Parkway North Explodes For 6 Runs & A Convincing Win Over Ladue

Vikings are 16-3 this season. Joey Reeves pitches a 4-hit gem over the Rams.

The Parkway North-Ladue baseball game was kind of like a 4th of July performance. While the North Vikings exploded like a bottle rocket, Ladue mostly fizzled like a cherry bomb with a bad fuse. “We really didn’t get anything going, this just wasn’t our day,” said Ladue’s coach Rob Garrett, trudging off the field after a 6-0 whitewash at the hands of the 16-3 Vikings. Ladue fell to 15-3. Sophomore lefty Joey Reeves went six innings and limited Ladue to just 4 scattered hits. The Vikings have been battled tested this year with two wins over Summit (last year’s state champs, winners over North in the title game); Parkway South, Parkway Central Troy (2 wins), Kirkwood, Hazelwood Central and Burroughs. The Vikings are really busy Coach Fred …

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The Blogging Life: Experts Share Their Secrets for Success

The launch of the new “Local Voices” feature on Patch sites around the country this week got “Patch” Regional Editor Holly Edgell thinking about what makes a good blog.

When I was in the fourth grade, my mother gave me a diary. It was a beautiful thing, with a brocade cover and a ribbon attached to mark my place. I wrote in it almost every day, even if my jottings only amounted to a paragraph or two. I continued the diary habit off and on through college, by which time a paragraph or two turned into pages and pages of angsty ramblings that make me cringe today. Even though I always knew my diary was for my eyes only, I remember feeling self-conscious about it; like I had better write well, because someday someone might read my diary. Perhaps I always knew I’d end up writing for an audience; I am now a journalist. Today we have the blog, which some people use like a diary--albeit one that has a self-…

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