Baseball team searching, and perhaps found new batting identity

The Ogden High School baseball team had a good week as they went 6-2 with three wins over Guthrie Center, another two over Woodward Academy, and another over South Hamilton. They lost to Coon Rapids-Bayard and Woodward-Granger in the first two games of the week. This leaves the baseball team at 15-9.

Wood.-Granger 2 - Ogden 0

In an extremely frustrating game for the Ogden High School baseball team and their head coach Dick Smith, the Bulldogs lost 0-2 due to their inability to get hits when it mattered. 

Despite great pitching and fielding, the Bulldogs still couldn’t find a way to get on the scoreboard. Pop flies were plentiful and so were strike outs and grounders to short-stop and third base. All of that clearly frustrated the head coach. Before a question was even asked, he vented out what was agonizing him.

“Hitting. We can’t hit to save our lives, especially when it counts,  when we need someone to step up and make a hit,” Smith said. Ogden did have massive struggles hitting on Woodward-Granger, they only totaled four hits, one more than the Hawks actually, and they were all singles. They didn’t take advantage of the great pitching by freshman Carter Church. He only allowed three hits, walked one batter, and struck out two. He did have an errant pitched that allowed them to score, but as Smith said, this game wasn’t on the pitcher. 

Read more in the June 29 issue of The Ogden Reporter.