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5 hours ago, tonybologna said:

The high school I attended & graduated from (Sullivan North High School) won 2 Class AAA state Championships when I was in 6th & 8th grade(1983 & 1985). Those 2 State Championship teams had 3 top notch aces. Darren Nottingham, Chad Smith, & Freddy Neeley. They also had 2 other pitchers that could close out games in Chris Frazier & Todd Wells. These 2 different Championship teams never gave up more than 4 runs in any postseason tourney game.

I remember both Nottingham & Smith pitching over 100 pitches each in consecutive games to win the state title in 1985. I think strongly any really good team can get by with 3 solid SP's & only 1-2 good relievers/closers. That's my opinion based on old school baseball. Of course, this wouldn't be the case for college or MLB but for high school baseball I really believe a Championship team needs only 3 really good SP's & up to 2 really capable relievers.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and that is fine.  I truly see both sides of kids throwing between 60-70 pitches per game and kids throwing 100+ pitches per game.  In closing I will say that the pitching coach for the Top 25 team from Florida is a former roving instructor for the Padres.  We both can agree to how protective MLB teams are with the arms of their prospects.  

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From what I've seen through ~1st month of the season thus far I have my Top 3 teams for each classification (A-AAA). They have changed back from my previous post that was very early on in the season after only a couple of games played.

Class A

1. Gibson County

2. Trinity Christian (TCA)

T-3. Loretto

T-3. Greenback

Class AA

1. Stewart County

2. Greeneville

3. Greenbrier

Class AAA

1. Collierville (I think heavy favorites to win AAA state title)

2. Farragut

T-3. Houston

T-3. East Hamilton

Others that could play a factor in the postseason in each class are as follows (no particular order):

Class A

East Robertson, Eagleville, & Lookout Valley

Class AA

Elizabethton, Riverside, & Loudon

Class AAA

Summit, East Hamilton, & Powell

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13 hours ago, tonybologna said:

From what I've seen through ~1st month of the season thus far I have my Top 3 teams for each classification (A-AAA). They have changed back from my previous post that was very early on in the season after only a couple of games played.

Class A

1. Gibson County

2. Trinity Christian (TCA)

T-3. Loretto

T-3. Greenback

Class AA

1. Stewart County

2. Greeneville

3. Greenbrier

Class AAA

1. Collierville (I think heavy favorites to win AAA state title)

2. Farragut

T-3. Houston

T-3. East Hamilton

Others that could play a factor in the postseason in each class are as follows (no particular order):

Class A

East Robertson, Eagleville, & Lookout Valley

Class AA

Elizabethton, Riverside, & Loudon

Class AAA

Summit, East Hamilton, & Powell

Collierville will play at Farragut next Thursday 6:00 pm as part of the Diamond/DeMarini Tournament in Knoxville that weekend.

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On 4/4/2019 at 12:34 PM, CU06 said:

Collierville will play at Farragut next Thursday 6:00 pm as part of the Diamond/DeMarini Tournament in Knoxville that weekend.

Farragut just beat Collierville in this game by a score of 3-2. These 2 teams are clearly the best in Class AAA. One game doesn't change my mind that Collierville is still the slightly better team. They are both really really good teams though.

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3 hours ago, bigredmachine said:

Class A East Robertson is really good.  AAA Clarksville and Rossview can definitely be there late post season.

Yeah, I posted East Robertson as one of the favorites in Class A. I didn't have either Clarksville or Rossview in my top 5-6 in Class AAA but I could see Clarksville making a run in the postseason but if they run into either Farragut or Collierville I see them going down.

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