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The Marshall County Tigers broke their longest losing streak in 32 years, coming away with a huge 35-0 road win at East Hickman Friday night. Marshall County scored 14 points in each of the first two quarters to take a commanding 28-0 halftime lead...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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10/13/09
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The Forrest Lady Rocket seniors wanted to win their final regular season game at Cascade Tuesday night, real bad. At stake was fourth place and a home game in the first round of the District 11A-AA Tournament, beginning next Thursday. But the Lady Champions, celebrating their senior night wanted it worse, and they got in a hard fought 4-2 win...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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10/8/09
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Physical football will be on display this Friday night as all three county squads take on tough opponents that are known to run the pigskin. The Forrest Rockets, still ranked no. 8 in the Class 2A AP Poll and coming off a big 37-7 blowout victory over MTCS take on White House-Heritage in a non-region match-up at the "Rock" this week and know the Patriots well...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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10/8/09
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For the first time in over a decade there will be no golfers representing Marshall County at next week's Class A-AA State Tournament at Old Fort Golf Course in Murfreesboro. The District 12A-AA champion Santa Fe Lady Wildcats claimed their second consecutive region championship with a one-hole playoff victory over Hickman County...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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10/8/09
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After suffering a 6-0 loss at the hands of District powerhouse Page two days earlier, the Marshall County Tigerettes (5-3) withstood a brief scare from an upstart Wayne County squad Monday afternoon before defeating the Lady Wildcats 3-1 at home on Senior Day...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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10/8/09
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For the second straight year, the Elks (11-3) denied Marshall Medical Center (10-4) the Marshall County Babe Ruth title on the final day of the season by defeating MMC 6-5 Saturday night in the league tournament championship game. Having won two out of three games against the Elks during the regular season, Marshall Medical Center held a 5-2 lead through the first five innings of play and appeared to be on the verge of ending the Elks' long championship run...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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7/2/09
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On October 7, 1999, Marshall County High School's Joey Morefield birdied the first playoff hole at the Class A/AA state golf tournament at Old Fort Course to beat Jeff Page of Jackson Christian, culminating a two-decade domination in prep sports by male athletes in Marshall County...
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by Anthony S. Puca Staff Writer
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6/2/09
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The Marshall County Trap Team, named the Hawkeyes, hosted its first Scholastic Clay Target Shoot at the Henry Horton State Park Trap Range in Chapel Hill on Saturday, April 25. The shoot was the largest organized youth trap shoot ever held in the county with 182 trap shooters from Middle Tennessee. The shoot was open to all youth participants currently registered in the Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target, the nations largest youth shotgun-shooting program...
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5/28/09
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It has been a long wait for the post-season to return for the defending Class A state champion Forrest Lady Rocket softball team. After a long, wet, and sometimes inconsistent regular season, Forrest was back in championship form Tuesday in Chapel Hill in their district opener versus Community, sending the Viqueens to the loser's bracket with a five inning run rule 10-0 shut-win...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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5/7/09
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The Forrest Rockets were eliminated from the post season Wednesday night, losing 4-2 in the semifinals of the District 9A Tournament to host MTCS. "We were our own worst enemies tonight," said Forrest head coach Babe Hardison after the game. "If you don't execute any better than we did tonight you will not win many tournament games against good opponents."...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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5/6/09
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Results, schedules from area district baseball, soccer and softball tournaments Baseball Postseason All schedules are subject to change DISTRICT 11-A at Columbia Academy Thursday, April 30 Huntland 14, Santa Fe 3 Richland 18, Cornersville 11 Culleoka 8, Moore County 0...
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5/5/09
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The Forrest Rockets, coming off three straight losses, hosted the second place Region 12 A Mt. Pleasant Tigers in a Forrest senior night match-up Monday night in Chapel Hill and supplied their pitching staff with plenty of offensive support in a 10-6 win...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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4/29/09
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Despite being one of only two Class A programs in the tournament field, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs (21-2) showed that they are a team to be reckoned with at the Coffee County Classic, as they posted a pair of shutout victories in their first two pool games on Friday...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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4/28/09
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After suffering a pair of lopsided losses to District leader Spring Hill earlier in the week, the MCHS Tigers (11-9-1) put some salve on their wounds by defeating county rival Forrest 7-3 in Lewisburg to record their fifth consecutive victory over the Rockets (12-9)...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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4/28/09
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The three-time reigning District 11A champions and third place finishers at the 2007-2008 Spring Fling took their traveling show to the Coffee County Classic in Manchester over the weekend and proved what many people already know. Head coach Spencer Mitchell and his ladies from Cornersville are loose, confident, and very, very good...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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4/28/09
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The Marshall County Tigers earned some redemption Thursday evening when they defeated Cornersville 10-0 in five innings at home after losing to the Bulldogs for the first time ever four weeks ago. Having scored a season high 12 runs against East Hickman two days earlier, Marshall County continued to swing hot bats on Thursday and pounded out 12 hits against two CHS pitchers to go along with three walks, two hit batsmen, and one Bulldog error...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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4/21/09
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On Friday, Forrest's Thea Ledbetter became the second member of the 2008-2009 Lady Rocket's basketball squad and fifth in two years to sign a college scholarship when she signed the papers to attend Motlow State Community College in Lynchburg. Ledbetter follows fellow classmate Summer Waggoner, who recently signed with Freed Hardeman and the trio of Gaby Bussell, Ayla Young, and Dakota Wesson, who all signed after their senior seasons last year to attend Volunteer State C.C...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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4/21/09
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Forrest eighth grader Zach Horvath pulled off the Johnny Vander Meer of middle school baseball Friday night in Chapel Hill, tossing his second consecutive no-hitter. After throwing a no-no versus Cornersville last week, Horvath came back against Riverside Christian Academy and tossed seven innings of no-hit ball, striking out 8, and walked three Knight batters in a 4-2 win that kept FMS atop the conference standings...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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4/21/09
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As hard as it is to win a state championship, it may be even a tougher task to repeat. How can a team re-create the chemistry that carried them through all the trials and tribulations of a season? Every game, only the best will do because every opponent sees the big bull's-eye of a champion on your jersey...
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By Anthony S. Puca, Staff Writer
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4/16/09
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Some teams just have your number. The Marshall County Tigerettes (11-4, 7-3 District) came up on the short end of the score once again against archrival Giles County, as the Lady Bobcats defeated MCHS 1-0 in Lewisburg on Tuesday to complete the sweep of the regular season series...
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By Louis G. Scheuchenzuber, Staff Writer
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4/16/09
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