Better late than never, but the Daniel Boone baseball team finally got some much-deserved respect in the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association Top 10.
Winning best-of-3 series against Science Hill and Dobyns-Bennett evidently wasn’t enough, even though both teams were ranked in last week’s TBCA Class 4A top 10.
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