By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Josh Bratcher attempts to lay down a sacrifice bunt during Friday?s game against Lebanon. Bratcher drove in the game-deciding two runs in Saturday?s 6-5 win over Cookeville. MURFREESBORO ? The Pioneer baseball team rallied to stay alive in the District 7-AAA tournament Saturday afternoon, coming back…

Angela Stanford got her putter working and shot a 6-under par 66 Saturday, building a four-shot lead after three rounds at the Franklin American Mortgage Championship. Stanford entered the day ahead by one stroke at Vanderbilt Legends Club’s Ironhorse Course. She responded with 27 putts in a seven-birdie, one-bogey round that featured five straight birdies…

Freshman football practice site changed Spring practice for the WCHS freshman football team is scheduled for this week and will be held at Warren County High School?s practice field, rather than its originally scheduled site at the middle school. All upcoming freshmen who are interested in playing football this fall are encouraged to attend spring…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The senior members of the Warren County High School soccer team played their final home game Thursday, taking on Lincoln County and finishing with a 2-2 tie. Pictured are, from left, Dustin Martin, Travis Mausey, Abram Pryor, Mark Chambers and Jose Macias. Just before the Pioneer…

(AP) ? A look at the matchups in the second round of the NBA playoffs, which begin Sunday: EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 DETROIT PISTONS (64-18, 4-1) vs. No. 3 CLEVELAND CAVALIERS (50-32, 4-2) Season Series: Pistons, 3-1, won the last three meetings after the Cavaliers? home victory on New Year?s Eve. All the games were…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Cassie Wanamaker throws out a runner at first after fielding a grounder during a recent Boyd softball game. Wanamaker struck out six batters in Thursday?s District 9-A tournament victory over Eagleville. It had been five years since the Lady Bronco softball team has won a district…

NEW YORK (AP) Jose Reyes and Kaz Matsui each had run-scoring hits in another seventh-inning comeback and the New York Mets beat Atlanta 6-5 Saturday, putting the Braves nine games out in the NL East for the first time since Aug. 11, 1993. It was the fourth straight win for the Mets and fourth straight…

Duane Sherrill Okay, so what do we do to the guy who basically built the Titans, the only guy left who came over from the former Houston Oilers, the guy who has thrown his health away to entertain us Titan fans every week for years? We leave him dangling in the wind just to tease…

Cookeville rolled to a 8-2 win over the Pioneers in the second round of the District 7-AAA tournament. Mike Neal and Moody Tubbs led the Pioneers with two hits each. Buddy Majors, Darwin Holt and Terry West added one hit apiece.(May 6, 1981)

WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) A man was indicted last week on charges of impersonating a doctor and defrauding insurance companies for six years while working at his father’s practice. Dennis Charles ?Chuck? Arellano was indicted May 1 on one count of theft over $60,000, one count of TennCare fraud, and one count of impersonation of a…