Four Area Baseball Teams Open Play Tuesday In Spring Fling

Red Bank, Walker Valley, South Pittsburg, Baylor In State Tournament

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - by special report to chattanoogan.com

Red Bank, Walker Valley, South Pittsburg and Baylor will be competing in the state baseball tournament this week in Murfreesboro.

All four teams will play Tuesday night at 7:30 eastern in the annual BlueCross Spring Fling.

The brackets can be found at www.tssaa.org.

Tuesday's schedule: (All times eastern)

7:30 -- Murfreesboro Oakland (Walker Valley 27-11 vs. Germantown 28-13)

7:30 -- Blackmon (Red Bank 20-21 vs. McNairy Central 28-10)

7:30 -- Middle Tennessee Christian (Cascade 26-12-1 vs.

South Pittsburg 32-7)

7:30 -- Wilson Central in Lebanon (Baylor 21-11 vs. CBHS 28-11)

(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)

 

 


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