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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.

Poor decision by the committee to cancel Tuesday nights games, as anybody who made it through region was gonna be screwed up on pitching. Nobody in this region has a deep enough staff to endure that.

As a side note, I am not a fan of any high school kid pitching that many pitches in a game anyway. Hollon was pulled at 100. He had almost 4 full days of rest, but I am sure his arm was not quite 100 percent. He hit 78 on the gun at Applebees, which they say is actually 81, so he was off a couple mles per hour for sure.