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4 from our team went to this. They came in 1st in the 2nd division and 2nd, 4th and 5th in the 3rd division. It was their first SSJBA tournament.

Thanks for the update and good luck at state!!

Does anyone have word yet on any of the boys sectionals that were played today? /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />

I am very impressed! It's also good to hear that good sportsmanship goes along with the talent /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> .

Congrats Hixon!! Hope you go all the way! /thumb[1].gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumb:" border="0" alt="thumb[1].gif" /> Any word on totals?

Congratulations to them and good luck. It would nice to see someone from Region 3 take it all home this year.

Is this the girl's semi? If so, their totals were much bigger than the finals! Can anyone tell me about the boys?

Do you know the totals for the Soddy Daisy v Walker Valley match and did the boys bowl yesterday, too? Oh, and by the way, congratulations and good luck on your road to state!!

Thanks!!

I agree. This is only my second year as coach and so I'm still trying to catch on. My conversation yesterday with the coach in charge this year didn't give any indication that the bracket would be wrong because he told me who we were bowling and that was correct. We are the #5 team and we were bowling the #4 team. The coaches for the #2 and especially the #3 team were not happy with the bracket, but the #2 coach who had the most experience of the two came into the meeting late and didn't realize until the first match had started that there was a problem. It ended up that the #6!!! team got a bye because the #7 team didn't show up. It should have been the #2 team with the bye and the #3 team should have been bowling the #6 team, who they had beaten both times this year, and would probably have made it into the semis. I'm sure the outcome of the tournement would not have changed, but it's the principle of the thing.

Catsbackr, I hate to change the subject but the board won't allow me to send a PM. How do you choose your brackets in district 6? Today in district 5 we had #6 against #7 and #2 against #3 in the first round! Always in the past it's been the #1 with at buy if there's an odd number of teams and then it went #2 against the lowest, #3 against the next lowest and so on. If the board will allow you to PM me, please feel free. K. Walter Stone Memorial

I understand what you're saying, but talent is talent no matter how big the school. Our school is new and has 936 students. We had to have a co-ed team this year because there wasn't enough interest. Stone was split w/ Cumberland County and fortunately Stone got most of the better bowlers from last year's CCHS team. We have a bowling facility that's handy and plenty of students, but not enough who want to bowl. I would be more interested in new districts than in having divisions. The TSSAA needs to take another look at how the districts are put together. We are in the same district as Chatt. Central, Bradley, Walker Valley, McMinn ect... An away match for us is an hour and a half drive with a time change. We have to leave at 5:30 in the morning from Crossville tomorrow to bowl at 9:00 eastern time in districts. It just doesn't seem fair that our kids have to not only get up before the chickens but then they have a long bus ride before having to bowl their best.

I don't know how the Hixon girls talked to the Soddy girls, but I know there was more than a little trash talking going on when Hixon bowled us in the Regionals. That could have something to do with it.

Just how many movies about bowling are out there?

I'm a bit confused. Are you referring to this year or in the past? I know that Ooltewah had a team last year and so did Central. This year, there were no Ooltewah players on Central's team until after the season had started. They had bowled at least two matches w/o any players being added from Ooltewah.