District 7 legion tournament

[jason bourne]

Any informationn on the tournament schedule at the VA?.

Brackets for both the district and state brackets if out yet would be great

[bengalfan76]

Starts tonight
Waverly at WCH 5:30
Post 757 at Hillsboro 5:00
Post 62 at Circlville ( Teays Valley) at 5:30

[CoachB.]

Post 757 at Hillsboro bumped back to 7 pm start.

[bengalfan76]

Winners Bracket Hillsboro vs Circleville 1pm at Va
Losers Bracket Post 23 vs Post 62 4pm at Va

[theburgtheword]

I heard that almost all the legion teams in Chillicothe had horrible win/loss records this summer. What is the reason for this? High school baseball is good in that area. I am sure that some kids play travel ball, but not all of them.

[bengalfan76]

Todays action.
Circleville defeated Hillsboro 5-4 in 10 innings to move to Tuesdays Final
Portsmouth defeated Post 62 13-5

Hillsboro will play Portsmouth tomorrow at 6 at VA Memorial Stadium for a chance to go to the finals Tuesday.

[svcbaseballfan]

teamwork, I think one reason local legion teams struggled this year is because of the talent being spread out. Chillicothe is a small town, and to have 2 teams trying to pull from the area makes it tough. Not to mention, like you said, many of the local kids go to Columbus, or Cincinnati and play travel ball. I think another reason the area teams really struggled is the kids today have so much going on, and do not dedicate all their time to baseball. They take 2 weeks vacation, Monday night basketball league, 7 vs. 7 football, camps, etc, etc.

[theburgtheword]

Good points. I know when I was a kid, it was baseball season in the summer. The family scheduled vacation around baseball. People are just not dedicated at anything today.

[bman]

Circleville also didn't have a post team back then and quite a few of the Pickaway County kids would play for the Chillicothe teams. More competition, plus a smaller area to draw from and it adds up.

[danicalifornia]

Agreed with the above post. When I played, we had several Highland, Pike and Pickaway County players on both Chillicothe teams. Add a few of the Circleville kids to either Chillicothe team and you've got much more depth.

[swbaseballfan]

any updates for post 23 today?

[bengalfan76]

Post 23 wins loser bracket final over Hillsboro 13-3 in 8 innings.
Winning Pitcher Wade Martin.

Play Circleville tomorrow night at 6

[bengalfan76]

circleville District 7 champion