Stories from Friday, May 3, 2019

Marshall County is well-known around the state for historically dominant football and boys and girls basketball teams, sending a large amount of those players to play at the next level following graduation. But the for the third time in the past three years, a member of the girls’ soccer squad has committed to play at the next level when Patience Ferguson signed a Letter of Intent to play at National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) powerhouse Martin Methodist College.

In their final tune up leading up to a first-round District 11-AA Tournament matchup with top-seeded Murfreesboro Central Magnet School on Thursday, the Marshall County Tigers took to the home pitch on Tuesday for a Senior Night game with Fayetteville and it was all Lewisburg in a three-nil blanking. “We have been a little bit inconsistent all year with our intensity and our work ethic and they came out with a lot of determination tonight because they wanted to see our seniors get this win on Senior Night,” MCHS coach Mark Redferrin said. “We played really, really good soccer in the first half and even though we had a little bit of a letdown in the second half, we played good tonight.”

• May 3 - Marshall County Art Guild Board Meeting at 11 a.m. • May 5 - The Marshall County Historical Society will meet Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the museum located in the Hardison School Annex, 230 College Street. Greg Lowe, Director of Economic Development for the the City of Lewisburg, will present a very informative PowerPoint program on the progress Lewisburg has made since its establishment 182 years ago. The meeting is free and open to the public...

• The Marshall County Soil Conservation District is providing free packets of wildflower seeds as part of their Pollinator Awareness Promotion. Contact the District at (931) 359-6268 Ext. #3 or visit the office at 1171 Nashville Highway, Lewisburg to receive seeds...

The fourth-ranked Cornersville Bulldogs (22-4-1) lived up to the billing in a 2-0 win over Cascade in District 8-A Tournament second-round action Thursday night at Cornersville. The top-seeded Bulldogs rode a two-hit gem on the mound by senior ace righty Graham Duke, who gave up two hits, struck out 12, and walked two Cascade batters in the shutout win by the hosts.