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CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Pitching coach Jamie Tricoglou packed the District 6-AAA runner-up plaque in his bag before Soddy-Daisy left for its Region 3-AAA championship game at Walker Valley.

He wanted the Trojans to remember that less than a week ago here on Mike Turner Field they lost to Walker Valley.

They remembered, especially his pitching staff, which led the Trojans to a 2-1 victory and the team’s second region championship in Jared Hensley’s still-young head coaching tenure. The win also allowed Soddy-Daisy to even its record against Walker Valley at 2-2. It also gave the Trojans a home date Friday against Region 4 runner-up Tullahoma. Walker Valley, meanwhile, goes on the road to play at Columbia.

“This one is definitely the defining moment for our season,” Hensley told his team. “Brad Dotson did a great job. He was outstanding, unbelievable. He scattered four hits over 5 1/3 innings over a good hitting team.”

The run was charged to Dotson although the sacrifice fly came off reliever Ryan Johnson, who gave up a run-scoring sacrifice fly to Brandon Zajac that gave the Mustangs a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth.

Three outs from victory, though, Mustangs coach Joe Shamblin lifted his starter, Bobby Towne, who had matched Dotson pitch for pitch. Both had allowed only four hits and each struck out five.

With a runner on, he called for Zajac, who has excelled recently as a closer.

Damian DeMatteo led off with a bloop single to center off Towne and Jake Leffew greeted Zajac with a single, allowing Dalton Rogers to come to the plate with two on. The junior third baseman won the lefty-on-lefty dual, scorching a double down the left-field line that scored both runners.

“He’s definitely the guy you want up there in that situation. With runners in scoring position, he’s so smart, so level-headed,” Hensley said. “If anyone on the team deserves a moment like that it’s him. He has worked so hard. I bet he hit 300 balls every day last summer.”

Rogers didn’t let either Zajac’s reputation or his signature last fall on a University of Tennessee scholarship faze him.

“I see pitching like that every summer,” he said of the hard-throwing lefty. “But I love situations like that. It’s what you play. But, without a doubt, that’s my biggest hit of the year.”

Yet the game wasn’t over. Johnson, the Trojans’ closer, gave up a leadoff double to Colton Ward, which sent Hensley’s stomach rolling and lurching much as it had the first three innings when the Trojans were held without a hit.

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BALTIMORE – US Lacrosse has announced the 122-player tryout pool for the U.S. men’s national under-19 team that will travel to Turku, Finland, in 2012 for the Federation of International Lacrosse U19 World Championships. The tryouts will take place July 7-10, 2011, at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Catonsville, Md.

“We have assembled an excellent group of talented, strong players,” said Team USA Head Coach Tim Flynn. “It is a deep and versatile pool that will make the tryouts very competitive, and enable us to assemble an outstanding team to contend for the seventh-straight world championship title for the United States.”

Flynn (Mountain Lakes High School, N.J.) and assistant coaches Jack Crawford (Loyola Blakefield, Md.), Tom Duquette (Norfolk Academy, Va.) and Tom Rotanz (Shoreham-Wading River High School, N.Y.) will lead the selection of the final 23-man roster, which will be announced July 15.

This year, US Lacrosse received 273 high school and college applicants from 32 states for Team USA tryouts.

“This is a truly impressive group, including All-American, all-state, and all-conference players from all over the country,” said Nathaniel Badder, US Lacrosse director of national teams. “We had record interest in the team this year, and to whittle the pool down this far was challenging enough. Our final team selectors certainly have their work cut out for them.”

The 122-player tryout pool sorted by position and listed alphabetically by last name, school and graduation year:

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