Stories from Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Wildcats from Santa Fe traveled to Cornersville on Monday for a game with the Lady Bulldogs, but the home team was a no show for the majority of the contest and Santa Fe headed back to Maury County with a convincing 47-20 win. "We've got to learn to take care of the basketball," Cornersville coach Peyton Newton said. "We've talked about breaking the press all year, it's been hurting us all year. We've got to learn how to take care of the basketball and we've got to hit the easy shots."...

One of the hardest accomplishments to achieve in the game of football is to beat the same opponent two times in one season and to make the game even more difficult the Marshall County Tigers had to beat one of its all-time rivals, Giles County to advance to the 4A quarterfinals in the TSSAA state playoffs for the second season in a row. Now the Tigers have to tackle that feat two weeks in a row as Marshall County demolished the Bobcats 45-0 and will host Spring Hill next Friday.

Over 1,200 fans witnessed a classic TSSAA Class 2A playoff game Friday night at Murrey E. Holton Memorial Field as the Forrest Rockets (11-1) came back to win for the second week in a row, marking the first time in school history that Chapel Hill has won a second round postseason game and accumulated 11 wins in a season. "We honestly all week did not mention that," Johns said. "We always have in the past and I think that was the difference----we looked at one game at a time, all those losses were in the past and this team has never lost a second round playoff game."