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Frost Falcons known for quality softball players since 1983 is looking for one quality pitcher to complete our college exposure 16U team for the Fall 2009 and Summer 2010. The pitcher must be able to throw in the 60 plus range, be willing to travel out of town for tournaments, including ASA Nationals in College Station, Texas. If you are able to compete at a top level and want exposure to top college programs please call Chris Edwards @ (423) 504-2919.

The second baseman made a great play and throw to stop a run in the first inning. The shortstop will lay out for the ball and take away hits. This team is hungry!

OH YEAH... WE ARE "LOSING AGAIM". A 5 AND 0 RECORD IS SO HORRIBLE, YOU KNOW?

The right fielder and her cutter did NOT do their jobs. They figured she would only move up one base and the right fielder took her time and the relay was poor to home. Coach Murphy would not have waved her on if she did not have wheels.

Read the news paper during the Super Regional last year when Roger did tag. Mabe TIDE TV still has the replay http://alabama.scout.com/2/757114.html

I had my daughter text Willis a second ago and it was a neck & neck race with a parent telling Willis she won. Either way that is fast! Ask the right fielder who Britney Rogers tagged up on at second base last year and scored on a sac fly.

Major League baseball rules states:"Front edge of rubber to back point of home plate, 60'6"." http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/ ... e_game.pdf

The ball was there first and the Soddy Daisy girl kept the GPS girl's foot off the bag when she came into the base.

Field ump

You want to talk about blown calls and blocking bases look at this call from Soddy Daisy vs GPS. The GPS girl is called safe, which would have been the third out of the inning and a 2-1 Soddy Daisy lead. Both umps called the girls safe.( SD has the ball in her glove)

With metal cleats!!!!!!!!

NCAA stats 1988-89 and 2003-04 A total of 9% of game injuries occurred due to contact with a fixed base ( Figure 4), and of these, 43.3% resulted in ankle ligament sprains. In addition, 7.8% of all game injuries resulting in 10+ days of activity time loss were ankle ligament sprains, and the most common mechanism of those injuries was contact with a fixed base ( Table 6). Athletes were nearly twice as likely to sustain an ankle ligament sprain in a game as in a practice (0.44 versus 0.25, rate ratio = 1.8). Sliding injuries accounted for 23% of all game injuries (n = 580), and the injury rate for sliding was 0.89 injuries per 1000 A-Es for games but only 0.02 per 1000 A-Es for practices (n = 175). The higher rate of ankle ligament sprains and sliding injuries in games versus practices likely is related to many factors, including hesitation or late decision to slide and an increase in aggressiveness during games versus practices. Feet-first and head-first slides are both common in women's collegiate softball, but feet-first slides are used more often, 3 which may partially explain the incidence of ankle ligament sprains in the current study. In the only study investigating college softball sliding injuries, 3 the authors collected injury incident data during 422 Division I softball games (4756 game-exposures) and 215 Division I baseball games (2840 game-exposures). They reported that softball players employed an average of 3.30 feet-first slides per game and 1.34 head-first slides per game. The sliding injury rate for softball was 12.76 per 1000 slides, which was significantly greater than the sliding injury rate for baseball (6.20 per 1000 slides, P = .02). Most softball injuries due to sliding were contusions (33%) and ankle ligament sprains (19%). 3 The researchers defined injury as ???any acute ailment that occurred during a slide in a game situation and that required medical attention or for which medical treatment was deemed necessary by the athletic training staff,??? which differs from the definition of injury used in the current study. Although these differences make direct comparisons difficult, the results of that study support the injury trends here. Both the current study and the literature 3 appear consistent with the clinical practice of certified athletic trainers, who likely have observed the injurious effects of sliding, which can lead to extensive treatment, rehabilitation, and/or activity time loss.

"I'd make head first slides illegal, make the use of double bags at first base mandatory and use break away bags at 2nd and 3rd." Your QUOTE from page 4 " Your QUOTE above: "I don't want head first slides outlawed either." Do illegal and outlaw mean the same to you as they do to me? /blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush:" border="0" alt="blush.gif" /> I was talking about your first quote on page 4, now I see you agree with me on this page.

