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Carson Douglas Baseball… @ Carson…

The rivalry series moved to Carson tonight, under the lights…  Carson got on the board in the first inning and kinda didn’t look back winning 6-1.  Some changes to the Douglas infield after yesterday’s game at Douglas…

Both teams have three days rest before a four games in four days end to the season… then playoffs!

Here are some shots from today…

A quick shout out to the Carson Douglas JV Teams… check out your school galleries, your photos are up, it’s just late, I have a league shoot tomorrow and need to get some sleep…

I have to single this photo out… Prom is tomorrow for Carson… Cole was showing the fellas his moves… still photos don’t do it justice, a video would have been much better… maybe next time!  🙂

Carson Softball… vs. McQueen…

This post makes my 200th post to our blog… that’s effectively 200 “events” that I’ve covered… 🙂

Before I get to the Carson Douglas baseball games… when I arrived at Carson today I was pleasantly surprised that the Carson Softball Team WAS able to get their game that was scheduled for tomorrow moved to today… so I was able to get some shots of the girls before heading over to the JV Carson Douglas Baseball game…

Here are two shots of the girls putting the bat to the ball to take a win from McQueen…

 

Carson Douglas Baseball today… @ Douglas High…

The season is wrapping up in just over a week but there is no shortage of games left… most all the teams still have five games left… and the regular season is over in just 8 days… that’s a lot of baseball… this next week is going to take it’s toll on a lot of teams and right before playoffs…

Douglas hosted Carson today for their two day back to back games (@Carson tomorrow night under the lights 7:00 PM game…).  With the season getting down to the wire and with the middle section of the NIAA 4A Northern Region standings about as topsy-turvy as it can get with teams needing wins to stay in the hunt… game 1 of the Carson Douglas home and away was… well… it’s kinda hard to candy coat it… the game was ugly.  But a win is a win and Carson left Tiger Field with a 5-4 8th inning win.

I’m going to let the “journalists” write about this one… I’ll just put some photos up to show some of the shots I got today… click on them to make them larger… see all the images at the links on the side.

Come on out tomorrow to Carson under the lights!!  Should be a great evening of baseball!

Carson Douglas Softball today… @ Douglas High

Just a quick post with some photos… super busy right now trying to process all the league photos… so no game update other than a quick comment… it was a good stats day for Carson… runs, home runs, etc…  Carson Douglas Baseball is also later this week… Thursday @ Douglas (3:45) and Friday @ Carson under the lights (7:00).  Hope to see you out there!

Click on the images below for a larger version… found some cool angles to shoot the pitchers… (softball rules and the little media box on the field are ridiculous….)

I think this is my favorite shot of the day…

… add in a little slap action… (I first learned about this back in college dating a softball player (she was a ridiculously quick slapper…)… having NEVER been to a softball game before to experience this for the first time… it was quite an lesson… oh the things college exposes you to…) 🙂  I still think this is one of the most clever things in sports… done well and with control… you’re at least 1/2 way to first before they get to the ball… love it!

Round it out with Carson’s Senior Pitcher, who pitched every inning for Carson today…

 

 

CHS Varsity Softball and JV Baseball today…

Carson Softball hosted Wooster today… I got a lot of batting photos… The Senators went through the batting order in the first inning… I speculated that the game was going to go this way so I tried to maximize the day… 🙂

Two quick innings of fielding (as in not really any photos other than the obvious of the pitcher and catcher (shout out to Malia… who was brought up from the JV today due to a varsity injury…)…

Here are two batting shots of the girls…

Then I went over to the JV Baseball game… they hosted Reed (the Varsity was away at Reed and won!!)

Here are a few from the JV Baseball game…

A base is a base… 🙂 you can almost feel this one!

This fella stepped up to the plate twice while I was at the game… two hits up the middle… look at that bat flex…!

And Nevin behind the dish… I’ve been photographing Nevin catching for a few years… Here he is back in 2008 in an All Star Tournament…

And here he is today…

This is what a lot of this is about for me… of course I need to make a living doing this… but creating memories of these times, that’s a big part of what I’m trying to do.  I’m glad I can be here to do this! 🙂

Carson High Baseball… vs. Reed High

School’s back in session now so the season’s started back up after a short break… Today Carson hosted Reed High, they play Thursday up at Reed…  In today’s game, Carson tied the game but couldn’t hold on in the 7th and Reed pulled out a 3-1 win…

Here are some images from today’s game… Still playing with some different things… 🙂

Carson High Baseball… vs. Reno High

Hands down, the worst miserable nasty weather today… at least for shooting baseball!  Come on Mother Nature… give the “breeze” a break!

Not a great day for Carson High Baseball… I decided to try some new stuff today, play around with a longer lens, shoot a little tighter, just mess around… boy do I wish the weather had been ANY bit nicer… I’m still cold and I left the park nearly three hours ago…

So here’s some stuff from the game… I just had to shoot the catcher for Reno, I’m a sucker for color and not much looks better than red, white and blue…

… back to the Carson fellas… like I mentioned, tried some tighter shooting… just messing around… there are now 504 images of the Varsity team on the site for 2012… I’m always anxious for feedback.  🙂

 

Had to have a little “conference” on the mound… defense wasn’t Carson’s strong point today…

Dion Squared…

Tyler in the game in the later innings…

… some pinch hitters in the bottom of the 7th… made a rally… but Reno had built a pretty sizable lead by then…

Carson High Baseball… vs. North Valleys

Today Carson completed the series sweep of North Valleys at home.  The game started out slowly… With the game tied 1-1, and Carson without a hit going into the 5th then things finally turned their way… 7 hits later and some aggressive base running we’re heading home 11-1…

Here are some hitting shots from the afternoon… I was late to the game today because I was working with the Track team… so not many photos from today… but some of the hits that made the win happen!  More from the season at the link on the side.

Casey laying down a bunt… which advanced two runners!

Nick smacking one deep into the outfield for a triple!

Douglas Baseball vs. McQueen

The Tigers hosted McQueen this afternoon… the WIND… WOW!  So annoying, blowing so hard, just relentless… but the games must go on!  Again, I’m not any sort of a baseball “knowing” guy… but the game seem quite evenly matched, it ended 1-0 McQueen… There were hits, guys on base, but no one seemed to be able to move the runners home…  Douglas travels to McQueen on Thursday for the second half of their series…. Here are a few shots from the afternoon… more at the link on the side.  Click to see these larger….