The Corning Bobcats take the title over a win to Marmaduke yesterday.

Congratulations guys!

EPC has one loss in conference play and they play Corning, who is unbeaten in conference play, Monday at EPC. What if EPC won?

The conference is split into a north and south. Corning wrapped up the North side. Not the whole thing

So, the 3A 3 Conference Championship,the title for which this thread is named, is not totally accurate when the Conference Championship has yet to be determined.

Got to see EPC play at Manila this afternoon. EPC took the win in 10 innings 5-4. The Hardin kid is a hitting machine. It was a very entertaining game.

Sorry the word North was not added.

Should be a good game Monday (Corning @ EPC). I'm not picking a winner but both teams are solid.

EPC wins by 1 run. Call at the plate that ended the game was a tough call. Some argued that the Corning catcher dropped the ball, some argued that he had possesion until after the play. I believe the call was blocking the plate and malicious contact by the catcher. Heckuva a way to end a game.

When I left the Harrisburg game, EPC was cruising with a 12-4 lead in the 4th or 5th inning.

Actuallyyyy
It was a HORRIBLE call..
No, the catcher did not drop the ball..
He was defending home plate which is what he was taught to do.. the ump decided the call WAYYY after the play was made and the catcher had already threw the ball back to the mound and walking to the dugout to start extra innings when the ump called the runner safe, which let EPC win.. it was very very very bad calling..worst i've seen in my several years of ballgames....

Again, that wasn't the call. The call was blocking the plate and malicious contact. Both are judgement calls. The latter could have resulted in an ejection which I could have an impact on his next game per AAA.

Admittingly, it was a call that I wouldn't have made unless someone was spitting teeth. Nonetheless, it was made.

Even the EPC players were saying that Corning got screwed.. And if thats milicious contact then i think that ump should be umping tee ball, but that still may be a little much for him. Hats off to EPC though. They did what they had to do. It was not EPC's players fault for the controversy. It was all the ump.

All in all though, I bet there is not one team in the 3A-3 conference that wants to play Corning come district tournament time.

...."malicious contact"....
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that we were playing Tee-ball.. the catcher was guarding the plate, it's his senior year, and there was no way that he was gonna let him get to the plate.. any good catcher would do that.....

"IF"(big if here) the player was said to have made "malicious contact" it should be an immediate ejection and the player has to sit the next game. I wasn't there but by the description of the play it sounds like obstruction by the catcher.

That was the call. Malicious contact. I don't think the ump had time for ejections. He was swarmed by coaches, players and a dad running through the EPC dugout. It got out of control real quickly. I'm not defending the call or am disagreeing. I'll just say that is a heckuva of a way to end a tied ball game.

lol 13-2

sorry just had to do it