Viburnum Lady Jays

[Bluejaypureblood]

Back to back district titles! Congrats to Coach Payne and the girls.

 

[mohsbballfan]

That is a nice accomplishment, but they lucked out to be in a really weak district. It's even luckier when you consider how good the three districts around them are. Viburnum came in as the #1 seed at 12-11 but then look at these districts right by them.

District 2= #1 Neelyville 21-4, #2 Alton 16-7, #3 Greenville 15-10, #4 Van Buren 18-8
District 4= #1 Clopton 21-4
District 9= #1 Crocker 22-2, # 2 Stoutland 15-3, #3 Hartville 20-6, #4 Plato 15-10, #5 Newburg, #6 Richland 14-11

Not to rain on Viburnum's success, but their district compared to district 2 and 9 is about as good an argument you can make for having both teams in district championship games move on to the state playoffs. The winner of a district plays the 2nd place team from its opposite district. I don't necessarily know if that would be better, but having seen several of the teams mentioned above including Viburnum, I can confidently say that Viburnum would have gotten crushed in any of those districts near them. Really all across middle and southern Missouri they would have lost badly. I don't know the north well enough, but I can't help but feel a little bad for those district 2 and 9 teams that are getting bounced, in the first round sometimes, while they could easily win Viburnum's district.

 

[justwonderingNkc]

Clopton by 30

 

[Bluejaypureblood]

Ah, I hear what your saying but that's not the girls from Viburnum's fault or those teams that didn't win a district. It is what it is and it happens every year in classes 1-5. I was just congratulating a set of girls and a good guy on winning districts because at the end of the day, the banner still goes on the wall regardless to the strength or weakness of the district. Good luck to all

 

[mohsbballfan]

You are definitely right, you can only play who is put in front of you. It is a nice accomplishment, just really unlucky for some other teams.