Who's hot?

Nobody's hotter in baseball than Bishop Carroll's Brandon Tangney, Northwest's Erik Harbutz and Sedgwick's Ethan Odle.
Even if you subtract 10 percent for the coaching tendancy to generously score the occasion booted ball as a hit for his own player, these guys are still hot -- getting hits two of every three at-bats.
Odle has the highest average in the area at .679 through 28 bats, while Tangney (.677 on 31 at bats) and Harbutz (.676 on 34 at bats) are right there with him.
If I had to pick one as the area's best hitter, I might go with Harbutz right now because of his 10 extra base hits and 25 RBIs. The other two have only 10 RBIs each.
When it comes to pitching, Maize's Garrett Gould, who could be getting a sunburn from all the radar guns scouts are pointing at him, is in a class of his own.
Gould (upper left) is 5-0 and has yielded only five hits, no earned runs and two unearned runs in 24 2/3 innings pitched. But here are some numbers that will have you bailing out of the batter's box -- Gould has struck out 58 of the 88 batters he has faced.
Ark City's Drew Palmer is having a pretty good year too. He's only 2-2, but he has a 0.85 ERA over 33 innings and has struck out 60. But he has faced 134 batters.