Stories from Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Turnovers and untimely penalties can turn a win into a loss very quickly and that’s what happened to the Forrest Rockets, who fell 14-13 to Eagleville in Chapel Hill’s home opener Friday night at Murrey E. Holton Field. “That was a really tough loss,” Forrest coach Eli Stephenson said. “Our main goal is to make the playoffs and we just didn’t meet our goal tonight. The kids came out and played four quarters.”

The middle of the season has come and gone for the Lewisburg Middle School Tigers and third-year head coach Beau Hardison. After combining to win just three games in his first two-years at the helm, Hardison has the Tigers roaring towards the finish line following a third straight lopsided win, this time a 40-6 win at Bridgeforth.

The Marshall County Tigers hosted Region 4-4A foe Tullahoma Friday night at Preston Hopkins Field in Lewisburg for the home opener and things didn’t go as planned as the Wildcats broke a three-game losing streak versus MCHS with a hard-fought 14-13 win that went down to the last play. “No doubt a loss that stings badly, especially one of such importance being a region game,” MCHS coach Thomas Osteen said. “For whatever reason we came out flat as opposed to the fire that we played with in our first two contests.”

Anyone driving past Frog Bottom last Friday would see a sight that was reminiscent of last fall's historic run. The parking spaces were limited all the way back to the baseball field 30 minutes before kickoff, the now trademark fireworks after every Bulldog touchdown, and of course, the standing room only crowd packed three deep all around the football field fences.

Class 1A 1. Greenback (13) 3-0 139 1 2. South Pittsburg 3-0 123 2 3. Cornersville (1) 3-0 114 3 4. Huntingdon 3-0 100 4 5. Dresden 3-0 76 7 (tie) Whitwell 3-0 76 6 7. Cloudland 1-1 37 8 8. Lake County 2-1 31 5 9. Wayne County 2-1 29 9 10. Coalfield 2-1 26 10 Others receiving votes: Clay County 7. Mt. Pleasant 6. West Carroll 4. Midway 2.

Peggy Joyce Gray, 83, of Lewisburg, TN, passed away at Maury County Regional Hospital on Sept. 3, 2018, after a brief battle with cancer. Peggy was born on Oct. 14, 1934, in Robjohn, AL, and spent her early childhood in Chickasaw and Mobile, AL. She lived in Lewisburg since 1977 and worked at the Methodist Daycare Center and at Connelly Middle School in the cafeteria for many years. ...

Funeral services for Barbara Jean Boyce Baugher, 80, of Shelbyville, will be held Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Brother Jim Mickells officiating. Burial will follow in the Simpson Cemetery in the Rover Community. Mrs. Baugher’s passed from this life early Tuesday morning at NHC Tullahoma after an extended illness...

Jimmie W. Cochran, 81, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018, at NHC-Lewisburg. He was a Marshall County native, born on Oct. 20, 1936, to Oren Earl and Mary McCollum Cochran. After serving in the United States Air Force, Jimmie was an employee of Teledyne-Brown Engineering and retired after thirty five years service. He loved fishing and raising Beefalo cattle. He was a member of the Church of Christ...

June Atchley Bills, 98, of Rossville, GA, died on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Born April 21, 1920, Clarissa June Atchley was the second child of James F. Atchley and Kate McGill Atchley of Red Bank, TN. A graduate of Central High School in Chattanooga, she worked in her father’s law office and at the Tennessee Valley Authority. She married James Clifford Bills on Aug. 31, 1949...