The Marshall County Tigers' playoff run came to an end on Monday night when they lost 8-6 to the Montgomery Central Indians at home in the first round of the Region 6-AA tournament. Having won 14 of their last 15 games, the Tigers (26-10) appeared to be in control of Monday's contest and held a 5-2 lead through the first five innings of play. Things went awry for Marshall County after that point, as the Indians crossed home plate six times over the next two innings to seize an 8-5 advantage before staving off a last ditch rally attempt by the Tigers in the bottom of the seventh. more

On Thursday night, the Marshall County Tigers captured their first District tournament title on the pitch when they pulled out a dramatic 4-3 comeback victory over the Summit Spartans in the championship game at Forrest High School behind a stellar performance from senior striker Andres Acosta. Although MCHS had defeated Summit 7-2 in their lone regular season encounter, the Spartans were coming off a stunning 3-2 upset win over top seeded Page in the tournament semifinals two days early and jumped out to a 3-1 lead midway through the first half of Thursday's contest. more

The Marshall County Tigerettes' doubles team of Sarah Tietgens and Lauren Blackmon battled to a three-set (6-3, 3-6, 6-4) win over Hickman County's Clea Harrelson and Kendra Beard in the first round of the Region 6A-AA Tournament at Columbia Academy on Monday, setting up a classic three-set match versus archrival Page for the region title and a berth in the Blue Cross Spring Fling. The MCHS duo took on Lady Patriot netters MaKenna Hart and Brenna Minyard in the title match and every point the entire way was contested by both squads before Page prevailed in three sets (6-7 (9-11) 6-2, 6-3). more

On Thursday night at Reese Hambrick Field in Lewisburg, the Marshall County Tigerettes needed just one win to take the District 12-AA Tournament title away from longtime foe Lewis County, and just like in the past, when these two teams meet, anything can happen. The Tigerettes would eventually seize the title in a 10-5 win in game two, but the road to victory was as wild and whacky as many have witnessed in a long time. more

Forrest hosted Jo Byrns at the Field of Dreams on Monday night in the Region 5-A Tournament opener and the District 9-A champion Lady Rockets brought out some heavy lumber in a big 10-2 win, securing a berth in the region final and in the Class A sectional round on Friday night. In the process, the Lady Rockets buried a long lasting bad dream from last year's 1-0 loss to Houston County in the first round of the region tournament. "We are not done yet," said Forrest head coach Becky Cheatham. "We got rid of one, but we still got some more to get rid of." more

Region Tournament Schedules Softball MONDAY 3-AAA: White Co. at Soddy Daisy, 6:00; Walker Valley at Coffee Co., 7:00 4-AAA: Shelbyville at Riverdale, 6:00; Smyrna at Lincoln Co., 7:00 5-AAA: Northeast at Beech, 6:00; Mt. Juliet at Clarksville, 7:00 6-AAA: McGavock at Ravenwood, 5:00; Brentwood vs. Overton, 6:00 at Whitfield Park 4-AA: Bledsoe Co. at Upperman, 6:00; DeKalb Co. at Sequatchie Co., 6:00 5-AA: M.L. King at Goodpasture, 4:30; White House at David Lipscomb, 5:00 6-AA: Lewis Co. at Creek Wood, 5:00; Camden at Marshall Co., 5:30 4-A: Watertown at Clay Co., 6:00; Clarkrange at Friendship, 6:00 5-A: Jo Byrns at Forrest, 6:30; Moore Co. at East Robertson, 7:00 6-A: Collinwood at Richland, 6:00; Columbia Acad. at Summertown, 7:00 more

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs (11-11) turned in a valiant effort, but saw their season come to an end on Wednesday night when they suffered a heartbreaking 12-11 defeat in 10 innings to Columbia Academy (19-14) in the losers bracket finals of the District 11-A tournament at Mt. Pleasant High School. After watching the lead change hands three times through the first six innings of play, the Lady Bulldogs held a 10-8 advantage heading into the bottom of the seventh before CA scored two runs in the frame to knot the game at 10-10. more

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs (11-10) advanced to the loser's bracket finals of the District 11-A tournament by defeating the Culleoka Lady Warriors 10-3 on Tuesday night at Mt. Pleasant High School after overcoming an early three-run deficit. Culleoka jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, before the Lady Bulldogs battled back and held a 4-3 advantage at the end of the fourth inning. Cornersville then put the game out of reach by pushing across six more runs over the next two frames to claim their 12th straight victory over the Lady Warriors. more

The Marshall County Tigers (24-9) advanced to the District 12-AA championship game for the second straight year by defeating the Summit Spartans 4-2 at home on Monday afternoon in the finals of their four team pool. Having won the first three meetings against Summit (12-16) this season, the Tigers got off to a strong start and held a 4-0 lead through the first three innings of play before staving off a couple of Spartan rally attempts over the final four frames. more

