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Ex-FCS star commits to CU

Former Friendship Christian catcher Michael Wheeler is apparently coming home to play baseball for Cumberland University. Wheeler, an All-State performer in football and baseball for the Commanders, is finishing his second season at Walters State Community College, a team he helped lead to the juni...

Race gets second sponsor

NASHVILLE — The Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville is revving up for its next race, this time with a new sponsor. The NASCAR Busch Series' Federated Auto Parts 300, presented for the first time by Dollar General, will be June 9 at the track. Speedway officials said the new partnership with...

Lebanon's Elie finishes 9th in state pentathlon

MURFREESBORO — Lebanon sophomore Icelyn Elie finished ninth in the girls' state pentathlon Monday at Middle Tennessee State University. Elie finished with 2,701 points in the five-event competition. She ran the 100-meter hurdles in 16.84 seconds [615 points], covered 4-11 3/4 in the high jump...

Dawgs draw Bellevue for first round

Cumberland has drawn a familiar foe for the opening round of the NAIA World Series. The fourth-seeded Bulldogs will face No. 5 Bellevue [Neb.] at 5 p.m. CDT Friday at Lewis-Clark State's Harris Field in Lewiston, Idaho. The teams have met several times dating to the 1995 national-championship game ...

Saturday Morning Quarterback

A few weeks ago, someone with longtime connections to Cumberland baseball reluctantly said Trevecca had the better team this year. He could have proclaimed it over the Woody Hunt Stadium PA system and no one in the park would have disagreed with him that day as the Trojans were in the process of wh...

Cumberland climbs within win of Series

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. — Cumberland hasn't played at Union College's Harlan Sanders Field since the schools were rivals in the Mid-South Conference some five years ago. Yet, the Bulldogs find themselves in familiar territory for the fourth straight season – one win from the NAIA World Series...

It's a miracle!!!

Home plate represented Murfreesboro to Friendship Christian, and for most of Friday's sectional with Grace Baptist, it seemed just as far away. With eighth-grade left-hander Lacye Walker keeping the Lady Commanders off balance with a 1-0 lead, it started to sink in for some that Friendship may not ...

Four in a row for Cumberland

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. —One of the keys to Cumberland's success against Union [Ky.] College in the South Central Super Regional was how the Bulldog pitchers and catcher Luis Martinez would stop the home team's best-in-the-NAIA base stealers. After stopping the host Bulldogs in the conventional way...

Back to State for Friendship

When Friendship Christian fell behind and missed a couple of early scoring chances, painful memories of last year's sectional loss to Lookout Valley could have returned. But G.L. Waynick turned momentum around with a two-run homer and Brian Cravens shut the door on Chattanooga School for the Arts &...

Searcey's one-hitter hands 4-A flag to FCS

MONTEREY — It took a while for Friendship Christian's hits to start falling. But once they did, the Commanders run-ruled Monterey 11-0 in six innings Wednesday to win the Region 4-A championship. While Monterey was making plays defensively, Friendship's Cody Searcey held the Wildcats to a sin...