LilDevilsDad

I agree with your point, I am just saying the wealth of the travel/Little League success is spread around a bit in Greene County.

Sectional Match Ups: Knox Catholic @ Greeneville Chuckey-Doak @ CAK Murf. Central @ Sequoyah Loudon @ Upperman CPA @ Sycamore Lipscomb Acad. @ Spring Hill Ripley @ Chester Co. Milan @ Covington

Knox Catholic at Greeneville has been moved to 1:00 on Friday due to conflicts with Greeneville's graduation Friday night. If the weather is a problem, the plan is to play Saturday night at 6 (Catholic has their graduation Saturday morning). The game is being played at Tusculum College and that field drains very well.

Greeneville has 4 seniors who were on that team. One other is on Chuckey Doak's team who is also playing for a state berth.

Looks like lots of familiar matchups. (Head to Head) Chuckey Doak @ Greeneville (GHS leads 4-0 ) Knox Catholic @ CAK (CAK leads 2-1 ) Loudon @ Sequoyah (SHS leads 3-1 ) Murfeesboro Central @ Upperman (Upperman leads 2-1) Sycamore @ Lipscomb Academy (First meeting) CPA @ Spring Hill (SHHS leads 2-1) Milan @ Chester Co (first meeting) Covington @ Ripley (an even 2-2)

Great games last night. Gville won both. Game one - Jordan Idell (frosh) pitched a complete game victory. Devils won 7-2. Cabbage took the loss for Grainger Game two went to 9 innings before the Devils broke a 2-2 game open. Final was 5-2. Bowman threw a complete game and was named tourney MVP. Bates took the loss in relief. Both teams made some big plays and some big mistakes. Only two earned runs in the second game. Devils took the long way, having to play six games to win the championship. Greeneville used just 4 pitchers. Idell threw complete games in 1 & 5. Bowman threw complete games in 2 & 6, Hartness (Soph) threw a complete game in game #3 and Collins (Soph) threw a complete game in #4. This team is very young but they grew up this week. Box scores for the brac tourney can be found here

Here is the schedule for the tourney

Just letting the numbers speak: Greeneville's regular season opponents records - 58- 54 (+4) Giles Co's regular season opponents records - 48 - 62 (-14) Greeneville beat 2 6A teams (Science Hill (8-4) & Franklin Co (3-7)) and lost to a 5A team (Mo West (11-2)). Science Hill lost in the 2nd round of the 6 A playoffs, Mo West lost in the Quarter finals, Franklin Co didn't make the playoffs. They also beat 3A Alcoa out of conference who was eliminated in the Quarter finals. Giles Co's non conference schedule consisted of a loss to 6A Lincoln Co. (4-6) and win over 5A Lawrence Co (1-9). Neither team made the playoffs. Prior to the playoffs, Greeneville had played five teams that finished with a winning record, with one more making the playoffs with a 5-6 record. Giles Co. had played three teams that finished with a winning record and two more that made the playoffs with 5-6 and 6-6 records respectively. Greeneville has played a tougher schedule. Giles County has caught fire at the end of the season and is on a good run. Sometimes teams catch fire in the post season and make a deep run. I fully expect Giles County's run to end in Greeneville on Friday night. I'm hoping for a good close game but after looking at the records and opponents, I am not optimistic.

That is a school resource officer's vehicle. Both Scott Co and Knox Carter have had them travel with the team.

Mo West controlling G'ville's running game. Shuff went 80 yards on one run, only 21 other yards. Mo West runners have been breaking tackles. Let's see what the 2nd half holds.

7 -7 at the half. G'ville intercepted in end zone and Mo West has miseed 3 FG. So plenty of missed opportunities.

THS was very thin - less than 30 players - I think the game plan was to run it down their throats and wear them down. Greeneville only threw 3 passes in the first half. GHS ran more than passed all year long.

