Stories from Saturday, December 9, 2017

The bad taste of the one-win season in 2015-16 was wiped out under new coach Matt Hagan with an eight-win 2016-17 that featured a near .500 (6-8) district mark and a unexpected push to the region tournament. The Bulldogs beat a Grace Christian-Franklin team by 19 points in the opening round of the district tournament after the Lions thumped Cornersville just over a week earlier by 22 points. The Bulldogs also played the then top-ranked 1A team in the state, Richland to the brink before falling by just eight points. This year expectations are quite higher.

Tigerettes ready to move up One of the most proud and historically dominant programs in the state made a big time comeback last season as the Tigerettes bounced back from a program low, one-win season in 2015-16 with a 13-15 record and region tournament berth under coach David Steely’s second go-around as head coach. If not for three season ending injuries to prominent players during the district tournament the Tigerettes might have made a deeper run.