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btowntigers, 12 AA sure is a crazy district in which anything can happen. I hope that it is another barn burner like the last game was.

IF Milan makes it out of their district tournament, I can see them dropping their opening round game in the regional tournament. I have seen Milan play this season. They struggled greatly against one of the weaker teams in 12AA. I will admit that your freshman center is impressive. However, when she is out of hte game, Milan's quality of play does drop off alot in my opinion. The truth of the matter is is that 12AA is a much stronger district than 11AA in my opinion. I would not be surprised at all to see 12AA sweep 11AA in the opening round of region play.

btowntigers, You mention that Bolivar should beat Liberty pretty easily. I guess that you have forgotten about that easy 64-63 victory over Liberty, at your house, earlier in the year. Bolivar was VERY fortunate to have won that ball game. Now, Bolivar would be, and should be, considered the favorite in the rematch this coming Tuesday. However, you should NEVER count your victories before the final buzzer sounds.

This should be a great game Tuesday. Justdontno, man I sure do love it when someone quotes Ric Flair!

Don't forget about Bolivar getting beat by South Side earlier this week. In all likelyhood, Bolivar will be the #4 seed come district tournament time in 12AA.

No, not this year!

Those Humboldt girls better get ready for a rather disappointing homecoming/senior night. Chester County wins this one!

Shame on the administration at Haywood for overselling this game. There were way more people there than there were seats available. I left that sardine can in the second quarter. There were people in the lobby and outside the building who had tickets and could not get into the gym because the Haywood officials oversold this game. In other words, the administration at Haywood ripped off HUNDREDS of people by selling many more tickets than there were seats available. When people are walking on the court while the game is underway trying to find a seat, you know there are too many people there. I even saw "fans" trying to sit in a couple of seats on the Bolivar bench. People were sitting on the floor with their legs stretched out on the court, sitting in the isles or standing right up to the edge of the playing surface all the way around the court. The state fire marshall should of shut that place down before the girls game even got underway. I have watched basketball games all over the country. I have NEVER seen such a cluster %&^@ as I saw tonight at Hawood County. Shame on the administration at Haywood County for their actions tonight!

Does anyone know why Chester County had to forfiet to Brentwood Acadamy?

The Lady Crusaders of Liberty High School defeated Greenfield tonight by the score of 54-28. Liberty played a suffocating defense that allowed only 10 points in the second half and only 2 points in the 4th quarter. Liberty was lead in scoring by Chanda Pirtle with 18 points. Irish McDonald chipped in with 10 points. Liberty moves to 5-4 on the season. Their next game is at home, on Thursday, against Jackson North Side.

I did not think that college coaches were even supposed to be having direct contact with potential players at this time, let alone offering them scholarships. I know that is the way it is with NCAA institutions. Of course, the NAIA may have different rules.

ballfan25, I was hoping that this thread would stay a positive one about Liberty's hard earned victory last night. Unfortunately, all you seem to want to do is to complain about the fouls that were called against your team. The bottom line is, if you don't want so many fouls called against your team, perhaps your team should not commit them! Your team is very fortunate that more fouls were not called against them considering all the cheap shots your players were giving out last night. In regards to the player who fouled out last night that you are saying only committed four fouls, perhaps your unofficail score keeper failed to properly mark a foul that the player in question committed last night. I would also not say too much about our score keeper when yours tried to rip us off on time outs and team fouls during a game at your place last week against Houston. It is also not very ethical to have the father of a varsity basketball player keeping the official book during a game. Face it, your varsity and JV teams for both the boys and girls got their heads handed to them on a platter last night and now you are just crying sour grapes.

The Lady Crusaders of Liberty High School moved to 4-4 on the season with a 70-47 win over Jackson Christian School in what would be best described as a VERY physical game. This was the second win in as many nights for Liberty. Leading the Crusader attack was Irish McDonald as she poured in 24 points on the night. McDonald was 8-12 from the field with one three pointer and she was 7 of 8 from the charity stripe. She nailed her final seven field goal attempts. Holly Norwick continued her outstanding play this weekend as she had 14 points and 6 boards to go along with 3 steals and 2 blocked shots. Brittany Holmes turned in another gutty performance tonight with 10 points, 2 steals, and 1 assist. Also playing very well for Liberty tonight was Sherika Williams. She only scored one point. However, she pulled down 7 rebounds, had 3 steals, 2 blocked shots, and an assist. Freshman player "Teapot" Ferrell came up big in key situations as she chipped in with 2 points, 4 rebounds, an assist and a steal. The Lady Crusaders, under the direction of Joe Holloway, will play again on Monday against Greenfield. Tip off at Liberty is set for 6:30pm.

