>>November 4th and round one playoff action is quickly approaching. With just three weeks remaining in the regular season there are some tight races in both Class AA and A that could come down to the last week to determine critical playoff seedings.
>>The Leake Academy Lady Rebels just won their second consecutive Class AA softball state championship. The Lady Rebels also produced their second straight undefeated season going 36-0 after running up a perfect 34-0 mark last season. A big “Shout Out” to the Leake girls and their head coach Doug Jones.
>>Moving the softball season to the spring will be brought up at the October 20th AAC meeting. Pros to moving
*Weather not as warm
.*Opportunity to play non-MAIS teams
*Help Fall pressure on athletes for schools offering volleyball, dance team, cheerleading, girls soccer
.Cons to moving
*Not enough umpires; most of the umpires that call MAIS fast-pitch are also involved in MHSAA fast-pitch, baseball, and JUCO softball and baseball
*Would hurt track / tennis / golf
*Weather much worse in Spring
*Currently the MAIS is in the spotlight; college coaches are in their off-season and quite frequently come to watch MAIS athletes play.
>>Progress is being made in getting Southern Sports & Travel back up to full speed. There are still some issues to get worked out but things are on pace to be clicking 100% in a few weeks. Several schools contacted me offering help within a few days of announcing that the site would start back up. Big time thanks to those schools who support Southern Sports & Travel.
>>Several news publications and writers have been gracious enough to let me post their articles on Southern Sports & Travel. If you don’t see an article from a local publication that covers your area it’s due to me not getting approval yet or getting denied approval.
>>Thanks for reading Southern Sports & Travel.See ya somewhere……………..
