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03-21-2007 Sports Overton County Jr. Wildcats Baseball begins
Overton County Jr. Wildcats Baseball begins The Overton County Jr. Wildcats opened their 2007 baseball season by playing four games their first week. The Jr. Cats struggled by going 1-3 for the week. The Jr. Cats opened the seson by playing a doubleheader at home against Avery Trace. In game 1, the Jr. Cats were dominated by an overpowering Avery Trace team by the score of 15-0. Some early miscues got the Cats off to a bad start and things continually got worse. In game 2, the Jr. Cats were able to salvage a split by scoring 2 runs in the bottom of the 5th to win the game 6-5. On Saturday, the Jr. Cats took part in the White County Middle School Invitational where they played a pair of games. In the first one against Cornerstone Elementary, the Jr. Cats held a 4-3 lead entering the bottom of the 4th before Cornerstone scored 5 runs to take an 8-4 victory. The second game of the day was against Mt. Juliet. The Jr. Cats were again hurt by defensive miscues and poor hitting. Mt. Juliet held a 7-1 lead entering the last of the 5th, but proceeded to score 11 runs before the time limit ended the game with the final being 18-1. The Jr. Cats are a young team that, despite the score in a couple of the games, seem to be showing some improvement. The Jr. Cats roster consists of 8th graders Josh Johnson, Hayden Hill, Marshall Cannon, Justin Savage, Justin Perdue, and Carson Bailey. Seventh graders on the team are Lucas Dailey, M.J. Lockhart, Colby Reeder, Brandon Anderson, Jim Officer, and Justin Timmons. The head coach is Keith Parker.
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LA baseball season off to rocky start By DEWAIN E. PEEK, OCN Sports "The good part of it is none of it was district," Coach Pat Swallows said. That none of Livingston Academys games were against District 7-AA opponents was a small blessing in a week with four losses and no wins. The 2007 season started Monday, March 12 with a home game against Montereys Wildcats. The Putnam County team won 6-4. "Montereys got a good solid club," Coach Swallows said. "John Looper does a great job with them up there, and they were motivated to beat us. They didnt make any mistakes, made all the plays. And we didnt. "It was like we were tight. We were nervous a little bit, and got behind early. We got behind 6-1, then battled back to 6-4. "We had runners on with an opportunity for a big hit to tie it up. We didnt do it." Senior Andrew Neff took the loss on the mound for LA. Clint Durham, a junior, had a 3-run double to bring LA to 6-4. "We didnt field the routine ground balls and do the things that weve been working on all winter," Coach Swallows said. The team was scheduled to play in a tournament at Oak Ridge from Thursday through Friday, but rain shortened LAs play to Saturday only. The Wildcats faced Knoxville Catholic in their first game of the day, and were blanked 12-0. "They were very good, very solid," Coach Swallows said. "We knew they would be." LA gave up only 5 hits, but walked 8 and hit 7 batters in the 5 inning game. "Our pitching just let us down," Coach Swallows said. "We didnt hit the ball real well. Our defense was okay in the first game, but when you walk and hit some people all day, then its not going to give you a chance to win." Oliver Springs was up next for the Wildcats. LA gave up 3 hits, and lost 10-2. "We just did not catch the fly ball, did not field the ground ball. We didnt hit. Our pitching problems continued; we hit 3 or 4 more that game," Coach Swallows said. "So, right now were struggling." The highlight for LA came from freshman Tracy McDonald who hit a single and a double. "Because we were playing so poorly, we ended up picking up a third game Saturday night just to see if we could play ourselves out of this little funk that were in," Coach Swallows said, "and we didnt." The team from Clinton threw a no-hitter against the Cats. Not a team to sit back and accept such a disappointing start, the players called a team meeting after their last game Saturday. "I dont know what they discussed, but they wanted to practice yesterday," Coach Swallows said on Monday. "They called their own practice yesterday, and we had a great practice. "They're back upbeat and shutting all that stuff out, forgetting about it because theres nothing we can do about it. "You know, even the Yankees run into strings like that where they cant do anything. Its just baseball. Well be okay. Weve just got to work ourselves out of it." District play was scheduled to begin Monday, March 19 with a trip to Lafayette to take on Macon Countys Tigers, and the Tigers were scheduled to visit LA the following evening. The Wildcats will head to Sparta on Thursday to play White County in a 6:30 p.m. game, with the junior varsity squad playing at 4:30 p.m. LA will host Pickett County in a 5 p.m. game Friday, March 23, then will host district foe Smith County at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, and a JV game is set for 4:30 p.m. The Cats and the Owls will face each other again at 5:30 p.m. the following day at Carthage, and another JV game will be played at 4:30 p.m.
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