Stories from Monday, January 26, 2004

FAYETTEVILLE -- Lincoln County's Lady Falcons (11-11, 3-6) may not sport the winningest record in District 8-AAA but they never quit. Neither do their fans. Not knowing the score, it sounded like a three-point ball game at LCHS Gym Friday night. But, no matter how much the home fans willed the score differently, it wasn't meant to be as visiting Shelbyville took home a 54-32 win...

CHAPEL HILL -- It wasn't pretty, but it was a win as Cascade's Lady Champions (12-4/8-3) edged Forrest's Lady Rockets 46-41 in overtime to claim a big District 11A road win Friday night. Trailing 38-32, the Lady Champions held Forrest scoreless the final 2:55 of regulation while senior standout Laura Cowley scored six unanswered points, including a basket with 0:14 left, to play to knot the game at 38-38...

The Community Vikings (10-6, 7-4) started their District 11A game against the Richland Raiders at full speed, but ran out of gas in the third quarter and lost 75-58 in Unionville on Friday night. Leading scorer Andrew Haywood scored 14 of his game-high 28 points during the final quarter in an attempt to catch up...

FAYETTEVILLE -- After an upsetting 48-47 loss to Montgomery Bell Academy Tuesday night Shelbyville's Golden Eagles (13-6, 7-1 District 8AAA) regrouped, coming out and staying strong against Lincoln County (0-14, 0-9) to win 69-50. The Eagles redeemed themselves by playing a well rounded game. They consistently added points while keeping their defensive pressure up, rotating players in and out with fresh legs and giving Lincoln County little chance to stay with them in the end...

The Community Vikings (10-6, 7-4) started their District 11A game against the Richland Raiders at full speed, but ran out of gas in the third quarter and lost 75-58 in Unionville on Friday night. Leading scorer Andrew Haywood scored 14 of his game-high 28 points during the final quarter in an attempt to catch up...

After a long dry spell when The Webb School's Lady Feet couldn't seem to buy a win, Christian Community High School was just the opponent they needed. Webb won 42-31 Friday. Webb trailed until the final quarter when they blasted the bottom out of the bucket, outscoring CCHS 23-7...

Webb's boys flexed their muscles Friday, downing visiting Christian Community 60-41. The Feet took a 21-11 first-period lead as Kirk Gilmore nailed four of his five threes en route to a 21-point total. CCHS edged Webb 13-12 in the second period. Webb led 33-24 at the half. The Feet overpowed CCHS 16-3 in the third to lead 49-27 heading into the final stanza, in which CCHS outscored the Feet 14-11...

Cascade's Champions and the Liberty Lady Patriots claimed Bedford County Classic championships Saturday night at Liberty School. The Champions downed Liberty's Patriots 39-33 in a hard-fought battle. The Lady Patriots stopped the Community Viqueens 34-29...

Victory Baptist Academy had a tiger by the tail Friday but fell 70-63 to visiting United Christian of Dickson. UC jumped out with a 14-7 lead at the end of the first quarter. By the end of the second period VBA fought to a 28-28 tie. Victory kept the pressure on and led 50-46 going into the fourth quarter...

KNOXVILLE -- Sometimes having heart just isn't quite enough. The Tennessee Vols learned this lesson the hard way on the losing side of a physical 65-62 battle at Thompson-Boling Arena on Sunday night. Fans filed out of the arena with under a minute remaining in the game and the Vols down by seven points. ...

Recognizing the premise "you can't plant new trees until you put out the forest fire," Bedford County Medical Center administrators, members of the Board of Trustees Fact-Finding Committee and several board members began work on doing both Friday afternoon...

Two former Shelbyville residents, a Lewisburg woman and a local man have been arrested after being indicted by "direct presentment" by the Bedford County grand jury on Thursday. Brian Keith Wood, 47, and Melinda Wood, 41, both of Estill Springs, are charged with stealing between $10,000 and $60,000 from PayPal, a company which processes credit cards and checks from persons buying over the Internet. They formerly lived and conducted business from 1406 Cherry St. in Shelbyville...

A Shelbyville man faces multiple charges, including fifth offense DUI and simple possession of a schedule VI drug, following a high-speed pursuit through city streets Friday night. Derek Evan Wall, 34, led officers to his Carlisle Avenue home. Officers Tim Fox and Chris Jones took him into custody after a brief foot chase through his yard...