Stories from Wednesday, May 2, 2018

LYNCHBURG, TN (May 1, 2018) – The Motlow Lady Bucks outscored visiting Southwest Tennessee 33-2 and outhit the Lady Saluqis 42-16 on their way to a four-game TCCAA conference sweep last weekend at Lady Bucks Field on Motlow’s Moore County campus. In the final games of the regular season, the Lady Bucks (26-18, 23-11) beat Southwest 8-0, 11-2 on Saturday and 8-0, 6-0 Sunday. Motlow will be the No. 4 seed in next week’s TCCAA/Region VII Tournament, being held at Chattanooga State. The Lady Bucks will play the No. 5 seed, Cleveland State (23-20, 15-17) Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m. EST.

One of the responsibilities that parents take most seriously is protecting their children from injury, whether it is buckling seat belts in a car or wearing a helmet while riding a bike. And when their kids become teenagers and want to participate in sports or other activities, parents do everything they can to keep their sons and daughters from getting hurt. But not all injuries are caused by a twist, fall, collision or accident. Many are caused when young athletes repeat the same athletic activity so often that muscles, ligaments, tendons and bones don’t have time to recover—especially among middle school and high school students. These injuries can end promising careers, cost families tens of thousands of dollars, squash dreams and literally change lives.

The Forrest Rockets celebrated a record nine graduating seniors in Logan Cedotal, Jaylen Smith, Ryan Moses, Jarvis Lyttle, J.T. Ferguson, Dylan Eady, Drew Daughrity, Dustin Brashear, and Lane Allen that all took spots in the starting lineup Monday in a 6-0 loss to Page. “The record they have put together at 85-39-1 and all the district titles that they have been a part of speaks for itself,” Forrest coach Bart Joyce said. “They have all work hard and developed a great comradery on this team and I’m proud of them and what they have accomplished.”

The 2016-2017 season was a lost year for Marshall County Tigerette standout Sydne Solomon as she had to sit out the softball campaign with a knee injury, but the Western Kentucky University signee has come back with a vengeance. Solomon has put up a solid 2017-2028 campaign as she recently broke the MCHS homerun record set by Austin Whaley and she added to that total Friday night in a 5-2 win versus Murfreesboro Central Magnet School (MCM). “Sydne did a great job catching and hitting the ball, I’m proud of her,” Marshall County coach Wes Woods said. “We started off slow, popping the ball up, but we adjusted well throughout the game and hit the ball when we got it squared up better.”

Coming into the world a little over a month early, the complications and prognosis for Cornersville’s Presley Pitts was unknown. Other than being tiny, everything appeared to be normal with the preemie until the age of six months when she was diagnosed with congenital scoliosis. Pitts became the youngest and smallest infant to undergo a spinal fusion at Vanderbilt’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital as the surgeon removed her bottom left rib and fused it into her lumbar spine.

The District 8-AAA Tennis Tournament was held this past weekend at The University of the South’s Bruton-Guerry Tennis Center. Two rounds were played on Friday, and the semifinals and finals were held on Saturday. Remarkably, the Marshall County Girls’ Tennis Team advanced seven girls into the semifinals on Saturday. After triumphing over 16 other players between them, Marshall County Junior Alexa Hooten and sophomore teammate McKenna Hunter met for the girls’ singles championship where Hooten prevailed 6-4, 6-0.

Mr. Billy Wayne Wilburn, 79, of Hohenwald, formerly of Lewisburg, died May 1, 2018, at Maury Regional Hospital. Mr. Wilburn was a native of Giles County, the son of the late Clinton W. and Mattie McCormick Wilburn. He retired from ICP and was a member of the Highland Baptist Church in Hohenwald...