Coming Down The Home Stretch

No, I'm not ignoring the Tigers. They have been getting some good press in our local papers with pictures as they improved their record to 16-1 on the season. I'm just as excited for them as I was last week.

For a brief recap the men in the orange & black took their second win over Southern Local this past Friday. Did you see the picture of Zane Carter in last Saturday's ER with his head band over his eyes? He could probably see better if he would push that up a little higher!

Then on Tuesday the Tigers played their last away game of the regular season at Jackson-Milton bringing home another victory with a 51 point margin. J-M is not having a good year. There were 12 different Tigers scoring in that game. The coach played them all and got some of the younger guys more game experience. It was a lop sided win over a winless team but you can't tell your players not to play their game.

In that last game the Tigers won a share of the Inter-Tri County League title for their tier. It was back in the 1970s since that happened. They moved up to number 6 on the latest AP poll. It's going to take a supreme effort to get much higher but it could happen.

On Sunday they had the drawings for the tournaments. Wellsville is second seeded and will open in New Philly February 18th against Steubenville Central Catholic. However, as Jeremy Carter said we're not thinking about that yet.

Last night's game against Beaver Local was cancelled due to weather. Does anyone know if that game will be made up? At this point it's a meaningless game but I'm looking for bragging rights here. They already notched up wins against everyone else in the area - Toronto, Southern, East Liverpool and Oak Glen. Then there is the risk of someone getting injured. If it was up to me it would be a tough call and it can't be considered an easy win. The Fighting Beavers would love to possibly knocked them down in the polls if they could.

Another exciting happening this week is WKMXlive.com. Thanks to Terry Brown and some supporters it looks like they have found a way to clearly broadcast the games. When they started back they were using a cell phone to computer system that didn't pan out. If they had a good connection with the cell phones the background noise was drowning out the announcers. When they were up in Austintown they didn't have a good signal. About all you could hear were screeches. Now they got some new equipment that gives them a computer to computer hook-up and it has provened to make a world of difference.

They gave it a test run last night with the Lady Tiger's 8th grade game. It was dern near perfect. They will be using it tomorrow night and for the rest of the season. They are even going to do the girl's game Monday evening. It wasn't too noisy last night. Hopefully the new stuff will be effective in a gym full of screaming people. At any rate anyone in the world with an internet hook-up will be able to hear the Tigers.

The Tigers wrap up the regular season at home with games against Leetonia tomorrow night, Lowellville next Tuesday and possibly a make-up with the Beavers. We're pulling for you guys. Just please remember what got you this far. Good luck.

Did I ever mention it's not going to get any easier? :-)

ole nib