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Haven't seen anything as nice as Mt. Juliet. Athletic facility looks like a small college. Everybody that plays there gives top notch comments. Lots of nice fields across the state but for a public high school, this one is hard to beat. Great indoor facility, turf and infield is always immaculately prepared. Brick from dug out to dug out. A huge back stop. Seat backs in the stands Lots of care put into the entire place.

Agreed that you have to score runs to win games, but anyone that knows baseball realizes that great pitching beats good hitting almost all the time. MJ has faced the ace of everyone's staff in every game this year with the exception of the Arlington game. They've scored 66 runs against 14 given up. I'll take those numbers along with the pitching we have and see where we stand at the end of it all. The best teams in the world lose about 60 games a year. I don't believe any team in the state will win them all. Let's just wait and see come May before we declare MJ dead just because they lost one game to an outstanding pitching performance. I tip my hat to Hendersonville, they out pitched us last night. I still like our chances when it counts due to staff depth, which is what it will take to win the marathon, because it's not a one game sprint.

Monday at MJ Beech versus Lebanon 4pm, MJ plays the winner right afterward If necessary game Tuesday at 7pm Monday at Hendersonville WC versus Hendersonville 4pm, Gallatin plays the winner right afterward If necessary game Tuesday at 7pm District Championship game on Wednesday at higher seed North winner versus South Winner, MJ is high seed from south, Hendersonville is high seed from north, Hendersonville hosts if they meet each other on Wednesday

MJ won their first round game against Henry County and lost the semi final game vs Wilson Central, Lebanon lost their first round game against Rossview. The final should be interesting as Rossview will be the most physical and fast team that Wilson Central has faced all year. Their undefeated record will face a big challenge in this game. I assume coach Wild probably has some more tricks up his sleeve. Best coach 9AAA has had in awhile. Fryer is gonna have to go back to the drawing board if he wants to stay compettitive against Wild in the coming years. Of course, having a shooter like Spray doesn't hurt.

After the first week of play and having watched the summer games, The District looks like it can be broken down like this. WC should win. They have the best player and the most experience. I would have picked Lebanon #2 but an injury and some team issues may have allowed them to drop back into the race with MJ, Hend and SC. Gallatin will be better but still won't be in that second group, Portland wil be competitive and surprise a few teams, Beech will be down for them, especially with their coach missing the season. MJ is young but by the end of the season should buy into CF's scheme and give teams some trouble. All in all the district should be much more even and competitive than most years and should actully provide some entertaining games. Good luck to all 1. WC 2. MJ 3. Hend 4. Lebanon 5. SC 6. Gallatin 7. Portland 8. Beech

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Funny how the collection of nobody's from Mount Juliet keep beating your "all world players"

Mt. Juliet won easily with excellent defense by forcing lots of turnovers and limiting Centrals shooters from barely taking any shots. Mt. Juliet's size and experience is just too much for the rest of the district it appears. Hendersonville hung close because they shot 80% from three point range that night. My guess is that kind of performance won't happen again. I've seen potential Region and sub-state opponents in Rossview and Brentwood play and not sure that they can handle Mount Juliet's attack either. Potentially, The next meaningful game the Lady Bears will play is the Region championship against Rossview, the sub-state against region 6 runner-up Brentwood and then into the States. it's not hard to see that scenario playing out because no one in region 6 is going to beat Dickson County either.

First of all, Coach Johnson hasn't gifted coach Fryer anything other than kids that lack fundamentals. The best players the last few years just haapened to be a 6'4" D1 talent and 2 transfers that are very good and have comitted D1. Fryer has to spend the girls freshmen years deprogramming before they become useful. Mt. Juliet has been very fortunate for the last 10+ years to have had a lot of talent come through and would have been successful at the middle school level regardless of coaching, mainly because of size and natural ability. Chris takes these girls to another level because of his system and the girls parental support, not because of anything they learned in middle school.

They have some young talent on WC. A couple of Sophomores and Freshmen that will turn into nice players over the next couple of years. Just not ready to compete with MJ this year. I think Bud is getting alot out of the talent this year and they have actually won more games than most have expected. MJ is too big for most of the teams in 9AAA. Hendersonville will probably be the only team that can rebound with them. Monday night should tell the tale. From what I've seen so far from 9AAA and 10AAA, MJ and Hendersonville should meet each other for the 5AAA region championship and both go to sub-state games. Nobody from 10AAA has really impressed me, MJ beat Dickson Co. by 40 points and DC beat Rossview who is supposed to be "good".

MJ played very uninspired basketball against WC which allowed them to stay close. The lead was up to 17 at the end of the third quarter. McCabe did not play well, caught an elbow in the nose early and seemed distracted throughout. WC is scrappy with a couple decent outside shooters but they would have to play lights out and MJ would have to not show up at all for the outcome to be the other way. Can't wait for MJ/ Hendersonville on Monday, they have seperated themselves from the rest of the district and Monday should give us the answers we are all looking for.

