Well one ball and two strikes right. This would be a good pitch to run on but he doesn't go on that pitch just stays up a little bit. Look pretty close. I'm up there I think. Look like a really tough pitch to take once you've walled the third and a good scoop by the other end making the play again. Relatively for Jacob Rice in the south high red wings and at the end of two complete north on top four to nothing to play outdoors and healthier lungs. Totally. You know that boys that play with dolls make better husbands. My son has lots of dolls. Did you know Tariq cloth diapers breathe better. I did. The friendly kids have more friends. Yeah that's obvious. Did you know most people think they're using the right car seat for their kid but they're not. Parents who really know it all know for sure that their child is in the right seat. Visit safercar.gov slash the right seat to make sure your child. Getting ready to start the top of the third. Johnson would throw down after Yerick's warm up pitches. Yerick working on a shutout and he's given up two hits. He's struck out three. Struck out the side the last half inning Tom. Yeah quick inning. There in the background you see Yerick Lomond's the brand new south coach. First year. We have the DH up here now. DHing for the second baseman a little bit different. That's one of the things that's a good I think or not strategy but rule for high school baseball is more people to play you know where you can DH for any of the positions. And a lot of times your pitcher is one of your better hitters anyhow in high school baseball so you just assume keep him. Yerick's pitches outside. I can remember when I was coaching high school baseball at Chilton the rules were much different in that respect. It was traditional baseball and if you let's say you had three subs and you were winning by pretty much and you got them all in the game but then one of your guys got hurt and you had to finish with eight. It was a forfeit. Really. So you're almost wanted to keep somebody on the bench. Exactly right. You almost had to hold somebody out just in case. Pop up on the infield. Really high. Whoa a little bit of a snow cone there. Yeah making the catch was Jacob Nazy but he hung on. That's why you want to use two hands kids Jacob Rice the pitcher and lead off hitter up. Jacob struck out his first time. Oh I got it over here. On the season Jacob is one for six hitting 167. That'll go up actually one for seven now. That means it's going down. Right. He gets a hit here. It's gonna go up. It'll be up to 250. But his percentage is 500 according to this. Yeah I don't think that's right. It doesn't look like it because I don't see any walks in the walk column. Well either there's probably some walks because they played a couple games so they just haven't registered him on that that sheet because nobody has any walks according to that. Does have an RBI. I thought he was going to go after that one. Yeah it was a little bit high. Two balls and no strikes. Pitch out of the strike zone. West and New York having a little trouble finding the strike zone with this batter. When Jacob was a sophomore was on the JV team at South and through some kind of a quirk I wound up doing six of their games as an option. Yeah. At least one of the dates was a double header. But still it's not a good situation to ump the same team that often. It's hard to be perfect for six games. Five and a half was pretty good though. Prasudi up here is only a sophomore. Third baseman. Prasudi popped out his first time up. He's made a couple of nice plays at third. Throw over to keep Rice close. Rice is a good runner too. He's a guy you think might take off. Breaking ball is a little bit outside even as a count at one and one. Women's probably isn't going to be running them too much with them being down four zip. Yeah a good point. Budging stat of a double play if he can get a good jump. Given the lineup it's not like you're going to strike three or four hits together. Right. You know and have one of them be you know like a basis clearing double or something. So you almost got to force the action a little bit. Richard Bartson giving you that shot. I'm sure also they're telling their batters to be patient with being so early in the season. Pitchers are struggling with their control. There's a strike. Two and two now. Yeah. Prasudi with a good rip. One out. Man on first. Four to nothing. North on second. Ball gets past Johnson. Past ball. I would think so. Yeah. How you doing. My back sitting on these stools. You can go low profile on the chair. Yeah. At least we're warm. Exactly. You thank Ellen for that. Another walk. So it's got two in on nobody out. Wow. Excuse me. That sets up the infill of my rule. But don't tell Timler that Timler a base hit to right field his first time up hit the ball hard. Real nice play by Ben Miller to hold him at a single to Trent Kytle coaching first base for. South Trent former A's player. You're going to do any games this year. No thing for these. I'm sure I suppose you know he's on it first and second for South. Pitch one and Miss Johnson with a good throw but a little bit late. Another pass ball. That was a nice throw. He almost had him. Pitch one and Miss Johnson with a good throw but a little bit late. Another you know they have a lot of the interns for the Miss Johnson with a good throw but a little bit late. Another they do a nice job. I was going to say that's really a great program but it gives those college kids a