Stories from Wednesday, January 30, 2019

AP Top 10 Girls Poll The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through January 28, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:...

AP Top 10 Boys Poll The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through January 28, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:...

The Eagleville Eagles (19-3, 5-1) brought their number-one ranking in 1A and the number five leading scorer in the state, Ryley McClaran (24.3 points per game), to face the Cornersville (8-9, 2-4) Bulldogs in a District 8-A matchup. The Eagles showed why they had the top billing as they rolled over the Bulldogs 69-37 with McClaran getting his average (24) points. The Bulldogs, without the services of Tyler Wolaver, who will miss several more games with a bad ankle had to man up to stay with the Eagleville crew.

Friday night’s game at Cornersville saw the Eagleville Lady Eagles (14-8, 5-1) and the hometown Lady Bulldogs (9-13, 1-6) square off in a District 8-A contest. The Lady Bulldog’s youth, inexperience, and growing pains were evident in a 44-25 loss. The Lady Eagles were hoping to keep pace with Cascade for the top spot in district standings and they did as both teams finished the night with 5-1 league marks.

The Marshall County Tigerettes needed a win over Community in Friday night’s homecoming game at Dottie Kelso Memorial Gymnasium in Lewisburg to keep pace with Nolensville and they got it done with a hard fought 33-29 win. The Tigerettes held the Viqueens to their lowest scoring output of the season in a defensive effort reminiscent of the days when Danica “The Glove” Hopkins roamed the Lewisburg hardwoods for head coach David Steely’s championship squad of 2008. “Both teams had real good plans on how to stop the other one,” Steely said. “Just two teams that are starting to know each other real well and have played several times the last two years and we were both able to take each other’s streaks away.”

Freda Fay Jenkins, 75, resident of Cornersville, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at Life Care Center of Columbia. Born on Dec. 1, 1943, in Lewisburg, she was the daughter of the late Joe Thurston Davis and the late Amanda Lucille Reed Davis. She was a retired employee of Inter City. Freda enjoyed watching birds, spending time at the fish pond, and was an avid hockey fan. She was a member of Cornersville church of Christ...

Gwendolyn Coble Whitaker was born on March 28, 1936, in Lewisburg, TN. She was the daughter of the late James Grady Coble and Mayme Barlow Coble. Gwen departed this life on Jan. 29, 2019, at the age of 82. She is preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Dan P. ...