[Belfry0304]

Wow! Did not even realize the State Tournament was slated to start the 4th!

I thought there was a week in between. I am always for the Monday quarters, Tuesday Semis, and Wednesday Finals format. But this just makes it mandatory. If you want to have softball and baseball on separate nights, then place softball later where pitching rest is less important. The only bit of good news for the 15th is that I would venture to say all #1's will throw on Wednesday if the match ups play out as expected and the Championship will see #2's and #3's.

Pikeville (If they are in charge of scheduling) is really dropping the ball on this. Heat or no Heat, you have to at least try. If games are being played at 9 am on Monday or still being played 2 am on Tuesday as a result, so be it. It is the only fair way to do it for all teams. Teams that received a Monday draw are at an advantage. (If Pikeville would have got a Monday draw, I would admit to the advantage.) The teams, and region is put at a huge disadvantage with this scheduling.

Something needs to be done that makes the Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday format mandatory in all regions or at least the 15th.

I think it'll be very interesting to see how Hagy pitches. Last time, Tyler pitched against Lawrence so Jared Masters went the next night against PBurg and lost 1-0 (on an unearned run, as well) while Zack Fields has a win over Pikeville this year. You would think you'd be seeing either Williams or Masters on Wednesday, but I think it's a VERY interesting decision if you're Mike Hagy.