We traveled to Dugway yesterday to play the Miners.  They’re a good team that has been together for years.

It’s still so early in the year and we’re still learning the game, once again we struggled with passing and serving.  Our practices have been focused on working on these skills.  On a bright note we’re finally getting our rotations down and the girl’s have learned all of the positions. With injuries, sickness and different things happening all the time we’ve had to shuffle the girl’s quite a bit.

Taylor R. was able to play after she sprained her ankle last week, she did a great job as setter in the varsity game along with Kaecia Y.  Carli P had some nice digs.

Bailey B did a great job as our libero in the JV games, and Jess N had some good serves. 

Scores:

JV- Dugway 25- WR 12, Dugway 25- WR 18, Dugway 15- WR 13

Varsity-

Dugway 25- WR 6, Dugway 25- WR 7, Dugway 25- WR 10

We play here tonight against Wendover at 5:00 & 6:00.  Come cheer us on.

Wendy Ballard

Fighting Eagle Fans…

Tonights game was at ICS and The Fighting Eagles beat The ICS Lions 13 to 2.

Niels N started the game by pitching to the Lions for 3 full innings where he needed to be pulled out at the end of the 3rd inning for heat exhaustion. He pitched a great game and had 6 strikeouts in the 3 innings that he pitched. Kevin C then came in to close the game where he pitched 2 innings and also had 4 strikeouts. The both of these players had great defense behind them that helped bring home the win. Mike H had a great catch while playing right field in the  first inning to get the 3rd out. Austin O made 2 awesome stops at 3rd base in the 2nd and 5th inning and then threw the batter out at 1st. Colby P also played hard in the infield where he made an out at shortstop in the 5th inning.

In Todays game we did well at the plate. We had a total of 18 hits and 12 RBI’s in the 5 innings that we played. Below you will see how each player did at the plate. The first number is how many times they went up to the plate and then how they did at the plate.

Niels N (3 AB) 2 walks and an infield fly to the pitcher

Tanner H (4 AB) 3 singles and a ground out

Kevin C (4 AB) 3 singles and a double

Colby P (4 AB) 4 singles

Dema B (4 AB) 2 singles, 1 strikeout swinging and a ground out

Marc P (4 AB) 2 singles a walk and a flyball to center field

Brendan B (4 AB) 1 walk, 1 single, 1 infield fly and a ground out

Mike H (4 AB) 2 singles, 1 walk and a strikeout swinging

Austin O (4 AB) 2 flyouts and 2 strikeouts

Thomas M (1 AB) a flyball to left field

Our next game is on Tuesday August 31st against Green River @ 4:00. The game will be played @ Green River High School @ 400 N 455 W.

Jamie Keefer

Another interesting night for the Lady Eagles, as we were warming up for the JV game, Taylor who is our new setter for both JV and Varsity rolled her ankle and was taken in for x-rays. Fortunately it’s not broken, it was sprained and she’ll need to stay off of it for a while. So now we’re out our original setter Stephanie, and now Taylor.

We had turned the line-up in and quickly had to make adjustments.  Dawne became our new setter for JV and Kaecia for Varsity. They both did a great job for never playing that position before.

 Both JV and Varsity struggled with their passing all night.  When we were able to make good passes we had some great things happen.  In the varsity game Alexis had some great hits and a nice block.

We’re still learning the game and we’ll get better as we get more experience under our belts. The girls try hard and put a lot of effort into their playing.

Here are the scores:

JV-

Tintic 25- WR 7

Tintic 25- WR 13

Tintic 15- WR 10

Varsity-

Tintic 25- WR 8

Tintic 25- WR 15

Tintic 25- WR 5

The game with Meridian on Sept 2^nd has been cancelled, they don’t have a team.  Next week we’ve added a game to our schedule @ Dugway on August 30^th  5:00 & 6:00, and then we play Wendover here on Tuesday the 31^st 5:00 & 6:00. Thanks for coming out and supporting us!  -      Wendy Ballard

Fighting Eagle Fans…

Below you will see the Box Score of tonight’s game. West Ridge beat the Jayhawks by 18 runs.

West Ridge 4     1     2     0     0     13     Total score     20

St. Joes 0     0     0    2     0     0     Total score 2

Niels N pitched in tonights game and did a terrific job. He pitched 5 of the 6 innings and only had 1 hit against him. Niels had 8 strikeouts and also had great defense to back him up. Mike H came into the game to close and had 4 batters to the plate and the team made 3 outs.

