Forrest senior Dylan Eady earned a spot in the outfield on the Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s Class AA All-State Baseball squad along with another Chapel Hill resident and Columbia Academy senior southpaw pitcher Alex Huey in Class A. more

The Marshall County Dusters hosted Tullahoma American Legion Post #43 for a doubleheader at the Jonathan D. Hollingsworth Memorial Field in Lewisburg Thursday night and dropped two close games by scores of 4-2 and 2-0. The Dusters were their worst enemy as only one of the six runs allowed by the pitching staff were earned as they committed five errors in the field and they also ran themselves off the base paths, being picked off three times. Still, the Dusters were in both games until their last at bat. more

Forrest’s state tournament run ended in dramatic fashion Thursday afternoon when Greeneville’s Jacques Gillespie-Taylor belted a three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Greene Devils a 7-5 win over the Rockets. “In the end we stuck with our game plan….fight, grind, and play with that heart and that’s what they did,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “That’s what they did through that last out and at the end of the day, they never let up, not one second and this coaching staff is more than proud of the way they did things, from the first pitch of the season to right now.” more

The Forrest Rockets displayed their resiliency once again on Wednesday at the TSSAA Spring Fling XV as they came back from a heartbreaking 10-8 extra-inning defeat to Greeneville with a dominating 13-1 five-inning, run-rule win over Smith County to stay alive in the Class AA division. Forrest almost pulled off the comeback for the ages versus Greeneville as they trailed 6-1 in the fifth inning before saddling up with six straight runs to take a 7-6 lead in the top of the seventh inning. more

The Forrest Rockets really don’t care who they play because they believe in one another. Chapel Hill played flawless baseball in Tuesday’s night’s opening round of the Spring Fling XV Class AA state championship Tuesday at Blackman High School in Murfreesboro, taking down number one ranked Covington 5-3. “I’m super proud of all 25 guys and it’s a great win for us and gets us rolling into tomorrow,” Joyce said. “These guys just keep fighting and keep fighting game in and game out and they really got it going right now, so we will be back in the morning and get it going against Greenville.” more

The comeback kids are alive and well and they are the 2017-2018 Forrest Rockets. The Chapel Hill squad continued its postseason magic in a Class AA state sectional game at Chapel Hill Friday night, coming from behind twice to beat Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet School (MLK) 7-6 on a J.T. Ferguson walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning. Ferguson and his senior classmates that graduated on Saturday have won four consecutive region titles, three district titles, and are 2-2 in state sectional games with the last win coming two years ago versus Grace Christian- Franklin. They are 6-2 in the postseason this year and are a remarkable 6-0 in potential elimination contests. more

Even a move up one classification did not slow down the Forrest Rockets, who beat Stewart County 3-2 in the Region 6-AA title game at Chapel Hill Wednesday night to claim their fourth straight region title and fifth in the last six years. “It was a great ballgame,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “This has kinda been the deal of the whole postseason is those tight one-run ballgames.” “Our boys never gave up, even when we tied late in the game they kept grinding and kept fighting and they keep reaching their goals.” more

The Forrest Lady Rockets (28-3) lost one game to a Divison I school in Tennessee all season, but it was a big one as the Creek Wood Lady Red Hawks pulled off a 6-5 comeback win in the Region 6-AA Tournament opener Monday night at Chapel Hill to eliminate Forrest from the postseason. “We got out hit and I think they were more determined at the plate than we were and I think that is what it boils down to in my opinion,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “Lauren (Gillespie) pitched a heck of a game, they just got on the pitches. The homerun that went to right field was two balls off the plate, so what are you going to do.” more

The Forrest Rockets displayed their resiliency once again as they bounced back from a loss to Giles County in the District 12-AA title game last week with a huge 3-0 road win at Creek Wood Monday in the Region 6-AA Tournament opener. “The team played great, they fought the entire game and kept the team in a good position to win the game,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “The coaching staff is very proud of how the team has fought the entire season and how they have played.” “Throughout the postseason they fought just stay alive and it was no different last night.” more

