An era came to an end at Cornersville High School on Monday night when longtime softball coach Spencer Mitchell announced his retirement from coaching during the team's awards banquet at Cornersville Methodist Church. Mitchell has served as CHS' softball coach for a total of 16 years during two separate stints. After helping found Cornersville's softball program in 1989, Mitchell coached the Lady Bulldogs until 1992 before handing over the reins to Connie Campbell for the next six years... more

In Thursday night's Babe Ruth League nightcap at Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Field, winless Nichirin (0-5) was on the verge of getting off the snide until A Plus manager Dan Pickle lit a fire under his ballclub that sent the collision center crew off to a five-run sixth inning that put them over the top in an 8-4 win. With the win, A Plus (3-2) moved into a second place tie with Marshall Medical Center with three weeks remaining in the regular season schedule. more

Just two weeks into the 2011 Babe Ruth League season, a critical match-up pitted the undefeated first place Elks versus second Marshall Medical Center (MMC), and for four and a half innings the ballgame was tight until a nine-run home at bat by the Elks dealt the medical center crew a crucial blow in a 13-3 run-rule defeat Thursday night. more

A Plus shortstop Grayson Wiles kicked off Tuesday night's Babe Ruth action in a big way, slamming the league's first home run of the year to lead his squad to a hard fought 8-7 win over the Farm Center of Chapel Hill. Game two was not close as second place Marshall Medical Center (MMC) kept pace with the number one Elks via a 23-9 shellacking over winless Nichirin. more

On Tuesday night in 12U Cal Ripken girls action, the orange clad Cornersville TDS squad won 10-3 in four innings, avoiding an upset attempt by Apex from Chapel Hill to remain one game back of first place H&H Communications as the season schedule winds down to next week's games. more

Coming off a heartbreaking 5-4 defeat to Decatur County the previous evening, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs (24-18) saw their stellar playoff run come to an end on Friday morning when they lost 3-2 in eight innings to the Grace Baptist Academy Lady Golden Eagles in the Class A State Tournament loser's bracket final... more

After a three hour and fifteen minute rain delay, it took Will Sparks and Cameron Dickerson from the Christian Academy of Knoxville (CAK) less than an hour to hand the Marshall County Tigers' double team of Connor Kennedy and Justin Killian a season ending, (1-6, 0-6) loss in the quarterfinals of the TSSAA Blue Cross Spring Fling Tennis Tournament... more

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs (24-16) entered uncharted territory on Wednesday night when they thrashed the Marion County Lady Warriors 8-0 at the Starplex in Murfreesboro to advance to the third round of the Class A State Tournament winner's bracket for the first time ever... more

Despite being forced to take a more treacherous route, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs are once again traveling to Murfreesboro in late May after they rallied to defeat Region 5-A champ East Robertson 4-3 on the road in the sectional round of the playoffs to qualify for the Class A State Tournament... more

The Lewisburg Elks scored five times in the first inning versus Marshall Medical Center (MMC) in Monday night's second game on opening night of the 2011 Babe Ruth League season and starting pitcher Aaron Hobbs, with some solid help from reliever Jacob Graves made it stand up in a 5-1 win. more

A Plus Collision Center and Nichirin kicked off the 2011 Babe Ruth season Monday night at the Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Memorial Field and the body shop boys took some dents, but had enough tools in the drawer to bang out a convincing 9-7 victory. more

Up in Music City on Tuesday, a familiar tune of true grit was heard meandering and floating around the Sequoia Swim and Tennis Club in Nashville as the Marshall County Tigerettes took on the undefeated and reigning state champion Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) Lady Lions in the Section 3A/AA Team tennis final. more

Despite being forced to take a more treacherous route, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs are once again traveling to Murfreesboro in late May after they rallied to defeat Region 5-A champ East Robertson 4-3 on the road in the Sectional round of the playoffs to qualify for the Class A State Tournament. Coming off a disappointing 6-4 loss to Richland in the Region 6-A title game two days earlier, CHS had their backs shoved against the wall early on by the Lady Indians and trailed 3-0 through the first three innings of play. more

The Marshall County High School tennis program took another giant step at the Region 6A-AA Tournament at Old Fort Park in Murfreesboro on Tuesday adding some more success to their already storied history as both doubles' teams punched a ticket to next week's Spring Fling. "It's awesome," said MCHS head coach Dickie Adkins. "I knew we had the talent to do it. We faced two really good teams in the finals and we came to play today." more

It was a valiant effort but the Marshall County Tigers were simply outmanned in a 7-3 loss to host Columbia Academy in the Region 6 A/AA semi-finals on Monday night. The Bulldogs (15-2-1), the District 8 A/AA Champions, were first on the board on a goal by Kade Morgan on a penalty kick at the 22:11 mark in the first half. more

Not since 1997 (Huntland) has another ballclub made the trek to Chapel Hill and beaten Forrest in a region opening match-up, but on Tuesday, the Houston County Lady Irish ended that streak and put a halt to a five-year state tournament run for the Lady Rockets in a 1-0 win. Forrest head coach Becky Cheatham said, "After the game I told the girls in 1997, we felt then what we feel now about what happened on our field and we made a commitment and we came back and they got better. I believe these girls will do that too." more

The Forrest Rocket football team hosted their first annual golf tournament Saturday at the picturesque Buford Ellington Golf Course in Henry Horton State Park under some ever changing weather conditions. In the end, the team of Jason Adkins, Justin Miller, John Summers, and Tommy "Bogie" Enoch took home top honors, shooting a twenty under par score of 52. more

There air was heavy with playoff atmosphere in Lawrence County Monday night in the first round of the Region 6-A Tournament and the two combatants, Cornersville and two time Class-A state champion Summertown played to the last breath with the host Eagles winning a 1-0 heart stopper. "There is no shame in that," said Cornersville head coach Ben Putman. "That (Summertown) is a great baseball team. That is a fantastic baseball team and we gave them a run for their money for sure." more

Fifth-seeded Community had its opportunities to upset No. 2 seed Forrest in a District 9-A losers' bracket contest Monday just as it did the final week of the regular season. However, the breaks simply didn't lean in the Vikings' favor in a 6-3 season-ending loss. more

Early on, Forrest junior Brooke Herron did not get much run support from her Lady Rocket teammates, but Herron did not need much help in the 6-0 win as she tossed a complete game two-hit shutout over host Eagleville in the first round of the District 9-A Tournament. Herron took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before Eagleville's Mandy Millard singled up the middle with one out. more