SweetScience

As an OR fan, Carter was the best I watched against us this year. Lights out. He has some unbelievable handles.

Maryville was good in baseball last year, in my opinion. Y’all are just in an extremely tough district with some of the best teams in the state with Farragut, Bearden, and HVA year in year out. That’s a tough out. They came to OR and spanked our a$$$$, and OR was above average last year. Y’all are fine in baseball, imo.

I’ll take Maryville over Mo - Town West, and Bearden over Mo - Town East. Both Murvil & Bearden advance to the glass house.

Yeah, those 2 seem to be head and shoulders above the rest in the upper northeast part of the state. Science Hill may be in there, but not sure. SH typically is very good in baseball, basketball, and soccer. For whatever reason they’ve just never excelled at football, which is odd to me with how huge that school is. Always have really good athletes, though, it seems.

Just giving you a hard time. Well, if you’re going to choose based on that, Maryville would definitely be in the running, along with Alcoa, Farragut and OR. Can’t go wrong with any of those when you combine athletics and academics together. Best wishes as far as the marriage and all that goes, btw. Wish ya the best.

Maryville has always had a well rounded athletic program since I’ve been keeping up. How’s Watertown’s underwater basket weaving program coming along, ILB?

Imagine how crazy Willie would be going if he was still with us.

That’s true.

I don’t think so, but to each their own.

We are gonna be better than you think, but keep on underestimating the Cats, Sheriff. There was plenty of talent I saw in the middle schools to when you combine them, it’ll be a formidable team. OR has had “lean years” in about 6 of 80 seasons.

Congratulations to the Rebs, and good luck against Beer-den. My Wildcats lost a heartbreaker, as y’all know. Man, one of the toughest losses I’ve experienced as a fan, both football and basketball. But credit to Bearden for making that shot, just really hate that it wasn’t even contested really. Just a really odd sequence there. Oh well, on to baseball season.

Yeah. Well, from 93-2004ish you had the Riverdale glory days, then the Maryville dynasty from 2009-2019ish in 6A, so we had to go through them earlier in the decade of the 2010s. Actually gave them a few really good games, too, during that time period. Then we had Catholic (should’ve been private) to go through during the latter part of the 2010s. We have had quite a bit of talent, but more times than not we’ve just been beaten by better teams. The Higgins years were marred by awful quarterback play. I shudder at the thought of what he could’ve accomplished with a QB throwing to him like Stansberry @ OR now. I’ve been watching some of his highlights from a recent throwing camp he went to, guy can sling it man. He’s gonna be great by his SR season, barring injury.

Also have to remember in 2017-2018 we would’ve had great chances if not for Catholic, who should’ve been private at the time. Even with that said, blowing that 35-14 after the half against Catholic was uncalled for.

If y’all would quit responding to him, he would quietly go off into the night. With trolls like him, you just have to stop responding, at all. Responding just continues to feed into his immature nonsense. That’s exactly what he wants y’all to do.

I hate to say (kinda, but not really lol) but it gives us other teams in the other parts of the state a chance now. Who is the best AAAA team out there right now, Bartlett?

Have all the great Memphis area players gone the private route?

You’re right about it being loaded. Whoever makes it out of that gauntlet will have definitely earned it.

That’s true. It should be really interesting.

I hope so buddy. Just never know this time of year. Ain’t no easy ones right now. Survive and advance is the name of the game. They’re a really good team.

Basketball is a crazy sport. That’s what makes it so much fun. You just never know. All it takes is a subpar night of shooting and you’re heading home.

True. That JC win much more shocking. 8-19 coming into tonight’s game.

Surprised by the JC and West wins.

Yeah, that one’s a head scratcher. Just shows you in basketball you can be beaten on any given night if the shots aren’t falling. Also, there’s a chance they could’ve been down some starters, too. I don’t know any Fulton fans on here to find out if that was the deal or not though.

Yep. Congrats to the RC faithful. Them some good folks around them parts.

Oh yeah, I expect a really close game. West always has some great athletes. They get after it. They’re battle hardened too, being in the district their in. Just hoping for a win at this point. Survive and advance.