I don’t know whose idea it was to split up baseball and softball (and for that matter, volleyball) into four classes, but it just isn’t working for me.

It’s nice that more teams will get a championship; I’m all for that. But these regional assignments look like they were made out by the president of Exxon.

Virginia/A-C Central softball is going to Edinburg; I don’t even know where that is (OK, I could find it on a map — I’m good at that — but I’ve never been there). And this is Virginia, which got the No. 1 seed in its sectional. If I get the No. 1 seed in my sectional, I think I’d deserve to play a little closer to home. Virginia does host a sectional, so maybe it’ll all even out.

How about Triopia? The softball team is headed to Astoria (again, no idea where it is), and the baseball team, seeded No. 2 in its sectional, is headed out to Mount Pulaski. That’s a nice little ride in the country.

I won’t even go into the trek we made to southern Illinois to cover the Greenfield volleyball team in sectionals last fall.

There has to be a better solution than this. What it is, I don’t know. But I can complain, can’t I?

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