Rebels Make It to South State Finals
Well, the George County High School Rebels baseball team has done it - they have made it to the South State Championships amidst scandal. They were able to defeat the Harrison Central Red Rebels 7-6 in eight innings. Per The Sun Herald:
The victory vaults George County, (20-12), into the South State finals next Saturday at 7 p.m. where they travel to Oak Grove to take on the Warriors.
"We have started to play well the past few weeks," George County coach Ronnie Powell said. "I am very proud of the way our guys responded today."
And there is still no resolution to the genital-photo-taking issue. Plainly the local school board and school administration is waiting until the baseball season is over to do anything to the boys who ("allegedly") sexually assaulted their teammate. Although an "investigation" was launched, the George County High School principal Paul Wallace has said that the investigation has turned up no evidence of anything other than horseplay. That per a Sun Herald article on April 23…Don’t you love local politics?
I just wanted to comment on the assault of the George Co Baseball Manager. My neice attends GCH and she said that there was no truth to the allegations. Some talk in the community indicates that the manager’s mom has blown this out of propotion and made something out of nothing. My neice also said that if anyone has ever had pictures of anything funny, interesting or news worthy that the kids circulate the phone photos pretty fast, but she said that there had been no photos whatsoever sent to other kids in the school of this young man. I think that the coach isnt addressing the issue because nothing happened not because they are waiting to finish the championship competition. I know one of the coaches personally and he is a fine upstanding man who would in no way tolerate such behaviour from his team.
Very good point! I’m glad you bring that up. It’s good to hear from someone who has direct access to the students. I think that if it has been blown way out of proportion, something should be done about that.
I would just like to say that if there was horseplay going on, pretty active horseplay as is suggested, then that could be potentially distracting to the bus driver also. I think a stop should have been put to that, at least.
And as an update to my original post, I would also like to say that I have good word from some people that know this family directly and say that the manager is pretty much a troublemaker. So it is very possible that this has been blown way out of proportion.
I just hope this gets resolved quietly and I’m sure that the school administrators are doing what they should.