[dawgeers]

I thought they've had quite a few injuries? The Shepherd kid didn't have a chance to get through high school without Tommy John. Once you start throwing a kid in 7th grade that hasn't fully developed physically and is still growing, and he is throwing 100 or more pitches a week off the mound from March until late fall, he's going to have problems. There needs to be a better system to protect these kids from things of that nature.

I get that the 15th region doesn't have many that throw hard, and all the ones that do happen to be on two teams in the same district. LC doesn't have the pitching staff to be competitive with them. Even if the Cantrall kid does start pitching, it could take him the full season before he's throwing at max velocity again? I hope they were smarter in the rehab with him than they were throwing him? I'd hate to see another Lawrence County kid have his sports career tampered with because his best interest are not being thought of? I would rather give up an extra 10 losses a year if it meant prolonging a kid's career.

You have NO CLUE what you are talking about so please stop. As a 7th and 8th grader, Shepherd did NOT throw 100 pitches each outing. Please stop lying. His injury occurred during the summer while he was pitching for the Midland team out of Ohio. The Cantrell injury had nothing to do with pitch counts either. He had maybe 30 innings of pitching under his belt before the injury. So, how is that "overpitching"? He never threw very hard anyways, maybe mid 70's.