Stories from Friday, February 15, 2019

The nightcap of Tuesday’s District 8-A Tournament featured the sixth-seeded Cornersville Bulldogs versus the three-seeded Cascade Champions. The Champions, behind hot shooting Noah Maddox’s four 3-pointers, took a 20-point halftime lead and never looked back in a 55-38 victory. Cascade faced the second-seeded Fayetteville Tigers in Thursday night’s semifinal contest at Cornersville, while top-ranked Eagleville played Moore County.

The Forrest Rockets lost 14 out of their last 15 games and 10 in a row to end the season, including a tough 56-48 defeat at Murfreesboro Central Magnet School (MCM) Tuesday night in a first-round District 12-AA Tournament satellite game. “They fought hard, we did everything that we could possibly do,” Forrest coach Randy Toombs said. “We still made some of the little mistakes we have been making and good teams will take advantage of that.” “He’s (MCM coach Douglas Worsley) got a good basketball team, they are well-coached, but we played hard.”

After a decade long drought, the Marshall County Tigerettes (22-6) have solidified their return to prominence after coming away with a bruising 51-43 win over Community (18-9) Thursday night in the District 12-AA Tournament semifinals at Forrest. “I knew that would be that kind of game, you always hope you can win each quarter and extend the lead, but that’s not going to happen against them,” MCHS coach David Steely said. “It was just emotional, tough, and physical and I’m proud of us that we put up 51 tonight, which is good because we had six girls score.”