Stories from Friday, February 20, 2004

KNOXVILLE -- Tennessee's Lady Vols once again fought their way to victory, this time in an 88-79 showdown Thursday with Florida. And it was evident that the Lady Vols were limping a little. Things just keep happening to the Tennessee women. First, point guard Loree Moore went down with a season-ending knee injury. And now Brittany Jackson is out with a knee injury. The rule of thumb with the Lady Vols, though, is when one goes down the others fight that much harder to pick up the slack...

Four Cascade Lady Champion seniors walked onto the court for one last time in the regular season and walked off with a 52-25 victory over Middle Tennessee Christian School's Lady Cougars Thursday night at home in a non-district matchup. Laura Cowley, Kristan Armstrong, Jessica Fox and Taylor Grissom will be an everlasting memory for their coach the past four years. ...

Cascade's Champions (15-7) closed out the regular season with a 42-39 win over Middle Tennessee Christian School's Cougars at home Thursday night in a non-district matchup. It was senior night as Caleb Waters, Josh Mullen, Shaun McLean and Chase Taylor were honored before the game...

Caleb Waters, Shaun McLean and Josh Mullen are four-year members of the Cascade basketball team while Chase Taylor joined the squad as a junior. All four reflected on their past experiences, the current season and their expectations for the postseason as the District 11A Tournament begins Saturday night at Community High School. It's hard enough to learn one coach's philosophy, system and style of play, much less three coaches over a four-year period...

The Shelbyville Golden Eaglettes won by doing as little as possible Thursday night -- although, with the District 8-AAA regular season champions (22-5, 12-0) winning 73-41 over the Hendersonville Lady Commandos, one would have thought they'd have pulled out all the stops...

Being in the right place at the right time certainly has had its rewards for Jared Ester and the Shelbyville Golden Eagles. Ester, for the second time in two weeks, has hit the winning shot. This one put Shelbyville (18-8, 10-2 District 8-AAA) over visiting Hendersonville (11-6, 7-3 District 9-AAA) 55-53 Thursday night...

Two Shelbyville Golden Eagle wrestlers have reached the state tournament. Michael Stewart, a four-year veteran, made his first trip to the state last year. This year he's repeating the feat and taking teammate Charlie Parker with him. Stewart and Parker were two of seven Golden Eagles who wrestled in the Region 5 double elimination tournament last weekend in Tullahoma...

A report of "suspicious" activity at a vacant South Cannon Boulevard home led to the arrest of two men on burglary charges Wednesday afternoon. Nicholas C. Johnston, 24, Couch Lane, and Roy J. Miller, 20, Whiteside Road were each charged with burglary and theft under $500...

The first of the defendants in the quadruple homicide which left Jackie Addison, 21, of Wartrace, Christy Jones, 22, and Matthew Kelley, 22, both of Shelbyville, and Tonya Taylor, 23, of Tullahoma dead in a burned Cortner Hollow Road trailer will be back in Bedford County March 15 to face those charges...

Quorum Health Resources' annual progress report raised few questions at last night's meeting of the Bedford County Medical Center Board of Trustees. Trustees ratified accreditation, building and grounds and finance committee reports from Monday night's committee sessions, attended by all present trustees...