Munford baseball ends 13-year state tournament drought

Thirteen years ago, Scotty Yount and Jeff Munier were assistant baseball coaches at Olive Branch. Coincidentally, 2004 was the last time Munford made a state baseball tournament. And now the Cougars are going back to the ‘Boro after Yount’s starter Corey Simmons held his good friend’s team Collierville to just two hits in a 6-0 AAA sectional victory Friday at Munford. “We’ve talked about one day what it would be like to maybe play each other with a chance to go to the state tournament,” Yount said. “I think probably most people thought it would be Collierville.” The perception may be in part due to Munford’s 21-16 record. But — as Yount points out — the Cougars “ran through a gauntlet” that should make them very competitive when the…

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