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Webb wins 10-4 for the championship. They add it to their football, boys & girls tennis, cross-country titles this year.

Webb loses 14-4 in the first game, so it comes down to one final battle. My guess is that Justin Alexander comes back on 1 day's rest. If not, they could be in trouble.

Webb wins again today and now sits back and waits to see which West/Middle team wants to try and beat them twice. Not likely...

I'm hearing he'll never see a college campus...1st round material, for sure.

ECS's Jamison may have blown his elbow out in the first inning last night. X-Rays, etc upon return to Mphs. Wind was blowing out hard in games 1-2, so lots of HR's. Webb tried to bring Game 1 winner Alexander back for the 2nd (after pitching 4 of 5 in a shortened game) but he didn't have his best stuff after the 2nd inning. Became batting practice as the Eagles took 5 deep. Webb wins the finale 10-2 today with Wormsley going the distance. Pitching depth will be the key for the Spartans next week. It looked a little shaky this weekend.

10-0 in five innings. One grand slam bomb by UT signee/State Record holder for HRs in a season Ethan Bennett helped account for his 6 RBIs. This was only the 2nd loss for Halls this year. The Ads will be tough to beat.

I'll be interested to see the kid from ECS. Assume he's pitching Friday night. He's an Ole Miss signee, isn't he? Webb's field is a pitcher's park (solid grass field, deep fences) so it will be interesting to see how he handles Webb's bats, which are very strong.

Webb School of Knoxville did finish out 8-0 without even being tested. Total score of the 8 games...119-8. The East/Middle division was pretty weak. That said, Webb is really good...seniors across the lineup. They are 20-4 overall.

I understand there are some new rules on aluminum bats. Can someone give me the Reader's Digest version of the changes?

I'll just leave it at this...I hope one day one of your big boys takes one off the bat while standing in the ODC. Of course, they'll shrug it off cause this ain't rec ball. They're tough enough to be in the line of fire, but obviously inable to stand near a dugout without getting into a fight. Come to think of it, I'm almost suprised we let the 1st and 3rd basemen that close to them, or heaven forbid chase a foul ball near the dugout. It might start a riot!

Try this and see if you can understand. "odds of a fight breaking out because of someone warming up near an opponent's dugout are ridiculously higher" So, for example, the odds of a fight breaking out...1000 to 1. The odds of getting hit 20-1. Yes, the odds, IMO, are tremendously higher that a fight would break out. I guess all higher levels of baseball warm up in the dugout... This doesn't have anything to do with "Big Boy Baseball". It's common-friggin sense that it is inherintly unsafe to stand 20 feet to the right of a right handed batter, paying attention or not. If the playing field does not allow for a reasonable distance from the plate to the ODC, which in many places it doesn't, then it's stupid to force them to "warm up" in the dugout or in the line of fire. heck, pitchers get hit from 60 feet away. I guess they're not paying attention either.

I still think this is asinine. The odds of a fight breaking out because of someone warming up near an opponent's dugout are ridiculously higher than some kid getting hit standing 20 feet to the right of a right-handed batter. An to suggest they can just "stay in the dugout" is even crazier. It should be up to the coaches to control any talk from his bench to an on-deck batter and let the kid warm up without the threat of getting hit.

I saw something last week I had never seen before, an umpire requiring the on-deck batter to stay on his dugout's side of the field, rather than being at the back of the batter. Between innings, I questioned the ump about why he was doing that and he said it's a TSSAA rule that they have to stay on their side of the field. I asked why and he said that it is to prevent players from chattering at each between the dugout and on-deck circle. He claimed he had just come to TN from Florida and that's the way it has been for years down there. This seems insane to me, especially in some parks like Webb School of Knoxville's where the ODC is probably not 20 feet from the plate. A late swing is going to get somebody killed eventually. Is this truly the rule or has this guy been in the Florida sun too long? BTW, he's the only ump I've seen enforce this "rule".

I sure wish Webb School of Knoxville was still in DII-AA. This crap of playing Ezell-Harding, St. Edwards-Sewannee, etc. is hardly riveting. Football was bad enough, but it's tough to get excited during the regular season for DII-A baseball. What can anyone tell me about the Mid-State "A" teams, Davidson Academy and Mt. Juliet Academy? Webb gets them in the next couple of weeks. They're sitting at 11-1 right now with a nice win over Knoxville Bearden.