MTSU head baseball coach Steve Peterson and the Blue Raider baseball team will hold the annual Show-Me baseball camp on Sunday, Feb. 13, at Reese Smith Field.Also scheduled to appear at the camp will be former Blue Raiders and current professional baseball players Jason Maxwell (Tampa Bay Devil Rays), Bryan Peck (Colorado Rockies), Adam Larson…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard In seventh- and eighth-grade basketball action Thursday night at Irving College, Centertown split with its hosts as the Lady Tigers defeated the Lady Warriors 32-28 in the first game of the night then Centertown boys downed Irving College 45-22.The Lady Tigers out-scored Centertown in the…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Thursday night at Warren County Middle School, the Lady Pioneer eighth-graders fell to Manchester Westwood 34-18.Westwood jumped out to an early lead in the opening minutes of the first period behind the hot shooting of Leslie Keele, who nailed two 3-pointers. Tiffany Long had the…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard There is strength in numbers, and Warren County Middle School’s seventh-grade Lady Pioneers took advantage of moving up several players from its sixth-grade team for Thursday’s match up with the Lady Wildcats of Dibrell.The beefed-up Lady Pioneers downed Dibrell’s seventh- and eighth-grade squad 25-17 at…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Thursday night at the Warren County Middle School, the Pioneers’ seventh-grade basketball team slipped past the Dibrell Wildcats 45-37 as Pioneer Brett Patterson led the charge with 25 points on the night.Patterson opened up the game with back-to-back baskets for the Pioneers, but Cody Bond…

By Duane Sherrill Okay, so now I owe the Trojans an apology after dogging them all year, saying they were “overrated” and had no business in the title game.They came in and smoked the Oklahoma Sooners like a practice squad, humiliating the pride of the Big 12 on the national stage at the Orange Bowl.…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Nellie Ruth Higginbotham, 87, died Jan. 7 at Raintree Manor after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Christ United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of Arthur A. and Cora Ann Crouch Goodwin; and was preceded in death by grandson, Michael Hennessee, one infant son and two…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Jason Paul Lentz, 28, died Jan. 6 at Select Specialty Hospital in Nashville from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.A nurseryman with Lentz Nursery and a member of Gath Baptist Church, he was the son of J.D. and Reta Lentz of McMinnville, he is also survived by sister and…

Morrison resident and Green Forest, Ark., native James E. Davis, 80, died Jan. 7 at Manchester Healthcare after an extended illness.A retired rural mail carrier serving for 37 years with the U.S. Postal Service and a member of Morrison Church of Christ, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.The son…

Cummingsville community resident and Van Buren County native Hassie Walker, 92, died Jan. 7 at Cumberland Medical Center after a two-month illness.A retired factory worker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Issac Clinton and Lula Poore Walker, and was preceded in death by brothers, Brentley, Brintz…