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AA17Dad
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 Posted - 03/01/2010 : 19:29:26
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| Looks like the " Chain Yankees " are for real. They beat up on some pretty good teams in Lagrange this past weekend. |
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lottapop
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Posted - 03/01/2010 : 23:39:07
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| Only a matter of time before someone south of ATL gets their act together. Lot of talent down this way. |
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SpeedKills
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Posted - 03/02/2010 : 07:38:56
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Originally posted by AA17Dad
Looks like the " Chain Yankees " are for real. They beat up on some pretty good teams in Lagrange this past weekend.
When they play with the Astros,Jags,Runners, and the rest of the Majors we will re-evaluate them... |
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ecbstix
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2010 : 18:44:52
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| East Cobb Astros beat the Orange County Outlaws to win the Florida Elite Inv. in Tampa this weekend! Great Job guys! Did anybody else play this weekend? Need some updates, this 12u board is dead! |
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6bomber
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Posted - 04/11/2010 : 19:45:18
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our boys played in the ob snit. bay bombers went 2-0 in pool play with wins over beyel brothers and cent. ala. tigers.
won our first bracket game against b bros. in a nail biter. ended up losing to our nemesis tha ala. bombers.
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Kneebuckler
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 18:59:46
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| The Sharon Springs Spartans have combined with the North Georgia Blazers. They have great pitching and the best players of those two teams have been put together. They will be very competive and they are going to be one of the best teams around. |
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AA17Dad
211 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 21:02:09
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Originally posted by ecbstix
East Cobb Astros beat the Orange County Outlaws to win the Florida Elite Inv. in Tampa this weekend! Great Job guys! Did anybody else play this weekend? Need some updates, this 12u board is dead!
Stix...Kudos to the Astros. That had to be fun in Tampa.
The Roadrunners won the Triple Crown with a walk off in the bottom of the 6th with 2 outs against the Ga Adademy Red. I didn't hang around to see it ( It was Sunday at the Masters )but it had to have been a great game.
And yes...this 12u board is dead....!!!!
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TAZ980002
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 21:26:14
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Originally posted by Kneebuckler
The Sharon Springs Spartans have combined with the North Georgia Blazers. They have great pitching and the best players of those two teams have been put together. They will be very competive and they are going to be one of the best teams around.
What happened to the remaining players? |
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getusome3ecb
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 01:45:34
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| Alot of good teams coming to East Cobb this weekend, should be a great 12u tourny with the Astros playing up what teams will step up this weekend.It could be anyone tourny to win... good teams include jags, sharon spring, whitesox, rr's ,braves ,45's, and we will finally see what the chain yankees are about should be fun to watch...whos gonna make an impression |
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smoke
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 11:31:53
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Originally posted by AA17Dad
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Originally posted by ecbstix
East Cobb Astros beat the Orange County Outlaws to win the Florida Elite Inv. in Tampa this weekend! Great Job guys! Did anybody else play this weekend? Need some updates, this 12u board is dead!
Stix...Kudos to the Astros. That had to be fun in Tampa.
The Roadrunners won the Triple Crown with a walk off in the bottom of the 6th with 2 outs against the Ga Adademy Red. I didn't hang around to see it ( It was Sunday at the Masters )but it had to have been a great game.
And yes...this 12u board is dead....!!!!
i was very impressed with the roadrunners this weekend, deep pitching, great team speed, lots of power, look out! |
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smoke
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 12:45:05
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Originally posted by AA17Dad
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Originally posted by ecbstix
East Cobb Astros beat the Orange County Outlaws to win the Florida Elite Inv. in Tampa this weekend! Great Job guys! Did anybody else play this weekend? Need some updates, this 12u board is dead!
Stix...Kudos to the Astros. That had to be fun in Tampa.
The Roadrunners won the Triple Crown with a walk off in the bottom of the 6th with 2 outs against the Ga Adademy Red. I didn't hang around to see it ( It was Sunday at the Masters )but it had to have been a great game.
And yes...this 12u board is dead....!!!!
kudos to the right fielder for the roadrunners who made possibly a game saving diving catch in right center to prevent the go-ahead run scoring from second in the top of the sixth, kudos to all pitchers in this game as well-roadrunners 3 ga. academy elite 2 |
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ItsjustLLBBall
119 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2010 : 13:07:21
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The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone. Our kids want to play vs the best our state has to offer week in and week out, that is all they are asking for. Would make for an interesting remaining 2/3rds of the season.
Thanks Smoke, it seems as if we are starting to pick it up a bit after a rather slow start for the RoadRunners standards..
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643dad
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 13:29:52
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Originally posted by Bandit_Hawk
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Originally posted by Kneebuckler
The Sharon Springs Spartans have combined with the North Georgia Blazers. They have great pitching and the best players of those two teams have been put together. They will be very competive and they are going to be one of the best teams around.