chance to get out and get some experience. I think they get some college credit for it. Yeah they do and it really helps out the years. Oh yeah for sure. South of the great scoring opportunity. They're down four to nothing. They have runners on it second and third and only one out. And Timler who's had some good rips at it is up there so if you could gap one here. Four or two with a base hit to the outfield. York's pitch rides up high even counting at two and two. He's struggling a little bit more with his control this inning. Yeah exactly. He was cruising through the first and the second. Good breaking pitch for strike three. I'm surprised Timler took that one. That looked like it was right down the middle. Well I think he was confused by the curve ball. Wasn't expecting that. Alrighty two outs. It's all up to Stolpa. Stolpa in the young season is one for five hitting 200 pitch behind home plate and out of play. Johnson not able to get to it. He walked right through the mud puddle. That's the bad lighting Tom. He didn't see the mud. It is pretty dark behind right by the fence area on the warning track. For the folks watching on TV look at that picture and jeez that's pretty bright out there. Come here. Good job picking up whatever life there is but it isn't quite that bright out there looking out on the field. You see Rice over at third. Behind him is Derek Lumens. So I'm going to pitch that was up again. That was a ball. You bet. Stolpa now with the one ball two strike count. York with an excellent opportunity to get out of the inning. Strike three. Close enough to swing at right. Exactly. I want to take that pitch now when you've got men in scoring position. At the end of two and a half north on top toward a nothing. Everybody has a dream. The neighbors think even still. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection. Getting ready to start the bottom of the third. We were in Arizona for a couple of weeks as you know Tom and when we came back and listening through the voicemails one of them was from James Boreini. He was a student of mine out in Chilton. And he's organizing what they call a vertical reunion. Have you ever heard that term? Multiple years. Right. Exactly. And having it May 20th it's a Saturday at the Fairgrounds and then not that it's in conjunction with but the next day on Sunday the 21st they have their Kelleymount County beer festival. So it's all kind of running together but it sounds like a real interesting concept and on his website he had a couple of two or three minute clips with various retired teachers from Chilton that talked a little bit about their experiences. One of them was a little bit longer about three minutes and it featured famous Chilton graduates. Like Dave Casper was sure led it off. Was Steve Thorewachter in there? No he was not. I'm sure they contacted him though. He was a good athlete there. Right. Yeah. He never did play with the ASO. I remember he was a great baseball player. I don't think he's a big baseball fan but he played football and basketball. Basketball seemed to be a good sport for him. Yeah he was at UW Oshkosh's team. At Good Effort by Tim Liner there. Yeah Yurka at bat he's sitting with a two ball one straight count. Yeah he was at UW Oshkosh's team. I know one time I remember as you and me and Steve and Dave Gehr went golfing up maybe towards Appleton. Anyways it was a nice day. I'm glad you guys asked me that time. It was quite a few years ago now. Yeah it's a long time ago. What was the name of that course we used to play over there? Pull the string on that one. Yeah top to right in front of home plate. It looked like Stolpa had a play on him and just didn't, or so he parted me and just didn't get the throw there. We're going to give him Tom. Gotta be an error. I assume on the throw. I was kind of blocked by this poster. I didn't see all of a sudden I saw the ball bouncing away. I didn't know if it hit the runner. I thought he had a good chance at him. Didn't make a good throw. Top to right in front of home plate. Yurka's on first base Via an error and stepping in to hit is Eric Johnson the catcher. You know speaking of those vertical reunions. I know some of the smaller schools do that because my wife went to Random Lake and they do that at Random Lake and then she moved her senior year to Elkhart Lake and Elkhart Lake also has. So both Random Lake and Elkhart Lake I know do some of those vertical reunions where they include multiple years. Ellen Wright was talking a little bit about this concept before the game and she said yeah in a smaller school it's doable but you come to a school like North or South where you get thousands of kids. I graduated from South and we do a combined North and South reunion. Interesting because you know there's a lot of kids that are married someone from the other side of town or some of the good friends because in middle school and grade school you're going to school and all of a sudden you're split up and South reunion. We've done that probably for our last five reunions now every five years. At our 40th there was a vote on how to do the next one and one of the votes was to combine with South and it didn't get voted in and I was kind of surprised that it didn't because I thought it was a good idea but so we continued to have ours just separate. But I think when I was talking to some kids from the South side and their reunion they just have a whole different way of celebrating than the kids from my class. I mean they