2019 SOC 1

[StateTheFacts]

this needs to stop. the same topic has taken over several threads. this is supposed to be about the soc 1 not about parent not happy with the coaching at green.

I agree 100%. There are parents with hurt feelings all over the place, but you don't see them on here attacking coaches and claiming they are just objective viewers. It's stupid and childish. But, if you knew this person, you'd completely understand.



1. Clay - 1 and 2 interchangable
2. ND
3. Green - Could surprise
4. SV - lost too much talent
5. Eastern
6. Western
7. New Boston
8. St Joe - Plays a lot of little league caliber teams



9. East - Never

1. Clay- Too much senior talent and experience
2. ND- Great team with a great pitching staff
3. SV- Always competitive and experience coaching staff helps
4. Eastern- Will surprise and could have won a few more games last year if things went right
5. Western/Green- toss-up but are getting better and can improve if the coaches improve their schedules for the tough road
7. New Boston- program seems to have gone downhill a bit over the last couple of years
8. East/St.Joe- Be surprised if they win a handful of games or even have enough to have a team since they have so few kids being a private or community school. Some people like to beat up on them which is a shame.

[beaverlover]

St.Joe will not be a SOC 1 member until next school year as Eastern moves to SOC 2,so 2020 softball season I believe.

[ManitouDan2]

Didnt know Eastern was headed to the SOC 2 , is that in all sports ? Just female ? That will be. rough move for them , not like they dominate any SOC1 sport .

[beaverlover]

Didnt know Eastern was headed to the SOC 2 , is that in all sports ? Just female ? That will be. rough move for them , not like they dominate any SOC1 sport .

Yep,all sports but football starting next year.

[ManitouDan2]

Going to be tough on the girls side for sure .. they cant compete in softball in the 2 , and basketball will be tough .

[beaverlover]

Going to be tough on the girls side for sure .. they cant compete in softball in the 2 , and basketball will be tough .

I like the move for basketball,just bad timing on year they go in as next year will be a down year compared to last few . but all other sports will struggle to get wins for sure.

[Softballfan76]

Couple days into the season...any word on turnouts for the schools?

[BobcatBall]

Couple days into the season...any word on turnouts for the schools?

Green has 20 girls this season. Looking to have Varsity and JV Squads for the first time in school history.

[SoftballGirl]

Hearing Clay had their first practice outside last week and may have the numbers for a JV team.

[Tartanblue]

Couple days into the season...any word on turnouts for the schools?

Green has 20 girls this season. Looking to have Varsity and JV Squads for the first time in school history.

I thought Green had a JV team around 07-09? I could be wrong and just played a couple JV games though.

[Claypanthers19]

Hearing Clay had their first practice outside last week and may have the numbers for a JV team.

Yes we have numbers now but I fear for the younger players our program is falling, Eastern hired the Felts coach for Jr high and Varsity in a means to pull a Burg and get his daughter to come out there to play. I seen her pitch at an indoor hit day against burg Jr.Varsity and was sitting them down the younger girls travel forums call her top 4 in southern ohio ??????? They allowed the little league district guy to take over Clay Jr. High

[ManitouDan2]

I really laughed at " pulled a Burg" .. what total nonsense . Burgs softball talent is largely , maybe exclusively home grown. Really a stupid , jealous comment.

[Softballdad]

Who is Felts that is a top 4 player? Never heard that named mentioned on here.

[SOSoftball]

Hearing Clay had their first practice outside last week and may have the numbers for a JV team.

Yes we have numbers now but I fear for the younger players our program is falling, Eastern hired the Felts coach for Jr high and Varsity in a means to pull a Burg and get his daughter to come out there to play. I seen her pitch at an indoor hit day against burg Jr.Varsity and was sitting them down the younger girls travel forums call her top 4 in southern ohio ??????? They allowed the little league district guy to take over Clay Jr. High

Since my last post got deleted I will try to be a little more civil this time.

Not sure how a program is falling apart when there are 18 kids on the High School team and 14 kids on the middle school team. That's 32 kids in a program for a small school like Clay I think is great. You have 20+ kids involved in the program from grades 7-9. Sounds like someone isn't happy with what his/her role was or wasn't going to be and decided to bash the program before he left.

[beaverlover]

Any SOC 1 teams had scrimmages yet? Results? Eastern will scrimmage Minford tonight and Southeastern Wednesday

[SOSoftball]

Clay and Green have games tomorrow at the scrimmages in West Portsmouth. Clay will play Logan Elm and Coal Grove. Green will play Portsmouth and Piketon.

[mglight88]

Scrimmage at Minford
Eastern Pike 1
Minford 19

[Moses Guthrie]

Hearing Clay had their first practice outside last week and may have the numbers for a JV team.

Yes we have numbers now but I fear for the younger players our program is falling, Eastern hired the Felts coach for Jr high and Varsity in a means to pull a Burg and get his daughter to come out there to play. I seen her pitch at an indoor hit day against burg Jr.Varsity and was sitting them down the younger girls travel forums call her top 4 in southern ohio ??????? They allowed the little league district guy to take over Clay Jr. High

Since my last post got deleted I will try to be a little more civil this time.

Not sure how a program is falling apart when there are 18 kids on the High School team and 14 kids on the middle school team. That's 32 kids in a program for a small school like Clay I think is great. You have 20+ kids involved in the program from grades 7-9. Sounds like someone isn't happy with what his/her role was or wasn't going to be and decided to bash the program before he left.

I can appreciate you being more professional in your follow up post, however your original response was dead on. Lol

[KSW]

I really laughed at " pulled a Burg" .. what total nonsense . Burgs softball talent is largely , maybe exclusively home grown. Really a stupid , jealous comment.

Their CB numbers for this year would make one think this is not entirely true. 31 is one of the highest in DIII.

[ManitouDan2]

I dont even know what that means .. 31 .. I know this , Howard, Coleman , Cunningham , Dempsey , and a long long list of other tremendous former and current players are all homegrown. In softball should be zero whining about Burg transfers . You can argue football, hoops , other sports all you want , but this the softball board and Burg hasnt had to use a single transfer to get where they are , and to won what they have won already. I'm not saying they havent had a transfer , I'm saying their home grown talent is the reason they are where they are .