2008 Season

  • Round 1 Playoff Record 0-2
  • Round 1 Playoff Record 2-2
  • Season Record: 22-13
  • League Record: 16-5
  • Section 3B: 9-6
Section 3B Playoffs for 2008
Schedule for Round 2

Round 2 of the Section 3B Payoffs

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Chaska over Shakopee 7-3


Aaron Olson
Troy Wasiloski
Brannon Weigel
... smashed his sixth homerun of the season. ... had three hits for the night including a double. .... also collected a RBI. ... collected two hits.

All season long Shakopee’s Achilles’ heel has been its defense.  With so much talent and players making some unbelievable plays, you have to scratch your head when the “easy” ones get missed.  Not only does making the fundamental defensive plays help your pitcher throw fewer pitches, but it also helps the offense to get into a groove (amongst many more positive things)-sorry for stating the obvious. 

Although I must say, the defense definitely has improved this year.  But, there is still room for improvement because it sure would be nice to not rely on pounding 13, 14 hits per game to win.

For the year, the Indians were 21-4 when they had 10+ hits per game and 5-11 when they had less than 10 hits. 

During the season, Shakopee needed at least 8 hits a game to produce a victory.  While it is hard to form a final conclusion from these facts alone, it really reflects two things (which should really be shown through other, more relevant stats i.e. runs allowed vs. unearned runs, runners left on base…).  One, the defense is giving-up too many unearned runs and two; the clutch hitting has not been great.  And if I could add three: with averaging close to 11 hits per game (10.73), the hitting has been dominating.          

As far as the game against Chaska.  Shakopee scored the important first run of the game as Troy Wasiloski hit a two-out RBI single.  Chaska then also would score with two outs and scored four runs in the third. 

In the sixth, Aaron Olson attempted a Shakopee rally by smashing his 6th homerun of the season.  Troy Wasiloski also stayed hot and double in the eighth.  Troy was brought home by a speedy Mike Dahl base hit. 

A big thank-you to all of the fans and be sure to checkout the state tournament games in Shakopee and Chaska!

Until next year!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Shakopee       1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 8 3
Chaska 0 0 4 2 1 0 0 0 x 7 13 0