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Semis at the new home stadium! SPT will be wild next Friday

Saw this story earlier this month about MLB umpires: http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2014-04-08/come_on_blue_data_reveals_umpires_biases.html MLB umpires miss pitches, they even widen the zone. Umpires can and will get the pitch on the inside or outside portion of the plate, that pitch is hitable. Its the pitches on the chalk that are unexcusable. Mistakes happen and that pitch is called but consistantly calling that a strike is wrong. Umpires I know are NOT just in it for the money. $65 is not a lot when you factor in travel, gas, gear expenses, and time away from family. Dont give me this, "I wish I made $32.50/hr BS" because you gotta factor leaving work early, driving on avg 30 min each way, gas money, change in the parking lot (for crying out loud, what other sport has their officials change from the trunk of their car), then umpire a game and go home. Thats my two sense, there are ones who put a black eye on the sport but the ones I know work hard at it, put in the time to go to fall camps, and try their best to be fair to both teams and call the game how it suppose to be called.

MJ over Lebanon 20-0

There are definitely some kinks to work out in the finals show. It was a great idea but maybe need to coordinate it a little better. But that would take a lot more planning and getting 84 wrestlers on the same page when their mind is solely on winning their last match, it would be hard. I did like having the head shots and names of each wrestler on the video boards, that was a great addition. The music during the video was a little quiet, needs to be loud to pump up the crowd and get people exited.

Final match ups thru 145: 106: Friesner v McElhaney 113: Navarro v Crawford 120: Fuller v Elkins 126: Debien v Dickeson 132: Richmond v Stevison 138: Russo v Taylor 145: Richmond v Hamilton

After speaking to some people in the know, it seems they have changed how the finalist will be introduced to the crowd on Saturday. It includes a stage with lights, smoke, music. They said it starts 10-15 min before 5 pm on Saturday (finals start at 5 FYI). Sounds like a cool addition to the tournament and fun time for the finalist instead of the standard Parade of Champions from years past.

District 10A teams moving on to Region 5A tournament: #1 seed WHH and #6 seed East Robertson; WHH won the district.

Brentwood 6-4 over Franklin tonight.

I heard about this game too late in the afternoon to make it. But how did this one go? I suspect Farragut won but did anyone in the Mid State catch this game?

Agree with Olsen/Cosgrove as best match. On paper, Brunner/Connell was best match. Olsen was one of two kids to win that was not a number one seed. 12 of 14 number one seeds won d2

Live version was not free. But it should be free to watch on recording later tonight or tomorrow. Mike Keith voice of the Titans commentated the D-II finals

I believe in Georgia, they have four classifications A-AAAA and the week after state championship, they have the State Open. All four champions are seeded 1-4 in each weight class, in a one day tournament to declare the true state champion.

WilliamsonCo - it's split into two currently public and private. Private schools can "recruit" and the kids are on scholarship, even though some schools will deny it. Public schools are zoned and kids are usually assigned to that school district. That's my take why it's split. I have other reasons why but those are my opinions Ill keep to myself. No need to start an Internet bashing on here.

And wait until next year when they split public school individuals into A-AA and AAA instead if just one public.

Give to Greeneville, they deserve this title fair and square. I don't have the numbers in front of me but they were down by a lot early in the championship match. They didn't lose focus, came back and won. Congrats to the guys in green!