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Meet the new Tigers baseball coach
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Coach Tracy Slone
With freezing temps and the constant threat of winter weather, it’s hard to think about the boys of summer. But the DeKalb County High School baseball season is right around the corner, and the DeKalb Tigers have a new head man in the dugout.With the departure of long-time head coach Scott Odom, Tigers’ fans will see a new face in the head coaching position, Tracy Slone. Slone was the head baseball coach at Lincoln County High School for 11 years, the head coach at Lebanon High School for seven years, and for the past two years he was an assistant coach at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro, where his son is a senior.Coach Slone said he is new to coaching at the AA level, having been at AAA schools during his career, but he plans to up the ante for DeKalb, increasing the competition level.