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Douglas vs. Manogue Varsity Baseball…

A strange game today… I’m always learning the rules, the strategies of the game, etc… today some strange things happened… and this is from my perspective… based on what I heard and saw… and I’m NO baseball expert by any stretch of the imagination….

Bottom of the 7th, Manogue 5-3, no outs… Douglas with runners on 1st and 2nd…  Batter pops the ball up… the Manogue shortstop and 3rd baseman loose the ball in the “ball colored” sky and it drops to the ground, apparently the field umpire called it an infield fly (but no one heard this…)(supposed to be an out… I don’t totally understand the entire idea behind this rule… but it’s a rule… ) the runners started advancing… the runner reaching third thought he was out by force… but if it’s and infield fly then it’s not a force… I’m confused just writing all of this…

Anyway… Douglas’ Manager was out to “discuss” this with the umpires… out he goes after a long “discussion”…. when we get back to baseball… Douglas now has two outs… Douglas puts another runner on, then drives them both in… tie game at 5… base hit, pinch runner, another single… the Douglas 3rd base coach sends the runner… a collision at home plate (see the photo below and in the Douglas gallery)… the Douglas runner touches home plate, ump calls him safe, game over… that’s the speed reader version… tensions high… fans chipping away too… time to exit stage right for me!

WOW that was a wild one!  Still not sure I exactly understand all of what I witnessed…

Here are some photos from the day!  🙂  The good stuff for me…  More photographic “editorial” comments below the photos… Click on the photos to see them larger….

Shooting at Douglas for these 11:00 AM games is a bit of a nightmare… but you get what you get when you shoot outdoor sports… The problem is the sun is blasting the field players from behind… so you have to accommodate for that which then blows out the sky… The batters will have a harsh shadow across some part of their face… The pitchers, when they stretch back you get part of them blasted with sun and part in the shade of their own body… then let’s add in some white pants… 🙂  Gotta love photography!  See you out at the fields soon!

Carson High Baseball… vs. Wooster

The Carson High Baseball team took two league wins this week from Wooster to improve to 5-3 on the season.  After trailing for most of the game Carson pulled out an 8th inning series of hits, with a touch of help from Wooster, to win 4-3.

Here are some shot from tonights game…

First up… Casey’s “Wooster aided” double… the throw to first didn’t hit the spot and off to second base Casey went… I’ve been trying to get this kind of shot for sometime… glad it had some significance when I did!!  🙂

Casey’s double was followed by Charlie’s hit… the game winning hit… no ball in this one but still I think kinda a cool shot…

The fellas were kneeling behind the mound as Gehrig Tucker warmed up late in the game…

Some shots from the game…

High School Baseball today… @ Carson High… Carson/Douglas…

Four games today… I shot two and maybe 1/5th of them…  Carson High for two and Douglas for 1 1/5th… The sun went down so I played around a bit with shooting under the lights… ehhhh… is about all I can say for that… 🙂

Tough day for Carson… I’ll leave it at that… GREAT day for Douglas!

Two of the young fellas that when I first started shooting here in the Carson/Douglas area were on the Carson Valley Little League All Star teams are now Freshman starting on the Douglas Varsity Team… It’s really great to see them succeed at this level!

Here are a few of the shots I got of them today…

Here’s that late afternoon sun I talked about Thursday at Carson High…

Some more shots of the Douglas pitcher… Cody Begovich… he pitched quite well against Carson today!  Love that leg action!

I set up a remote camera today to “test” it out… I learned a lot… here’s a shot from the remote rig today…

… and a few shots of Carson today that I liked… 🙂  Rough day for the Senators!

I AM ready for some BASEBALL!!! Carson High Baseball today!

The weather… well, I’m speaking softly so as to not alert Mother Nature that it’s BASEBALL SEASON!!!  The weather was amazing tonight… a bit breezy but the sun was out… this opening tournament should see great weather throughout!!

Carson High kicked off their season today at home in the Mike Bearman Memorial Tournament against Fallon.  Carson won… I don’t honestly remember the score… (I should be better about that… opps…)  It’s opening day for me too… gotta get the cobwebs out… 🙂  (… it hasn’t helped being sick for the last three weeks…) and I’m shooting this season with some “new to this season” equipment… I’m anxious to hear any feedback… 🙂

So… why you really came to the site… here are some photos from today… more in the gallery on the side…

Carson is up at Spanish Springs and Reed tomorrow and then back home at 10:00 AM (Elko) and 3:00 PM (Douglas) on Saturday for the tournament wrap up.

See you out at the ball park!!  It’s BASEBALL SEASON!!!

Here’s a little gallery… click to see them larger…

The way the Carson High field sits… typically you get pretty hard shadows for baseball… but right as the sun is setting you can get some really nice warm light on the pitcher… like this one of Tyler…

2012 NorCal Mite Jamboree… South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena

This past weekend the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena (and Tahoe Sports & Entertainment) hosted the 2012 Mite Jamboree Hockey Tournament.  Saturday the played three simultaneous games cross ice, this was something completely new for me shooting… can’t say I was a big fan as it meant throwing out all I know about shooting hockey and more or less just winging it for the day… each team played six 20 minute games with a running clock and shift changes every two minutes…  Sunday went back to “normal” hockey.  I say “normal” because there were some kids playing for different teams but still in their own team jersey… that was interesting, there were times when there were up to three different team jerseys on the ice at one time…. 🙂

Always fun to watch and shoot… here are some images from the weekend… the gallery can be found at the link on the side or under League & Events under Hockey Tournaments.

A “clank” off the post for a GOAL!!!!

… and here’s some great after dinner debate… is that puck hitting his stick?  🙂

A new experience for me… Carson High Bowling

A friend at Carson High mentioned to me, all the way back during football season… that he bowled for Carson High… well, I had NO idea Carson had a bowling team!  So after a lot of schedule conflicts I finally made it out to one of their “events”… and what an education!  Here are some images from last night… They may not want to remember yesterday’s match, although I’m guessing they’ll come back next year with some vengeance… but Carson lost last night 23-22 to the Reed High Bowlers…

For those of you that understand bowling and high school matches you “get” why this score is significant… for those of us bowling “ignorants”… they play a series of games, three vs. three, and they “share” ten frames rotating between the three players per team… after all these games are played the scorers then count the total number of pins knocked down… so you have win/loss per game then total pins knocked down… after all that counting, Reed came away with the win…. … and this is significant because Carson has won for the last 10 years… so a tough loss for Carson last night…

I took the whole family with me last night, we had a good time and would like to thank the bowlers and families for welcoming us!!  It’s always nice to be places where people are so great to be around!!

Here are some shots from the evening… the rest are at the link on the side for Carson High Athletics… (I’m hoping to be a little on the ball next time and get the organizers to let me put a remote camera down by the pins and shoot back at the bowlers… something to work on…)

I love how high this fella gets that follow through leg up… it’s above his head! 🙂

Well done everyone!  And a very big good luck to those moving on next year!!

Baseball Season is here!!!!

Do you know how I know Baseball Season is here?  It’s snowing!  🙂  I wonder what it’s like to NOT have snow the first week of baseball season….

Saturday I spent the day “playing around” with some new ideas… and I took a few photos at Carson’s tryouts…  stay tuned and see if I can make these ideas work…

Here are the shots that I kept from Saturday…. click on them to see them bigger.