161 Hospital Drive, McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 352-5344
Have an injury and need physical therapy? Call the Sports Medicine & Rehab team at 731-352-4189
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McKenzie Regional Hospital 161 Hospital Drive, McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 352-5344 Have an injury and need physical therapy? Call the Sports Medicine & Rehab team at 731-352-4189 |
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McKenzie Feed and Grain 2016 Cedar Ave., McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone: 352-2084 STIHL Your licensed STIHL dealer |
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Farmers & Merchants Bank 15172 Highland Drive, McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 352-9998 Hometown Banking since 1916 |
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BETHEL COLLEGE Academic Excellence...Personally Phone 731-352-4000 |
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Champion Homes of Tennessee Cheering on the Rebels and serving West Tennessee for 35 years with quality, value and service Henry, Tenn. 731-243-2041 |
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McKinney Hardware 181 South Main Street, McKenzie, TN 38201 For all your hardware, plumbing, electrical and hunting needs Phone 352-2141 |
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Brummitt Funeral Home Supporting the Rebels and Serving McKenzie since 1945; Obituary Line 352-9391 |
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CHET'S PIZZA 21810 E. Main Street, Huntingdon, just past the overpass For the BEST pizza in West Tennessee, call 986-9705 |
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Alexander Thompson Arnold, PLLC CPAs 16208 Highland Dr. McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 731-352-3513 See Mark Downing for your accounting needs |
By JIM STEELE
With the unpredicatable weather and a youthful squad, outdoor time for the McKenzie High School baseball team is at a premium.
So when the Rebels can take advantage of decent weather, they will. And they did this past weekend with scrimmages with Trenton and Bethel College's junior varsity. The great thing among the many good things that went on this weekend is that the Rebs got in a lot of innings.
Saturday, against BC's JV team, the Rebels and Wildcats battled for 12 innings and a lot of players got a lot of work.
"It was a good day for us," said second-year MHS baseball coach Jeremy Maddox. "We tried to get people at-bats and we tried to get as many people in the field as we could to get experience."
The Rebs and 'Cats dueled for 12 innings on Saturday and keeping score wasn't of primary importance. Getting swings against different, live arms and playing someone else was key.
"The first six innings we played the older guys, the last six innings we played the younger guys," said Maddox. "We got to put six or seven people on the hill and we were seeing live hitters."
For high school teams this time of year is critical. Pitching is always ahead of hitting when starting out and it's no different for the Rebels this year. And playing Bethel, which has had the benefit of a fall practice and been working at baseball since returning from the Christmas break, gave the Rebels a chance to see where they need to be.
"It was good for our kids to play a team like Bethel, that's obviously been playing a lot longer than we have this year," said Maddox. "It was good for our kids to play a team like that, to see live pitching and to get chances in the field and overall, I think we did a good job."
Maddox didn't stress so much the strategies of the game, e.g., hit-and-run, bunting, sacrificing, things like that. He basically wanted to give his players a chance to swing away.
"In a game like this, we needed to take some swings, so we didn't do a lot of the small-ball things we would ordinarily do during games," Maddox said.
The Rebels face Gleason in a scrimmage on Monday for the first of three this coming week. MHS will play the BC junior varsity again noon next Saturday at Wildcat Field.
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