The Importance of Education

Tournament Championship Game
Beechmont Sno-Ball Classic
Louisville Longhorns 1, Cincinnati Spikes 10

Upon completion of the Beechmont Sno-Ball Classic baseball tournament, one thing was abundantly clear: the Cincinnati Spikes need to do more reading. Specifically, it is Longhorns Round-Up that they need to read, and read often.

Nicholas Parrish follows through on one of his two

hard-struck base hits in the championship game.

If the Spikes had done what any true, dyed-in-the-wool-flannel baseball fan worth his or her salted peanuts does and religiously read the Round-Up write-ups, and had they spent a few less hours practicing and instead used that time to crunch the numbers, they would have known that, in the Louisville Longhorns’ seven games against opponents other than the Spikes, the ’Horns scored, on average, a robust 10+ runs per contest and their pitchers sported a miserly collective earned run average of 1.24. Certainly, had these Cincinnatians been aware of these eminently important facts, they would never have dreamed of going into the tournament championship game and putting ten runs up on the scoreboard while limiting the Longhorns to but three hits and one lone tally.

Casey Simon blasts a third inning home run while teammate Matthew Higgins

follows the flight of the ball from the on-deck circle.

Perhaps a couple of Longhorns ought to read up on the Cincinnati Spikes, as they were obviously unaware that hitters are apparently not expected to go a perfect 2-for-2 against them, as Nicholas Parrish did, nor are they supposed to take their purportedly indomitable starting pitcher deep over the center field fence for a shutout-shattering circuit shot, as Casey Simon did.