- June 8th, 2011, 8:51 am
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Wow, has anyone else ever heard of this happening?
Brookville's Maxwell doesn't pitch in loss at college's requesthttp://www2.newsadvance.com/sports/2011 ... r-1092868/
By Nathan Warters
Published: June 08, 2011
Maxwell, a Radford signee, said after Tunstall’s 6-4 win Tuesday night that he decided not to pitch under the recommendation of Highlanders pitching coach Brian Anderson. They both agreed that Maxwell had seen a heavy pitching workload in the days leading up to the game.
The Brookville senior threw 85 pitches in a complete-game effort last Monday in a 3-0 win over Rockbridge County in the first round of the Region III tournament, and he tossed a complete game last Thursday in a 9-6 region semifinal victory over Fort Defiance.
Maxwell was prepared to pitch on four days’ rest, but he learned after school Tuesday that Radford was recommending he rest his arm.
"My dad called me after school, and I actually called the pitching coach (Anderson), and he said, ‘You know, I’m not telling you no.’ It was all my choice," Maxwell said. "I talked about it with my dad. We had other independent college coaches give their opinion on it, and we came to the conclusion that the best thing was to not throw (Tuesday night)."
..Shelton has had his share of Division I pitchers in recent years — Jacob Thompson (Virginia), Justin Thompson (Virginia), Joe Mantiply (Virginia Tech) — and he can’t remember ever having a college pitching coach advise a player not to throw.
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