Two of the three Marshall County schools will be on the road for Week 5 for Friday night gridiron action as Marshall County High School travels to Maplewood and Forrest goes to Columbia Academy, while the Cornersville Bulldogs host Mt. Pleasant. Sometimes an early bye week is not the best scenario, but for Thomas Osteen and the Marshall Tigers the extra time was a blessing as his banged up squad got a chance to recuperate. more

The Lewisburg Middle School Tigers have been on the brink of a breakout season in 2017 with both of its losses by a combined 4 points. The Tigers road to redemption didn’t get any easier as LMS welcomed undefeated and conference leader Dickson County to Preston Hopkins Field in Lewisburg on Thursday night. The upset looked to be complete when the Tigers roared back to take a 30-22 lead with one minute left in the third quarter, but Dickson scored two unanswered fourth-quarter touchdowns to leave Marshall County with the 38-30 win and stay atop the standings. more

Looking at the Bulldogs 2017 schedule, Friday night’s matchup versus Grace Christian-Franklin (1-2, 0-1) was a game that stood out as a potential upset, since Cornersville won a close contest by a mere touchdown last year at Franklin. Friday night’s contest had no such drama as the Bulldogs (3-1, 2-0) scored 28 points after falling behind 8-6 in the first quarter to pick up a huge 39-15 region 5-1A win. more

The Forrest Rockets (1-3, 1-1) needed a win in a big way and they got it Friday night, shutting out Summertown 49-0 on Homecoming at Murrey E. Holton Field in Chapel Hill. “Hopefully it’s the shot in the arm we needed to start digging out of this hole in the region race,” Forrest coach Brent Johns said. “The team handled all the distractions extremely well. It was a great week.” more

Leah Hollingsworth is having another big season as the Marshall County senior runner attempts to make it back to the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Cross Country State Championships for the fourth consecutive season. more

School Record Pts Prv 1. Greeneville (14) 3-0 149 1 2. Haywood (1) 3-0 128 2 3. Crockett Co. 3-0 100 5 4. Anderson Co. 3-0 99 6 5. Marshall Co. 2-1 92 4 6. Elizabethton 2-1 76 7 7. Spring Hill 3-0 72 8 8. Memphis East 1-2 34 3 9. Hardin Co. 2-1 28 10 10. Dyersburg 2-1 14 9 Others receiving 12 or more points: East Ridge 12. Class 5A more

In the long and storied history of the Moore County Raiders, once one of top 1A powers in the entire state, the Cornersville Bulldogs rarely made a blip on the radar of competitive rivalries. But with third-year head coach Gerard Randolph, a talented group of young assistant coaches, and a deep veteran ball club, the Bulldogs were able to accomplish something Cornersville had not done in anyone's recent memory. With dominant 42-0 victory over the Raiders on Friday night, the team from southern Marshall County beat Moore County (2-1, 0-1) twice in a row. more

Neighboring rivals Forrest and Eagleville have been through some very exciting big games over the course of history and Friday night’s rain soaked affair at Eagleville will be remembered a long time, especially by the Eagles’ fans as the home team came up with a nail biting 21-20 overtime win. “I thought that Friday night was our most complete game as far as playing all four quarters,” Forrest coach Brent Johns said. more

Friday night’s inclement weather forced the postponement of the Marshall County Tigers’ trip to Tullahoma to Saturday afternoon and the dry, fast track benefitted both talented squads that put up a combined 900 yards of total offense. “This is what you live for, if you love the game of football this is it,” Marshall County quarterback Bryce Wallace said. “I’m so glad we were able to pull it off with the guys we have.” more

Memorial Field in Chapel Hill and came away with a hard fought 2-0 win. “It was enough, it wasn’t real pretty, but it was enough and we will take the win,” Forrest coach Nicole Pickle said. With the win, Forrest evened up its District 6-A record at 1-1, while the Lady Bulldogs dropped to 0-2. “I would have liked to have three goals in the first half and three more in the second, but we will take the win and move on down the road,” Pickle said. The first half was mostly evenly played, but Forrest had three good scoring opportunities with two big saves coming from Cornersville goalkeeper Lydia King and another shot off the boot of Zoe Long careening off the crossbar. more

The epic Hurricane Harvey, which devastated southeastern Texas finally left that area and has moved towards Tennessee as a tropical depression that is forecasted to drop several inches of rain in the Mid-State that could affect the playing fields and the game plans of all three county high school squads. At press time there was also the possibility that the games could be moved to Saturday. The Marshall County Tigers were the only county team to post a win last week as they blasted Shelbyville 51-27 at Preston Hopkins Field in Lewisburg. more

uesday, August 29 Henry Horton State Park (Buford Ellington Golf Course) Eagleville (384): Bobby Snell 79, Garrick Hutchinson 98, Jonah Clement 98, Jay Heffington 109, CJ Bela 112, Blake Joyner 119 Forrest (405): Hunter Ferguson 90, Conner Lewis 98, JT Ferguson 108, Hayden Grayson Whaley 109, Pate 111, Sebastian Thompson 115 more

The Forrest Cross Country team traveled to Webb School on August 29 where the middle school girls competed against 60 runners with seven of the runners placing in the top 20. more

For the better part of the past decade the Forrest Lady Rockets have been decidedly dominant on the soccer field against county rival Marshall County High School with the two squads splitting the past two meeting heading into Tuesday night's matchup. With both teams nursing the wounds from season opening losses, the annual rivalry game proved to be the most competitive contest between the squads in years with the northern end of the county coming away victorious for the second season in a row, 2-1 at MCHS. more

Thursday, August 24 Henry Horton State Park (Buford Ellington Golf Course) Boys (Top four scores) Forrest (184): Hunter Ferguson 42, Jarvis Lyttle 45, JT Ferguson 46, Conner Lewis 48, Hayden Pate 50, Grayson Whaley 51, Sebastian Thompson 56 Fairview (189): Clayton Williams 39, Ethan Huckabee 39, Ryan Kilgore 53, Sam Dawson 58 more

After a 16-0 shutout win at Richland on August 17, the Cornersville Middle School Bulldogs travelled to Flintville and remained unbeaten on the season with another 24-0 shutout victory over the Bobcats. The Bulldogs are in the midst of a five-game road trip to start the season and travel to South Giles tomorrow. Cornersville finishes up the road trip next week at South Lincoln before returning home for three games to end the season. The Bulldogs play Moore County, Blanche, and Huntland in succession at Frog Bottom. more

Despite competing in the same district for over a decade the Tigerettes and Page have not met in a regular season or tournament match since losing to the Patriots 8-0 in the 2012 district tournament. In fact, the last time Marshall County (0-3,0-2) even managed a goal versus Page (2-3, 2-0) was during a 5-1 regular season loss during the 2010 regular season and MCHS has been outscored 51-1 in the past decade against the Patriots before Thursday night’s matchup in Rudderville. more

After a disappointing 28-6 loss at Fayetteville on August 17, the FMS Rockets (2-1) posted the identical score the other way versus Cascade on Thursday night in Chapel Hill. “Last week we felt like we left a lot down there in Fayetteville, we didn’t play up to our potential and made a lot of mistakes,” FMS coach Corey Searcy said. “We are getting better one game at a time and that is the goal for us.” The Rockets struck early and struck often in the first half, scoring a pair of touchdowns in each of the first two quarters to put the Champions in a hole they would never dig out of. more