Next internet audio broadcast Tuesday

Scott Johnston plans to broadcast Limeport at Coplay on Tuesday, Gabelsville at Woodlawn on Thursday and Limeport at Coplay again on Saturday...

Depending on how long the Owls/Fleetwings game goes on Thursday, he may try and get down to catch the game at Limeport in progress, but that remains to be seen...

Fleetwings and Limeport advance to Semis

The Woodlawn Fleetwings scored six runs in the top of the seventh to beat Jordan Creek 6-3 and in similar fashion, the Limeport Bulls scored 4 runs in the final 2 frames to beat the Northern Yankees 4-3, as both teams swept their respective first round series and advance to the Trico Semifinals, which begins on Tuesday, July 31...

Limeport will visit #1 seed Coplay (at Scherersville #5, a field where the Bulls hold a 4-1 record at during the 2007 season) and the Fleetwings will visit #2 seed Gabelsville...Both games start at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday...

Here is a link to the stat sheets, website articles and archived audio broadcasts of both games played on Saturday:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/2007_schedule/July_28.shtml

Second internet broadcast slated for Saturday

Weather and equipment permitting, I will attempt to broadcast both games from the Scherersville fields today, Woodlawn at Jordan Creek at 3:15 and then Limeport at the Northern Yankees at 5:30...

The link to get to the broadcasts is here:

http://www.meridix.com/everywhere.php?liveid=tricountyleague

Then click on the blue box that says "Live" which won't appear until the broadcast is under way...

First Trico internet broadcast in the books

The Northern Yankees vs. Limeport Bulls game on Thursday night was the league's first Live Audio play-by-play broadcast and it is archived and can be listened to at any time from this link:

http://www.meridix.com/archive.php?liveid=tricountyleague

As we get more more familiar with the software, we should have music breaks between innings and hopefully each broadcast will improve a little bit with experience...

We did have a postgame recap where Scott Johnston interviewed Yankees' manager Brian Polaha, Bulls' pitcher and "Player of the Game" Scott Stewart and Bulls' manager Dylan Dando...

Just a note: With threatening weather for Saturday afternoon and two open fields with no shelter for fans and more importantly broadcasters, we may not be able to broadcast the Fleetwings or Yankees game because of the possibility of extremely hot and humid conditions and the chance of a sudden thunderstorm and no cover for a laptop and 34-pound powerpack to power the laptop...

We'll see how it goes...

Trico's first live internet play-by-play broadcast on Thursday

Unless an issue comes up at Limeport Stadium and there is some reason we cannot broadcast from there due to signal strength issues, then we will have the Northern Yankees at Limeport broadcast live with streaming audio from the internet on Thursday, July 26 at 7:30...

The link to listen to the game is here:

http://www.meridix.com/everywhere.php?liveid=tricountyleague

If there are no technical issues, announcing the game will be Scott Johnston and Steve Smull.

Trico looks to broadcast Playoff games live on the internet

The Tri-County League hopes to have live audio (play-by-play) with Real-time scores (similar to what you see on ESPN.com, MLB.com and other sports sites) of playoff games...There will be a link on our home page to click on to listen in on our games on the internet...

If possible, we will try and do one game a day...

More details to follow in the next 24 hours as we try some test broadcasts...

Stats updated

There are 2 games to be played on Tuesday to conclude the 2007 Trico regular season, and then the Playoffs begin Thursday...

Stats are updated with all 153 games played included...One final update will be made late tomorrow night or WED, after the TUE games are completed...

The 2007 Trico Playoffs are set

#1 seed Coplay and #2 seed Gabelsville have byes...

#6 Jordan Creek will play the #3 Woodlawn Fleetwings and the #5 Northern Yankees will play #4 Limeport starting this Thursday, July 26 in Best-of-3 first round series...

The Best-of-5 semifinals start Tuesday, July 31...

The Best-of-5 Finals are slated to start Thursday, August 9...

Jordan Creek's magic number is 1 to reach playoffs

Jordan Creek clinched a tie for the final playoff spot with their 8-5 win over Cetronia on Wednesday...One more win or one ICC loss will give the Gators the final playoff berth outright...The Pirates can still force a 1-game playoff by winning their remaining 2 games (one is against JC) and having JC lose their other game against Coplay...

The Coplay Reds clinched the #1 seed WED night with an 8-1 win over Pennridge...Eric Scmitt went 4-for-4, Jesse Borden was 2-for-3 and Matt Monti was 2-for-4 to lead the Reds...Josh Faust picked up the win...

Jordan Creek now has #6 seed

Jose Medina tossed a 3-hit shutout and knocked in a run to lead Jordan Creek over the Northern Yankees 2-0...That result, coupled with a Limeport sweep over Cetronia (Paul Smith won Game 1 and Ryan Gerber won Game 2), puts the Gators a game up on Cetronia and is the only team of the three competing for the final playoff berth who controls their own destiny now...Coplay defeated ICC 5-3, but the Pirates are still alive for the final berth...A crucial game takes place this WED as JC visits Cetronia...The Longhorns will be eliminated from playoff contention with a loss...

