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Inaugural MJ Middle team goes undefeated

Mt. Juliet Middle School's first-ever golf team went 10-0 in the regular season and won the regional tournament Tuesday at Henry Horton State Park. The Golden Bears won the regional with 341 to Siegel's 345 and Blackman's 376 out of a 10-team field and 50 players. Five Bears finished in the top 11,...

Whitmer pitches Cumbeland to 2-0 win

JACKSON — Woody Hunt spent the season trying to save Zach Whitmer for the tournament. With tournament time here, the Cumberland coach allowed his left-handed ace to let it all hang out Thursday night in the TranSouth Conference winner's bracket final and the senior turned in a spectacular per...

Lady Dawgs ousted by Union 4-3

HENDERSON — Cumberland staved off elimination from the TranSouth Conference softball tournament Thursday with a 4-3 midday win over Bethel at Freed-Hardeman. But the Lady Bulldogs went down to defeat by the same score late Thursday to Union to end a 12-27 season. Union opened the tournament b...

Commanders claim season's first victory

NASHVILLE — While Lebanon was hit by a thunderstorm early Thursday evening, Friendship Christian played in the dry at Davidson Academy. It didn't keep Commander coach Terry Reeves from getting wet, though. Friendship held on to a 2-1 victory, the Commanders' first of the season under first-ye...

Another conference crown for CU

JACKSON — What a difference a week makes. Seven days after Trevecca celebrated on Cumberland's Ernest L. Stockton Field after whipping the Bulldogs to take the TranSouth Conference regular-season championship, it was CU's time to shine with the Trojans in the other dugout via a 16-10 conquest...

Saturday Morning Quarterback

While the Titans are getting a C grade from the NFL draft [which should be an incomplete right now], the draft area baseball people are waiting for is the June Major League Baseball draft. Wilson County players should be prominent in the draft once again. The most intriguing local name is Mt. Julie...

Wilson Central slips past Smyrna

GLADEVILLE — On a day when most teams couldn't get their games in, Wilson Central barely escaped with a victory in the first game of the District 9-AAA tournament Friday. The Lady Wildcats eked out a run in the bottom of the fifth inning to break a tie and Leevie Greenwood pitched 3 2/3 innin...

Fomasi pitches Dawgs into winner's final

JACKSON — Anthony Fomasi, normally not a weekend starter, turned in a top-three-in-the-rotation performance Wednesday night as Cumberland moved into the winner's bracket final of the TranSouth Conference tournament with a 3-0 win over Bethel at Union's Fesmire Field. The junior left-hander, w...

Union overtakes CU

HENDERSON — Union scored twice in the bottom of the fifth inning Wednesday night as the third-seeded Lady Bulldogs overtook sixth-seed Cumberland 6-5 in the final game of the opening round of the TranSouth Conference tournament. Cumberland [also known as the Lady Bulldogs] scored twice in the...

Commanders claim District 8-A-AA crown

NASHVILLE — Friendship Christian's boys won the District 8-AA team championship Tuesday with a 5-1 win over Merrol Hyde at Hadley Park. Merrol Hyde took the girls' title with a 4-3 win over the Lady Commandres. Singles winners for the Commanders were Dillon Bane over Alan Wong 6-0, 6-0; Andre...