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Congrats to the Mustangs. I never saw that coming. Lipscomb has a great tradition and I figured they would bounce back, just not against Whites Creek and not so strong. What alot of these schools fail to understand is the multiplier at 1.8 means basically Lipscomb's student body and their fans are about half the size of their opponents.

While I recognize Lipscomb is a young team and lost alot of talent off last year's team, they just didnt look to have it vs Goodpasture Friday night. Ive watch Mac's teams for the last 10 years and this years team is the first that I recall acted like they didnt want to hit. Goodpasture, a young team too, just manhandled them from the start. With Whites Creek coming in this week, it could get worse.

It can be done, if you want to. Some concerns are : how playable is the field after the Sunbelt is over. Enough Hotel rooms for Spring Fling and Sunbelt. I still think it can be done but there are two good concerns the "powers to be" might have.

Classic case of not keeping your hands "inside the ball". If you keep your hands in close to your body and rotate your hips, you'll keep the "fat part" of the bat over the plate longer and thus contact will be made there instead of off the handle or end. Practice keeping your hands in more in your practice swings.

There are some deserving players on there and there are some who are not. I think the #1 criteria is your high school coach has to be very active in the TBCA. And FWIW, I dont have a son eligible to play on a Sunbelt team so there...

Dont name anyone on your team, just name a player or several players that you/or your team played against that were outstanding... who were some of the best of 2009?

Unfortunately, for too many college coaches, PG Crosschecker is all they use to recruit. Of course, usually those are the coaches getting fired relatively soon too!

I saw the entire game and didnt see anything "classless" from any player on either team. Maybe I've seen enough baseball to realize an elimination game at a state tournament is an emotional game. Did the players for Lipscomb show emotion after they won the game...Yes. They should have. Did the Dyersburg team show emotion after the lost...yes. They should have too. I think both teams respect each other after that game. I know Lipscomb's team has respect for Dyersburg and Dyersburg I'm sure has alittle more respect for Lipscomb now. But again, I dont know where this "classless" calls are coming from except maybe from some who were in the stands! JMO.

Prayers from the Lipscomb team and families.

After seeing some of the "polls" by coaches, etc., Im not sure how you could "rank" teams. Some of these teams rankings is a joke. Schedule 30 middle school teams and you'll be in the top 2 or 3 in the state. I think the blind draw is the best. Id only prefer that the draw be made BEFORE the teams are announced ( Winner of Subsection Game 1 vs Subsection game 5 for example). This way you'd know the Friday before the state which two teams you'd be playing the winner of and it would eliminate any thoughts that the brackets get stacked for one team or the other.

I think the 1st baseman for Dyersburg is a good kid and did a classy thing admitting the call was correct. Its a very emotional game when its down to the end like this. He had a tough nite at the plate and probably got frustrated with the last strike call. That shouldnt undermine the classy thing he did the day before. Dont know what occurred with the DL players except the emotions at the end of the game but, again, it was an emotional game for everyone. Those are two good teams that played hard. Lets leave it at that.

I agree with Solution...school administrators should either respect the TSSAA calendar and not schedule graduation ceremonies on that Friday or change the TSSAA calendar...the TSSAA is run by school administrators for heavens sake!. Kids shouldnt be put in the situation that they have to miss one event or the other. The issue with lights at Lipscomb isnt an issue. J SouthSide was leaving last Friday if the game didnt start at 2pm regardless if Lipscomb had lights or not.

Bolivar should have their top pitchers ready today. Looks like they will need them based on DC's win yesterday over Goodpasture. Just a hunch, but I'm going with the upset... Bolivar in a close one!

Both have very solid teams. It should be a good game. Probably come down to a play made or not made that decides it.

Both races meaning the 100 and 200 meters. Also, Ive noticed that no one this year has beat Rogers times from last year.