Stories from Friday, November 30, 2018

If you could flip the game around, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs would have had a great chance at beating Richland Tuesday night at home. The Lady Bulldogs (4-3) got off to a slow start that lasted for three quarters before they finally showed what they had, but it was way too late as the Lady Raiders (4-1) took advantage of their good fortune in a 51-31 win. “We have got to get comfortable at the beginning of the game and not wait until we are down 10 or 20 to start playing well,” Cornersville coach Peyton Newton. “We are playing some young ones and inexperienced ones and I think when the moments are big and they get kind of timid they are not sure of themselves.”

The Cornersville boys will be a little shorthanded for a while until the football season is over on Saturday. In the meantime, there is still ball to be played on the hardwood and on Tuesday night at Cornersville, the Bulldogs hosted longtime rival Richland. Coming into the game, the Raiders had won 23 consecutive games in the rivalry versus the Bulldogs and they made it 24 in a row with a 54-41 win. “I actually have some good kids out there, we are just missing some depth,” Cornersville coach Matt Hagan said. “We just didn’t play very well, they made things tough for us and we didn’t make things tough on them.”

Over the last two seasons, the Cornersville Bulldogs are 27-2 heading into Saturday’s Class A BlueCross Bowl title game versus Whitwell at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville. The 2017 Class A runner-up Bulldogs have had the bullseye on their backs the entire season and have stood tall to every challenge in front of them, including back-to-back long haul victories at Huntingdon in the quarterfinals and at Lake County last week in the semifinals.

The CMS Lady Bulldogs completed the intra-county season series sweep over the LMS Tigerettes with a 23-14 win at Cornersville Thursday night. Cornersville’s Gracie Turner dominated the game in the low post, scoring a game-high 14 points, while making it difficult for the Tigerettes to get many points in the paint. Turner scored two points in the first and fourth quarters, four in the second, and all six of the Lady Bulldogs’ points in the pivotal third period when Cornersville pulled away.

The LMS boys travelled to Cornersville Thursday night, hoping to salvage a split in the intra-county season series and things were not going as planned as they trailed by nine points going into the fourth before mounting an epic comeback to secure a 23-22 win...