Community Sports

Vilda Westh-Blanc recently competed in the USGA girls Junior Amateur Championship qualifier, held at Old Fort Golf Club in Murfreesboro. She shot a 74 and placed second, but missed out on a qualifying spot for the Junior Amateur Championship following a five-person playoff...

Last weekend, W.A.B. Sports hosted its fourth annual football camp and celebrity golf tournament, featuring 15 former NFL and Hall of Fame players. The weekend started on Friday and concluded on Saturday with the football skill scamp. The weekend concluded with Sunday’s celebrity golf tournament where one lucky golfer managed to win the putting contest and the prize of $35,000...

Shelbyville Times-Gazette freelance writer and former editor Mark McGee recently won third place in the Tennessee Sports Writers Association awards for his feature work published in the Times-Gazette. McGee took third place in the Best Feature Writer category for his stories on former Shelbyville Central standout soccer player, Olivia Doak, who now plays soccer at Lipscomb University. ...

On Thursday afternoon, the Shelbyville Sharks hosted the Athens Gators in a league meet at the Shelbyville Recreation Center. The Sharks eventually pulled away from Athens for a combined 332-253 win in the dual-team meet. In the meet, several Sharks recorded individual standout performances and the team finished with a stellar 79 personal best times...

Last weekend, the Fusion 05 team from Tri-Lake FC took bronze in the U14 Division at the Alabama State Games. The team is made of players from Manchester, Winchester and Tullahoma and competed against teams from Montgomery, Ala. and Northern Georgia...

River Bend Country Club will host the 23rd annual Shelbyville Rotary Club golf tournament on Friday afternoon. The tournament aims to take proceeds to benefit local education. Some of the beneficiaries of the tournament include the Department of Adult Education, Motlow’s Rotary Club sponsored Career Day, and a dictionary distribution in which every third grader in the county is given a dictionary by the club...