Even realignment could not slow down Forrest’s yearly domination in district play as the Lady Rockets (28-2) capped off another perfect league record when they blanked Giles County 3-0 Thursday night in the District 12-AA title game at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill. “I expected it to be a battle, they have gotten better since the last two games we have played and they stepped up when it was time,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “It was a good game for us and a good game for them, so that should help us both be better prepared going into the region tournament Monday.” It was the third perfect district record in four years and 10th in the last 14 years for the two-time state champion Lady Rockets, who have a mind boggling 215-9-1 league record since 2002. more

The Lewisburg Middle School Tigerettes’ softball team had an outstanding 2017-2018 campaign compiling a rock solid 15-1 record. LMS outscored their opponents 208-50 and six players ended the season batting over .400. Jessa Lancaster led the team with the highest batting average with a .584 mark on the year... more

LEWISBURG – The Marshall County Tigerettes took the lead against the Giles County Lady Bobcats, but the Lady Bobcats used two three-run innings to take control and ended the Tigerettes’ season with a 6-1 victory in the District 12-AA Tournament Wednesday night at Reese Hambrick Field in Lewisburg. After winning the first three games against the Lady Bobcats this season, the Tigerettes looked poised to continue their streak and advance to the district championship, but Giles County used some timely hitting and missed opportunities by Marshall County to reverse the trend. more

After a grueling four-game winning streak, the Forrest Rockets ran low on fuel in the District 12-AA title game, losing 7-3 to Giles County Wednesday night at Nolensville. “It’s like I said last night, the fight in those 25 guys in that dugout is just unreal, they fought through 42 innings of baseball since Sunday,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “They fought hard, played hard, but just came up a little short.” more

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs held destiny in their hands as they took on Cascade Tuesday night in a District 8-A Tournament winner’s bracket game. The Lady Dawgs beat Eagleville in round one and then took a hard fought 1-0 win over Moore County in round two. Cornersville lost 2-0 to Cascade on Tuesday and plays Moore County in the loser’s bracket final on Thursday at 5 p.m. Moore County beat the host Lady Hornets 7-2 on Tuesday night. more

The Forrest Rockets and the Marshall County Tigers took different paths to the loser’s bracket of the District 12-AA Tournament as Chapel Hill lost 6-2 to Central Magnet in the first round before coming back with a 2-1 win over Community on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers blasted Community 12-3 in the first round, but lost 10-5 to longtime rival Giles County in round two, setting up a titanic battle between the intra-county rivals Monday night at Nolensville. more

Cornersville kicked off the District 8-A Tournament with a 6-5 win over Moore County Thursday night, before suffering a 5-1 loss to host Eagleville on Friday. The Bulldogs tried to fight their way out of the loser’s bracket, but the Moore County Raiders got revenge on Monday, knocking the Bulldogs out of the playoffs via a 3-0 shutout loss... more

The Marshall County High School girls tennis team pulled off a comeback for the ages Thursday at Tullahoma in the finals of the District 8-AAA Tournament as they fought off match point before storming back to win. The number-two seeded Tigerettes had lost 5-2 to top-seeded Tullahoma earlier in the season and were trailing 0-3 after the first three singles matches, facing defeat if they lost just one more point... more

Cornersville’s switch-hitting outfielder Hannah Hart recently signed a Letter of Intent to play softball next season on scholarship at Martin Methodist College at Pulaski. “My biggest goal throughout high school has been to play college softball and I was very excited when coach (Brandie) Paul and (Taylor) Moore offered me,” Hart said. “I am excited to attend Martin not only for athletics, but also for academics.” more

Forrest and Marshall County High School met Monday night at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill in the first-ever district tournament matchup between the two intra-county rivals and the game lived up to the billing as the Lady Rockets won a 2-0 thriller. “It was truly a team effort, because as you know some of us did not get the job done, but that is what a good team is all about,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “When one person is not getting it done, somebody else has to step up.” more