Radar52

It was a fun weekend, glad I only live 30 minutes away. Bet that was a tough ride home for both teams. I'm biased because I'm glad neither of the Tennessee teams made it to the championship game. Love to watch the good teams compete.

I agree, it's great to have that many good teams in an early season tournament, but 6 games in a day is a lot. McCracken had the late game Friday and an 830 a.m. game Saturday. Friday's game against Daviess Co was McCracken's 1st game of the year other than a scrimmage game against University Heights. By the way, #10 from Daviess Co pitched a heck of a game when they beat us Friday night.

PH2, I'm sure it was unintended but your post may insinuate to some people that McCracken won the game off of Woodford's backups. I'm not looking at the stats but McCracken scored 3 off Woodford's starter in the bottom of the 3rd and I think 3 off of her in the bottom of the 4th before scoring 11 more runs off the 2nd pitcher and backups after that, then 2 more in the 5th for the run rule. Who would have thought about an outcome like this after Woodford had a 9-0 lead going into the bottom of the 3rd? I appreciate the fatigue and injury factor, but if you make it to the championship game, you play it to win it, otherwise, why hang around. You had the preseason #1 team down 9-0 going into the bottom of the 3rd inning. McCracken played the same amount of games and had 2 injuries during this game. McCracken's bench also played a major role in this game and tournament. To their credit, Woodford teed off on McCracken's #33 Ridofi, but #1 4 Dodd came in and shut Woodford down. Dodd had held a powerful Madisonville North Hopkins to 1 run in the previous game and shut Male out earlier in the day. Also, McCracken was without their #1 pitcher (in my opinion) Chapman for the tournament. But if Chapman is #1 , Dodd is #1 .1. Woodford Co is an awesome team, they came from behind and beat the defending state champs, so no disrespect is intended here. As happy as I am for McCracken, I feel bad for the young ladies of Woodford. Hope these two teams play again in June. In reference to Heavy Duty's previous post, I bet most teams in the state would love to have McCracken's pitching. Woodford's too.

HD, I bet about every team in the state would like to have McCracken's weak pitching.

Keely Barnes and Kionna Waldon from McCracken Co will be there playing for the Illinois Force.

True, but the 3rd base ump signaled an out. Thanks for taking the time to look.

KHSAA Official web site. Click on Fast Pitch Softball then scroll down to and click on 2014 Worth/KHSAA State Softball Tournament Info and results. In the upper right there are 9 squares. to top right one is the video of games 27, 29, 30 and championship. The play was about at the 30 min mark. For the pictures, the box in the bottom left is for event photos that can be purchased. Click on that and softball its the first selection. The pics for the championship game are at the bottom and the 3 pics I'm talking about are the first 3 in screen 6. Click on pic 43 to enlarge.

Really didn't explain that well, Scott Co had bases loaded with no outs when the play happened. Had the play to left been called a catch, the batter would have been out and so would the runner on third who had broke to the plate. So 2 outs with runners at first and second. If you get a chance take a look and I welcome your feedback. I'm complaining about the umpiring at the tournament not the outcome of the game. The girls on both teams played their hearts out

Checking out the video of the controversial play in the bottom of the 2nd inning when McCracken's left fielder looked to have caught a fly just above the dirt then threw to 3rd. The 2nd base ump said it was no catch, so after much discussion it was determined the runner from 2nd to 3rd was forced out and the runner on 3rd scored. Looking at the KHSAA photo gallery of the play it looks as though the ball was in her glove. If she dropped it, she picked it back up with her glove because she took the ball from her glove to throw to 3rd. So instead of having 2 outs with runners at 1st and 2nd, there was 1 out and a run in. Certainly another questionable call by the umps. Not saying this would have changed the outcome of the game because Scott Co was playing good ball and had the last at bat. I'm technically challenged and not smart enough to paste the pics here and the link to the video.