Arizona sends its squad to the Sunbelt Classic Baseball Series. That and more for Friday brought to you by the Arcadia Tavern.

1. Roster for the Sunbelt Classic: Jake Peeveyhouse, a pitcher/outfielder, heads a roster for the Arizona junior team that will play in the Sunbelt Classic Baseball Series in Oklahoma. The Arizona team was scheduled to play Texas at 11:30 a.m. today. Here is the roster:

Jacob Andrews RHP Hamilton Junior

Tyler Booth LHP/OF Millennium Junior

Aaron Bummer LHP Sunrise Mountain Junior

Steve Casey RHP/3B Pinnacle Junior

Shaun Case RHP/C Desert Vista Junior

Tyler Crawford LHP/1B Sunrise Mountain Junior

Zach Davies RHP/2B Mesquite Junior

Ryne Dean RHP/C Red Mountain Junior

Jordon Dunatov RHP Horizon Junior

Cole Gleeson RHP/3B Red Mountain Junior

Oscar Gonzalez RHP/UT Tolleson Junior

Michael Howard LHP/OF Prescott Junior

Nick Johnson RHP/SS Blue Ridge Junior

Sean Maxon-Maldonado RHP Brophy College Prep Junior

Cody Moffett LHP Highland Sophomore

Jake Peevyhouse LHP/OF Pinnacle Junior

Scott Squier LHP Greenway Junior

Drew Stankiewicz SS Gilbert Junior

Colby Targun 2B Chaparral Junior

Casey Thomas 2B Desert Vista Junior

2. Thoughts on the draft: Bryce Harper is the first junior college player to go No.1 in the draft. I would think that junior colleges, where you are draft eligible after every season (if you play at a four-year school, you are eligible for the draft until after your junior season) and where they play with wood bats would attract a lot of top prospects. Only one other junior college player was taken in the first round. . . . Arizona, which had a good enough team to make the NCAA tournament, had only one player drafted. That’s fewer than Grand Canyon. . . . Who are we missing in our list? The way mlb.com tracks players by state, if a kid from here plays college ball out of state, it’s easy to miss them. Let us know if we forgot someone.

3. Bees are in: The Arizona Killer Bees qualified last weekend in Southern California for a spot in the ESPN Rise national softball championships.

The List for for Thursday:

1. High scoring: UCLA set a record for the most runs in a championship game Tuesday night in beating Arizona 15-9. The two teams combined for a record seven homers. That is more home runs than were hit in 10 entire Women’s College World Series. There’s never been a game like that before, and my guess is there won’t be another like it again if the rules committee can help it.

The rules committee is trying to decide if that’s too much scoring. (There’s also a potential safety issue with ball flying around so fast.) Likely outcome: Composite bats will be banned. College baseball did it for this season.

2. Another drawback: Low-scoring softball and baseball games are quick. High scoring games? Marathons. The two championship-round games each lasted more than three hours.

3. Nature of the game: Big-time softball is run by people who grew up in an era when softball was a lot of 1-0, 2-1 games and the game had the feel of chess on a diamond. This is a different game. I think that has certain people upset.

4. Record attendance: Fans hate offense. No, not really. The WCWS set an attendance record of 62,562, edging out 2007 when there was a three-game championship round. Will 1982-style softball draw smaller crowds like the ones in 1982?

5. Is it just the bats? I think the hitters are just better. I think one factor is moving the pitching slab back, first in ASA 18u Gold and then at the high school level. Hitting is about confidence. And I think the hitters might have gained a little on the pitchers at the younger levels, and that carries over. Well, at least that’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

The List for Wednesday.

1. A short list: On Monday night, two young athletes whose accomplishments have been chronicled in The Ledger were in the national spotlight. Kenzie Fowler, whose club team Desert Thunder showed up early and often on our pages, was pitching for Arizona in the NCAA softball final. Bryce Harper, who is from Las Vegas but often played for the McDowell Mountain Yankees, was the top pick of the baseball draft. Congratulations to both.

We’re proud — which may be misplaced; after all, we had nothing to do with their accomplishments — that these kids showed up here before they showed up on ESPN. We are just as proud to have been the only media outlet that covered the Arizona Baseball Coaches Association Academic All-Star game Sunday. Or that we had an article on the TCS 14u B state softball championship Sunday.

There is always room on our pages for the next Bryce Harper or the next Kenzie Fowler. But our site seeks to recognize the accomplishments of all young athletes. You don’t have set a national track record like Hannah Carson did. You don’t have to earn a basketball scholarship to Tulsa like Blondy Baruti.

If you’re proud of something, we’d like to let a larger audience know about it. That’s our mission.

And we’d like your help. We only have one full-time employee. Report your results. Send us an email. Call The Ledger Guy.

Oh, and keep visiting us. Thanks.

Three stars of the weekend:

2. Ashley Quigley overcame a shaky first inning and pitched Hotshots-Davis to the TCS state 18u Open softball title.

3.  Hunter Thompson had a three-run double to lead Angels Red to the 18u championship in the Four Corners baseball tournament.

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