There was no time for Josh Gandy to celebrate Signal Mountain’s first trip to the TSSAA state baseball tournament.
The Eagles coach hurried home from a 3-0 Friday night sectional win at Sweetwater to begin hunting for transportation and hotel accommodations.
“Hotels are a little steep, aren’t they? You think they know something’s going on Murfreesboro this week?” he said.
Gandy, whose team opens this afternoon opposite 45-5 Christian Academy of Knoxville, wound up going to Franklin – 30-45 minutes from Murfreesboro – for his team headquarters. The Eagles will have plenty of room on their charter bus because all he could find given the short notice was a 50-seater.
As coaches are fond of saying as the postseason approaches, “The hay is in the barn,” so Gandy let his players have Saturday off before a batting-practice session Sunday evening.