Head first slides are no more dangerous than diving back into a base on a pickoff play. What I am saying is, head first slides are not that great of a risk. I know people get broken fingers, but you are more likely to get hurt with a head first tackle or any type of tackle, in football then sliding into a base in softball head first. I do not agree that head first slides should be outlawed. Here is a study on slides-dives: Hosey RG, Puffer JC. Department of Family Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. We prospectively observed seven softball and three baseball Division I collegiate teams to study the incidence of sliding injuries, the types of injuries resulting from the sliding technique, and the amount of time lost from participation. Slides were categorized as either feet- or head-first on the basis of the leading part of the body during the slide. Slides were further stratified depending on whether a diveback technique was performed. We recorded 37 injuries in 3889 slides in 637 games and 7596 athlete game exposures. The overall incidence of sliding injuries was 9.51 per 1000 slides and 4.87 per 1000 game exposures. Softball players had a significantly higher incidence of sliding injuries (12.13 per 1000 slides) than did baseball players (6.01 per 1000 slides). In baseball, the injury rate was higher for feet-first slides (7.31 per 1000 slides) than for headfirst slides (3.53 per 1000 slides) or divebacks (5.75 per 1000 divebacks). In softball, injury rates were higher for head-first slides (19.46 per 1000 slides) than for feet-first slides (10.04 per 1000 slides) or divebacks (7.49 per 1000 divebacks). The majority of injuries sustained were minor, with only four (11%) injuries causing the athlete to miss more than 7 days of participation. PMID: 10843128 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Sports bring injuries! Do you think Ralph and Karen are going to ban metal cleats at UT? The rule is in place to aid students-athletes as they go to college. Boys are stronger athletes therefore; they can wear metal cleats because of their body structure. I do not believe this is the reason accident happen. I am sorry you were hurt so many times playing baseball, but I played high level baseball into college and believed the game should be played like Pete Rose played and none of your problems every happen to me. I did break my hand in college diving for a fly ball in the outfield. Maybe we should do away with hustle and giving 100 plus percent. It is sports and injuries happen. /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

Why make head first slides illegal? Someone break a neck? Ricky Henderson made a lot on money head first. I have notice TEAM USA has backed off head first slides. Don't make it illegal, just slide past and grab the base head first. You will have no cleating unless your feet come way over your head. /blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush:" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />

This is not just the truth! Talent is very good at Soddy Daisy, but champions are made by getting the finer points of the game correct. If your statement were true then Team USA would not need their coaches. Who can say that Mike Candrea does not make a difference at Arizona? The same is true for Team USA. Look around the SEC; Tennessee, LSU, Alabama are the better teams, now Florida, with the coaching being the difference. Clifford, Lamar, and Wes work with the girls to make them their best. Some girls do not want to listen to these coaches and try their way. That is not how TEAMS win. The techniques the Soddy Daisy trio uses are the same techniques utilized by TEAM USA, Tennessee, LSU, and Alabama. Soddy Daisy trio push the girls, which upset parents at times, but I know from personal experience that all three care about each girl very much and want everyone to succeed. Some players are just better than others are. Some players are good young in life but never work hard enough to stay ahead. Then you have girls who work everyday to be the best they can be. That is why I fork out the bucks for A-select travel ball, private lessons on running, and camps at great programs like those that I mentioned previously. Just for the little something that will make the difference for her to play at Soddy Daisy where championships are made because they do not just happen.

The problem is not the cleats as much as the lack of proper technique in sliding. I was taught in both high school and college to slide on both butt muscles with the left leg under you and the right foot about four inches above the ground to tag the base not the crash the side of the base as I see many girls doing today. When I watch major college teams and Team USA, they slide by the base and grab the base, with their hand, on steals, while sliding as I mentioned above during close plays, and double plays. I played in metal cleats starting in 8th grade though college and only hurt my ankle by nicking myself while running. (Bowed-legged, but it worked for Lou Brock) /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" /> My daughter had a great summer ball coach from North Georgia who started every practice with base running and sliding techniques. His team learned to run bases and slide correctly while getting into shape. If a coach is into punishment running what a great way to teach and get your point across while your players learn, unlike a Nashville area coach, who ran the whole team this weekend for one error a girl made.

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