Clay: we left Norman to return to California in 2014. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember coaching baseball and wrestling against Capital Hill when I was at Douglass, and they were a tiny school back in the 80s. I hope you remember my grandson Paul Reed. He lettered at NN as the only freshman on the 2011 undefeated in conference squad, finishing with a 6-2 pitching record and hitting a dinger in his first varsity AB. He transferred to NHS his sophomore year after enduring the terrible treatment dished out by Dolesi and approved by Aylor during the summer league. (After pitching seven innings in a Wednesday game, they told him he was to start the second game of a DH on the Thursday. In between the first and second games, Dolesi decided that running around the outfield fence for two miles was the smart thing to do to his players. The weather that afternoon and evening was 107 degrees with 87% humidity. It was miserable.) I remember the games he won over NN the next years with them being broadcast on local radio and then you writing about them in the Transcript. Paul graduated in 2014 as valedictorian at NHS. He graduated from Pomona College in 2018 (rated as the number one college in the nation his freshman year, over all the Ivy League giants). In a matter of just five years, Paul is now a manager at Brighterion, the AI division of MasterCard, and lives in San Francisco.
PS: In addition to coaching at several high schools in Oklahoma and in California, I coached the 1981 Norman American Legion AA team to a 55-10 season. State champions and runner-up in the national tournament. We ran off two streaks of 20 and 16 consecutive wins that memorable summer: Bruce Morain, Mark Nelms, Butch Roberts, Jeff Parks and a slew of other talented Norman boys.
Clay: we left Norman to return to California in 2014. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember coaching baseball and wrestling against Capital Hill when I was at Douglass, and they were a tiny school back in the 80s. I hope you remember my grandson Paul Reed. He lettered at NN as the only freshman on the 2011 undefeated in conference squad, finishing with a 6-2 pitching record and hitting a dinger in his first varsity AB. He transferred to NHS his sophomore year after enduring the terrible treatment dished out by Dolesi and approved by Aylor during the summer league. (After pitching seven innings in a Wednesday game, they told him he was to start the second game of a DH on the Thursday. In between the first and second games, Dolesi decided that running around the outfield fence for two miles was the smart thing to do to his players. The weather that afternoon and evening was 107 degrees with 87% humidity. It was miserable.) I remember the games he won over NN the next years with them being broadcast on local radio and then you writing about them in the Transcript. Paul graduated in 2014 as valedictorian at NHS. He graduated from Pomona College in 2018 (rated as the number one college in the nation his freshman year, over all the Ivy League giants). In a matter of just five years, Paul is now a manager at Brighterion, the AI division of MasterCard, and lives in San Francisco.
PS: In addition to coaching at several high schools in Oklahoma and in California, I coached the 1981 Norman American Legion AA team to a 55-10 season. State champions and runner-up in the national tournament. We ran off two streaks of 20 and 16 consecutive wins that memorable summer: Bruce Morain, Mark Nelms, Butch Roberts, Jeff Parks and a slew of other talented Norman boys.
C'mon, Clay. Capital Hill had no business being in the same division as NHS.
Every single team makes the playoffs, creating such mismatches.