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With the retirement of sports editor Anthony Puca, the Marshall County Tribune didn't have to look far to find his replacement. Current Shelbyville Times-Gazette sports editor Chris Siers will be expanding his role and has been named the sports editor of the Marshall County Tribune...

In finding a new head coach to helm the Forrest Lady Rockets, the administration turned to a seasoned vet of the game to take over the program. Hal Murrell has been named the Lady Rockets' head coach for the upcoming school year. For Murrell, his hiring at Forrest feels almost part of a bigger plan at play...

When the administration at Forrest High School began their search to fill the head boys basketball coaching void, they didn't have to look much farther than their own backyard to find their guy. Forrest has hired Marshall County native Shane Chapman to lead the Rockets in the upcoming school year...

The Lady Rockets basically steamrolled the competition in the postseason this year and went in to Friday afternoon’s title game versus Lexington riding a 22-game winning streak and a 3-0 unbeaten mark versus the Lady Tigers, including Forrest’s final two wins in the 2019 championship campaign. Forrest Hill played its worst game of the season, looking like the Keystone Cops at times, running in to each other and making mistakes they usually don’t, ones that will cost you a ballgame.

The only two unbeaten teams remaining in the Class 2A Spring Fling softball bracket squared off in an all-out war on the diamond in Thursday night’s winner’s bracket final with the Forrest Lady Rockets (30-3-1) scratching across two runs while holding the Lexington Lady Tigers scoreless. The defending and three-time state champions have won 22 games in a row and will play for their fourth state title at 2:30 p.m. today versus the winner of this morning’s loser bracket final between Lexington (36-10-1) and Gibbs (31-12).

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The Gibbs Lady Eagles gave the Forrest Lady Rockets a good battle before the Class 2A defending state champions from Chapel Hill pulled away for a 10-2 win in a Spring Fling winner’s bracket final Wednesday night in Murfreesboro. “We felt pretty confident coming in to this game, but you can always drop the ball,” Forrest coach Shelby Lightfoot said. “I like the way we got on it early and I told them one or two more runs were on me, I got a little too aggressive in that spot, but that is just kind of the nature of it and I will learn from it and not do it again.” “I liked the intensity from the start, sometimes we may be cold for an inning or two, but we always come back hot.”

The Forrest Rockets hosted their annual Lift-A-Thon at the Chapel Hill Lions Club Memorial Fieldhouse Friday night and it was a huge success as 65 high school and middle school players lifted iron in front of a packed house of supporters. “I thought the senior class showed out,” Forrest head coach Eli Stephenson said. “They set new personal records (PR) for themselves."