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Tournaments | Story | 9/13/2020

Ohio Valley Qualifier Scout Notes: Day 1 & 2

Brian Sakowski

Photo: Jacob Miller (Perfect Game)

In the first-ever Ohio Valley Qualifier, teams from around the general lower Midwest flocked to the Cincinnati area to compete for a bid to the WWBA World Championship, to be held in Fort Myers in mid-October. We’ll be doing two scouting breakdowns of the event, this one covering the action from Friday-Saturday, and a second one covering Sunday-Monday.

‘22 RHP Quinn Benner (OH) showing some good stuff early on for the FB20-Brewers Scout Team. Athletic and projectable with a quick arm, FB sitting 83-85, throwing strikes, showing good feel for CB with 11/5 shape. College of Charleston commit. #OHValleyQ pic.twitter.com/5Zlw1hH2N8
— Perfect Game Scout (@PG_Scouting) September 11, 2020

FB20-Brewers Scout Team came into the event with a loaded roster, and have played in two close games thus far. They lost on opening night to RBA by a score of 5-3. Quinn Benner (2022, Terrace Park, Ohio) got the start, and the College of Charleston commit showed solidly, especially with his strike-throwing. With a slender and projectable build, the righthander ran his fastball up to 85 mph and sat a half-tick lower than that, pounding the zone with a fastball that featured good angle as well as an 11/5-shaped curveball that had good depth. His defense didn’t really help him all that much, and he/Brewers Scout fell into an early hole that they just couldn’t quite climb out of.

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