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@BBGreatMoments Rose also made more outs than anyone ever.

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@OleTimeHardball Josh Gibson topped Ty Cobb's .366 career batting average. When putting together these lists, designate them as AL/NL records, not MLB records. MLB records have been updated (calling Ted Williams the MLB's last .400 hitter is also now incorrect).

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@KyleNeddenriep @themarcszn I don’t understand. How can someone who didn’t qualify for the state meet get to run in it? Would the IHSAA done that with an athlete from Gary?

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Looking at some colorized footage of the 1954 World Series, Game 1. In the first inning, the Indians had runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 out. Maglie goes into his windup while pitching to Wertz, and the runner on 1st (Avila) holds! That would never happen today, of course. Wertz triples home the Indians' first 2 runs.

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I was binge-watching The Closer, and in one episode a Fort Wayne man was killed in a area near LA. The victim's young son mentioned Pokagon State Park, only he pronounced it POKE-a-gone, rather than po-KAY-gun. It seems Hollywood could check out Midwest pronunciations.

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@BBGreatMoments Nearly all American Leaguers. Why is that?

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@rogergrossman1 @GrantShouse11 all the scores are here:
https://t.co/A4wz5Nqnh0

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@WillKSteele https://t.co/rbpSzZMCLZ

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@EnglerPublish
Update/Corrections
Tim Weeks-Head Coach (Football)
1996 South Vermillion 1-8
1997 South Vermillion 5-5
1998 South Vermillion 5-5
1999 Brebeuf Jesuit    5-2 (took over for Arnold Mickens after the 3rd game, he was 1-2)
2000 Taylor                 1-9
2022 Peru                   2-6 (did not coach last 2 games, Chris Makowski did, going 1-1)
Total                           19-35

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Sorry. State finals were 28-34.

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In tournaments where teams played two games in one day, these are the records of first semifinal winners in night games:
All tournaments
Regionals 753-703 (.517)
Semistates 161-143 (.530)
State finals 28- 45 (.452)
Class era only
Regionals 166-154 (.519)
Semistates 31- 25 (.554)
Note: In a couple tournaments in the early '70s, regionals were played Friday-Saturday. Those records are included above.

[John Harrell @JohnRHarrell]

In tournaments where teams played two games in one day, these are the records of first semifinal winners in night games:
All tournaments
Regionals 753-703 (.517)
Semistates 161-143 (.530)
State finals 28- 45 (.452)
Class era only
Regionals 166-154 (.519)
Semistates 31- 25 (.554)
Note: In a couple tournaments in the early '70s, regionals were played Friday-Saturday. Those records are included above.

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The Summit Conference was the only league to have 3 sectional champions, and all 3 (Snider, Homestead and Luers) also won regionals. The Hoosier Heritage, Mid-Southern, Northeast 8, Southwestern Indiana and Wabash River all had 2 regional champs.
https://t.co/Z45uuIVLQD

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New Albany won its 19th regional. Delta and Parke Heritage won their 4th straight. Decatur Central, New Haven, Northridge and Tri-County all won their first. North Vermillion won its first since 1969 and Triton Central its first since 1989.
https://t.co/j4EbdtDpFm

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There are still eight more results to get, but here are my picks for semistate sites: Elkhart 4A, Muncie 3A, Logansport 2A and Lafayette 1A in the North, and New Castle 4A, Southport 3A, Seymour 2A and Washington 1A in the South. And I'll be shocked if I'm right.

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Last week's 17.7 average winning margin was the 4th highest margin ever in sectional play and the highest since 1918, when the margin was 18.4. Other years topping this year's margin were 1917 (20.4) and 1915 (18.6), the first year of sectionals. The last year of single-class sectionals, 1997, it was 13.3, although that was an anomaly; in 1996 it was 15.4.

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In the class era, Gary 21st Century's 93.0 scoring average last week was the fifth highest in a sectional, trailing Bowman's 102.67 (in both 2010 and 2014), Blackhawk's 102.3 (2019) and Reitz's 94.3 (2015). Next high was Cathedral's 92.0 last week. 21st Century and Cathedral have the only two sectional scoring averages over 85 in the running-clock era.

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@JP8185 He was lights out.

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Larger schools in enrollment had a sizeable edge in boys' 3A sectionals last week and a solid edge in the other 3 classes.
LARGER SCHOOLS' RECORD
Class 4A: 37- 29, .561
Class 3A: 53- 31, .631
Class 2A: 47- 37, .560
Class 1A: 61- 45, .575
Overall 198-142, .582

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I put out this list of teams snapping tournament losing streaks of 4 or more games after Wednesday's games, saying some teams could be added Friday. Well, Seymour snapped an 8-game string, Lowell 7, Sheridan 5 and even Carmel 4 Friday. Carmel's losing streak came on the heels of a 16-game winning streak. Carmel, and well as Blackhawk and Silver Creek, won state titles in 2019 and 2021 and also won a sectional in 2020 before that tournament was suspended by Covid, running up long winning streaks.
https://t.co/6dc57zjR8Y

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BOYS' TOURNAMENT DATA
New Albany won its 54th sectional, Bloomfield its 37th, Princeton its 36th, Bosse its 34th Batesville its 33rd, Carmel its 32nd, Linton its 32nd and Columbia City its 30th. Blackhawk won its 9th straight, while Forest Park, 21st Century and Liberty Christian all won their 5th straight.
https://t.co/i3ItzxLP7k
Pike had a 7-0 record against other sectional champions during the season. Terre Haute North was 7-1, Crown Point 6-1, Silver Creek 6-1 and Mount Vernon 6-2.
https://t.co/h69xiOPSjZ
The Summit Conference was the only league to produce three sectional champs:
https://t.co/lFo8qiHydK
Regular-season scores involving possible class opponents down the road:
https://t.co/H9jTHiBD4I