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Lady Wildcats dethroned by Antioch

GLADEVILLE — A year after joyously dancing off the Murphy Center floor with the gold ball, Wilson Central's girls were left on their knees in tears after Antioch denied the defending state champions a fourth straight trip to the State Tournament. The TSSAA sectionals are the best night in Ten...

Lambuth ousts CU

JACKSON — Lambuth's 18th-ranked Eagles put away pesky Cumberland 84-71 in the TranSouth Conference quarterfinals Thursday night. The Eagles led 40-39 at halftime before they pulled away by knocking down 11 of 13 free throws in the second half to reach the semifinals with a 25-6 record. Ivan J...

Wesleyan doubles up Dawgs 8-4

ATHENS — Tennessee Wesleyan broke a tie with two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday and added insurance scores later for an 8-4 victory over visiting Cumberland at Jack Bowling Field. Matt Gray tripled home the go-ahead run and scored moments later on Vladimir Frias' squeeze bun...

Carr hits walk-off HR in first CU at-bat

It didn't take long for Courtney Carr to have an impact on the college softball level. The freshman from Friendship Christian hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run in her first college at bat Friday, lifting Cumberland to a 3-2 win over visiting Mountain State in the first game of a double header at J...

Dawgs drop TSC opener to Freed

HENDERSON — Cumberland's TranSouth Conference season got off to an inauspicious start Friday night as host Freed-Hardeman jumped to an early lead in a 7-5 victory at Carnes Field. The Lions chased CU starter Karl Mejholm with six runs [four earned] in the first 1 2/3 innings. The senior right...

Saturday Morning Quarterback

The TSSAA seems to be the favorite whipping boy of everyone associated with high school athletics. Whatever the state's high school athletics governing body decides seems to rankle more people than it pleases. And the reasons usually start and stop with the $. One of those decisions was the move to...

Commander comeback thwarted

WATERTOWN — It seems like Pickett County is in the Region 4-A finals every season while Friendship Christian was making its first appearance in the round of 16 in six years. That experience factor may have been the difference as the Bobcats held off a gritty and tenacious Commander team 63-58...

Lady 'Cats rule the region

HENDERSONVILLE — With Miss Basketball finalist Tierney Jenkins on the floor, Northeast's Dawn Evans put on a third-quarter show for the ages in Wednesday's Region 5-AAA final at Beech. But Jenkins and her Wilson Central teammates answered in the fourth quarter and the defending state-champion...

Red-hot Lambuth shoots down CU

JACKSON — Hours after moving up a notch in the NAIA women's basketball poll, No. 12 Cumberland found itself trailing a Lambuth team looking to better its No. 19 ranking before the national tournament. The Lady Eagles sank eight first-half three-pointers to build a big lead and eventually send...

Lady 'Cats dominate Dickson, return to sectional

HENDERSONVILLE — Dickson County and Wilson Central traded basket for basket and lead for lead during the first 12 minutes of Monday's Region 5-AAA semifinal at Beech. Then the light clicked on for the defending state champion Lady Wildcats, who punted the Lady Cougars back to Dickson with a 6...