get out there and dance and just have a great old time and the North kids are much more reserved and aren't like that so maybe it wouldn't have been a good fit. You know one of the reasons that we like it so much too is there's actually a lot of work putting on our union and if you can get the committee from both schools together you can split up some of that work and contacting people and all that stuff Jerry van der Kreek who graduated from North the same year I graduated from South has a big database and he does a great job with that keeping up with all that. Yep reunions are a lot of work and I've been on the committee for working on it. The first year I remember they gave me the names where they couldn't find addresses on the kids. So I had like about 10 people I was supposed to try and track down and I actually did track down a couple. I was able to find them. It's a little bit easier. A little bit easier with the internet. I can't remember if that was the 10 year reunion or longer but it wasn't quite as easy that time. How did that ball get through there? I can't remember if that was the 10 year reunion. If it goes over the screen there's a little space in there. Little space, yeah. You hear that feedback too. Yeah, I wonder what's going on. You think that's coming up over the air too? That's a director's fault. He's got to fix that. Alright, we've got three balls and two strikes on the hitter Eric Johnson Eric on first drive out to right Who goes right on the line? No, just fall. Jimmy Rush right there making the call Eric on first Eric on first I think I know what it is. It's something with the way he's running the replays. I'd still like to see a replay on Prunik's strikeout. Go back to the first inning. Ellen wouldn't run down between innings to check on the pitch count so we don't know where Rice is at and she's yawning as she sits next to us. It's hard to get dependable help. Amazingly you're going to have these prices. Another walk. I think Ellen has just maybe a year or two less than Chris Wright on years with the program. I mean you've been here forever doing these games. How many years you got in? It's not polite to escalate that. Sorry. I was trying to lay down the sacrifice. Bunt moved the runners over. Bunted it fall. This is a big boy. Yeah, he's a big one. You might want to let him get away instead of bunting. Timler and Presudi edging in at the corners. Pitch rides outside. I think Pottis, he's the pitcher that Chris was down a spot, right? Yep, he's the one. He's their ace. I'm not sure. Ellen, is he the best? He's the ace. He'll be going on Thursday. Pulls back, but it's in there for a strike. Chris Wright flashing signs down at Johnson. Dancing off the first. Breaking pitch. Just hung outside. Evens a count at two and two. We're in the bottom of the third north on top. Four to nothing. Bouncing ball to second base. Camp Meyer takes it right to first, but that does move the runners up. Good as a sacrifice, Bunt. You bet. Second, third, one out. North looking to extend their undefeated season. Now, Ben Miller had that two RBI single in the first. He's got another chance right here with only one out to do some more damage. Have a big day, huh? Yeah. See what Jacob Rice does with him. How do you like that rule change in the majors where you can just send the guy down on an intentional walk? You know, it was done to save time, but how much time is that going to save? It's fine, I guess. The balls hit fall. I wish there was some way where they could get those games from being three hours, three fifteen to like an hour, two and a half to two forty five. Well, if they could make the batters, stay in the batter's box in between pitches and, you know, have the pitchers throw the ball with. It's fine, I guess. You know, that's what's taken the time. The intentional pass. It's fine, I guess. Think back about twenty years ago, Mike Hargrove, remember him? The human rain delay. He was like the only guy that did that. Now they all do it. Yeah. The breaking ball in the dirt for a ball. It's two balls and one strike. One out. Miller up. Miller's one for one with a couple of RBI's. North on top, four to nothing looking to expand on that lead. Salt has the infield up on the edge of the grass. They're thinking they can't afford to give up too many more runs here. No. Topper in front of whole plate. Right home. Right, you got a two at third base now. Run over there. There you go. Good play. Good play by the catcher, Syke, to get the runner at third. Miller's going to reach. Topper in front of whole plate. Right home. Right, you got a, and they kept the runner at first base too. Topper in front of whole plate. Right home. Third now with two out. Right. Next up is the number nine hitter, Sal Parra. Parra went down on strikes. So Rice with a chance to work out of the jam. Chance to get out of it without any damage. If you can get the number nine hitter here. Topper in front of whole plate. Right home. Right, you got a taking second is Miller. He's going to get credited with a stolen base but could almost spend a defensive indifference. They weren't going to be throwing down on that. No. No, he's got to get this batter. Swing and a miss. Parra evens a count at one and one. Looked like he pulled a string a little bit on that. By the way just so our fans know what you're talking about. What does that mean when they pull a string? It's an off speed pitch. Either a slow curve or just a straight change. Trying to keep the batter