itsagame

Scott County beat Mercy 1-0 in 9 innings in the opening game.

Reported from Owensboro.

What issue? You play where you get bracketed; that is the way it has always been and always will be. What drama? The drama is right here, all of those trying to figure out ridiculous ways to "make it fair". It is as fair as it can be by random draw. Talk about making it "not fair" would be considering allowing the coaches to vote to seed the pairings or trying to seed by last year's achievements. At least if they did a same day drawing, it would eliminate two weeks of drama especially the last few days before the games begin. May the best team win.

After thinking it over and considering every team plays on Thursday night (either the early game or late game), it may be better to have a coaches meeting about noon and draw the names from a hat instead of drawing a couple of weeks in advance per region. That would reduce a lot of the drama for players, coaches and fans.

Can't believe that anyone would suggest that this type of objectivity bracketing would work? Really, rely on the coaches to rate team for seeding? Just the 16 coaches in the tournament or all coaches? The 10th did not finish until Sunday, going to get all the coaches' votes in on Monday for a tournament that starts on Thursday? Most coaches would not have even seen over half of the teams in the tournament and if so, just a time or two. A blind draw per region well in advance is the ONLY way to bracket the tournament. Coaches have a couple of weeks to scout the best teams in the region that they may play if both teams were to make it to the dance. It's too bad that the best teams have to play each other but "at this point what difference does it make". All this "fairness" talk is silliness. Just play the game; the purpose of the tournament is to crown a state champion, not to promote "fairness" from start to finish. Not to mention the complexity of seeding the state tournaments for the other sports as well.

Interesting dynamics between coaching styles. One coach was relaxed and motived with positive enthusiasm; the other was uptight and motived with negative gestures and intimidation.

At Montgomery Co. Monday 11:00-Bracken County/Montgomery County 1:00-Bishop Brossart/Nicholas County 3:00-Harrison County/Campbell County 5:00-George Rogers Clark/Mason County Tuesday 5:30-winners of 11:00 & 1:00 7:30-winners of 3:00 & 5:00 Wednesday 6:30 Championship

The winner of the Scott County/Woodford County game whether it be in the semis or finals will go to state. These two teams are far ahead of the rest of the field when it comes to W/L, strength of schedule and consistency. I do not see how PL Dunbar field will hold the attendance for this game. Don't know enough players to name a top 10.

Heard Kent Miller at LCA

George Rogers Clark 1-Montgomery 0 in Regional championship game Tournament team ranking based on W/L & strength of schedule 1-George Rogers Clark 2-Montgomery County 3-Harrison County 4-Bishop Brossart 5-Campbell County 6-Nicholas County 7-Mason County 8-Bracken County

Just following the information on this tread, it looks to me like they did have contingency plans. Drop it from pool play to double-elimination; implement a time limit; drop it to single elimination and keep one field playable so the winners bracket could be completed and crown a champion. The mistake that I see if making it a pool play tournament to begin with. The smaller schools should not be expected to bring lesser skill levels. It should have been double-elimination to start with like the KHSAA state tournament and not nearly as much change and confusion would have been necessary due to the weather. Since the undesirable weather had been forecast all week long, maybe teams should have mentally prepared their players that rainy weather may cause delays, schedule changes and undesirable results for the weekend to minimize the disappointments of a weekend gone awry. After all, it was a great accomplishment to quality for the opportunity to play in the All-A state tournament even though your chances to win got washed out. And, if it was thundering, someone should have spoken up and insisted that they clear the field per KHSAA thunder/lightning rule. Otherwise, all are complicit and wanted the games to continue.

LCA open?

You're right; my bad!

Football/soccer start out in the warm weather and end in the cold so there would be no benefit to postponing the games since the weather is most likely going to get worse instead of better. In Baseball/softball, there are warmer days ahead and the games can be rescheduled later in the season. And, in those two other sports, players are not trying to hit and catch a hard ball coming at them at high speeds. Football and soccer are considered to be played in all kinds of weather where baseball/softball are considered warm weather sports.

It seems logical that since they have a heat index factor to stop play, there ought to be a cold index factor as well. The heat index as I understand it is based on a combination of temperature and relative humidity and is deemed unsafe somewhere around 104 degrees. The cold weather guideline in my opinion ought to be based on the wind chill factor; if the wind chill is below freezing, baseball & softball games should be cancelled (and that is still too cold). I really see no benefit on behalf of the players to be playing baseball/softball in extreme cold, windy and/or rainy conditions. Football/soccer yes, baseball/softball no.