Actually, the Lady Crusaders are 3 and 4 on the season and they won their game tonight by the score of 65-60.

The Liberty Lady Crusaders defeated Jackson South Side tonight by the score of 65-60. Holly Norwick lead the Liberty attack tonight with 17 points on 8 of 9 shooting from the field. Norwick also pulled down 8 rebounds of which 7 were on the offensive end. She also had five steals in the game. Also scoring in double figures tonight for Liberty was Irish McDonald with 15 points. Porchia Jarrett and Chanda Pirtle chipped in tonight with 8 points a piece. As a team, Liberty shot 60% from inside the arch. They also pulled down an impressive 16 offensive rebounds to boot. South Side was lead tonight by Latoya Woodson with 17 points. Liberty moves to 3-4 on the season and 1-1 in district play. Liberty plays tomorrow night, at home, against Jackson Christian School. They also play at home on Monday night against Greenfield.

I would have to agree that the officiating has been less than desireable this season. Part of the problem is that many of the better officials are now working college games and they no longer have the time to work the high school game. Another problem I see is that officials never work in the same crew from one night to the next. Personally, I feel that the refs should be on crews and work with the same people on a more consistant basis. Working with different people every night is not the answer. I watched 4 games yesterday. In my opinion, only one of those games was well officiated. In one of the games, a teams coach was standing up most of the time that game action was going on. The problem with that was that he was doing it a good 5 feet outside of the coaching box. This is supposed to be a point of emphasis. The refs totally ignored this. In contrast, I attended a game Friday night in which I saw a coach get T'd up and he only had one foot outside of the coaching box! Inconsistancy is a very bad thing with officials and unfortunately there is way too much of it going on this year. There are some very good officails out there. I have seen many of them already this season. Unfortunately, I have already seen more poor officals than I would rather see in an entire year. And yes, I have worn the stripped shirt and blown the whisle before! I know exactly what a difficult job officiating can be.

He was suspended by the TSSAA because he was ejected from the game. The only thing the North Side principal did was decide which games Hill would serve his suspension for. The principal choose the 2 games after his ejection which were the Liberty game from this past Tuesday night, and the game this Friday night versus South Side.

He was suspended because he was ejected from the game.

blick, The post was about something that I saw at a Tennessee high school basketball game. So, what is wrong with posting what I saw on a Tennessee high school sports web site? By the way, I have sent emails to the appropriate people on what I witnessed!

Volunteer General, You are making assumptions about what I did and when I noticed it. Now, how much sense does that make? The bottom line is that there was a situation that should be immediately looked into. If the officials at North Side are so concerned about people sneaking in to their games, they need to find a better way to prevent it than by locking the doors with chains and pad locks!

What I find odd is that anyone would defend North Side on something like this. The people at North Side created a situation that could of potentially been very dangerous.

Three of the four doors were still closed and pad locked at half time. It does not matter if they were open at the end of the game. The fact that they were pad locked at all is a fire code violation!!!!!!

I attended the game between Liberty and North Side tonight that was held at Jackson North Side. There was something that I saw that disturbed me. It had nothing to do with anything involving the players or coaches from either school. Jackson North Side has 4 double doors in the front of their gym. This is where you go in and out of the facility. The thing that greatly disturbed me is that 3 of the 4 double doors were locked with a chain and pad lock!!!!!!! I am not a real smart man, but I sure figure that this would be some kind of major fire code violation. Can you imagine what could of happened if there was a fire or some other event that would of caused the crowd to have to leave the building in a hurry? To have those doors chained and pad locked shut shows a complete lack of concern for the well being of the fans and players of both teams. Jackson North Side High School should be ashamed of themselves for allowing a situation like this to take place. I certainly hope that the local fire marshall takes notice as this was a VERY dangerous situation!!!!! Shame on you Jackson North Side!!!!!!!

It is my understanding that North Sides coach was thrown out of the game in their loss to Ridgeway last week. I also understand that he was kicked out of the building as well. Can anyone either confirm or deny that this actually took place? If it did, it is my understanding that the North Side coach will have to pay a fine and serve a two game suspention for his actions.

Liberty did in fact have 34 steals in this game!