off balance. Pitch is not fall off the screen. Makes it one ball and two strikes. One of the keys of course of that change up is you want to throw it with exactly the same motion as your fast ball. Everything looks the same except the speed of the ball. I think that was the out pitch for Huffman. Yeah, Trevor Huffman. Trevor Huffman, the relief pitcher. That pitch was low on a way for ball two. Evens a count at two and two with two outs. Runners on at second and third for north. Another pitch. Breaking ball in the dirt. If Rice could get his breaking ball in this would be a much different game. It's in danger of losing him now. You don't want to lose this guy and you go back to the top of the order. Exactly. You have to face arguably the one of the better hitters on the north squad. Dylan Lindo. Oh, that could be trouble. Yeah, so where the first baseman's head drops into short right for one run. Throw his in. They take it and throw it over to second base and then throw it away and par is going to wind up. He's going for three. Second, he's going to try to make it to third and he will. Nobody covering third. It's fell asleep there. Par is going to get credited with a single and two RBI's and then he's going to go to second and third on the throw. That was, was it Timler that made that throw? I think we'll give it to him. I'm not sure if it was. It might have been the second baseman. Yeah, I'm not sure either. But anyway, that's who we're at. And then nobody was covering third to second base and then throw it away and par is going to wind up He's going for it. That's what you would call defensive indifference, right? They weren't paying attention. Yeah, you take it, nah, you take it. We'll just let him go there. We got two all at the same way. We're making a base here. Throw it away and par is going to wind up. See him par. Chasing around over to third base and caught the defense napping a little bit there. Sure that wasn't Jacob Rice. We got a brewer score here on Mike. It's one of the three brewers in the sixth inning at Toronto. A new pitcher for south. Rice looks like he's heading out to the outfield. Number nine is on the mound, Seth Stolpa. Stolpa was out in left field, so maybe him and Rice are just going to flip flop there. This is a bit handicapped here, of course, because of missing players because of the band trip. So I'm sure he's struggling with how to move these guys around. Right. He was saying that even when he's got a full squad, he only has 12 or 13 guys, so even when he's got a full squad. He's got some of his JVs up, huh? Yeah, exactly. The JVs won earlier this evening, so I'm sure that bodes a little bit well for the future. It's six to nothing right now. Stolpa warming up. Rice finished with two strikeouts. Had a whole bunch of walks. Ran into a lot of trouble in the first inning. Six walks in his two and two thirds. That's not good. Okay, Rice moving out the center, and Prunik is moving from center field over to left. That's the defensive changes. Rice was close to getting out of this inning when he had the number nine hitter up and two outs, but walked him and then had a flare over the right side of the infield and it's gone downhill. Yeah, since then situation now is north has two runners in in the bottom of the third. They have a runner on third and Lindahl, the leadoff hitter is up now. Lindahl is over one with a walk and a score to run. One one count to the batter. Try it's high. Just a little finagling with the positions. He was sending a message. That was the message, yeah. Got anybody else, Coach? That's the message. I told you I didn't want to be up here. I'm an outfielder coach. Lindahl being very patient at the plate draws his second walk and that brings up Brent Witter. Witter's second baseman tonight. It's pretty much where he plays all the time. Timler holding Lindahl on. Wouldn't be surprised to see Dylan Lindahl take off soon. Run rule is ten after the fours or after five. Stolen base by Lindahl. There's a mercy rule in basketball, too. It's in the 30s, I believe. With just a running clock, right? In the second half after so many points and then it's paid off football as much on those rule changes as I used to. Don't have to go take those tests anymore. That was one of the best hit balls all night and it's an out. That went all to Presudi and he makes the catch and at the end of three innings of play. North on top, now six to nothing. There you get a good shot of Weston-Yurk. North's pitcher. He had a good first and second inning. Ran into a little trouble but was able to work out of a jam in the third. Now he's working on south here in the fourth inning. Starts Mason Prunik off with a strike. Prunik started the ball game out in center field and when they made the pitching change he shifted over to left field. Made pretty good contact on that first pitch on the right field line. I'd like to see him put the ball in play because he's a fast runner. He could do some damage with his legs. He beat it out I think even if he had caught that ball I think he was safe. Yeah I do too. I'm going to give him a base hit. I agree. Remember him from all those games I umpired when he was on the JV team. At that time I thought he was the fastest runner. Coach Lumen said he thinks Rice is his fastest runner but in either case they can both motor. Catcher Syke is up now. Prunik was one of the three kids that went down on strikes to Yurik back in the second inning. So he's 0-for-1. Prunik on first base with