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Another shot at a state championship

MURFREESBORO — Nearly six months after their dream football season ended with a championship-game loss to Jackson Christian, Friendship Christian gets another crack at the Eagles for all the marbles – in baseball. With many of the same players – and the two head coaches and probab...

FCS, MJ walk off with season-saving wins

MURFREESBORO — In one of the most memorable days in Wilson County high school softball history, Friendship Christian and Mt. Juliet played for their seasons in concurrent games on adjacent fields – twice. And both are in the loser's bracket finals in their respective State Tournaments a...

FCS' Fry fires shutout vs. Midway

MURFREESBORO — Fifteen hours after a disappointing loss, Friendship Christian was back at it at Starplex and the Lady Commanders began their run through the Class A loser's bracket with an 8-0 win over Midway. "We came out hitting the ball hard today," Friendship coach Erica Powell said after...

Pitching loaded for bracket final

MURFREESBORO — For a coach whose team has to win two games today to play for a state championship, John McNeal has every reason to feel giddy this morning. Less than two days after two of his top three pitchers got lost on the way to the first game of the State Tournament, McNeal's Friendship...

Lebanon's Dewaal 18th in TSSAA state pole vault

MURFREESBORO — A hobbling Emile Dewaal finished 18th in the girls' state pole vault Wednesday with a 7-6 at Middle Tennessee State University. The Lebanon junior, in the State Meet for the second straight year, hurt her foot during the subsectional two weeks ago. Teammates Jenna Forrest and I...

Martin HR, Roark's pitching lift Lady Bears

Kenzie Roark took care of the pitching while Merrick Martin provided the offense and much of the defense in Mt. Juliet's 2-0 win over Bolton in the first round of the State Tournament on Tuesday at Starplex. Roark turned in a typical two-hit performance with no walks and 11 strikeouts to push the L...

Commanders go in wrong direction with pitcher lost

MURFREESBORO — Look on the bright side, Friendship Christian will have its pitching at full strength when the Commanders begin their climb through the Class A State Tournament's loser's bracket today at Riverdale. Stephen Pryor and Cody Searcey, Tuesday's scheduled starter and No. 3 hurler, r...

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 ...

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...