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Is your son a senior? Most of the state's community colleges have open tryouts for unsigned seniors during the summer. Try out at as many as you can; if your son is good enough, one of these colleges will give him a chance. Junior College is very good baseball especially in Tennessee (alot better than people think). If he can make one of these teams and is good enough, the coaches in this league are very good about sending players on to universities.

I am not even going to try to predict these games; both could go either way. The Summertown, Mt. Pleasant game should be a dog fight. They always seemed to have some close games when they played in the district tournament a few years ago, so it will be interesting to watch them play when the stakes are higher.Perry Co. is probably a better team than Wayne Co. but Wayne Co. is well coached and seems to be playing some good basketball right now. This is probably the most competitive the region has been in a long time.

Mr. Franks, I understand what you are saying, but I think you are blowing this out of porportion. I definantly don't agree with everything Vandy says, but he has been on here supporting Summertown all season and he is entitled to his opinion. The only thing I would say to Vandy (and glazed) is be carefull how agressively you go after 11A fans. 12A may be on top now, but it was only a few seasons ago that Cully and Moore Co. were dominating the region. As far as "insider information" I think everybody understands that this is just a casual message board that is ment for fun. Coach T is: 70% players and Parents talking trash 20% people with nothing better to do, and 10% people who actually know what they are talking about. So, I don't think anybody on here takes any "insider information" seriously anyway. This is all just for fun.

You guys have been arguing for a while now and I think it needs to be said that Summertown, Perry Co. and Wayne Co. are all good (but not great) teams and can beat each other on any given night. I'm giving Perry Co. the advantage in the D12 tournament because it's on their home court, but I think any three of these teams could win the region.

I've seen the BBCOR bats in action many times and there is a noticable difference. It's not quite like hitting with wood, but the ball definantly does not come off the bat like it did with the BESR bats. If you hit the ball on the sweet-spot it still comes off pretty good, but if you don't square it up, it's not going anywhere. Alot of hitters that are used to hitting homeruns are going to be flying out on the warning track (i've seen that alot already in the college game).

Yeah, when you have weather like this it's tough to get alot done. I think it effects the hitters the most because you can hit in the cage all you want, but it's hard to simulate facing live pitching.

I can't wait to see how the D12 tournament plays out. Perry Co. Wayne Co. and Summertown are all very good teams and have a shot to win the region. I think Perry Co. will win the District tournament with the homecourt advantage, but Wayne Co. and Summertown are both capable of beating them in the Region. Also, it will be very important to win the region this year because I don't think anybody wants to travel to Clarksville Academy for the Sub-State.

So explain to me how one blowout loss will effect a team for a couple of years. Everybody has bad games, but great teams recover and move on. The regular season dosen't mean anything, it only matters how teams perform in the post-season. For example, if I remember correctly, Wayne Co. didn't win the district last season and made it all the way to the state tournament.

I think that Summertown will take home the title again this season, but Wayne Co. and Perry Co. will also be in the mix. Wayne Co. is returning some great players, but they haven't performed well as a team in the post-season over the past few years. It will be interesting to see if they can break that trend. Perry Co. had a young, talented team last year and will be looking to build on an incredible season falling just short of the State Tournament. Summertown will be on top again this year, but they will be losing a lot talent after this season; this may be the last year of their reign in 12A for the next few years (4 district titles, 5 region titles, 3 state tournament apperances, and 1 state championship in the last 5 years). It is shaping up to be an exciting season in District 12A, best of luck to all teams!

Are you serious? How does having one bad game constitute "going down the crapper"? Yes, Perry Co. had a bad game against Summertown and Summertown had a terrible game against Wayne Co., but that dosen't mean that they're no longer the best two teams in 6A. How does losing to Wanye Co. make CA a better team tham Summertown when CA has already lost to Summertown twice? Wayne Co. had a heck of a game, but i'm still predicting Perry Co. and Summertown to move on to Sub-State.

Why would you save your ace for game 2? Yeah he may get you a big win in game two, but he would only have 1 days rest going into the championship game. So either you have to trust your #2 in the championship game or you pitch your #1 at nowhere near full strength. I think the best thing to do is pitch your ace in game 1 (hopefully you can get a big lead and pull him early) and the championship game.

Everyone talks about how good their ace pitcher is, but what the state tournament comes down to is who has the most depth. Even if your ace throws a gem on game 1, it's up to your #2 and #3 guys to get you to the championship game. So the team with the best overall pitching staff will usually win the tournament (Unless you're Jackson Christian in '08 and you can just outscore everybody, lol).

The pitcher from Nashville Christian pitched a great ballgame. He had the Summertown hitters off-balance all night long. It was a great game; it could have went either way. It was 3 to 2 in the top of the 7th with bases loaded and 2 outs and 2 strikes when a ncs hitter cleared the bases with a double; that was the nail in the coffin. Best of luck to Nashville Christian and better luck to Summertown next season.

Apparently, someone was behind a Scout that had a gun and word spread. I dont know. It's possible that the gun picked up the bat speed on that paticular pitch.

Yeah that would be a great game! Best of luck to both teams in the region.