his infield single. Bouncing ball to Nazy at third. Goes to second for one. Relay. Scooped by Pottis but pretty nice turn on that double play. They didn't get the double play but they look good in the attempt. Witter hung in tough on the sliding. Prunik. Nice play by their baseman. Good turn at second. You know what that reminds me of? Chicago Cubs. Tobias over to first. Rizzle. Actually I was going to say it reminds me of the Sheboygan A's but we didn't have many of those kind of. I thought you were going to say Tinker's ever his chance. The Cubs are the last great player here. I do remember it. Oh, they got him. A little bit too high. If the better throw they'd had him. You had a great line about Charlie Cometer playing third. Said he threw more balls on Legion Park than he hit. Wanted to tell Charlie I said that. Nobody listens to these broadcasts anyway. Pitch a little bit outside. One ball and one strike. One out. Prunik is on at first. South trailing 6 to nothing trying to get back in it. They had a great chance in the third but couldn't come up with the key hit. Charlie was a guy that had a really good throwing arm and he could hit the ball a long way. I remember we played a game and it was actually part of a double header weekend I believe in Janesville and they had just had a kid signed with the Yankees and he pitched against us and he beat us. We lost. But Charlie had two home runs off the game. That might have been Jay Tabel. Left hander. Yep. Good player. Charlie was a good player. And of course Charlie's line in the car after the game was he was nothing special. Struck on about 18 that game. That part I don't remember so much. I just remember with Charlie and the two home. That guy doesn't have much. Oh there's a wild pitch. Punik hits down the second. Jacob had one wild pitch I think. He got a runner on second and one out. Three and two the count. The pitch a little bit low. Yeah that looked pretty good for him. I thought so too. Elliott Parker drawing the walk. Jumanon. One out. Parker was the kid that had the double. Not a very big guy. No. That's what surprised me. Changed uniforms. Jackson Penny is up now. Penny went down on strikes in the second. He's over one. They got him. They picked him off a second base. Nice cutting behind him by the shortstop and the pitcher world and he was dead on the right. Lesig is the batter now not Penny. And it was a one to six. Yep. Pick off. Two outs now. Man on second. Trey Klessig in the ball game. Coming in for Jackson. Penny. Derek Luhmann is getting his boys in the game. That update courtesy of Ellen Wright. Thank you very much. She's over there shaking her head like these guys are doing. Not a good rip there. Two balls and two strikes. Two outs. Man on first. And that pitches outside. That's what'll keep a game moving. Throwing strikes. Throwing strikes. Pretty close. Gotta start calling those strikes. Yeah. Yerke wanted it. Somebody from the dugout yelled over and wanted it. Two outs. Number nine hitters up. Colin Brennan. Colin Brennan is up. Brennan popped out his first time. I forget all those years playing. There's a big rip to left. In for a base hit that will not score a run. Although if they descend them they just scored them. Yeah. Throw was offline. Kicked it around a little bit. That loads it up. Now for Jacob Rice. Top of the order. So they got a chance here again. Yep. Jacob hole for one. Walked his last time. Can look like anybody's warming up in the north. No action over on the south side. All their players are in the game. All in the dirt gets by Johnson. A run will score from south on the board. John scores on the wild pitch. Classic moves up to third and Bren in the second. Rice still at the dish with a one ball count. Still with a great opportunity to score some more runs for the Red Wings. Pitch is up high. I can remember umpiring and the pitcher saying I want a different ball and threw it in. So I put it in my bag to pull out another one, pull out the same ball, threw it back to him. Game on. They don't have an unlimited number of balls like it. No. I read somewhere now this is a few years ago before they got so picky about changing balls. But if you took all the baseballs that they used during the course of a major league season, you could fit them in an 18 wheeler. They would just pack a jam packed full of those boxes of a dozen baseballs and that would do it. Surprising. Those 18 wheelers are pretty big I guess. They are. Alrighty, bases loaded for south. They got a great opportunity. Bailey Pursuti up. Pursuti walked his last time. Salt with an excellent opportunity. There's a fly ball out to left. But it's caught. Salt's on the board. They are on the board. Asked to catch out and left. And that shuts down the inning. But not before south comes up with a run. At the end of three and a half south now trails 6 to 1. Getting closer to nature. You can get you closer to your family. Go to discovertheforest.org The smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. Take time to be a dad today. Back at Wildwood Baseball Park. Getting ready to start the bottom of the fourth inning. We're just talking between innings about south is left seven runners on base five in the last two innings. And they've had some chances to get back in the ball game. They just not been able to get the clutch hit. Pitches up high. Stope on the mound for the red wings. It's like moving a little bit out there now Mike. But still pretty gentle breeze. And I'm sure the