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Franklin 3-1 Maryville

Ravenwood 6-1 Cane Ridge Antioch 0-2 Brentwood (edit - Ravenwood did indeed score 6)

This from one of the district coaches: We voted last year to change the bi-laws of our District. 1st seed in the REGULAR SEASON (this year Brentwood) gets an automatic bid into the region. If the 1st seed doesn't make it to the District Finals (which has now happened) they will still advance to Regions, but they will be the #2 seed. Winner of the District Tournament will be the #1.

Ravenwood 2-4 Houston Cookeville 1-4 Science Hill N. Overton 0-1 White Station Riverdale 0-4 Hardin Valley (with ~20 mins left)

Will Linder came in after ten mins. White Station 1-0 up on Overton. 20 mins gone.

Houston 3-0 Ravenwood after 10 mins. Ravenwood just pulled on back. 27 mins gone.

Anyone know what happened with Hardin Valley vs. Dobyns Bennett? This one aside, we've got: Science Hill (17-3-2) Cookeville (11-7-3) Riverdale (13-3-2) N. Overton (14-3-4) Ravenwood (15-2-1) White Station (14-3-3) Houston (16-2-3) Without knowing the tournament draw, I'm going for Ravenwood to go all the way. They beat Overton who beat Brentwood AND Hendersonville (my pick to repeat). Their only losses coming to Riverdale (State final anyone?) and Brentwood, both after losing Will Linder. It's not likely he'll return this season. With all that said, I really don't know too much about the other teams. Science Hill have posted an impressive 17 wins.

Richard Siegel complex layout

Hendersonville 4 Dickson County 0

Back to the original post, the highest I know about is 20-0. A team from Wartrace beating a team from a town just off I-65, South of Lewisburg.

The other Regional semi-final was much the same. 4-0 after 18 minutes and all the starters came out. The game finished 8-0 and seven minutes early after their stadium clock mysteriously ran fast. Very odd..... Congrats to all the young ladies involved. The match never got "chippy" as these things often can. The winning team played with grace and just kept moving the ball around. The losing team never gave up, defended until the very end, their keeper making some great saves.

As I understand it, the referee abandoned the game 34 minutes into second half. Montgomery Central keeper was injured after challenge (no foul) and couldn't feel her legs. Coach agreed. White house was ahead 3-0.

If the referee is keeping the time on the field, the amount of added time is fairly discretionary. Time is added for substitutions, assessment of injuries, removal of injured players, wasting time and any other cause. Normally a few extra seconds would be found to allow plays as described in the OP to be completed. Where the clock is kept on the scoreboard, when the horn sounds, time is up. Hope this helps.

Brentwood 2-1 final

I have a feeling Station Camp may beat Brentwood. I concur with the rest.

Anyone else heard this?

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Bloody rain.

http://www.dnj.com/article/20091027/SPORTS08/91027025/1006/SPORTS/Region+4-AAA+soccer++Siegel++Riverdale+postponed

St. Cecilia's new field surface is fantastic and after only one year of growth. Little else in the way of facilities mind you.

BGA 1-1 GPS. Great match.

Seconded.

Having thought about this for a day or two, I'll add this. There are only two types of tackle; clean tackles and fouls. A "slide" tackle can take on many forms and may be well executed and perfectly legal. Getting the ball first does necessarily equal a legal challenge. Sub-categories of fouls are careless usually resulting in a DFK or dangerous usually resulting in an IFK. Reckless which should result in a DFK and caution and a tackle committed with excessive force that endangers the safety of an opponent which should result in an ejection and a DFK. Referees evaluate every single coming together of players and determine if the actions of one or both players were legal and take appropriate action. Referees don't wear white or blue or red or black tinted spectacle and make impartial decisions based on what just happened. Referees make calls based on their angle and view of the action, at full speed, in real time, having weighed advantage and taking into account the players involved, the overall temperature and feel of the game. A foul in the third minute in the defensive end might be called whereas the same foul in the 63rd minute at midfield might get uncalled. A players fifth trifling foul may be called when a very similar first foul by an opponent isn't called seconds earlier. The last paragraph is an ideal. Hope this helps.

See my other post. If you don't like the referees you get, become one yourself. Tell ten of your friends to get certified. If we get enough new blood who will keep up with play, rules, etc., we won't need these guys everyone complains about.

Looking at the bigger picture, a slide tackle is just one of a number of different ways of challenge for the ball. What makes it a foul is when the referee decides it is a foul. The six most important words in soccer; In The Opinion Of The Referee. As to the subject at hand, banning "slide tackles". There is a men's league in Franklin, the least competitive of which does not permit "slide-tackles" mainly for the safety of all the players. As has been mentioned, some know how to execute such a tackle, others don't. Some have played enough, at a high enough level, to expect such a challenge and be able to avoid it. Others haven't. In order to have everyone report to work on Monday, the long standing policy has been no slide tackling. What constitutes a slide tackle? A question that is heard week after week. "Ref! That's a slide!" Or "Ref! That was never a slide." Etc. It's all subjective and ultimately the referee has to make the decision, quickly and in the heat of the moment. I'll also add that "getting the ball first" does not always make for a clean challenge. Please help me dispel that myth. Consistency of officials. I agree that the general standard of officials is not great. But, take all the old, fat, lazy and/or incompetent referees away and there would be heck of a lot of games that would either not get played or would be played without officials. Are coaching decisions consistent? Are they always right? Do players never miss shots? Do keepers never let the ball slip from their grasp? Of course they do, but games are always lost because of the referee. The referees are always terrible, but I suspect that not one of those shouting parents or spectators looks into getting certified and doing a better job. I agree that referees sometimes call things that make no sense, but players and coaches, please understand that yelling at the referee is going to make very little difference. Consider your angle of view and then that of the referee. Did he or she see something that you couldn't? Were you 80 yards away and the referee right on top of play? Were there five players in between the referee and the incident and you had an unobstructed view? Was there a deflection that went unseen by one of you? I suspect my words will be wasted, but if even a few of you take them to heart, educate others, go to your local high school referee chapter meeting to see what it's all about, learn the rules. Learn the rules. Read the NFHS rulebook. Go online and read the US Soccer memos and referee directives. There are a couple of YouTube clips from England out there about referees and abuse. Check 'em out. But lay off the referees. If enough of them get fed up with being shouted at, called names, abused, taunted, etc., you may well have games going unplayed or officiated with club linesmen.