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I wasn't jumping on DII7 at all, just asking when he had seen Carver pitch. I have seen Blake pitch against top competition when we were playing in invitationals at Auburn and in Atlanta so I was just wondering. At least he admits that he knows Ryan and that his comments were based on personal preference. As far as DII not saying anything wrong I don't know, I don't really appreciate him implying that I like Carver in a homosexual way or that he's my boyfriend, but then again I guess you have to think about who's saying that. Anyways, best of luck to Moore and Carver throughout the year, I hope they both do great. I'd love to see them both go in the 1st round(I know this won't happen before you start jumping on me). I'm not hating on Moore, just defending Carver and stating my opinion, that Blake is a better pitcher than Ryan. I also believe that Ryan is a better prospect, with tremendous upside. I'd love to see Ryan forget about football and focus solely on baseball, if he did that the only stopping him from wherever he wanted to go would be himself.

DII7-When have you seen Carver pitch? If you think he can't handle top competition you are terribly mistaken. Last fall(fall of '02) I played on the Chattanooga Cyclones with Blake and most of the other top prospects in the area(Wes Hodges, Brendan Murphy, Clark Jackson, Matt Ray, Kane Simmons, Zane Stone, Cody Gosset, Brandon Langston, etc.) and we traveled to play the best teams in the south. Blake DOMINATED that fall season. I will post the exact stats if you want, but I don't think he gave up an earned run all fall. And as far as Moore being a better pitcher than Carver, no way, at least that's what some of his teammates have told me. A better prospect, no doubt, anytime you're as big as Moore is, and are a lefty throwing 90 or better you're going to be a top prospect. Being a better prospect doesn't equal being a better pitcher.

I know this is a high school sports website, but I just wanted to congratulate Vanderbilt on their trip to the sweet 16. And a special congratulations to Mario Moore who played at Antioch, Jason Holwerda from Chatt. Christian, and Julian Terrell from Ezell-Harding as they have all had pretty big roles for the Commodores this season. Again, congrats to Vandy, the players, and schools represented by these players, and let's pull off another upset.

I know I'll be leaving off some, but here are some top players to look for: Wilkes, Carver(probably best PITCHER in Chatt. area), Ben Wilson and Ryan Headden from Boyd, Phil Brown from CCS, Zane Stone and Scott Raines, Barber, Austin Jayne, Moore HAS to be on this list if for no other reason than his upside. Of course, this is a TN sports website, but if we were including the N. GA schools then the list would definately change. Look for Nate Long from CCS to have a breakout year.

Thanks Boyd and Supersteve for your compliments on Cook. I know it's probably hard for you to give compliments to a CCS player sometimes . I just wanted to add that, as Supersteve said, Cook is definately a class act. He's as good of a person as he is a ballplayer. I know there are a lot of great players around the state, but Cook has to be considered right there with the best of them.

It's funny how positive everyone is about their stories. Del is positive that his source was correct, but it's hard to discount the statements that were given by people who were actually there then by those getting it second hand from Grundy County people. Personally, I don't appreciate people getting on here and throwing out racial accusations without being 100% positive that they're right(which obviously isn't the case). Especially when you play that "blacks can get away with murder while we can't do anything" BS. Whether or not you wanted it to, that's how it came off to me. Think a little more about how or what you say before you say it, especially in a public format.

Coulda shoulda woulda

Actually, if Cook won, it would give Chattanooga it's 4th straight Mr. Basketball in class A. Holwerda won it twice, then Skogen, and now, hopefully Cook. All the players mentioned are deserving, but my vote's for Cook. He's stepped it up big time to make CCS contenders again.

Oh yeah, they're 4-0 against top 50 rpi teams, which is half the number of victories you said they had. I don't know where you're getting your info.

Haha, yeah, I took a little sabbatical. I don't know when you heard that but SOS varies a lot just based on how your opponents do and how their opponents do and so on, but I know that as of last night ESPN didn't have them in their top 15 SOS so I don't know when you heard that.

