MAB MONTHLY June 2013 FREE Instant Communication in High School Sports Munster Softball Claims Sectional RailCats Hot Start Baseball in Film www.midamericabroadcasting.com MAB MONTHLY Page 3 MAB ONLINE MAGAZINE MAB Staff As the high school season winds Hank Kilander Webmaster down, it is quite a shift for us looking back Broadcaster/ Host to the previous year, taking a bit of a break Staff Writer on the broadcast side, and start looking Rich Sapper ahead to next year. It is also a time when Staff Writer pro sports begin to take the forefront as the Broadcaster/ Host Sales NBA and NHL playoffs continue and base- Layout & Design ball season is in full swing. This issue contains some of that theme Bob Potosky looking back on the softball tournament, at Broadcaster/ Host Staff Writer the start of the RailCats season and the growth of Twitter as a medium to promote Andy Wielgus high school sports. 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Staff Writer Trisha Madura Staff Writer Sales Broadcaster Contact Information Brett Hill Phone: 219-973-7990 Staff Writer Sales Website: www.midamericabroadcasting.com Broadcaster Also find us on Facebook and Twitter MAB MONTHLY Page 4 Inside this issue: Athletes of the Month 6 Instant Communications Changing the HS Sports Landscape 8 Baseball Fielding Tips: How to Fix Throwing Problems! 14 Munster Softball Takes Sectional Title 16 Gary SouthShore RailCats off to a Strong Start 20 Baseball in Film 26 Blackhawks Trivia 36 Did You Know? 36 June Broadcast Schedule 37 P. 8 P. 16 P. 20 P. 36 MAB MONTHLY Page 5 To order the 2012-2013 Boys or Girls Magazine Visit Indiana Basketball Magazine online at www.indianabasketballmagazine.com MAB MONTHLY Page 6 ATHLETES OF THE MONTH Written and Compiled by Andy Wielgus MAB Staff Writer Chesterton High Stephanie Upton School Portage Baseball Portage's Stephanie Upton had the Triple Coach Jack Campbell's to tie the game vs Hobart at 5 in the 4A Sectional Championship. And Jalise 2013 Chesterton Trojans Baseball McKnight had the Game Winning RBI Infield Team, for winning its first outright Single in a 6-5 4A Sectional Championship DAC Baseball Title since 1985. Victory over Hobart. The Tribe also upset Crown Point earlier in the week. Kevin Jones Chelsie Meeks Portage Rensselaer Central Kevin Jones pitches Portage Meeks came in sec- to a 4-1 victory over Crown Point ond in the shot put in the girls with a three-hitter. This is Portage's track and field state champion- first Baseball Sectional Title in 18 ships, the highest of any North- years since 1995. west Indiana finisher. 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Or maybe listening to a scoreboard show locally or even statewide, as we have seen with Bob Lovell. But now the rules of the game have changed with Twitter and Facebook making communication with ease and with lightning speed. To- day, I may know most of the area’s football scores by around 10pm, with- out ever turning on a radio or staying up for a scoreboard show. Advertis- ers too have went away from print media. With internet radio and video soaring higher and higher. Hey by the way, around 12 years ago groups started doing internet radio and it has changed the landscape forever for HS Sports. MAB MONTHLY Page 9 The top down effect of all of this has some sites that you can follow a HS Baseball been a deluge of information from media, game pitch for pitch. That is remarkable and schools, athletes, fans, and coaches going out I was discussing this with a HS Fan and par- on Twitter and Facebook. Is this a good thing? ent and he agreed at a recent track meet at Yes and No. Accuracy and the always who ca- Michigan City HS. res argument, of who broke the story first to feed my ego is out there for sure. But the posi- Here are some Calumet Region and Indi- tive is the instant communication to everyone ana HS Sports Teams and some known who is interested in the topic or score that you schools with Twitter Feeds that you might are tweeting. be interested in to get updates. Website development for local HS Sports is another offshoot of this instant com- EC Football munication phase. Different websites bring Highland HS different milieus of information and of course Culver Football it is an advertising venue as well. Schools are CPHS Basketball developing there own brand of broadcasting CP Athletics, and student groups that are becoming more Rensselaer Athletics predominant every year in HS Sports. An ex- Crown Point Football ample of this is Pow Wow Radio at Portage LCBBall HS with Brandon Vickrey and Collin Czilli. Crown Point Baseball, The NFL Draft has now developed into Blazer Basketball other major sports having draft shows and CP Boys Soccer combines that are now being telecasted. In the LC Boys Hoops same vein, College Recruiting is now being Lowell Athletics mainstreamed into athletes having Twitter Ac- LC Athletics counts, telling everyone where and when they LC Football are going to visit a college and what AAU LC Indians Baseball tournament they are playing with and against Gavit Athletics whom. This would have been unthinkable a SC Girls Basketball, decade ago. The story of Damon Bailey being West Side Football recruited as an 8th grader was big with Bobby PHS Athletics- Plymouth Knight, but the technological changes have in Ben Davis Giants reality changed the lives of HS Athletes more, Snider Football, with not only phone calls but tweets on re- Bowman Athletics cruiting as well, to the point it is hard for a 15- Lincoln Alices 17 yr old star athlete to just be a regular stu- WC Football – Warren Central dent-athlete in my view today. 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