On Monday night, the Marshall County Tigerettes (21-10) clinched a spot in the District 12-AA tournament championship game by defeating the second seeded East Hickman Lady Eagles 7-3 at home in the third round of the tourney. Despite losing to MCHS twice during the regular season and being without the services of their top pitcher Emily Robb, who had surgery last week, East Hickman (22-12) appeared to be on the verge of knocking off Marshall County on Monday and held a 3-2 lead through the first five innings of play. more

On Tuesday night, the Marshall County Tigers (25-9) captured their first District tournament title in four years when they beat three-time defending champ Spring Hill 3-2 at home thanks to some late game heroics from senior catcher Brandon Bush. Although MCHS had swept the season series against the Raiders (28-7), the two teams were locked in a 2-2 tie through the first six and a half innings of play. Bush, though, broke the stalemate in the bottom of the seventh inning by driving in Aaron Hobbs with a two-out RBI double to give the Tigers the District 12-AA crown. more

The Cascade Lady Champions took an early 3-0 lead at Forrest Tuesday night in a District 9-A winner's bracket match-up, but the Lady Rockets chipped away at the lead before exploding for 10 runs in the fourth inning to run-rule the Wartrace girls 14-4 in five innings. "I really didn't expect that, so I am very, very excited for that to happen" said FHS head coach Becky Cheatham after the game. "I expected a very close game." more

The third-seeded Marshall County Tigers posted their second consecutive 5-0 shutout, blanking second seeded Community Tuesday on the pitch at Forrest in the semifinals of the District 11A-AA Soccer Tournament. "We expected to come in here and do this," said MCHS head coach Lisa Raffo. "We practiced really hard and practice pays off. The Community team played really well this season, so our hard work paid off in beating a good team." With the win, the Tigers clinched a berth in the Region Tournament for the third year in a row and will take on fourth seeded Summit in the finals Thursday night at 5 p.m. in Chapel Hill. more

The dominance continues for the Forrest Lady Rockets over their District 9-A opponents as they pulled off a clean sweep of the district tournament, winning all three games they played by a combined score of 31-4, capped off by an 8-0 win over upstart Moore County in the title clincher Wednesday night at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill. "That was pretty convincing and I am very pleased about that," said Forrest head coach Becky Cheatham after the game. "It was truly a team effort." The Raiderettes reached the finals with a last-inning, 4-3 come-from-behind win over Cascade in the loser's bracket final. more

Coming off a disappointing 8-6 loss to Columbia Academy in the second round of the District 11-A tournament three days earlier, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs prolonged their stay in the playoffs by defeating tourney host Mt. Pleasant 12-2 in six innings on Monday night in the loser's bracket. Having outscored Mt. Pleasant 20-1 in their two regular season encounters, the Lady Bulldogs (10-10) continued to feast on Lady Tiger pitching and pounded out 11 hits against starting hurler Ciara Cates to go along with seven walks. more

On Saturday, the Marshall County Tigers (23-9) moved within one win of advancing to the District 12-AA tournament championship game by hammering the fifth seeded Summit Spartans 14-0 in five innings at home in the second round. After scoring 10 runs against Fairview the previous night, the Tigers continued to swing hot bats on Saturday and banged out 11 hits against Summit starting pitcher Jordan Kelley and reliever Sean Samuels to go along with six walks and two Spartan errors. more

The Marshall County Tigers (22-9) guaranteed themselves a spot in the Region 6-AA tourney by defeating the eighth seeded Fairview Yellow Jackets 10-5 at home on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the District 12-AA tourney. Needing just one win in the District tournament to qualify for the Region, the Tigers had little trouble disposing of Fairview and held a 10-1 lead through the first six innings of play before coasting to the five-run victory. more

After pulling out a hard fought 3-1 win over Forrest during the regular season, the Marshall County Tigers (11-4-2) knocked their county rivals out of the playoffs on Friday afternoon by defeating the Rockets 5-0 at home in the quarterfinals of the District 11-A-AA tournament behind a dominant second half performance. Forrest (3-8) hung tough early on and battled MCHS to a 0-0 tie through much of the first half. The Tigers, however, seized the momentum by tallying a goal late in the opening stanza to take a 1-0 lead into the break before scoring four times in the first 16 minutes of the second half to cruise to their fourth straight victory over the Rockets. more

The Marshall County Tigerettes (19-10) looked the part of a number one seed on Thursday afternoon, as they crushed the Summit Lady Spartans 10-0 in six innings at home in the first round of the District 12-AA tournament. Having narrowly defeated Summit 4-3 in their previous encounter on April 19, the Tigerettes beat the eighth seeded Lady Spartans (3-20) into submission by pounding out 13 hits to go along with three walks and a hit batsman. Summit also committed four errors to aid MCHS' cause. more

Once again, the Forrest Lady Rockets lost another key player, and once again they picked her up as senior Brooke Herron took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before settling for a one-hit, 15 strikeout complete game victory at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill on Saturday in the second round of the District 9-A Tournament. Forrest is without the services of two major players in Katie Warrick, who broke her leg on April 4, and now sophomore Sara Jordan may be lost for the remainder of the season with a health related issue. more