Stories from Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The Cornersville Middle School Bulldogs opened the season in style Thursday night at Frog Bottom with a 20-0 shutout win over Highland Rim. The Bulldogs dominated the game in the trenches as they rushed the ball for 273 yards, while giving up just 70 yards rushing on defense. Nick Nuenswander led the ground attack with six carries for 128 yards and a touchdown.

If anyone thinks that the state runner-up finish by the 2017 Cornersville Bulldogs in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Class A playoffs was a fluke, they’re in for a rude awakening. “They are ready to get back at it, we have had some good practices going back to fall camp, so I am like them, I’m eager to get started and get this season going,” Cornersville head coach Gerard Randolph said. “We have to stay focused and take it one day at a time and get better each day.” These Bulldogs are even hungrier after a late November taste of Cookeville and they are poised and ready to take the final step in capturing the school’s first-ever state title in any sport.

Ditzler Braden Jack Bridges, of Sunnyvale, CA, died May 24, 2018, after suffering a heart attack two days earlier. With his family at his side, Jack passed peacefully while listening to Duke Ellington’s Take the A Train. He was born to Wiley Allen and Selma Mae Bridges on June 7, 1926, in Cornersville, TN. The family moved to Nashville where Jack and his brothers attended and graduated from Peabody Demonstration High School...

Jennifer Sue Marise, 56, of Lawrenceburg, TN, passed away at her residence on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. She was born on Feb. 5, 1962, to Thomas and Barbara Nunley Mearse in Fayetteville, TN. Her parents preceded her in death. She was a homemaker, loved to cook and drink sweet tea, loved fishing, and most of all she adored her grandchildren...