[Bob Seger]

When you are playing to be able to play tommorrow, you do exactly what St. X and Woodford did, you pitch your best. They are still playing tommorrow and Pikeville is not.

I did not expect to see Hollon pitching last night but guess what he did. Powell would have beat them if he had not.

St. X threw number 1 as well.

If there is another reason, they chose to do so then that was certainly there call. So be it there is no tommorrow because of this decision and if you cant take the heat dont make the call.

As for griping about the call, it is a mute point. Judgement call just like the pitching call.

Two years in a row he left the pitcher in too long also. SHOULD have had 3 Region titles in a row. The definition of stupid is making the same mistakes over and over and expecting different results. They were tagging Randy the inning before hitting right at Pikeville. You had to see they were timing him at that point and a pitching change was needed. Randy did pitch well, but with 4 hits scattered through 7 innings you arent gonna win many anyway. One of those hits was an infield pop up that should have been caught by the 3rd baseman.

Again congrats to both teams on a good game to watch.

If you are Pikeville you have to have the option to start Hamilton to have a chance at advancing. In all honesty and with all due respect there is such a tremendous dropoff after Hamilton. But as I said , after 126 pitches on friday, he had to have had a jello arm.

On a side note, I think that PHSForever mentioned that Burke would be eligible tuesday. I think he pitched 7 innings saturday, which would not have made him eligible till wednesday. In short Pikeville was somewhat screwed from the get go, as far as being able to come into the tournament full strength. In my opinion, Pikeville started their #3 pitcher.