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Columbia was very impressive Wednesday, beating Lawrence Co 22-10 in 6 innings. They had 25 hits, 4 homers and several doubles and triples. Lawrence County had 12 hits. I can't remember a game with that much offense in a long time.

What happened is they play in District 8 AAA, that is extremely competitive. There is not a lot of difference in the District teams, especially this year. Tournament baseball is about who is hot at the time they play the tournament. Any of the teams could win the tournament without it being much of a surprise. Columbia couldn't get past Coffee Co, which apparently played its best baseball this week.

Sportsguy, I don't know how long its been since you have seen a game at Lawrence County, but I take exception to you saying its a terrible playing surface. This district is fortunate to have fine places to play at all 7 locations. I can't believe the District is being played at Columbia without lights. I wouldn't be surprised if it got changed since the plans were to play at Columbia State.

Clay Brown picked up his 8th win for the Wildcats with a 4-2 victory. Manchester got 5 hits off of Brown. Lawrence plays Lincoln Wednesday in the Championship.

I was at the game. It was a tournament game, but it was on Coffee Co's home field. The announcer treated it like a home game for Coffee, which is the advantage of hosting the tournament. It didn't offend me.

Lawrence Co 3 Shelbyville 2. Clay Brown was the winning pitcher. 2-2 in the 7th. Shelbyville got the go ahead runner to 3rd with 1 out, but Brown got 2 strike outs to get out of the jam in the 7th. Lawrence Co scored the winning run on freshman Dylan Bosheers bad hop single over the shortstop to win the game in the bottom of the 7th. LC finishes 6-6 in the district.

I believe the 8AAA all district team has been named. Lawrence County members were Matt Hartsfield (MVP), Scott Beasley (Pitcher of the Year) Holden Killen, Brody Clanton, Orry Blackwood, Blake Rogers and Clay Brown. I'm not sure about the other members.

This may be a first! Someone saying Lawrence County has any umpire that favored them.

Scott Beasley for Lawrence Co beat Columbia Saturday 1-0 with 5 hits. Lovett for Columbia lost 1-0,but only gave up 2 hits.

Holden Killen is the catcher for the Wildcats

Lawrence Co 16 Shelbyville 7 Brady Hutton is the winning pitcher. Home runs by Matt Hartsfield, Nick Campbell, and Blake Rogers (Grand Slam). Lawrence County is co-champion with Lincoln Co, and should be the number 1 seed since they swept Columbia and Lincoln Co split with Columbia. First District Championship for the Wildcats since 1981. Congratulations Wildcats !!!

He had 135 pitches for the 10 innings. He only had 1 inning where he faced 6 batters, the other 9 innings were fewer than 6 most being 4 batters an inning. He faced a total of 44 batters. I bet Scott Beasley would be ready to pitch today if they needed him.

Lawrence County won 11-10. The game was 1-0, 2-0, 2-2, 8-2, 10-8 and 11-10 with Lawrence County scoring the go ahead run in the bottom of the 6th with Blake Rogers scoring the go ahead run on a passed ball. Brady Hutton got the win in relief of Drew Stoffel. Ben Aaron took the loss.

I don't think that is correct for Babe Ruth competition. You must be within your league's boundaries to be eligible to play Babe Ruth regardless if there is no BR league in that area. If you are outside the boundary and someone catches you, your team will be disqualified. I'm sure lots of folks have skirted this rule and gotten away with it, but the rule is very clear, you must be within your league's boundary to be eligible.

Senior Ben Lowery got a no hit shutout against Hardin Co on 4-29 as the Cats won 13-0 in 5 innings. Lowery had 8 k's and walked 3. Matt Hartsfield homered for the Wildcats.

Columbia 12 Lawrence Co 9. Toombs homered for Columbia and Holden Killen hit a 3 run dinger for Lawrence. The game was back and forth with 4 lead changes. South was the winning pitcher and Beasley got the loss.

I'm curious why you think Lawrence County is the worst, especially since the field now has lights. Columbia doesn't. Franklin Co has the best place to play, with Tullahoma not far behind. The other 5 all are quality fields. Lincoln Co's bowl type seating probably puts it in 3rd place.

Lawrence County 14 Lincoln Co 10

Look at Bryan's interview in the Tennessean this morning. He indicated that Tampa Bay talked like paying him a 1 million dollar bonus after taxes would not be a problem, apparently knowing that is what it would take for him to go pro. I hope that is the case for the young man. Too many variables in baseball.

Tullahoma: John Shelton, Jack Casteel, Ben Walker, Ben Darlington (offensive POY) Morris (MVP and Pitcher of the year) Lawrence: Steven Shults(3rd time), Jase Duke, Rob Augustin, Wesley Wright. Columbia: Ryan Lewis, Jay Howard, Jordan Toombs Shelbyville: Jared Frazier, Tony Allen, Josh Bobo Lincoln: Dakota Gardner, Heath Sharp , Derek Douglas Franklin Co: Denny Zimmerman and Lance Walker Coffee: Bubba Vincent (3rd time I think) JJ Webster

To clarify, this schedule treats Coffee/Franklin as game 1. The 4:00 Saturday game will be the loser of Columbia/Coffee/Franklin game of Friday v the loser of the Tullahoma/Lincoln/Shelbyville game of Saturday@12. The 6:00 Saturday game will be the loser of Lincoln/Shelbyville game of Friday v the loser of Lawrence/Columbia/CC/FC game. The losers of the Saturday 12 & 2 games will play 2 games each on Saturday. At the end of Saturday, 4 teams are left and 3, counting the play in game loser, will be eliminated. Monday @ 4 is the winners bracket final. Winner of that game advances to the Region. Monday @ 6 winners of Saturday 4:00 game v winner of Saturday 6:00 game. Loser is eliminated leaving 3 teams. Tuesday @ 5:00, loser of the Monday 4:00 winner's bracket game meets winner of the Monday 6:00 losers bracket game. The loser is eliminated. The winner advances to region. Wednesday @ 4:00 championship game, 6:00 game if necessary.

David, Coffee@ Franklin Co Thursday I think. Loser is eliminated. Friday Columbia v Winner of Game 1/ Lincoln v Shelbyville Not sure of the times. Saturday 12 Tullahoma v Lincoln Shelby winner 2 Lawrence Co v Columbia/ Coffee/Franklin Winner 4 2 Friday losers 6 2 losers of 12 and 2 Saturday games Monday winners bracket final/ winners of 4&6 Saturday games Tuesday Losers bracket final Wednesday Finals

My understanding is 4 games Saturday starting with Tullahoma @ noon.

David, Does Riverdale go to the Region as Champion or 1 seed in region, or does tourney winner go as Region 1 seed?