people sitting in the grandstand are sheltered from that. That could drop in. Drive out to right. Did he catch it? He did. He kind of circled underneath it and dove and caught it. I think that was classic out there. He came in to bat for a penny. And made the nice catch. Trey Clesig didn't get a good jump on it that's for sure. No. And again sometimes with these lights it's a little hard to pick them up. Speaking of hard time picking up the ball I remember we played a game in Key Wascom. It was during the week. And it was foggy. I mean they could almost can't call the game. Good hit there by Ashtalevich. And so I'm out in left field and it's really hard to see and they keep playing. And this guy hit a rocket out to left. And I saw it off the bat. So I knew it was coming in my general direction. And then I lost it. But I'm running over where I think it's going to be. And all of a sudden out of the fog there it is. Boom. I got it. And everybody's like well how did you do that? Dumb luck huh. Yeah exactly dumb luck. Well Weston Yerke is up. Weston is 0 for 1 and he scored a run. Ashtalevich is 2 for 3 Tom. He's got a double score to run in the first and now a single here in the fourth. So he's having quite a night. Made that nice catch out in left. Yerke a little bit late on that pitch. Couldn't pull the trigger. Quick throw over to West. Gets away. Not a good throw there. It allows the North runner to go down to second. He won. I have south now with three errors in the game. It hasn't been the cleanest played game. No you're right there. Number of pass balls. Yeah wild pitches. When we were out in Arizona I brought baseball americas along. And there were two high schools in our general area. Phoenix Metro Plex Hamilton High in Gilbert Basha High in Gilbert and then there was a flip-flop in the standings. I think it was the top 30 high school baseball teams in the country. It switched over to high school in Scottsdale, Horizon High. So there's two teams and I was going to go but to go to that one high school was almost like a 45 minute ride and the game starts at 430 so when I had been driving down there would have been really busy and I just didn't want to fight the traffic. But I did go several years ago Horizon High had a pretty powerful tournament. Teams from different areas of the West that played and it was nice ball to say the least. Kids can play. Yeah on those southern states. Southern states especially. Get to play a lot more while you get nice weather. There's a drive out to right. It's going to drop in for a hit. I don't know if a run will score. You get to throw in pretty good. So did Ask Leavitch had a stop at 3rd so another base hit for North and they've got the bases loaded with only one out. Jackson Pottast is up. They're big bopper. Yeah and he won't be bunting this time. He tried to sacrifice back and the third was unsuccessful and then in swinging away hit a little ground ball at the second base that advanced the runners. Look at where the center fielder is playing. The left fielder has got to cover about two thirds of the outfield. And he's pretty deep too compared to the center fielder. Pottast with a good rip came up empty. It's a one in one one out bases loaded for the Raiders. Drive out to left field. It's going to drop for a hit. That'll score a couple. Prunik with a great arm. So coming through his Pottast with a two RBI single. And ironically he went the other way with that punch and you know after being played as a pull hitter a dead pull hitter by Salah. Yeah you're right there and you know if Prunik's over a little bit playing in a more normal position out in left he might have only scored runs. He might even caught it. Yeah because it hung up a little bit. Coming out to talk to the troops is Derek Lumens. Derek in his first year at Salah. He's been the G&A's the last couple of years so he's experienced. He knows what he's doing out there. And I'm sure he's frustrated because he's playing short handed at a young crew. Tough situation to come in to. Just have to be patient I guess. Salah had a lot of stability over the last couple of head coaches with baseball Jeff Getz. I think had about a 13 year run as the head baseball coach and then after him was Craig Klase who was in the position for about 15 or 16 years. Yeah Craig really did nice job. Pitch to Miller is a strike. North has runners on first and second. There's still only one out and North is tacked on a couple more runs. It's now eight to one. Miller hits one foul without a play. There's something to be said after having stability in your whatever your sport is that you're coaching. Well how many years are you out at Howard's and then over at Falls. I think I was the head coach at Howard's basketball nine years and at Falls for four years and then I went into administration. Did they allow, I know South, pardon me, Sheboygan Frans administrators coaching the same thing over by you. Well what they, right, he was hit by that pitch I think. No we're not happy about getting hit there. Let's take his base. Well our principal resigned at Falls. They moved the assistant principal to that principal's position and I was a teacher and head basketball coach and I had a master's degree and they offered me the opportunity to take a year basically sabbatical from teaching and become the athletic director and the assistant principal and if I didn't like it after one year I could have my teaching job and my coaching job back and I ended up staying with it