"A" Regionals

[AlcoaDad]

Polk County 2 Gatlinburg Pittman 0.

Polk County joins Alcoa from East Tennessee going to State in "A". Congratulations Polk County!

[Red Rebels]

Way to go Lady T's and to another school located on US-411, just like us at Maryville, Polk County!

Red Rebels dad joke of the day: US-411 should be called the "information highway".

[FreePressPatriot]

Looks like a really tough draw in the top half of the bracket. Any of the four teams could go all the way based on their records imo. I'm picking SM and Alcoa to meet in a rematch of last year's final with Signal coming out on top this year. Grace and Merrol Hyde should meet in the semis and I'll pick Grace to edge them out to meet SM in the finals.  Signal takes the title in a close one and takes full advantage of being the biggest little school in TN. (They lucked into being just below the A/AA line)

[tarp]

8 hours ago, FreePressPatriot said:

Looks like a really tough draw in the top half of the bracket. Any of the four teams could go all the way based on their records imo. I'm picking SM and Alcoa to meet in a rematch of last year's final with Signal coming out on top this year. Grace and Merrol Hyde should meet in the semis and I'll pick Grace to edge them out to meet SM in the finals.  Signal takes the title in a close one and takes full advantage of being the biggest little school in TN. (They lucked into being just below the A/AA line)

I like your prediction.  Most of the teams involved have been here before.  Nerves, injuries, preparedness and team cohesiveness really come into play now.  Good luck to all and let's have an injury free/clean play tournament.  

See you in Murph.

[FreePressPatriot]

20 hours ago, tarp said:

I like your prediction.  Most of the teams involved have been here before.  Nerves, injuries, preparedness and team cohesiveness really come into play now.  Good luck to all and let's have an injury free/clean play tournament.  

See you in Murph.

Agreed! All the girls should be excited and proud to make it this far and if they play their best anything can happen.  Look no further than the boys A tournament last spring. The Highlanders of Gatlinburg-Pittman were not district or region champions but they do call themselves reigning state champs. 

[rebelman101]

On ‎10‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 3:34 PM, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

I have heard from a source very close to Westview it had to do with verbal misconduct on the part of a referee towards a Westview player. I won’t get more specific than that but the ref was completely in the wrong if what I was told was true. And I believe it is seeing as how tssaa ruled in favor of Westview. 

Mckenzie lost the game fair and square. The conflict was that the player made up the story about the official calling her the N word because she had two yellow cards and was about to get a third one. she made up the story to get out of the not playing on Saturday against Memphis Business Academy. Westview has a horrible fan base, they were calling McKenzie players the B word and other things. Also a westview coach pushed an official during the game. Westview is by far the roughest and dirtiest team I have seen in quite a while. Get ready for them in the state tournament.

[rebelman101]

Hey does anyone know anything about Merrol Hyde? We play them Wednesday in the state tournament. This is McKenzie's second trip to state so we don't know much about teams across the state.

[BigG]

9 hours ago, rebelman101 said:

Mckenzie lost the game fair and square. The conflict was that the player made up the story about the official calling her the N word because she had two yellow cards and was about to get a third one. she made up the story to get out of the not playing on Saturday against Memphis Business Academy. Westview has a horrible fan base, they were calling McKenzie players the B word and other things. Also a westview coach pushed an official during the game. Westview is by far the roughest and dirtiest team I have seen in quite a while. Get ready for them in the state tournament.

How can a player have 2 yellow cards without being thrown out?

[tarp]

20 hours ago, rebelman101 said:

....Westview has a horrible fan base, they were calling McKenzie players the B word and other things. Also a westview coach pushed an official during the game. Westview is by far the roughest and dirtiest team I have seen in quite a while. Get ready for them in the state tournament.

Sounds like Signal may need to bring Slap Shot's Hanson brothers out of retirement for tomorrow's game?!? j/k.....hopefully Signal can score early and often to take control.

[reaction]

On 10/23/2018 at 10:19 AM, BigG said:

How can a player have 2 yellow cards without being thrown out?

That is a great question lol

[rebelman101]

On ‎10‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 9:19 AM, BigG said:

How can a player have 2 yellow cards without being thrown out?

she was given a yellow card twice and continued to play. The game was so rough that they couldn't keep track of who got what.

[Charlie Murphy]

Class A Semifinals

Alcoa vs Signal Mt.

Polk Co. vs Merrol Hyde

Thoughts, predictions?