Eddie

I saw a good part of the scrimmage. Quincy Russell (#2) of Franklin Co. is an outstanding talent. He played QB, tailback, TE and in the secondary. He broke an option play for a TD, ran the ball on the end-around and returned an interception for a TD. Tough, physical athlete.

Mt. Juliet High football will be carried live this season on WCOR AM-900 out of Lebanon. The games were tape-delayed last year and played Saturday mornings after the Coaches Breakfast ended at 10 a.m. Pat Lawson is the play-by-play man.

The new football coach has been named at Wilson Central. Check the web site www.wilsonworld.com for the details.

Sampson started junior Crystal McNeese who got behind 3-0. She was replaced by Trish White who got the win.

Antwan -- I think you're right at 7-6. FCS advances to play USJ, in fact the game should be going right now. FCS was down 6-0 and came back. The Cross girl (SS) had a three-run inside the park HR in the sixth,

The official book had Boyd with four errors. The big junior righty Medlin was DOMINATING. Boyd got three runs in the top of thr 7th off the Sledge kid. Jeremy Davis hit a three-run homer for the Bucs. Sledge threw hard but got a little shook up. Friendship advances with a record of 35-6.

game time is 6 PM at Friendship's on-campus field. They have lights sould there be extra innings or delays.

Friendship's Trish White threw a five-inning one-hitter and struck out 11. She's now 20-2 on the season.

Any details? Who pitched for Coffee County, strikeouts, hits allowed? Did Lebanon ever threaten?

Central freshman coach Jody Atwood has been named interim head coach and will run spring practice. Assistants Larry Grissim and Jeff Majors will help along with Benny Jennings (former freshman coach at Lebanon High) and Luke Dycus. Luke is an assistant on the boys basketball staff and may have helped with football somewhere prior to coming to Central. Best of luck to the Wildcats.

No, Gary Hannah played football at Mt. Juliet High School and is a native of Wilson County.

ELA --

Check the lead story at www.wilsonworld.com.

Eddie

Beech defeated Wilson Central 2-1. Mt. Juliet defeated Beech 4-1 as Ryan Hill hit a walk-off 3-run homer in the bottom of the eighth for the Bears. Here's today's (May 5) games at Mt. Juliet: Smyrna vs. Beech at 4 PM with the winner advancing to play Mt. Juliet at 7 PM.

Did they get the game started (and or finished) before the storm blew through?

The girls basketball program at Lebanon High goes by Devilettes.

The Lebanon - Shelbyville game scheduled Monday afternoon at Veterans Field has been postponed due to wet grounds. Lebanon will host Oakland Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30 PM.

[Edited by Eddie on 4-21-03 1:41P]

Mason is the guy -- the story is at www.wilsonworld.com

The Nashville City Paper is reporting MBA has hired former Vandy standout Kevin Anglin as basketball coach.

I realize this is a high school board -- but what happened at Greer Stadium tonight was very rare indeed -- a perfect game. Here's the story.

Wasdin tosses 1st perfect game in Sounds' history

By Doug Scopel, Nashville Sounds

NASHVILLE ˜ It was John Wasdin˜s world on Monday evening in Nashville.

The 30-year-old Nashville Sounds starter fired the first perfect game in the team˜s 26-year history in a 4-0, 100-pitch victory over the visiting Albuquerque Isotopes at Greer Stadium in front of 1,946 excited fans.

Wasdin (1-0) struck out Isotopes pinch-hitter Robert Stratton on three pitches to close the game before he was mobbed by his teammates just in front of the mound following his first start of the 2003 season.

˜It hasn˜t even hit me yet,˜ a humble Wasdin said to a group of reporters on the field following the game. ˜I˜ll try to enjoy it but I have to get back to work tomorrow with my running.˜

Wasdin matched a Nashville individual-game record with 15 strikeouts in the contest, including the final two batters he faced, to etch his name in the record books. Seventy-two of his 100 pitches were thrown for strikes.

Nashville manager Trent Jewett addressed the entire Sounds team about the night˜s significance in the Greer Stadium clubhouse immediately following the game.

˜A lot of you have been in baseball a long time, but what you just witnessed, you˜ll never see anything more magical or more difficult,˜ Jewett said. ˜Absolutely unbelievable.˜

Nashville third baseman Mike Gulan provided the biggest defensive play behind Wasdin, snaring a sharply-hit Matt Treanor line drive back-handed just inside the third-base line to record the first out of the ninth inning. Gulan also made an outstanding barehand play on a Jesus Medrano bunt in the top of the fourth inning to nail the Albuquerque leadoff hitter by a step at first.

Wasdin˜s perfect game was Nashville˜s first no-hit effort since Jack Armstrong tossed one against Indianapolis on August 7, 1988, and was the fourth by a Sounds hurler and eighth overall in a game involving the Sounds. Oklahoma City˜s Rick Helling fired a perfect game against the Sounds in Oklahoma in August 1986.

Lost in the euphoria of Wasdin˜s achievement is the fact that Nashville pitchers have now posted 34 consecutive shutout innings, dating back four games to the third inning of the season opener on April 3rd against Iowa.

The Sounds and Isotopes meet again at 7 PM tomorrow at Greer Stadium in the second game of the four-game series. Nashville right-hander Brian Meadows makes his first start of the year. He˜ll face Albuquerque

right-hander Sean Bergman (0-0).

I understand Columbia has talked with Eric White, one of the assistants at Shelbyville. He was an assistant at MTSU and before then at UT-Martin.

Riverdale will be getting a new golf coach -- Matt Bradshaw from Lebanon High. A longtime assistant basketball coach at Lebanon, Bradshaw played collegiately at Cumberland University. He'll also be an assistant on the boys hoops staff at RHS.

Watertown overcame five errors and defeated Westmoreland 2-1 Thursday at Three Forks Park in W-Town. Watertown improved to 8-4 overall and 5-1 in 8-A. Brandy Carter was the WP -- giving up four hits and a walk. She struck out 5.

I couldn't agree more --softball & baseball.

Does anyone have a final score on the Cannon County game at Watertown Friday, March 21?

Cumberland fully funds to the NAIA scholarship maximums. They have a non-scholarship JV program.