and I'm glad I did but I actually missed the coaching part of it. You know you certainly have a different relationship with kids when you coach them as compared to being an administrator Exactly. Playing the part of the heavy Yeah, especially those first couple of years when I was the assistant principal you know you do a lot of the discipline stuff. Is that Denny Walk on there? Sure looks like him I'll have to see. Sure that is. Now we got the bases loaded for North with Miller being hit by that pitch one ball and two strikes to Para. He has one to short and it's booted and they're not going to get anybody. It's going to score a run. Yeah play should have been made. Actually Mike we're getting close to the run rule here. It's 9-1 He certainly are. Lindow is up with the bases loaded. Tom is right. It's 9-1 They can get to that 10 run differential South would have to score something in the fifth and then if they didn't the game would be over. And I wonder if South wouldn't almost be satisfied with that given their lack of players and hopefully be able to come back at full strength on Thursday. There is depending on the threshold that you reach with the number of pitches that dictates how many days off you have to have it. We had that here but Hey don't be such a grump Rice said 96 pitches finally Ellen get something done. Yerke had 75 There's a walk with the bases loaded so another run for the Raiders. Maximum number of pitches is 100 30 pitches you don't have to rest 1-49 pitches you have to rest 1 day 50-75 is 2 days if you get 76-100 or more. Rice isn't pitching on Thursday. He's not pitching on Thursday. So we have Brent Witter up here now with the bases loaded. Hey we kid around a lot with Ellen but we really do appreciate her efforts to help us out here and another hit by pitch Witter is going to take a base and get an RBI the hard way. Tom it's getting out of hand. Well I'm sure that they're struggling on the mound now and they got an outfield they're throwing for them. They're just trying to get through this game with too much damage being done. These other lines on this chart by the way have to do with the middle school you know how old they are. Bouncing ball right through the second baseman and that ball is booted two more runs will score. Para comes in along with Lindow and the flood gates have opened brings up left fielder. Nicholas Askadilovich. We just call him Nicky Nick. Oh Nick. Playing Shabuigan this summer Nick. Strike one. Seven runs in the inning. Makes it 13 to 1. You're going to be able to do the game on Thursday. I think so. You know you want both of us here though. You only have one. We got we got an extra mic. They got that out for us but I know your back's killing you and this actually isn't going to be that long of a game. Well we'll see. It's called a strike evens a count at 2 and 2. Still only one out. Yeah that's done you know. We got his attention. Pop up on the infield is an automatic out. Infield fly over there. And that'll bring up Yerke for his second time. He walked his first trip up this inning. I told you it's PG tonight. A drive out to center field. Rice can't make the play. It gets by him. Rolling out there. One run is in. Here comes a second run. And pulling into a second base with what was almost an excuse me double is Weston Yerke. Mike we're joined here by Mr. Lowe of Sheboygan. Denny Moyer. They have Bob Uker in Milwaukee. We have Denny Moyer and Sheboygan. Yeah doesn't get any better than that. You know is the history of every nook and cranny in this park. So Denny how's it look for lights next season at this time. New lights. We're just talking to Denny about how much brighter it looks on the monitor than it actually is on the field because those cameras pick up so much more. Look at that shot. Isn't that nice compared to looking out there. Another base hit. Johnson with a line drive hit. They're going to hold Yerke at third. Johnson wanted the RBI. He had a pinch hitter coming up for north. It'll be number 10 Ryan Yeager. Yeager a senior coming in for pot-ast. Yeager spells his last name It's like a real Yeager. Remember him. Oh you bet. Track coach. Cross country too I think. Sure. Line drive up the middle. Knocked down by the shortstop and they can't make the play. We're rooting for them to make the play to get the inning over. South is playing really short handed Denny just so you know they've got a bunch of guys going on the band trip. Not able to make that play shortstop was Elliot Peton. Another pinch hitter for north. Brendan Fortin up for north. Brendan is pinch hitting for Ben Miller. So Yeager reaches on the air. Fortin up. These kind of games it's nice to be able to get the substitutes in. How many they haven't had a banquet with 250 people at old timers in years. You gotta feel sorry for them. Do they have enough buses up north to ship down people? Yeah go ahead take it. Yeah he has to print some more. To get some more printed I only had about 100 printed up. Fortin draws a walk Ellen. Para coming up. Para is one for three tonight. He had a single and a couple of RBIs back in the third. He reached on the air in the fourth and scored. That's where we're at right now. It's been a big inning for north. There's a drive into the gap in right center field. It's down for a hit. Fortin was gonna go to third but right Chris Wright stops and brings them back and north as the base is loaded. Another case where Coach Wright doesn't want to rub it in. Nicholas Bickler for north