Delta State’s baseball team didn’t fool around last Sunday in the Division II College Baseball World Series.

Of course, DSU won on a Central Missouri error in the 10th inning, but since I’m biased I say the best team won.

Since I ordinarily write my column Tuesday mornings I couldn’t hang around for more, but I was so glad Delta State got off to a good start, I flopped down before my old (and I mean &8220;old&8221;) Underwood Monday to have my happy say for the Delta State team that has done so well on the baseball field.

Mississippi college sports &045; they can’t be topped. Yep, biased again, but I’m not far off on our Mississippi quality, I don’t care what you say. Our athletes can pass and kick a football as good as anybody; play that roundball with just about any of ’em and measure up in the classroom as well.

I have some other things I want to write about, so let me get with it.

First, I want to salute Cathedral’s Green Wave, the fine baseball team that defeated Houlka 7-4 last week in the deciding state championship game at Pontotoc. Wow. This town is agog, and that includes me. State champions.

Having gone through quite a few times like this over the years, I know how the Democrat’s

Chuck Corder

must have felt when coach Craig Beesley’s Green Wavers played marvelously up in Pontotoc while he was eyeballing them. More fun that way, honest.

I was taken with Chuck’s &8220;prose,&8221; knowing from experience how much better it felt reporting a state championship win rather than a loss. Funny thing, you want to report as well as you can, but if your team finished on top it’s easier reporting. More fun talkin’ it, too.

Of course the coach has to have the players, but you still have to coach them in tight places, and that’s what coach Beesley did for his CHS ball club. A state championship is special indeed, and Coach Beesley and his Greenies just happen to be special to all of us.

Hurried Hash

Ole Miss entertains Alabama in football next season. I guess Ole Miss counts it as a plus just about anytime they can get a team to come up there to a place that sure enough is out of the way. Not slamming Oxford now, and I mean it.

Cathedral did so well in baseball this season, I must have further say on behalf of Coach Craig Beesley, a baseball man if there ever was one.

Back to the Greenies, they excited the fans in attendance as well as the ones who later read about it in The Democrat.

Pontotoc never saw it so good, and it all came down to a close play at the plate. Hey, the excitement was furnished by a little ole &8216;Catholic’ team from way down in Natchez. Go, Greenies.

I know how it is sometimes when you and your team visit other towns for games. And the real fun this time has to be writing about coach Beesley and his Green Wavers, ’cause there was no way I could travel to Pontotoc at this time.

Congratulations, Wave. This is fun, you know it?

Glenvall Estes is a longtime columnist for The Natchez Democrat.