I don't know if you meant to help me prove my point, but you did, so thanks. I agree that St. Joes probably wouldn't be undefeated in the ACC, or even the Big 12, SEC, or Pac-10, but just because they aren't playing those teams night in and night out doesn't discredit the fact that they are undefeated, which is why they are 2nd in the nation. And scarface, I was speaking in relative terms when I said they haven't played the toughest schedule, I didn't mean that they haven't played any good teams. 8 teams in the top 50 rpi isn't THAT tough of a schedule, especially compared to the teams playing in the ACC, SEC and other large conferences who play more teams in the top 50 rpi in-conference alone, not even counting whoever else they may be playing. Besides all that, I'm not on here to down any teams, I was just giving some support. If I felt that a team should have been placed higher in this poll I would've said so and left it at that, not bad-mouthed another team in the process.

CCS fans-you're going to have to learn that in a city-wide poll people are never going to give you the respect you deserve. Even back when Holwerda and Trimiew were seniors(two of the best players in the state that year) and they were handling their business on their way to winning the state championship people still didn't want to give them credit just because CCS is single A. CCS was beating Howard, Soddy, Dalton, Red Bank, Atlanta teams, Alabama teams, etc. and people still said they weren't proven. The only way you're going to get the respect is to win the championship(even then you may not). This always happens, all the AAA schools think they would kill you because you're A. St. Joseph's is ranked #2 in the nation right now(behind also undefeated Stanford), if the people who made up the real polls thought with the same frame of mind as some of you on here I'm sure you'd have some pretty ridiculous teams ahead of St. Joes just because St. Joes hasn't played "the toughest" schedule. Get real

Luckyday-No, 70% isn't anything to brag about, but it's definately acceptable. The most dominant player in the NBA is a terrible free throw shooter. He's a big man too. I agree that 70% is a percentage that most players should reach, but if a big man in high school doesn't shoot 70% it's not neccesarily something to be ashamed of either. Oh yeah, guess Little came up big tonight. Congrats Cleveland

Luckyday-No, 70% isn't anything to brag about, but it's definately acceptable. The most dominant player in the NBA is a terrible free throw shooter. He's a big man too. I agree that 70% is a percentage that most players should reach, but if a big man in high school doesn't shoot 70% it's not neccesarily something to be ashamed of either. Oh yeah, guess Little came up big tonight. Congrats Cleveland

A big man MUST shoot 70% from the line in high school? 70% isn't a bad percentage for many guards in high school, let alone big men. One thing Charles Little is....a better ballplayer than you.

In response to the comments about Heather Trimiew being good SOLELY because she is a great athlete and not because of skill is ridiculous. As in any sport, being really athletic in soccer is a huge thing, but just to be athletic doesn't make you good at soccer. I know plenty of great athletes who aren't good at certain sports simply because they don't practice that to acquire the skills. Heather has both, and you can't deny that someone who was one of the top scorers in Chattanooga as a sophomore doesn't have some skills. I don't care how athletic they are. Anyways, I might stick to track if I won the pentathlon as a sophomore too. She's pretty amazing.

Heather Trimiew from CCS is just plain sick when it comes to sports(that's a good thing).

Peterw-I've seen some pretty bad posters on coacht, but you might take the cake. First-you claim to be unbiased, but you sure do know a lot of info about Page. Not only that, but you sure are quick to defend them and put CSAS down. If Page is so great, surely they would be better enough to beat a team "playing kickball" sorry refs or not. Blaming losses on weather and refs is not just tasteless, but it's shameful. After supposedly coaching soccer for so long and being such a great analyst you should realize that while the better team doesn't always win, the better team won't make sorry excuses. Second-what's this whole "they don't get this chance but every 10 years" bull? So if one team is there nearly every year, and some team hasn't been to sectionals for 5+ years the refs are going to talk to both teams captains and say something like, "Well, since you guys were here last year, and this other team hasn't been this far in an ungodly amount of time we're just going to give them all the calls today. That would only be fair."? Are you kidding me? I can't believe you even brought that up. Oh well, I've wasted enough time on this reply, just analyze this-Page didn't make it to state because they didn't earn it. If they earned it they'd be going. CSAS earned their trip by winning the games they had to win to get there. If you really are unbiased and aren't associated with Page, then the Page people probably don't like you because you get on here and make them look like some crybabies. Oh yeah, I liked the sermon on the spelling and then the misspelling of a basic word a few lines later. Guess you never listened to the "practice what you preach" lessons.

