Bruce takes its case to court.

[patdog]

I think about 25 or so years ago the 5A state baseball final was delayed for a couple of weeks because Pascagoula filed a lawsuit over something. Can't remember the details though.

Link

 

[Maroon Eagle]

...if I recall correctly. I seem to recall Hattiesburg was involved in it somehow too...

 

[snoopdog]

Tupelo was involved as well. They were actually getting on the bus to go to Jackson and were told not to go. The entire State Championship was cancelled.

 

[vhdawg]

1. Bruce beats Hamilton in game one, throwing the pitcher in question. 17 innings/week rule not broken yet.

2. Bruce beats Hamilton in game two, winning the series 2-0, but breaks the innings/week rule with the same pitcher.

3. Instead of calling a forfeit to game two, and forcing a game three, the MHSAA just gives Hamilton the series win, despite not winning a game in the series.

Did I get that right?

 

[jeremyrbrown]

Bruce beats Eupora on Monday, the pitcher in question pitches
Hamilton beats Bruce on Thursday, he doesn't pitch
Bruce beats Hamilton on Friday, he pitches
Bruce beats Hamilton on Saturday 6-5, he pitches

for the calendar week, Sun - Sat, he pitches 17.2 innings

 

[patdog]

Hamilton beat Bruce in Game 1 on Thursday, the game the pitcher did not pitch. The series was tied at 1-1, and the Bruce had to forfeit Game 3 due to using the pitcher more than 17 innings.

I'm having trouble reading these threads thanks to the special meaning the number 17 has in the SPS lexicon.

 

[patdog]

It kept being delayed and finally after 2-3 weeks they cancelled it. And I do remember the controversy being over the Pascagoula-Hattiesburg semi-final series. Couldn't remember who the North team affected was though.</p>

 

[snoopdog]

Back then the top 2 North and the top 2 South teams went to Jackson for a double elimination tourney with 1 vs 2 starting the tourney. So there were 4 teams that got screwed out of a chance of playing.

 

[Coach34]

when they pitched this kid 17 2/3 in a span of 5 days...and on back-to-back days on day 4 and day 5....hell, if it was in 2 appearances instead of 3, I could almost understand

Let's say he averages 15 pitches per inning- which is being conservative...thats 105 pitches on Monday...105 pitches on Friday...and another 50+ on Saturday


Thats what the 17'ing rule was put in place to do- stop **** like that