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Lost: the SWAC Tournament. Actually, it was just overlooked. It was played this week, somewhere in Baton Rouge. It’s still going on, in fact. The three Mississippi schools were there, though two have been sent home. Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State, both of which seemed to have a chance at winning the event and making the NCAAs, are done, while Alcorn State remains alive today. The Braves, led by the savvy baseball veteran Rat McGowan, are to face Texas Southern in an elimination game. Don’t know much about the Braves. They’ve got two pretty good hitters, numbers-wise, in Jabari Graham and Eduardo Gonzales. And they picked a good time of the year to be clutch. Maybe we’ll see them in the Oxford Regional.
P.S. Amazing. There’s really no other word for it. With the debuts of Kris Medlen and Diory Hernandez with the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, the number of Mississippi Braves alumni advancing to The Show stands at 37. In less than five full years! Fans at Trustmark Park may not fully realize the quantity and quality of talent they have seen since the park opened in Pearl. And to think, there’s another big wave of talent on the way very soon. … From the That’s Cool Dept.: Former Ole Miss stars Chris Coghlan and Matt Tolbert hit their first big league homers within a five-day span of each other this week.