Don’t Miss out on the 2012 Baseball Open Gym (you read that right, BASEBALL)

Baseball Open Gym is open to Grantsburg boys 4th-8th Grade that have an interest in baseball. The Focus of Open Gym will be:

Hitting-focus on Mechanics/Fundamentals, Situational Hitting, Bat Speed/Hitting with Power

Fielding-focus on Throwing Fundamentals,Mechanics, Infield Footwork, Ground Balls,

Game Play-focus on situational plays with an indoor game of baseball.

Open Gym Dates Schedule will be on the following Sundays From 5:30-7:00pm at the Grantsburg Middle School Gym 

Sunday January 22nd

Sunday January 29th

February Sunday 12th

Sunday February 19th

Sunday February 26th

Sunday March 4th

Sunday March 11th

Sunday March 18th

Open gym is brought to you by Grantsburg High School Baseball Coaches Pete Johnson and Ted Gerber. If you have any questions please call Ted Gerber at 715-463-3456

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Baseball open gym

Here's the radio replay as heard on Classic Hits 105.7 WXCX.

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State Semi-final replay

Here's the link to the four D3 teams' info pages… the same pages you'll see in the program if you go to Appleton to watch them play on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Division 3 rosters

The Coleman Cougars are 21-1 and champions of the Marinette & Oconto conference. They are ranked second in the D3 poll.

The Winnebago Lutheran Vikings are 20-5 and co-champions of the Flyway Conference. They are ranked sixth in the D3 poll.

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Info on the other state teams

This will be the first time the Grantsburg baseball team has participated at the state tournament since they moved it to Spring sport a few years ago. The last time Grantsburg made it to State was 1998… head coach Pete Johnson's first year (or half year, as it were… he took over the program from Dick Peper who passed away in the middle of the season that year).

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More info on state venue

The pep rally is open to the public and will begin at 8:20.

Hope to see you there!

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Grantsburg baseball pep session

The Grantsburg Pirate baseball team is heading to the state championships next week (June 15th and 16th). They defeated Chequamegon 9-4 in the semi-final game and then destroyed Elk Mound (the team the football team blew out in the first level of the playoffs… just remembered that one… wish I had during the broadcast) 21-9. FINAL BRACKET

The games are in Appleton and you can learn more about the venue here (here's a map). The Pirates will be taking on Pardeeville in the semi-finals.

I always think that getting to state is the ultimate goal, now that they're there, maybe they could bring home another nice big trophy!

Here's the replay of the championship game. It starts off with a real DJ talking about Gordon Lightfoot. It's not me… I'm the one bumbling through the intro to the game.

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It never gets old

photo courtesy of Steve Johnson

Another regional championship is in the books for Grantsburg. They beat Cameron 9-3 on Thursday night to stay perfect on the season, 20-0.

Cameron was a spirited team with good fundamentals and they took advantage of a couple Grantsburg mistakes early in the game. Grantsburg trailed early in the game but eventually pulled away late to win it in seven innings. By the way… it was the first time all year that Grantsburg trailed in a game. It lasted half an inning.

This was only the second time all year Grantsburg was forced to go all seven (there's a ten run rule after five innings). Cameron fell to 19-2 on the season.

Grantsburg will be traveling to Hurley on Tuesday game time is 5pm. We're trying to figure out how to broadcast their game and also get the baseball games on the air as the Grantsburg baseball team has also advanced to Sectionals and plays in Osseo at 11am that Thursday and if they win they play again at 5pm.

Here's the audio replay of the game as heard on WXCX and streamed online at redrockonair.com.

Great job, Pirates!
 

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Grantsburg fast pitch regional champs again!

Overall it was a nice team win for the Pirates.

Early in the game it looked like it was going to be a struggle as the Pirates were just not getting that clutch hit, leaving several base runners in scoring position through the first four innings. But the fifth inning saw Gavin Meyer go WWWWWAAAAAYYY deep to left center for a two run home run and that was a huge lift to the Pirates and carried them on to a victory. They added two more in the bottom of the sixth on a two run error with two outs and runners on second and third. It was a routine pop-up to the pitcher who came off the mound and near the first base line, but saw the ball pop out of his glove and his throw home was too late to get the second runner. I felt bad for the kid who was pitching in relief in the sixth.
 

The Pirates play at 11am in Osseo for their sectional semifinal and if they win they'll stay there and play at five. As of this post, their opponent is unknown. [BRACKET]

A possible conflict… if the Pirate softball team wins tomorrow night they will also play the following Tuesday in Hurley, which is about seven miles south of the north pole, so it will be very difficult to get to both games. This has happened in the past, but not with so much ground to cover between the games.

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Grantsburg baseball regional champions!

Game starts at 5pm.

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Grantsburg vs. Cameron Regional Final Live Stream