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Some went to Sharon Springs Blue and Black teams. Others are playing out of East Cobb I believe. SS Baseball has the most talent by far and hopefully they will begin to play solid ball. They gave up 7 unearned runs against Academy team on Sunday. SS had beaten Roadrunners just 1 week ago in RR Tourn. |
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LeftyBat
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 14:57:00
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Originally posted by Kneebuckler
The Sharon Springs Spartans have combined with the North Georgia Blazers. They have great pitching and the best players of those two teams have been put together. They will be very competive and they are going to be one of the best teams around.
You are somewhat correct in your statement. The Sharon Springs team is composed of mostly Sharon Springs Spartans and No GA Blazers players. But with respect to the Blazers, no way can you say the players they kept were the "best" Blazers players. They lost three quality players to other teams. Many would argue that these players were as good or better as the 5 they kept and the team stats from last year would back that up. They are a quality team, well coached and they will have their moments of glory. Just NOT the "best" players from the Blazers... |
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Kneebuckler
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 17:30:00
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Originally posted by Bandit_Hawk
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Originally posted by Kneebuckler
The Sharon Springs Spartans have combined with the North Georgia Blazers. They have great pitching and the best players of those two teams have been put together. They will be very competive and they are going to be one of the best teams around.
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They went to lots of different teams. Some followed a coach that left and they just split up. |
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bruins1
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 22:48:33
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Itsjust LL, I have no dog in this hunt, and I've agreed with a number of your posts in the past, but this post sounds like sour grapes. I do not think there is any credibility in criticizing a local team for playing in four local tourneys, Nations BB , Triple Crown ECB, Forsyth Slugfest and Atlanta Super NIT, (two or three of which your team was in, but got knocked out early), winning every one of those tourneys without a single loss, and now playing 13U or traveling to play nationally ranked 12U teams (and apparently beating them all) Both the Astros and Jaguars played in the same tourney this week (although Jags got knocked out early). Your team should have joined them.
Fact is, the Astros team would be idiots to play garden variety 12U tourneys right now given how they are playing unless all they are doing is trophy hunting, which I think is one of the worst things a team can do. If they have any sense, they will travel to Texas to play the top teams there, since it appears the Astros too are much better than they were at the start of the season.
In my view, any team at their skill level would be wasting its time at this stage playing in a tournament with teams that will not push them to their limits just for maybe one close game per tourney. That makes no sense at all, unless you want to play teams not to get better but simply to settle old scores.....
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone. Our kids want to play vs the best our state has to offer week in and week out, that is all they are asking for. Would make for an interesting remaining 2/3rds of the season.
Thanks Smoke, it seems as if we are starting to pick it up a bit after a rather slow start for the RoadRunners standards..
Scott Ryder 12U RoadRunners
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funnyhop
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 22:54:13
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone.
What great competition? The Astros have proven that they are head and shoulders above the rest of the GA teams. They have won 5 out of 6 tournaments. Are going to the Elite 32 because they earned a spot.
Who can blame them? Play up to get better. Play in Florida to get better. No other team in GA is even remotely at their level yet and no one has proven otherwise. Once a team wins 5 tournaments locally, then they may have a point........so far, no one is even close.
Good luck 12U 'stros this weekend in the TC 13U division.
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Pujols5
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Posted - 04/13/2010 : 22:57:57
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone. Our kids want to play vs the best our state has to offer week in and week out, that is all they are asking for. Would make for an interesting remaining 2/3rds of the season.
Thanks Smoke, it seems as if we are starting to pick it up a bit after a rather slow start for the RoadRunners standards..
Scott Ryder 12U RoadRunners
In reading your response I agree with one thing that you have said, "Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood". Why are you faulting teams for trying to help their players improve? Isn't this suppose to be for the kids? The rr also have the ability to play up levels and to go to other states to find more competition. Maybe this should be considered? If we remember this is suppose to be for the kids then they will benefit the most!
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ecbstix
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 09:02:53
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone. Our kids want to play vs the best our state has to offer week in and week out, that is all they are asking for. Would make for an interesting remaining 2/3rds of the season.
Thanks Smoke, it seems as if we are starting to pick it up a bit after a rather slow start for the RoadRunners standards..
