Meigs County took the long road on its way to Murfreesboro and the Tennessee baseball championships.
McCallie, the other Chattanooga-area baseball team in the Spring Fling, enters the Division II-AA tournament with a 30-5 record and the state’s top ranking. The Blue Tornado will play Brentwood Academy in a 5 p.m. EDT semifinal today at Wilson Central High School.
The Tigers, who’ll play at the same time at Middle Tennessee Christian as part of the eight-team Class A field, have gotten used to being on the road. They haven’t played in Decatur since dropping the District 3 tournament championship to Knoxville’s Grace Christian.
In the region semis, they went to Coalfield and beat the District 4 winner 5-0 before suffering a fifth loss to Grace Christian in the region title game. But the Tigers advanced to the state tournament with a 2-0 sectional win at South Greene.
Meigs, which is 27-10 for coach Tyler Roberts, will play touted Loretto (37-7) today.