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Yeah You beat one team with a winning record, the other three teams had 6 wins and 15 losses combined. Goodpasture was a quality win - can't take that away but replace Lavergne and Cookeville with Riverdale TN, Christian Co KY, Grove City OH, Carl Sandburg IL, or Hueytown AL and then add 2 or 3 more games to the schedule and then boast about winning. And a big congrats to Allen Co, KY they only played two games to which their opponents were 5 w and 8 L combined. Come on how do you award second place to a team who only played two games?? I would assume that Weave was not boasting about winning since Lawrence County won and in Weave's post he said visit OUR website and the website was a Riverdale website! Seems to me he is just sending out a congrats to the winner & the runner up! My apologies to Lawarence Co and their fans. Congrats - you did what was required beat the teams put in front of you. No disrespect intended. My frustratation was misdirected in the comment posted, it was meant for the tourny director, I should have created my own post. You drive hundreds of miles and/or from out of state & then travel to 8 different high schools, eliminate the single format from years past, and then have a team declared 2nd place finisher who played two games. Seems to me the whole thing could have been better thought out. At least cater to your out of state teams, let them travel the least. Grove City OH had to play at Columbia HS (1 hour further from home on the last day) then had to back track, other teams had to do similar unecessary travel. Tournament run much better in years past.

Yeah You beat one team with a winning record, the other three teams had 6 wins and 15 losses combined. Goodpasture was a quality win - can't take that away but replace Lavergne and Cookeville with Riverdale TN, Christian Co KY, Grove City OH, Carl Sandburg IL, or Hueytown AL and then add 2 or 3 more games to the schedule and then boast about winning. And a big congrats to Allen Co, KY they only played two games to which their opponents were 5 w and 8 L combined. Come on how do you award second place to a team who only played two games??

I would like to 2nd these comments! Great things: 1. Awesome weather - I agree, just beat the rain, although I drove all the way home in it! 2. Fields were in excellent shape - I agree, except one field scoreboard didnt work - No biggie (That's mainly for us parents anyway) 3. Things ran on time - They could've even started some games early, if they wanted. 4. Umpiring was good for the most part seem like it was gettin late the calls were not as good but good job for the most part. - Best we've had all year. I cant think of any bad calls (Most consistant bunch we've seen) Polite too! 5. Some very good teams playin that will be in the ???Boro??? next month. 6. The people who were runnin the tourney did an outstandin job. AMEN! No Complaints - Great Job 7. Food was good quality ate too much but that is nothin new, notice that some of umps ate more than ???Birdie??? which is pretty hard to do! Didnt eat anything besides junk - You cant mess up a resees! But since you're always right - I'll take your word on it! 8. Very good crowd did not notice any one actin a fool like ???Bobby Joe??? does at games - I don't know "Bobby Joe", but I didn't notice anyone out of hand either. PS - I might not always agree with everything you write - but I do love to read your commentary. Enjoy the 2009 season!!!

Since you were there did you happen to catch any of the other games/scores?

Unfortunately I didn't see any of the games, but a family member called and gave me scores TCA 5 vs. siegel 4 in extra innings TCA 0 vs. Goodpasture 1 in extra innings

TCA's schedule is posted on the coacht webpage under schedules/rankings. As far as playing outside thier class A conference, this year they have wins over GPS, Father Ryan, Red Bank, and Beech just to name a few. Some losses also include Hendersonville and Hueytown, AL who won the Worth Invitational. I'm sure other schools will also be playing tough schedules to prepare for State, So Good Luck to all.