Scott Ryder 12U RoadRunners
Oh I'm sorry, I thought there were more 12u teams to talk about than just the Astros and Roadrunners! I don't think any team is a "Self proclaimed" champion. I guess you haven't hung around on Sunday afternoons to see the Championship crowning!  |
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ItsjustLLBBall
119 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 12:39:19
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| There are no sour grapes, there are no old scores with me, I haven't been around this travel baseball long enough for there to be old scores....As stated earlier, I would like to see the best in the age division play in the age division. There is enough competition in the GA 12u Major division to keep a team competitive. There are a lot more teams than the RoadRunners and Astros. There has not been a lot of lopsided dominating victories by any of the 12u team this year. So feeling as if they should seek "better" competition, to me, in my opinion,is just an excuse. It is all about the kids Pujols, it is funny that you say that. Seems as if you do have a dog in the race. Philosopy wise, I do not feel moving kids to different distances in the middle of the season is going to improve your team. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I was just adding to AA17Dad about how the 12u board is dead and just trying to liven things up a bit. Taking my jabs at a couple buddies who frequent this board in hopes our last slot in our tournament would be filled up by them. If they chose to play up or in Texas for that matter, I wish them luck, I have some players that I have coached on other teams or in others sports and always wish for the best for the kids, because you are right, it is all about the kids. I have never not said anything on here without that being the focus of what I am discussing. They are a part of our group of kids that will play against each other in travel ball and HS for years to come with a lot of talent all around this age group. I look forward to that. |
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Goin Deep
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Posted - 04/14/2010 : 12:45:20
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| I couldn't agree with you more ecbstix!! There are plenty of VERY talented teams here in Georgia(which are in the tourney this weekend)that the Astros have not faced. I understand that they have a lot of talent, but so do many other 12U teams here in Georgia. Will be interesting to see if they can hang with the 13U teams. |
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getusome3ecb
54 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2010 : 01:20:06
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
There are no sour grapes, there are no old scores with me, I haven't been around this travel baseball long enough for there to be old scores....As stated earlier, I would like to see the best in the age division play in the age division. There is enough competition in the GA 12u Major division to keep a team competitive. There are a lot more teams than the RoadRunners and Astros. There has not been a lot of lopsided dominating victories by any of the 12u team this year. So feeling as if they should seek "better" competition, to me, in my opinion,is just an excuse. It is all about the kids Pujols, it is funny that you say that. Seems as if you do have a dog in the race. Philosopy wise, I do not feel moving kids to different distances in the middle of the season is going to improve your team. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I was just adding to AA17Dad about how the 12u board is dead and just trying to liven things up a bit. Taking my jabs at a couple buddies who frequent this board in hopes our last slot in our tournament would be filled up by them. If they chose to play up or in Texas for that matter, I wish them luck, I have some players that I have coached on other teams or in others sports and always wish for the best for the kids, because you are right, it is all about the kids. I have never not said anything on here without that being the focus of what I am discussing. They are a part of our group of kids that will play against each other in travel ball and HS for years to come with a lot of talent all around this age group. I look forward to that.
Win this weekend and these teams will find a reason to play you...Until them they have nothing to prove...hats off to the astros on there win in a much deeper tourny this weekend then those in GA |
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lottapop
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Posted - 04/15/2010 : 10:13:04
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| IMO....and we all know what that is worth...LOL, no need to play up. "Any" 12u team can get all the competition they can handle in this age bracket. The Astro Invitational will be hosting some fantastic teams in 2 weeks so there is no need to travel 10hrs away to play when you can play in your own back yard. RR still needs a team to add to their tournament next weekend, the Jags, braves and seminoles will be there. I would like to see Sharon Springs or the Astros join in to make it a very nice tournament to prepare these teams for the Astros tournament at the end of the month. Georgia baseball should be represented very well. |
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Ga12u
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Posted - 04/15/2010 : 10:49:00
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ecbstix,
Kudos to the astros & what they have done !!!!!!!!! To continue to get better, you have to go play the top teams. No matter where they are. Other teams in the metro area need to start doing it to acually see what it is like to face the nations top teams on a regular basis. There is probably only 1 other team in the whole state that also does it..... Until some of these teams go face Mba, D1 elite, LMC, juice, O.C outlaws, G.B.C, VooDoo, Tampa Crush, etc ! They will not know how they stack up !!!!!!!! |
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LeftyBat
160 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2010 : 12:50:35
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Originally posted by funnyhop
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Originally posted by ItsjustLLBBall
The twelve year old board would be very much alive if all the 12u teams played the full 12u schedule and didn't crown themselves kings of the age group since they came out of the shoot admittingly blazing. Sure, going to play in other states and up levels is great experience for the kids and that is understood, but not playing the teams in your state at your level when they get into seasonal form just isn't right, to me that is avoiding great competition until it's proven otherwise. The 11u Bandits did it right, came out and tested themselves at the higher level and then went back to their age bracket, not win early tournaments and then abandon their age group as self proclaimed champions...Everyone in sports knows it's not how you start, but it's how you finish, those teams really aren't fooling anyone.
What great competition? The Astros have proven that they are head and shoulders above the rest of the GA teams. They have won 5 out of 6 tournaments. Are going to the Elite 32 because they earned a spot.
Who can blame them? Play up to get better. Play in Florida to get better. No other team in GA is even remotely at their level yet and no one has proven otherwise. Once a team wins 5 tournaments locally, then they may have a point........so far, no one is even close.
Good luck 12U 'stros this weekend in the TC 13U division.
What's funny is how about 5 months ago there was a serious discussion about whether the Astro's were a select team that got it's pick of the East Cobb environment representative of the Astro's tradition or whether they were just another quality East Cobb team.
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