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WMOD (96.7FM) will cover the game (it will be on wmodradio.com as well, click on County Journal Television), but from what I hear, the play by play guy will begin broadcasting the game with Bolivar down by 25 right as the referee throws the ball in the air...you know, just so he can keep up with the predictions...

I watch all the Bolivar Central games and no one in recent memory has gotten 3 techs. Bad calls happen all the time, but 3 techs? And to make excuses for the kids, like it was the ref's fault...wow. As far as not hearing the cursing, I'm assuming you were sitting up in the top row or something, near the photos of the state champions that played with class, and couldn't hear them. I heard them and I wasn't the only one. I never said ALL the starters finished. Yeah, two starters fouled out in the third, so I guess they didn't have a chance to do so. The only person who brought up calling anyone a thug was you. And finally, you started this...I usually read posts with no wish to contribute. But this was too ridiculous to ignore. Good luck with the rest of the season...

First, If you want to talk about point spreads, at least get the score right. Second, a point spread seemed to be the goal for Mitchell as their starters played almost all of the game while Bolivar played all 16 players and was deep in the bench almost all of the 4th quarter, while the Mitchell starters were still pressing and talking trash. Third, Rudesill hasn't "lost" his players. They got beat Thursday night. That's it. Fourth, Mitchell got three technical fouls and could have gotten 6 or 7. Kids seemed to think they could swear at the refs. It was classless. Who allows this? Wins in March matter, not November. For example, Bolivar got blown out by Ridgeway in 2009-2010, but still won the state championship. Think anyone remembers that? And as far it goes, it is the Bolivar you remember. We still have class. And as far as what we'll remember from Mitchell, it was apparent they didn't.

No, apparently, you aren't here to be classy. Didn't spread anything about anyone. Matt Smith is a fine kid and a fine player from what I can judge and have heard. I never considered his "move" (although he didn't move) illegal at all. Never did. In fact, the only person that told any tales on anyone was YOU, when you gave details of people breaking team rules. Shame on you for making a private matter public. I'm not a part of those "ppl" as you spell it. I have no clue what that paragraph means. I thought any kid in Jackson could go to Liberty, without any problem or having to break any rules of any kind. I never bashed Liberty Tech, nor anyone else. I wrote an incorrect sentence about a kid that I thought moved AND operated within the rules. I never implied any wrongdoing was done. You made all that up. I don't care where Liberty gets their players from. Really don't. The games start at 0-0 and KIDS play them. YOU CAN'T PLAY A BASKETBALL GAME ON THIS FORUM. We are fans. We love our kids, WIN or LOSE. And finally, I've wasted enough time on you. Don't bother a response, I won't be reading it. I thought this was a friendly forum, and what I wrote wasn't meant to be mean, nor was it mean, I wrote one sentence and you have had your pound of flesh. I would call you an idiot, but from what I've read, you'd have to improve to earn the title.

Wow. You seem like a very hostile young man. If I was wrong, I'm wrong. Heard it from someone else. But wow. I may or not be a joke, but you show a lack of class.

55-45 Middleton wins.

I guess I am...because that is what I saw. If they'd called EVERYTHING, Bolivar would have had more fouls, sure. But Liberty would have had to finish the game with the cheerleaders on the floor.

But Middleton handled them...

So let me see if I've got this straight. Liberty hacks, foul called. Bolivar doesn't hack, but a foul should be called? Just to make it fair? If we are going to have even fouls, regardless of what the teams do, why have refs? If you watched the game, there was a reason the fouls were lopsided. One team played football, the other basketball...

KARMA

Here is the story from the tournament last year. Note what Kirk Haston and Rhodes said about Middleton's Defense... Perry County Coach Kirk Haston liked the comeback, but not the final score. Middleton held off the Vikings’ fourth-quarter rally for a 64-56 win in a Class A semifinal at Middle Tennessee State’s Murphy Center on Friday. Middleton (32-1) will play Lake County, the only team to beat the Tigers, in the championship at 2 p.m. Saturday. Lake County beat Middleton in double overtime in February. Perry County (24-8) rallied from a 12-point deficit to narrow the gap to 50-49 on Taylor Dill’s jumper with 3:27 left, but that was as close as it got. “I thought that they just faced a lot of adversity and really fought back, and made a game of it when 99 percent of the teams wouldn’t have done that,†Haston said. “A 10-point deficit to Middleton feels like a 16-point deficit because their defense is so tough. It’s really hard to get open looks anywhere versus a team like that.†Guard Javonte Woody led the Tigers with 29 points, including four 3-pointers. “Early on, I felt like I couldn’t miss,†said Woody, who hit 9 of 18 from the floor and 7 of 10 from the foul line. “I thought I was back in Middleton.†Middleton led by 12 when Woody went to the bench with his fourth foul with 4:22 left in the third quarter. He played the first 31 seconds of the fourth quarter and when he returned with 5:27 left Perry County had narrowed the gap to 46-38. “We benched Javonte the first game of the regional tournament and I think he took that personally,†Tigers Coach James Burkley said. “He’s a real good scorer and he’s always in attack mode. He’s got the whole package.†“I haven’t seen anything like that this whole year,†Rhodes said of the Tigers’ swarming defense. “It’s just left, right, behind you, in front of you, defenders everywhere. It’s crazy.†Dray Mercer led the Vikings with 21 points and Jacob Tucker added 18. I guess Perry County thought Middleton played defense...

Sorry, not done yet. In semifinal versus PC, Middleton shot 51% and PC 37%. I'm guessing Middleton played better defense in that one.

Your two cents are worth less than two cents. You have no idea of what Middleton's coaching is like. They play defense or they don't play. Middleton didn't need to play box in one against PC last year because Middleton's man to man shut down PC's best without some junk defense, which I assure you they can play if need be. PC's best just didn't warrant it. And in the final, Middleton hung with LC until in the second half, LC's coach stopped the full court press, which was about the only way Middleton had the chances to score. LC's half court defense put the game away. You saying Middleton plays undisciplined street ball is idiotic and very uninformed.

The funny thing is, I can't remember even being worried about PC at any time during the game. It just seemed like a stop off on the way to the state final. And all this talk of how PC split with LC...It was before Swift started playing. Middleton lost to LC during the regular season in overtime, but with Swift it was a different story in the state final.