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May 2nd, 2013
As the sun went down on Thursday, it also signified the end of the Starkville Academy baseball season.
Despite fighting hard all game long and throughout the entire postseason, the Volunteers dropped an 8-3 contest to the Washington Generals.
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Starkville head coach Brian Jones wanted his team to play loose and like there was no pressure.
Although the Yellowjackets held a 1-0 lead over the Oxford Chargers in a Mississippi High School Athletic Association Class 5A playoff series, they didn't play like a team with a lead. Â
ACKERMAN – It was getting dark, it was raining and the Ackerman Indians were running out of outs.
Trailing 4-2 going into the bottom of the seventh inning, Logan Black and the Indians decided it was time to do something about the situation.
May 1st
Alex Detz had every intention to attend Oregon State and play baseball for the Beavers.Â
A friendship with a Mississippi State baseball player was developed two summers ago for Detz.
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It has been a week and a half since the Ackerman Indians have played a baseball game.
The weather could make that wait even longer.
The second round Class 2A playoff series between the Indians and Loyd Star is scheduled to start today at 5 p.m. in Ackerman, but there is more rain in the forecast.
April 30th
Mississippi State's men's tennis team won't have to travel to compete in the postseason for the second-straight season.
The Bulldogs will be hosting their second regional in a row.
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Sometimes parents take athletics too seriously when it comes to their children.
Over the years, parents have gotten upset with officials and umpires to the point that they almost come out of the stands and onto the field to take matters into their own hands.
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OXFORD – Three Starkville High School pitchers kept the Oxford Charger bats at bay long enough for the Yellowjackets to go on the road and get the second-round Class 5A playoffs series started on the right note.
Max Bartlett, Tanner Jones and Tanner Clanton of SHS combined to hold Oxford to seven hits on its home field and the Jackets came away with a 6-5 victory on Tuesday night.
GREENVILLE – The Starkville Academy Volunteers have their game faces on as it prepares for game two of the MAIS AAA-II baseball playoffs.
After dropping game one by a score of 3-1 to Washington School, the Vols look for more production on Thursday than they did in Tuesday's first outing.
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JACKSON – Behind the 75 carded by Alex Bedwell, the Starkville Academy Volunteers shot a 319 at the Jackson Country Club Tuesday afternoon, which was good enough to finish third in AAA South State and qualified them for the State tournament.
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