-Blade Contributing Writer Central Arizona College Baseball

(Signal Peak) - These kinds of games you never really know what to expect and that's what makes them so much fun to watch, no matter the final score.

Langley Blaze is a group of post high school and mainly committed Canadian baseball upstarts making this southwestern tour basically as a showcase for college and pro scouts, and also for current local college teams, such as Central Arizona College.

Watch where you walk because you might ruin someone's radar gun shot of today's pitchers.

Scouts with pitching radar guns and stopwatches are everywhere in an almost-full house to see what each team's players have this afternoon, in particular, the Blaze pitching. None of these cats really speak to each other, just a polite "how ya doing" is all anyone gets (it's eerily quiet), and it's all their own little secret, but everyone kind of knows who everyone is looking at, and as always, each scout makes mental notes of the hidden gems in this field.

Who is available for next year or the year after, and possibly, who can change who's mind from their current program to their own program.

The whole recruiting process is a fabulous cat-and-mouse.

While all that is interesting, it's also fun to see how these two groups of players stack up against each other.

Some of these players (or none) could end up in Coolidge next year, while a few will end up in D1 programs across the country.

The final score was 17-2 with Central Arizona hitting five doubles and another Blake Avila homerun, while the Central pitching of Tyler Woessner, Evan Harmon, Tyson Heaton, and Drew Sommers struck out seventeen Blazers and walked two.

Trouble for the Blaze pitching while giving up fourteen walks.

Central scored in six of their eight innings hitting while each starter had at least one rib, with the exception of lead-off hitter Ryan Ball.

But he walked three times, doubled, and scored twice.

Avila homered, singled and he also walked three times. He's had a great week at the plate as has the entire Central program, the hitting is really ratcheting up at past mid-point in the season.

Central Arizona scored sixty-eight runs in it's five games this week.

The week's final score was 68-11.

Central won the week.

This is a very important time of year here at spring break, you fill up with touring teams (who are always a great mix of talent), non-conference games, and make sure the games are all niners, because you want to get everyone in everywhere and get their innings in for the stretch.

Kiko Romero (talking about a Blaze) doubled twice, Vinnie Lagatta (another Blazer lately) and Devon Dixon also doubled. Dixon drove in three, one with a sacrifice fly. Tyler Griggs playing at first base today, drove in two with sacrifice flies.

Out of Central's planned four pitchers, the only one who didn't strike out at least five players was Evan Harmon, but he only pitched one inning so that was obviously impossible, he did however, can two of his three.

It's the weekend off for Central's Vaqueros.

There's a Tuesday double header at Scottsdale, a Saturday doubleheader at home against Phoenix, and then, a bunch of road conference games.