as Derek Lumens comes out to change pitchers. Four to three Brewers in bottom of the seventh. South had some opportunities early on in the game. What were you? I didn't see you. Warming up for south is Brendan Timler. North so far here in the fourth has scored 11 runs and the roof is just caved in on the South Siders. Good hitting. Some really spotty fielding Tom. Well he got the left hander up there now so everything's in good hands. Whoops. Oh I can remember. You remember Freddie Spieth? Teacher at Slinger. Long time football coach actually. He caught Audit Horge Grove one of the years I was playing. He caught a game that I was pitching. Man a life. I was like a gymnastics person out on the mound trying to catch his throws back. They were all over the place. One hoppers, two hoppers off to the left, off to the right. It's nice when you have those catchers that just boom, right at your chest. Trying to play first base. Actually it was really good at picking up the scoopers was John Moriarty. Up for north is Beckler. For Lindow, Beckler takes the pitch high. Nicholas Pickler 11 runs in the inning at 17 to 1. Hey Denny have you ever gotten any complaints when that really bright light goes on in the advertising section of the scoreboard? I don't want to complain but it's actually a distraction for the announcer. Wow. That'll change it then for sure. Right. Now we'll get something done. Oh boy. Oh they're trying to bunt for an odd. Timler throws. Got him. Witter. Taking one for the team in a sense. Get him out of the inning. Chris showed good sportsmanship there. He knows this one is out of hand. 12 run inning. Out of here and this inning and then the game is over. Get him home. The reason it only showed a 2 in the bottom of the fourth score doesn't go up higher than 9. So is it 12 run inning? I'm sure Denny will get that change pretty quick. Yeah we need another new scoreboard Denny. Yeah. Yeah. Could you put another scoreboard out there too? Just leave the other ones up there. Just take your pick people. That's one thing I'll always remember. In the center field there was a porch light and if that guy would have that porch light on and if it was a right handed pitcher it would be coming right out of that back light. That guy every once in a while not a lot of times but every once in a while he'd have that back porch light on. Geez. Just a bug me. For a left handed batter for the right handed batters they didn't notice it so much. Right where the ball was coming on. The pitcher, Brendan Timler, is going to finish off the fourth inning and now he's going to lead off. He drives one straight away center field but right at Para and he makes the catch. Timler had a nice base hit in the first inning a single to left and I think it was that single to right but now he hit the ball hard again so he's hit the ball two out of his three times and Seth Stolpa who started off in the left field and then went to the mound and didn't have a lot of success there but now he's up here it go. Working fast. Another pitch low so you think 200 people he's bringing huh? Yeah he better. Better make it more than a week ahead of time. They don't have to start chopping up cows. You better make sure that he's that many are coming if he says they're coming in. And they make all that food. Yes exactly. We'll save you some pitches followed off. It makes the count three balls and two strikes. Caught the catcher I think in the area. Oh boy that's not good. It doesn't matter if you're a tough kid or not it still does hurt. Johnson stooping down. Makes the call. Pitches low and in. Stolpa draws a walk. That brings up Mason Prunik. Prunik had that infield hit back in the fourth inning. Really showed off his speed that time. You guys went to that Brewer Cup game the other day didn't you? That last game of the series. Yeah they up and down the lineup and they had area out of pitching that day too so makes it pretty tough. Pitches outside even the count at one and one. What's amazing about Arietta is that you know he wasn't that much tell about two years ago and all of a sudden he's a world beater. It's like what happened? Unloaded him and all of a sudden. Yeah just in time to be a star. Eric stepping off let his defense get set before he delivers the next pitch coming in with the fastball. Prunik falls it off. I told my wife I'd be home relatively early tonight. I said these high school games are only seven innings you know. Well Prunik got started late because of the JV game. We're at over two hours right now. Imagine what it'd be like if he had to play seven. He's got him. Oh no. He was out. Looked like he was out. Well the empires have had a better night than south. I would say Eric delivers and Prunik pops it up taken by Lindow and there's two outs bent Soik. Yep one more out unless South can rally for seven, eight. They need eight. Get it under ten. Well 17 to tie, 18 to take the lead. Yeah hey it's doable right over his shoulders bent over. Soik is over two stuck out in the second and hit into a fielder's choice in the fourth drive. Drives one to the center field but coming over his par on he makes the catch and that's the ball game. That should do it Mike. Yep should we get north the winner in this first of two north south games this week. The next one will be Thursday. Tonight it was north 18 south one. Thanks to the crew for their hard work and for my partner Tom Grahams. I'm Mike Martin saying thanks for watching everybody and we'll see you down the road.