Playoff Scenarios can be found here:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Main_pages/2007_playoff_scenarios.shtml

And the League Leaders have been updated (includes all games played through July 15) and can be found here:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Main_pages/2007_League_Leaders.shtml

Cetronia now owns the #6 seed

The Cetronia Longhorns have won 6 of their last 10 games to move into the #6 seed after Sunday's action, leading Jordan Creek by 1/2 a game and the ICC Pirates by 1 game...

Playoff scenarios can be found on the Standings page...

Josh Hunter got the win as Cetronia beat ICC 8-5 on Sunday...George U. Horn was 2-for-4, Randy Redman was 2-for-3, Jake Grieseme was 2-for-3, Bryan Litzenberger was 2-for-4 and Andrew hartenstine was 2-for-3 for the Longhorns...Dave O'Leary was 2-for-3 for ICC in defeat...

The stats have been updated and here is the link to get there:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Main_pages/Team_Statistics.shtml

League leaders will be updated late on Monday night...

ICC, Cetronia win to create 3-way tie for final playoff spot

Cetronia thrashed Quakertown 13-3 and ICC defeated the Fleetwings 5-0 to create a virtual 3-way tie between Cetronia, ICC and Jordan Creek for the final playoff spot with 10 days left in the regular season...

Erik Ruff was 3-for-4 with 2 homers, a 2B and 3 RBI for the Pirates and threw a CG, 4-hit shutout...For the website article on that game, click here:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Website_Articles/W_2007-7-13_Pirates_at_Fleet.shtml

Leslie tosses 1-hitter

Brandon Leslie tossed a 1-hitter with 8 strikeouts to lead Coplay to a big 3-1 win over the Fleetwings on Thursday...

Scott Garger broke up the no-no with a line-drive single to center to lead off the 6th inning...

J.R. Graver had a 2-run single during a 3-run first for the Reds...

Scott Bolasky retired the last 14 batters he faced in defeat...

More Morning Call articles posted

The Morning Call articles from 1984 and 1985 posted...

Longhorns within 1 game of final playoff spot

Cetronia won their 3rd straight game with an 11-3 win over Pennridge on Sunday to pull them within one game of idle Jordan Creek, who now owns the #6 seed after the ICC Pirates lost to Coplay...

Josh Hunter, who has pitched well all season, got the win for Cetronia, while George Horn was 3-for-4 with a 2B and 2 runs scored, Jeff Mazalewski was 2-for-3 and Randy Redman was 2-for-4 for the Longhorns. Todd Allebach was 2-for-4, Sean Wilson was 2-for-3 and Kyle Stralo was 2-for-3 for Pennridge...

Jordan Creek leads ICC by 1/2 a game and Cetronia by 1 game with just 2 weeks to go in the regular season...

Cetronia's sweep gets them back in playoff hunt

Adam Jaindl's game-winning single in Game 1 propelled the Longhorns to a DH sweep of Quakertown on Saturday, pulling Cetronia within 1 1/2 games of the 6th and final playoff spot...

Currently, Jordan Creek and ICC are tied for the final playoff spot with the Gators percentage points in front, but the Pirates have two games in hand...

League Leaders reposted

With three more categories and the correct ERA leader as MS-Excel somehow omitted Matt Reppert when I did the sorts on the ERA category... It has been corrected...

League Leaders can be found by clicking on the Stats link on the navigation bar...

Also, Morning Call articles for 1986 and part of 1985 have been added to the site...

Stats updated, League Leaders posted

Stats have been updated again and can be accessed from this page:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Main_pages/Team_Statistics.shtml

League Leaders have been posted under the Stats link or can be seen here:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Main_pages/2007_League_Leaders.shtml

Swatsky, Faust stay hot, stage set for Thursday showdown

Ben Swatsky went 3-for-4 with 2 doubles and a triple on Monday to lead the Fleetwings to their 12th straight win in a 4-3 win over the Bulls at Limeport Stadium...Swatsky is 12 for his last 16 and the Website Article on this game can be found here:

http://www.tricountyleague.com/Website_Articles/W_2007-7-02_Fleetwings_at_Lime.shtml

Jeremy Faust went 3-for-3 on Tuesday to help lead Coplay to an 8-2 win over the Northern Yankees...Faust is 8 for his last 10...

Both players will be on the field as Coplay (20-2-1) visits Woodlawn (18-4-1) this Thursday, July 5th in a North Division showdown with the inside path to 1st place on the line...

Weekend tidbits

Friday:

The South defeated the North 4-2 in the Trico All-Star Game...Evan Kiesel went 2-for-2 for the South, while Matt Godusky went 2-for-2 with a 2B and a 3B for the North...

Saturday:

Trico history was made as a father-son combo started for both teams in the same game...George Horn and George U. Horn for Cetronia and Ray Ganser and Adam Ganser for the Fleetwings started Game 1 of a twin-bill...

Sunday:

Speaking of the Fleetwings, they won their 11th straight to pull within 2 games of North Division leader Coplay with a 6-2 win over Quakertown as Matt Hlay tied Chad Arnold and Justin Konnick for 19th on the all-time Trico win list with his 43rd career win...