Category: action shoots

Carson vs. Manogue Baseball @ Carson

What a whirlwind week… and what a crazy scenario with so many results moving the standings… and therefore changing who plays who for the first round of the playoffs, which start Tuesday at the top four schools (McQueen, Reno, Manogue, Carson).

Carson hosted the second game of the Carson Manogue series today… and it appeared early that they were going to ten run the Miners but that wasn’t to be… they did however win and that secured their first round playoff game at home!

Here are some shots from the day…  I’ll start it with the “OUCH” section… I think there were four batters hit today… in reality it was only three as Luke got hit twice… both times driving Rory in for a score… 🙂

… and then some shots I liked from the day… 🙂 I was trying for something different today… In the last two days I’ve seen six different pitchers for Manogue… so in the gallery there are  A LOT of pitching photos… so none here…

This is one of my favorite shots of the year…

 

Love these “ball almost there” shots…

And I just liked this one… something different…And a little Manogue love too!  Their yellow and green shirts really popped today!  I’m a color guy, usually sports have bright primary and secondary colors that really pop on a nice bright sunny day… today was no exception.  Maybe a little pop off the bat too…

Carson vs. Manogue Baseball @ Manogue

The Miners took the first game of the series today at home… tomorrow’s game is at Carson @ 3:45…

I’m just going to put up a gallery here of photos from the day… Manogue threw four pitchers today… with 17 total runs today there was a lot of hits and a lot of running… we were commenting on the bus coming back that it was kind of a strange game…

Carson is fighting tomorrow for their first round playoff game to be at home… if they win, they seal their own fate and will play the first round at home on Tuesday… time will tell!  See you at the field tomorrow!

Carson High Baseball vs. Galena… at Carson

The Senators hosted Coach McNutt’s Galena Grizzlies Wednesday for the second game of the series (Galena won @ home Tuesday)… In front of the program’s sponsors (Sponsor Night at the Park…), Carson split the series winning at home 7-3.  Here are some shots from the evening.

Here’s me messing around with something that I think looked pretty cool… Nick’s glove threw big puffs of dust for every pitch… here are two, one really tight from the backside and one so you see more of it all…

Brock batting has been elusive to me the entire season… I went 3 for 3 last night!  🙂 This first one was earlier in the evening before it got really dark… (notice the ball starting to blur…)… and here with the sun gone… I always try to explain to people how dark it is to the camera… ever seen a baseball tube? 🙂

Have to show some love for the Coaches!  🙂  It think this was after a dozen cookies…

Jace started on the mound… threw five innings….

… then Cole relieved… tried this from the other side this time… (see that streaked hand… did I mention it’s DARK out there?)

And last but not least… the play that led to the “discussion” that got Coach McNutt thrown out of McNutt Field… 🙂 (… sorry couldn’t resist that one…)  I don’t have a shot milliseconds prior to this to know when Rory got the glove on the base runner so we’ll never know… the call on the field was YOU’RE OUT!

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… 🙂