Stories from Monday, March 21, 2005

MURFREESBORO -- Shelbyville's Golden Eagle baseball team went 1-2 over the weekend in the Smyrna Grand Slam Challenge, falling to Ravenwood Friday evening and losing their first Saturday game to Brentwood before claiming an 11-7 win over Hunters Lane...

HENDERSONVILLE -- Shelbyville's Golden Eaglette softball team completed tournament action in Hendersonville this past weekend with a win and three losses. The Eaglettes stopped Lewis County but lost three games. Shelbyville (7-7-1) entertains District 8-AAA foe Lincoln County tonight at 6...

Bedford County Chancellor J.B. Cox on Friday rejected a woman's guilty plea in a double vehicular homicide case stemming from a head-on, two-vehicle crash Sept. 10 on State Highway 64 West near the Knight Campground Road intersection. "You could see where Mom tried to get over and avoid it," said Justin Hart, the 20-year-old son of Sandra Voelkel, 40, and grandson of Mattie Bell Smith, 80, both of Flat Creek, who died after Voelkel's car collided with a pickup truck driven by Regina Andrews...

The Parks & Recreation Foundation of Bedford County has announced that a memorial fund honoring James "Buddy" Overcast has been established at First Community Bank and Peoples Bank of Bedford County. Mr. Overcast, whose support of Bedford County athletics spanned more than three decades, served as director of the Shelbyville Parks & Recreation Department for 12 years until the time of his death on March 11...

South Central Tennessee Development District has presented State Rep. Curt Cobb of Shelbyville with its Legislator of the Year Award. The award was presented at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Development District Association in Nashville. "Representative Cobb is being recognized for his outstanding leadership and active involvement," SCTDD Executive Director Joe Max Williams said. ...

Nearly $18 million should be spent to know how clean a home should be after a methamphetimine laboratory is removed by police, according to a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon and recommended late last week by the House Science Committee. On March 5, Shelbyville police discovered remnants of a meth lab in an apartment on Barksdale Lane where Wendell Norton of the Southeast Meth Task Force supervised clean-up of the illegal lab. ...

Funeral services for Jack Edward Ray, 78, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Alvin C. York Veterans Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hillcrest Funeal Home. Paul Shearin and Anthony Lee "Butch" Williams will officiate and burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery...

Webb ventured over to Cumming, Ga., this past weekend for the South Forsyth Invitational and came out tournament champions. Charlie Abernathy found Michael Lochmondy for the game-winning goal with 3:52 left as the Feet defeated Northview (Ga.) 9-8 on Saturday afternoon for the championship...

Cascade defeated neighboring Marshall County 7-2 in their first game on Saturday in the 7th Annual Loretto St. Patrick's Tournament. The Tigers entered the game ranked fourth in Class AA and first in the midstate according to the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association...

Memorial services for Norman Taylor, 50, of Shelbyville, who died Thursday in an automobile accident, will be held at First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church in North Chicago, Ill.

Funeral services for Viola Buckingham, 95, of Bell Buckle, who died Saturday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be noon Wednesday at J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home. The Rev. James A. Crutchfield will officiate and burial will follow in Whitworth Cemetery...