Baseball county title game, not gonna happen

By Andrew Conrad
Posted: May 4, 2009

If you’re trying to figure out which team will win the race to face front-running Hammond in the annual county title game, don’t strain your brain. There’s not going to be a game.

(Atholton and Marriotts Ridge are each 12-4 and Hammond is 12-2, in case you were wondering.)

Last year, the baseball coaches voted to skip the annual showdown. The general consensus was that teams were burning their ace starters and beating each other up in the county championship game, and then hobbling into the regional playoffs weaker because of it.

Another argument was that Team A could go through the regular season undefeated, while Team B could drop three or four games, but Team B wins the title game because they had a few bounces go their way.

I, for one, liked the excitement of a one-game championship, but then again I’m not coaching one of the teams that would have to play in it.

There is still some drama involved as Atholton (at Wilde Lake on Wednesday) and/or Marriotts Ridge (at Mt. Hebron) could possibly catch Hammond, which still has to play Glenelg, River Hill and Howard over the last week of games.

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