TyWebb

Upperman finished 3rd about 5 years ago but I really can't remember before that, something in my mind says Dekalb was runner up once but I maybe totally wrong about that

You are making my point for me about Caplinger, one 8AA program has done everything short of the Supreme Court(insert sarcasm) and to my knowledge it has not been called locally. My beef isn't with Dekalb at all, it's with the bunch of dead weights that call themselves umps in the Upper Cumberland.

First things first Caplinger is a real good pitcher and from what I can tell an even finer young lady, with that said anyone who has paid attention to 8AA softball for anytime should know the umps from that area are just terrible. Danny Bond is an outstanding coach and gets more out of his teams year after year than probably any coach around BUT He intimidates every ump in that area to lengths I am not sure I have ever seen. Caplinger is illegal every time she pitches and has been from day one but does any one really think any umpire doing Dekalb games has the guts to call that? Heck if I didn't know any better I would guess Bobby Winningham and Bond go on vacation together and Crockett calls the district final last year and a week later his picture is on Facebook hugging a Dekalb Co. player. Bond rules that district, has for years and until the umps and the other district coaches step to his level expect more of the same. Oh yeah good luck Dekalb!!

TSCA all state is just for member schools, it's a cash grab. Anything John Condit is involved in is.

A few games here and there her sophomore year. She had the bad luck to be born too close to probably best pitcher in Upperman softball history. I actually don't remember her pitching in a varsity game other than the Dekalb game her freshman year and that was due to a Hull injury.

Probably true but I thought they looked rough against Cannon last week and they were pretty bad, guess you just never know

Shocked would be an understatement

Is that a final?

He coached Upperman in the morning after telling Coach Heron he was with him, then gets in his car drives to Jamestown coaches York's afternoon practice then called Herron tells him he is leaving. Not going so far as to call it cowardly but probably not how it should have been handled

21-8 Upperman

Fair enough

Why the drop off in coaches attending?28 to 12 is a pretty significant number

I have been told Upperman has already had tryouts and she wasn't there, I was also told she was at Cookeville tryouts and didn't make the team. Sometimes players need more than just talent. Please don't get me wrong, I wish the kid and the people around her would get their heads screwed on right because she could help that team but attitudes would have to change from the last time she played and I am not sure I see that happening

Young lady in the article, chooses not to play for Upperman. I just find it interesting that with so many outstanding travel programs in Tennessee that she had to go to Indiana to find a team to play for. Read into that what you will