Stories from Sunday, March 20, 2005

The four eighth graders occupying Community High starting positions got a taste of tough District 11-A softball competition in a 7-1 loss Friday at Huntland. But the Viqueens held their own early, gaining a 1-1 tie behind Ali Vincent's second-inning single until the Lady Hornets (2-1) scored two runs on two hits in the third inning...

Christine Klisavage toed the rubber all seven innings for Webb, striking out 12 while allowing just four hits and a walk to earn the victory in a 10-1 win over Middle Tennessee Christian in Murfreesboro on Friday afternoon. Grace Iorio was 3-for-4 at the plate for the Lady Feet, including a double, triple and home run, as she drove in two runs in their season-opener. Emily Stintson added two hits and two RBIs...

Shelbyville Central fell to 1-2 on the season after a 3-0 loss to Lebanon in Tullahoma on Thursday night. "We gave up some goals in the first few minutes of the game and never recovered from there," Eagle coach Neal Gordon said. "Overall, we did not play well...

Cascade dropped a tough Class A versus AAA matchup on Friday afternoon by losing 12-0 to Franklin County in the seventh annual Loretto St. Patrick's Tournament. Eighth grader Josh Brown took the loss for Cascade (2-1). Junior Kelby Sanders was one of two base-runners the Champions could muster as he provided their lone hit...

When your doorbell rings this spring for prom, are you cringing at the thought of the hormonal adolescent that may appear on your doorstep to pick up your little girl? Parents everywhere likely want to see that intelligent, athletic young man stand up straight when the door is opened...

State Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey and former U.S. congressmen Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant, along with State Sen. Jim Tracy, made appearances Friday at Bedford County Republican Party's annual Presidents' Day Dinner. Ramsey and Tracy were the announced keynote speakers; Hilleary and Bryant were on the campaign trail, as both are running for the U.S. Senate seat which will be vacated by Sen. Bill Frist at the end of 2006...

A Shelbyville woman was critically injured Saturday afternoon when her car overturned -- pinning her underneath -- on Highway 82 South near the Moore County line. Dawn Rogers, 44, was flown from near the accident scene to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville...

MOTLOW COLLEGE -- When Charles Dryden was a toddler, his mother told him, he would throw bits of paper into the air and say "airplane" -- or, at least, as close to "airplane" as a child can pronounce at that age. It was no coincidence, then, that Dryden's future lay in aviation -- not just in aviation, but as one of the renowned "Tuskegee Airmen," the pioneering black aviators of World War II...

Former Shelbyville resident Judy Strode, 54, of Murfreesboro died Friday at Alive Hospice in Nashville. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Emmet Arnold and Linda Arnold officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

From T-G Staff Reports The Tennessee Valley Winds, a community band based in Murfreesboro, and Tennessee Poet Laureate Maggi Vaughn of Bell Buckle will be among the guests for this year's Nashville Symphony concert at Calsonic Arena in Shelbyville. The concert will take place April 26. The local steering committee for the concert met Monday at the Fly Arts Center...