I was at this game - The quiet restrained kid had taken a cheap shot the play before and the ref instead of flagging him, talked to him. The result was the two players getting ejected the next play. I know the G'ville kid too. He too is a kind, pleasant kid. Let's face it when boys are on the football field, aggression can get the best of them. Both boys were at fault for losing their cool. I believe that the lesson G'ville learned about the cost of loosing your cool, helped them in the state finals. I agree that coaches and the respect they carry among their players is the key to avoiding the behavior we saw at the state.

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Sports/article.php?ID=84257 "After his team got beaten badly in every phase of the game, Bears’ head coach Teli White was asked how Greeneville compared to some of the other tough teams on Trezevant’s schedule this year. “They don’t,†White said tersely. “It wasn’t anything (Greeneville) did. We let the referees dictate the way we played.â€

What are the refs supposed to ignore? THS strategy was to guess the snap count. They were wrong. A bunch. On extra points, they were doing it every time. It appeared the thought was it is not much of a penalty (half the distance) so take the chance. The flagrant one was hitting the center in the head, with a running start, before the snap. That should have been an ejection. When you are running at the center, you know if he has snapped the ball or not. The center is looking back and is defenseless. After that, I would have gone for 2 every time. To protect my center and my kicker (from the cheap shots). The reason they were running into Ogle (in my opinion) was he was frustrating them. He put 6 of 8 kick offs in the end zone. 80 was jumping up and down and pouting every time one went ever his head. I kept waiting for him to target him on a return but it didn't happen. He did get a tackle on one of the 2 return opportunities. The THS coach pulled the first kid who got a personal foul and got in his face a bit. After that, he didn't seem to respond. I guess when you have a limited bench, you can't pull every kid who commits a personal foul. The only thing I wished the refs would have done is the pull the two coaches to the middle of the field and said "Enough, the next kid from either team who commits an unsportsmanlike conduct is gone." That might have restored some order. I was at the game and was concerned about it getting further out of control. That said, I hate that THS didn't have their star back because of the injury. Would have liked to have played them at full strength.

#4 was impressive. He was the shortest kid on the field and must have a huge heart. I saw where he was credited with something like 16 or 18 tackles.

I think Finchum is the QB of the future for the Greene Devils. He will push Stewart.

Just my speculation but I don't know who the "they" is offering the package deal, but prospects at this level don't have the leverage to do package deals. I see B J as a DII or I-AA linebacker. Willy could run CN's offense or could be a DB but his academics might force him to go JuCo first.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." (typed in best Inigo Montoya accent from the Princess Bride) There is no word in the dictionary by that spelling. So I checked it out on line. According to the urbandictionary.com driding - When a person asks a friend to hide their cell phone so the person doesn't make any regrettable phone calls or send any incriminating text messages while severely intoxicated. That doesn't match the context of how you keep using the word. D riding - (editing out profanity) getting up in ones grill...if someone tells you WHY YOU D RIDING, it probably means you are harassing them. If it applies here, it is a bit of a stretch and since you never use the space, I don't think that is what you are getting at. Now the word deriding according to dictionary.com means: To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. That one seems to fit the context of how you use "driding". So that leads me to a couple of conclusions to pull from: 1. You were trying to use the right word and repeatedly misspelled it. 2. You were trying to use a cool, hip word and used it or spelled it wrong. Now you can say that you have be derided by a Greeneville fan. Go Devils!

The mercy rule has been in effect in 10 of Greeneville's 12 games this year. The two games it was not used were weeks 0 & 1 against Sullivan South (34-7) & Jeff County (35-20). Will this be the 11th week in a row?

That is not what I saw. Different perceptions and views is what video is for. GHS will appeal but I suspect that T Rel will be out for the Gibbs game.

I was impressed by the way one of the Fulton guys came to the Greeneville players before play was resumed and exchanged handshakes. I believe he was #57. Looked like the young man was showing some leadership. The Greeneville players reacted well to his gesture.

I wish I had a video of the situation with Rel. One or two plays before, I think it was the same Fulton player who took exception to Thornton's rough tackle of a Fulton player. He came up and slung Thorton off. The ref talked to him instead of throwing a flag. If he throws that flag, the fight doesn't happen (IMHO). I was in the top row and I could hear Caine's "Pitiful" when he got the explanation from the ref.