Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Maudie Simmons, 88, of Lewisburg, passed on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at her residence. She was the daughter of the late Lula Elizabeth and Alonzo Simmons. She was a member of Second Avenue Church of Christ. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Lester Kimbro, and a sister Pearlie Mai Pitts...

Gary White, 52, passed away at NHC-Lewisburg Friday morning, March 16, 2018. Visitation with the family will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the chapel of Bills-McGaugh & Hamilton Funeral Home. The funeral service will follow immediately after visitation at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Lone Oak Cemetery...

LYNCHBURG, TN (March 20, 2018) – The Motlow Lady Bucks banged seven home runs, including three by sophomore Miranda Cooksey, and won their second consecutive TCCAA conference series by taking three out of four games from Roane State last weekend in Harriman, Tenn. The Lady Bucks (10-12, 7-5) were scheduled to host the Martin Methodist College JV team on Tuesday, but the doubleheader was rained out and no makeup date has been announced. Motlow will step back into conference play this weekend, hosting Dyersburg State in a four game series. Friday’s doubleheader begins at 2 p.m. while Saturday’s action is set for a noon start. The weekend didn’t begin well for the Lady Bucks on Friday in Harriman as Motlow dropped the opener 10-1. However, they came back strong, winning the night cap 13-15, then sweeping Saturday’s games 14-9 and 6-5.

Following a tough 5-3 loss against Tullahoma (1-1-0) in the season opener, the Marshall County boys soccer team once again welcomed a team from Coffee County in 3A Coffee County Central (2-0) on Thursday at Lewisburg. The Tigers fell behind two goals early in the contest, but closed the gap to within one twice before eventually falling by a 4-2 score. "Well, it's still early, this is our fifth game, two regular season and three preseason games but we struggled tonight to control the ball, to get control of our ball on the first touch and that's critical to being able to move the ball offensively and that was really a struggle all night," MCHS coach Mark Redferrin said. "We didn't have the intensity level that we needed in the first half.” “We certainly picked that up in the second half, but we've just got a lot of things to clean up and get a little better at."

Following an early morning one-run loss to 7A Buckhorn, (AL) the Forrest Lady Rockets were looking to improve on a few key areas from the previous contest as they drew another team from the Yellowhammer State in West Morgan High School from Trinity. One of the areas was in the batter’s box as Forrest totaled just three hits against Buckhorn and the other was fielding mishaps as three errors allowed three early runs against the Lady Bucks.

Following a tough 2-1 loss against reigning 7A Alabama state champion Buckhorn on Friday evening, the MCHS Tigerettes headed back down to Lawrenceburg to take on West Morgan on the final day of the Firehouse Subs Classic. And after scoring just one run the night before, the Tigerettes opened the floodgates with a 16-2 win over the Lady Rebels to push their record to 3-1 early in the season. "We did a good job of being disciplined at the plate by making sure we got a ball that we could hit," MCHS coach Wes Woods said. "Understanding the situations like where the runners are and where we want to try and hit the ball.”

The Forrest Lady Rockets had a tough matchup right off the rip on Saturday morning at the Firehouse Subs Softball Classic against the reigning 7-A Alabama state champion Buckhorn at Bobby Brewer Park in Lawrenceburg. Despite playing in the largest classification in Alabama and claiming a ninth-to-twelfth grade enrollment equal to the population of entire town of Chapel Hill, the Bucks were barely able to squeeze a win past the two-time Tennessee Class A state champion Lady Rockets by a 3-2 final in four innings.

The Forrest Lady Rockets entertained Independence Friday night at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill and made easy work of the Lady Eagles via a 10-0 five-inning, run-rule win. “It was exciting and I enjoyed every minute of it once it got started and I thought they all did well and we are improving every game,” Forrest coach Becky Cheatham said. “The enthusiasm was there from the beginning and those are fun games for me and I think they feed off of that.”

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