Below you will be able to see how your player did in the game. Each player played a great part in the game to bring home the win. Our defense was much better than the last game but we will continue to work hard on perfecting the game to go on through the season with great defense. The first number is how many times your player came up to the plate, how they did at the plate and what position they played in the game.

Niels N – 5 AB – 2 singles, 1 double, fly out to center and a walk – pitched

Colby P – 5 AB – 3 singles, 1 double and an infield fly – short stop

Tanner H – 5 AB – 4 singles and and fly out to letfield – catcher

Dema B – 5 AB – strikeout, hit by a pitch, ground out and 2 walks – Center field and 3rd Base

Marc P – 5 AB – 5 singles – first base

Brendan B – 5 AB – 2 singles, 1 walk, fly out and a strikeout – left field

Mike H – 5 AB – 4 singles and 1 pop up to short stop – right field and pitcher to close the game

Austin O – 4 AB – 2 strikeouts, flyout and 1 single  – third base

Joe M – 1 AB – 1 groundout – right field

Thomas M  – 3 AB -2 groundouts and 1 double – second base

Kyle S – 1 AB – strikeout – right field

If you are interested in reading the article that was published in the West Jordan Journal about our team please click on the link below:

http://www.westjordanjournal.com/pages/full_story/?id=3393&type=Articles&numitems=1&startitem=0&showimages=1

Our next game is on Wednesday August 25th at 4:00pm. The game will be played at ICS and I will send out the address closer to the game.

Jamie Keefer

This week has been an interesting one.  We’ve had to make changes in our offense due to our starting setter being injured. The last couple of days the girls have struggled to learn a new offense, and it showed last night.  We played Tintic at their place.  There were some bright moments last night with some good rallies, but I think we came away with a better feel of what we need to work on in practices and stepping the intensity level up.  Being a brand new team we’ll only get better each practice and throughout the year, we have great potential.   We play Tintic next Monday here at 5:00 & 6:00.  Hopefully  we can fix a lot of our errors (missed serves, and rotations)and play them better next week.  Hope you can come and support the girls and cheer them on, they’ve been working hard.

As you can see JV got a little better each game.

JV:

Tintic 25- WR 7

Tintic 25- WR 21

Tintic 15- WR 13

Varsity:

Tintic 25- WR 17

Tintic 25- WR 8

Tintic 25- WR 12

Coach Ballard

Fighting Eagle Fans…

 Tonight’s game was against the Tintic Miners. The final score was West Ridge Fighting Eagles 11 vs. the Tintic Miners 3. In tonight’s game we took a step back defensively but hit the ball really well. I am excited for how our team has been playing at the beginning of the season. I really think that our team will do very well this year as long as we come together as a team and we play that way until the end. Below you will see the player’s stats for tonight’s game.

 Niels N – 1 Single

Colby P – 1 Triple

Tanner H – 1 Single and 1 Double

Dema B – 2 Singles

Marc P – 1 Single and 1 Double

Brendan B – 1 Single

Mike H – 1 Single and 1 Double

Austin O – Hit by a pitch

Thomas M – 2 Singles

 Tanner H was the pitcher for tonight’s game and he went the full 7 innings. Tanner threw 128 pitches and out of the 128 pitches 78 of them were strikes. Great Job Tanner!!!

Coach Keefer

Fighting Eagle Fans…

 Today Niels N pitched a great game!!! Niels threw hard throughout the game and because of the great defense and great pitching Green River only could muster up 1 hit.

 We had a total of 14 hits in tonights game while Green River only had 1 so you can tell that our team came out to play hard to start our season off strong. We are going to be a hard to beat if we continue to hit the ball like we did in tonights game and continue to play great defense.  Below you can see who had hits for our team… WAY TO GO BOYS!!!

 Niels N. Triple in Center field

Colby P. Infield Single

Tanner H. 3 Singles

Dema B. 1 Single and 1 Double

Brenden B. 3 Singles

Mike H. 1 Single

Austin O. 1 Single

Thomas M. 2 Singles

 Kyle S. aka “Dirty” started his first varsity game and gave a great fight at the plate and in the field. Joe M. also had the chance at the plate but with a full count he was walked to first base.

 We are required to call in the scores of each baseball game to the local newspaper. If you would also like to follow the team and other teams in our region click on the link below and look at high school baseball  1A-Region 17.

 http://www.deseretnews.com/sports/high-school/baseball

 Thanks for all of your support at tonights game and a special thanks to the home parents for agreeing to help after home games with dinner.

Coach Keefer