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Eddie

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  1. Mt. Juliet pounds out 14 hits and beats Beech 5-1 at Mt. Juliet. MJ at Centennial Friday night. Non-district game at Lebanon's Veterans Field finds Lebanon over Warren County 13-3. Junior RHP Dent Burger with the win, Jessep Polk with a 3-run homer for LHS. Lebanon at crosstown Friendship Christian Friday at 7 p.m. LHS goes to Cookeville Saturday for a 2 p.m. game.

  2. Saturday games at MTCS -- Coffee County 4, Lebanon 3 in 8 innings. Wind was blowing dead in from CF and every flyball was an adventure. Second game: Coffee County 7, MTCS 3. Third game: Lebanon 5, MTCS 0. Antonio Logue and Jack McKeon combine for a shutout. Case Sloan with a two-run homer.

  3. Two games at Veterans Field in Lebanon Friday night. Dickson County no-hit MTCS 10-0. The second game of the night, Lebanon came from behind and defeated Dickson County 7-6 in 10 innings. DH Rob Bell had the game-winning RBI for LHS, scoring pinch runner Taylor Bryan from third with two out on a long drive to the base of the wall in left center. Chase Slone got the decision in relief.

  4. Lebanon defeated Beech 2-1 Tuesday night at Veterans Field as RHP Cain Sloan went the distance for the win. 9th grader Eddie McDaniels with the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the sixth. LHS is scheduled to host Gallatin High Wednesday night.

  5. I just did a quick check of Wilco (Williamson County) 5A/6A schools Brentwood, Ravenwood, Franklin and Centennial from the 2010 season. It looks like these four went a combined 3-7 vs. teams from Sumner and Rutherford -- all teams with a designated athletic period. Please check my math, I was in a hurry, but the numbers don't appear to indicate these 4 "do just fine" when going head-to-head against teams that lift during the regular school day.

     

    IMO it's a big deal when the people you play on a regular basis can lift during the regular school day and you don't. The kids get to go home sooner, have more time to study or work part-time jobs. The off-season is even more important, because the underclassmen (those who might not yet drive) can lift during the day, then go home on the bus after school. It's certainly more attractive to the coaches, who can get home at a decent hour.

  6. There's a sizable gap between the pay for experienced teachers and coaches in Sumner / Rutherford and Wilson County. Starting pay is pretty close, but once you get up around 8-10 years, the difference is serious (roughly $8,000 a year). This hurt Wilson Central's coaching search a year ago and it looks to be doing the same at LHS.

     

    New school set to open in the fall of 2012, the addition of advanced PE for in-season lifting, a solid junior class -- all these things are great, but until the pay issue is addressed, Wilson County is spinning its wheels.

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