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TCCAA Week 4 Preview: Volunteer State travels to Chattanooga to take on the Tigers. The Pioneers are hitting .271 as a team so they have to take advantage of each scoring opportunity due to Chattanooga's potent offense. Ranked ninth in the country in bavg at .351, the Tigers will put a lot of pressure on your defense. Casey Mannion and Aaron Wright, both hitting over .400 lead the Tiger "O".  Chatt skipper Greg Dennis had this to say about Vol, "Playing Volunteer State is always a difficult task as Coach Crossland and his staff do a wonderful job of preparing his guys and putting an extremely talented team on the field.  Year-in and Year-out they have had the most consistent pitching in the conference and some of the most dynamic offenses since I have been here.  We will have to play sparkling defensively and pitch it really well to contend as well as compete at the plate." The Tigers will send Tyler McClure, Tyler Troutt (5-1, 1.73) and Colton Kinnamon to the mound this weekend. Mike Crossland added this about the series, "They (Chatt) are always very fundamentally sound and put a lot of pressure on your defense.  Their starting pitching is one of the top rotations in the league as well as the back end of their bullpen.  In saying that, the Pioneers will have their hands full going on the road with the way we have been playing as of late.  We simply have to play better to have any shot of gaining success this weekend in Choo Choo town"... Motlow travels to Columbia to take on the Chargers. CSCC legend and Hall of Fame coach, Jim Painter, will have his jersey retired on Saturday between games of the scheduled DH. Stafford Booth (.422/5/19) leads the Buck offense averaging almost 6 runs a game. The Chargers counter that, averaging 6.7 runs while only hitting 3 HR in 19 games. These games could be very high scoring if the pitching doesn't step up this weekend. Dan McShea had this to say about the Chargers, "We have put ourselves in a tough situation.  We are in a must win situation every weekend to try to make it into the tournament this year.  Columbia is always a very tough team to play against and they are even better at home.  Mike Corn has done a great job at Columbia and we will have to play our best to have a chance.  They have some very good pitching and their style of baseball keeps the pressure on you all weekend.  We need to play heads up baseball.  We picked a tough weekend to try to get on a roll but that is what we must do." The Bucks send Brandon Reynolds, Josh Hopkins and Chevis Hooper to the hill this weekend. Coach Corn added this about Motlow, "Motlow and Columbia have had a great rivalry dating back to the 70’s.  Coach McShea and the Bucks have always hit well against us and have an outstanding weekend rotation.  I hope for each game to be competitive and go right down to the wire if we can play our best baseball.  If we don’t, the Chargers will be signing the blues, Marty Robbins style.  Regardless of what happens on the field, we will be retiring Coach Painter’s jersey on Saturday between games so I hope the everyone in the area can come out and pay tribute to one of the good guys in this game.“ Columbia will send Lucas Laster, David Horne in the first two games and are undecided about game three at this time... Roane Raiders travel to Cleveland to take on the Cougars. Roane has struggled for years to compete at the top level of the conference. David Lane has made steady improvement in the quality of player on the field in his short time as head coach of the program. That being said, Roane St. is not there yet, but they will battle and play as hard as anyone in the league. That makes the Raiders dangerous to any team not ready to play. Head Coach Dave Lane had this to say about the series, "We have to keep coming to the ball park with the goal of winning each game.  I have told our players that this must be their attitude everyday, or they are simply wasting everyone's time. We have to go to Cleveland this weekend and we better be ready.  We are digging ourselves a hole that is getting tougher and tougher to get out of as time goes on. Things can still work out for us, but we have to step up our performance, especially on the road." Coach Lane will send Logan Hicks, Nathan Baker and Isaac Carr to the mound this weekend. Cleveland has one of the top offense's in the conference with Chase Edwards (.413/3/21) leading the way. Roane's team bavg is .240 and the Raider offense has been feast of famine, so the Cougars pitching has to throw strikes to win. The Raiders hope to continue the trend as Cleveland is only 2-4 at home in conference play this season. Cougar skipper Mike Policastro had this to say about the series, " Roane State comes to Cleveland for the weekend with both team needing wins to move up in the conference standings. After picking up wins with Columbia and Chattanooga shows how dangerous they can be. As we try to find a way  to click in all three phases in conference play, we will have to grind out games and try to put ourselves in a situation to be successful. We have not taken advantage of playing at home this year, hopefully we will be able to turn it around this weekend." The Cougars will send Brandon Zajac, jeb Scoggins and Thomas Huddleston to the bump this weekend. Southwest TN makes the short trip to Dyersburg to take on Robert White's Eagles. SW has won only 3 of their last 12 games and have hit .234 this year as a team. Dyersburg on the other hand has been averaging over 6 runs per game and hitting .300 as a team. The Dyersburg skipper had this to say about the series this week, “Coach Sikes has done a remarkable job turning the Saluqui’s into a contender once again.  Southwest is playing solid and I look for this series to be tough.  They play extremely hard and have a high energy team.  For us to have any success against them, we are going to have to be much more consistent at the plate.”  Dburg will send Ronnie Herndon, Lee Haeberle and Jonathan Moody to the mound this weekend. While Dyersburg doesn't run as much as SW, the Eagles counter with the ability to draw walks and but the ball in play to move runners. SW asst. Chris Chrenshaw had this to say about the series, "Big weekend series! I'm sure Coach White will have his boys amped and ready to go! Good pitching, timely hits and solid defense will be the key for us to have a chance against DBurg State this weekend." Southwest will send Justin Skinner, Miguel Coronel and Zac Buzzard to the mound... Walters will travel to Jackson to tangle with the Generals... Walters continues to keep on keepin' on, as usual. Jackson's offense has been explosive over the past few weeks and the match-up between General hitters and Senator pitchers will be the key to this series. Walters St. Asst. coach Dave Shelton had this to say about this week's series, "Their lineup is loaded with dangerous hitters. And their starting pitchers do a great job of throwing strikes and forcing contact, which is a big key in this league. We have been a picture of inconsistency this season on offense. For us to compete this weekend, we must be swing the bats like we are capable as well as play good defense." Walters will send Taylor Patterson, Josh Peterson and Jay Gause to the mound this weekend. First year General HC, Tyson Malik, said this about the series, "We are still trying to learn how to prepare ourselves mentally for each game.  There are games where we compete every pitch, but there are others where we have some lapses.  If we can get in the right mindset, we will have a chance against a really good Walters State team who have been playing well.  Their arms keep them in every game, and if we give them extra outs it could get ugly.  Hopefully we can build off of our success last weekend." Zach Tompkins has exploded at the plate in conference play, hitting .465 in 6 TCCAA contests. Juan Rivera and Kane Barrow are hitting over .400 for the Generals this season. Coach Malik will send Patrick McGrath and Colton Harris to the hill in the first two games. He is undecided at this time on game 3 right now...