Why do we talk about Science Hill like they are some little podunk school that is over achieving because they don't recruit and all the girls are home grown. It's one of the biggest high schools in the state for crying out loud and the only public high school the girls can go to in that vicinity. They dont recruit, because they don't have to. They ought to be good when you have that many students to choose from. It's different when you have 6 or 7 schools like Murfreesboro does and year after year most of the best talent ends up in one or two places. That's why there is such suspicion. Bottom line is this, TSSAA allows all of this to happen openly. A few of the better programs just know how to play poker better than others. None of it is illegal until TSSAA decides to crack down or change rules. Until then, just let the girls lace 'em up and play ball and enjoy watching some pretty good girls basketball across the state.

They play 10-11 players in all games because they are up by 30 points most of the time. They don't go that deep when they're in close games. Only went 6 or 7 deep against MJ and Columbia. MJ was a 6-8 point game until the very end when foul shots stretched it out and we all know about the Columbia game. Bet they don't go 10-11 deep tomorrow night against Blackman either. Riverdale is the team to beat, no argument here, but there are a few teams right in the mix not far behind them.

Day in and day out Riverdale is better than Columbia but Columbia has 2 really good players in Timmons and Gilbert that can play with anybody in the state. Polls can't be based strictly on head to head match ups. They have to look at the entire body of work. Just like in this case, Columbia beat Riverdale, Riverdale beat MJ and Shelbyville but both of them beat Columbia. Anybody that watches girls basketball in Tennessee on a regular basis knows that Riverdale is better than almost everybody on most days. But they better bring their A-game every night because the gap is considerably closer this year than in the past couple. You cant afford to have that "off night' when March gets here. I think that there are actully about 6 teams in the state that could win the gold ball this year. Riverdale, SH, Blackman, MJ, Columbia and Ridgeway. Have an off night against any of these teams and you'll get pounded!!

I'll agree with you on Blackman and Riverdale being top 25 teams in the country but Oakland?? Come on, They have a couple good players in Gibson, and the Eubanks sisters but top 25 in the country is a real stretch for them. They couldn't compete with the caliber of theam that the other 2 have faced this year.

MJ plays Hendersonville on Jan 7th. The edge goes to MJ for now. These 2 teams should have been the favorites in 9AAA along with Beech but SC threw a wrench into that by beating the commandos. IMO, MJ will run away with this district. They are playing very well right now and their size will be difficult for most teams to deal with. Wilson Central has surprised me a little. I've seen them play a couple times this year and was initially unimpressed but they've scratched out a couple big wins already. Losing Abby Wright to Lancaster Christian has hurt Lebanon and the Blue Devils will have to wait for another year. Gallatin and Portland still looking up at the rest.

Mt Juliet should be fourth in this poll, They beat Oakland and Columbia already by 13 and 17 respectively.They have beat everybody by 20- 30 points except for their loss to Riverdale which was a 6-8 point game until the end when fouls and free throws stretched it out. Their defense is outstanding averaging giving up only 33 per contest. Held Lea Lea Carter of Dickson County to just 6 points They have 3 girls above 6 foot and are tough to handle on the inside. Riverdale, Blackman and Science Hill are truly the only ones deserving to be ranked higher at this point of the seaason.

This tournament is as wide open as I can remember in recent history. Usually there is a team that comes into this tournament as the clear favorite. I honestly believe all 8 teams have a shot. MJ has a very strong pitching staff and great defense. Indy has 2 stud pitchers. Collierville can put up a ton of runs. Obviously SD and Farragut can play with anyone. Arlington is extremely talented. Its gonna come down to who makes the fewest mistakes and the team that gets the best pitching performances. Hold on to your hat, It's gonna be a fun week of baseball!

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The "Once Elite MJ Program" wins their 6th district championship in a row run ruling Beech 10-0 in 5 innings.

Heard that the Louisville Slugger Exo BBCOR is better than any of the DeMarinis that are out. Dont really know what that means because I dont think any of the BBCOR bats are gonna make you happy compared to current bats

It's nice not being "ELITE" anymore, that means MJ can sneak up on and beat teams like Farragut(2-0) and Riverdale(6-3) on successive nights this weekend. Your son pitched great against MJ last week and deserved the win but don't get too wound up and start bashing MJ because they lost a game. As far as the "mouths" go, every program has an individual or 2 that don't know when to shut up so dont act like no one on your side line has ever yelled at an umpire. The umpire at Station camp last Tuesday night deserved the tongue lashing as far as I'm concerned. That was a horrible call that cost a coach 3 games and $250. Both kids were just making a baseball play and it shouldn't have created the drama that it did.

I don't think you'll see Phil in this game. He supposedly has been shut down for a couple weeks due to tendinitis in the shoulder.