Stories from Tuesday, January 27, 2004

ANTIOCH -- A team can only get better if they play teams better than themselves and the Shelbyville Golden Eagles (13-7, 7-1 District 8-AAA) went another rung up on the ladder of improvement Monday night against Antioch. Even though Antioch (7-9, 3-4 District 12-AAA) has had an up-and-down season, when they're right they're hard to beat -- and they were in a zone Monday, beating the Eagles 70-60...

HUNTLAND -- Cascade Middle School's Lady Champions closed out the regular season with a 18-7 win over host Huntland Monday night. Cascade got off to a slow start and trailed 2-0 at the end of the first quarter but fought back to even the score at 3-3 at intermission...

CHAPEL HILL -- Community Junior High's Vikings pulled off a 53-44 win over Cornersville, but the Viqueens came up short with a 28-27 loss to Cornersville in the first round of the Forrest World Tournament on Monday. The Vikings pushed out to an early lead in the first quarter and kept the lead throughout the game. ...

MURFREESBORO -- Harris Middle School's Eagles put their undefeated season on the line against Cleveland Middle School's Raiders and returned home with an impressive 52-37 win in the opening round of the James C. Haile Junior High State Tournament hosted by Middle Tennessee Christian School. The Eagles advanced to the semi-finals against the Warren County-Heritage winner Saturday at 3 p.m. at MTCS...

ANTIOCH -- For the past couple of games Ashleigh Newman has been elbowed, kicked, stepped on, pushed, and knocked to the floor. That's not anything really new to this veteran Shelbyville Golden Eaglette, but through all the hits she still manages to lead her team to victory time and time again...

Child Development Center, which last month had asked for permission to use some of the excess property it released back to the city and county in 1997, on Monday night revised its request and said it would like for a strip of property to be deeded back to it by city and county...

United States Marine Lt. John Paul Norman, formerly of Shelbyville, learned about the risks inherent in military life from his grandfathers, Paul Wagster and the late Charles Norman, both of Shelbyville, each of whom served in the United States military...

Sarah Hunt of Shelbyville had gone to Iowa to support her daughter, Jenny, a campaign worker for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign. Jenny was part of "Generation Dean," the nickname for the candidate's teenage and college-age volunteers...