TO XTREMELOCO, ROBERTO AND OTHERS-I play for CCS. Ask anyone who watched us play in Memphis if we were a bunch of small guys or if we were fairly big. I would be willing to bet that they would say we are pretty big. I would be willing to bet money that Rockwood, or any other school in the state tournament, have MUCH nicer and bigger weightrooms than we do. My point is that as Roberto was saying, it really doesn't matter how much money you have, it won't buy you hard work. Our weight facilities are low-budget(and that's a generous way of putting it). We have people who grew up doing hard work, and that carried over into their dedication to sports. For you to sit there and say that public schools don't have a chance just takes away from all the hard work the other schools have put in. Believe it or not, but not all private school students were born with a silver spoon. We had 6 seniors on our team this year, and 5 of those 6 have been playing together since the 6th grade, and even with each other or against each other dating back to tee-ball. 5 of the 6 seniors have been at the school since 3rd grade at the latest(3 of us started at CCS in Kindergarten). So I don't know what excuses or points you're trying to make about publics and privates, but know fact before you say things about them. We knew each others game, and we loved each other. It had nothing to do with money, recruiting, facilities or any of that BS. It was hard work, working together towards a common goal for most of our lives. We came up short, but we gave it our all. Money couldn't buy anything that we earned and deserved. Don't sit there and make excuses about publics being at a disadvantage to us unless you're saying the disadvantage is that you didn't work as hard as the rest of us, for as long as the rest of us. Going to private schools does not make you rich, and going to public schools do not make you poor. I go to a private school, but I doubt I have any more money than you. Know what you're saying if you're going to say it.

Tiller-That's why he put the quotations around it-he was being sarcastic. His team was in that pool, so I doubt he was trying to knock anyone. Reading comprehension maybe?

Fella-I have yet to see a CCS player on this site talking highly about themselves or their team. The only time we played Grace was in the region tournament. 9-6 isn't exactly a killing, but if it makes you feel good then great. Soddy Daisy isn't a pushover and we beat them....forget it, as ignorant as that post was I've already spent too much time responding to it.

RHSfan-Thanks a lot, I wish we could have met up. I really felt like we were better than both the teams that we lost to. I'm not trying to make anyone mad by saying that, that's just how I feel. We didn't come to play though so we lost, we didn't bring our A game and you can't expect to win without that. Like you said, I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Congrats to Rockwood and a great season as well, and best of luck to the program and players in the future.

Also, I would normally be in centerfield, and Nate Long(who played center against ya'll) would be in left or right, along with either Dallas(big guy who played second) or Matt Kemp(who pitches and played right against you I believe). When I'm out there along with Long and Kemp or Dallas I think we are pretty strong defensively. Not trying to brag at all but I have the strongest arm in the outfield on our team.

Thanks Supersteve17-to be honest with you I didn't think Boyd would be all that good after losing the great players they did. Boyd has done much better than many people probably thought they would have. They have played really well against us last night, and if they play Friday like they did against us they have a good shot at winning. Will Ben Wilson be throwing? In my opinion he is Boyd's best pitcher, but I am biased too since I played fall ball with him. Thanks orangecrush for info, that's the only kind of stuff that I really wanted to know. Hey Supersteve-we haven't made it yet! Still have another tough game ahead of us if we want to go to Memphis.

Are Halls and Peabody public? If so that makes 7 of the 16 teams public. Sounds pretty even to me.