Stories from Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Laura Mae "Big Mama" Patton Williams, 91, of Decherd died Saturday at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Watson-North Funeral Home, Winchester. Burial will be at Watson-North Memorial Park. Visitation will begin at noon.

Ben Boyce pitched a complete game four-hitter to lead the seventh-seeded Liberty Middle Patriots to a 9-6 win over No. 2 seed Westwood Middle in a Mid-South Conference tournament winners' bracket quarterfinal on Sunday afternoon in Chapel Hill. Boyce walked six and struck out four in the only complete game thrown by a Patriot pitcher this season. He made some quality pitches in key situations to help overcome six errors behind him and pick up his second win of the tourney...

Community Middle opened postseason play Sunday in the Mid-South Conference tournament by beating Riverside Christian Academy 10-0 in five innings. The Vikings (19-0) pounded out 15 hits as Michael Kight and Gabe Warrick collected three apiece. All nine Viking starters had at least one hit. Quinn Frost and Dillon West combined for a one-hit shutout...

A Shelbyville woman who had allegedly driven one of her children home while intoxicated was arrested after arriving at Musgrave Park to pick up a second child from a softball game Thursday night, police said. Christa Lynn Adkins, 34, Ray Street, was stopped as she pulled into the parking lot, officer Christopher Vest said in a report...

Republicans running for the Sixth District U.S. House of Representatives seat were the keynote speakers at Bedford County Republican Party's annual banquet Saturday night at the Blue Ribbon Circle on the Celebration grounds. State Sen. Diane Black of Gallatin, Dave Evans of Wartrace, Gary Mann of Franklin, Kerry Roberts of Springfield, Jim Tracy of Shelbyville and Lou Ann Zelenik of Murfreesboro participated. ...

Tyler Buck's two-run blast to left-center field keyed a five-run Cascade sixth inning that led to a 6-5 come-from-behind win over visiting Grundy County in dreary conditions Monday. "I like the way we went after it because for the first four innings, we didn't hit the ball real well," Cascade coach Ralph Edwards said. "It seemed like some of the balls that we had been hitting, started finding holes."...

Eagleville had just a little more power than Community could match on Monday afternoon in District 9-A action as it powered two home runs in a 10-5 defeat of the visiting Vikings. The Purple and Gold matched the Eagles with 10 hits but the long balls were the difference. Eagleville got a two-run shot in a three-run first inning and then added a three-run homer in the third when they scored four runs to open a 7-3 advantage...

A pair of local high school tennis teams squared off Monday when Shelbyville Central made the quick trip out to Webb in Bell Buckle. The Eaglettes closed out their regular season by winning all six matches that were completed. The Eagles took four of five matches...

An accident in January has resulted in an indictment against a Shelbyville man on vehicular homicide charges. Vicente Hernandez Perez, 26, had originally been charged with vehicular assault for critical injuries that 27-year-old Armando Perez Diaz suffered on Jan. 2 while he was Perez's passenger...

A Tullahoma man accused of a 2002 kidnapping and rape will go to trial next month after refusing to plead guilty on Monday. James Lynne Stewart, 52, of South Anderson Street, Tullahoma will go to trial on May 24 on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, aggravated assault and theft over $500 in connection with an alleged incident in 2002...

Good defense and offense along with outstanding pitching is hard to beat. Such was the case for Shelbyville Central in a 11-0 win in six innings at Smyrna on Monday. The Eaglettes (11-20) banged out a dozen hits and didn't commit a error while pitcher Alyssa Moore fanned eight batters and walked one in a three-hit effort...

A man accused of gunning down the mother of his child was indicted by the Bedford County grand jury on Monday. However, David Edward Niles will now be represented by the public defender's office after his attorney removed herself from the case. He will return to court on May 17 before Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler...

Barbara Louise "Bobbie" Taylor, 80, of Chapel Hill died Monday in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill, with the Rev. Charles Melvin Collins officiating. Burial will follow at Swanson Cemetery, Chapel Hill. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Following a game last week, Cascade senior Kyle Saylor had a one-on-one talk with coach Brandon Bassham in search of a tweak to his hitting mechanics after slumping of late. The words of wisdom appear to have registered wholeheartedly with Saylor as he blasted a pair of home runs in a 17-2 win over F.C. Boyd Christian in Wartrace on Monday...

Meagan Reid pitched a complete game shutout and the Community Viqueen hitters hammered Eagleville pitching for 14 hits in a 12-0 win over their District 9-A rival on Monday afternoon. Reid was also a catalyst on offense with three hits in four trips to the plate, including a two-run triple...