(Anita) Class 1A #9 CAM takes a 22-6 record into the district baseball tournament. We’ll have the Cougars on the air Saturday evening when they open the postseason with 3-14 Griswold.
Offense has been a strength for CAM while the pitching could sharpen up according to coach Dan Daugherty. CAM is 2nd in Class 1A with 22 home runs on the season and 4th in RBI. Their pitching staff leads the state in opponent batting average at .136 and is 2nd in strikeouts with 267, but they’ve allowed 107 walks and have hit 62 batters. “Up and down the lineup, putting the ball in play is one of our top things we are doing right. The bottom is we aren’t throwing enough strikes. We need to improve on that if we’re going to go very far.”
CAM won nine straight games from June 15th-28th. Since then they’ve gone 3-3 with a few losses to Class 2A and 3A schools. “We schedule those so we can face some pretty good pitching going into the postseason and we did. We didn’t actually hit it all that well. The difference in those games was the number of people we put on base with a walk or a hit by pitch. We have to improve on that.”
The winner of this game gets either SW Valley or Bedford on Tuesday in the district semifinals.
