Area Sports

Blake and Heather Allen had better get some frequent flier miles set up for their son, South Gibson sophomore Cade Allen. Since the start of the school year, Cade Allen has gone from Cary, NC for the U15 Team USA baseball tryouts, back to Medina for two weeks to then fly to Miami, Fla. and…

“Is that a tumbleweed?,” I joked sitting at my desk on Monday. “Fall break makes Weakley County like a ghost town as people are at the beach or at the mountains or just out of town.” “Fall break makes the pickings slim this week as for high school athletics,” Weakley County Press editor Josh Lemons…

After eight weeks of the high school football season, there are four undefeated teams in West Tennessee and four teams without a win. Here is a breakdown of each of those six teams: UNDEFEATED Dresden Record: 8-0 Score differential: Plus-247 Average score: 46.4.4-15.5 Closest win: Union City (Week 7), 31-28 Remaining opponent record: 8-8 Best…

The Associated Press’ Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee’s six Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through October 8, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point…

The beginning of October is the time of year when school systems take Fall Break. Multiple teams had fall break last week, while others have it this week. Fall break usually means bye weeks for football teams also. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t big games. Haywood and Hardin County was a key West Tennessee…

Here are the updated region standings for West Tennessee teams after Week 8. Region 6-1A Reg. Over. McKenzie 4-0 7-1 W. Carroll 4-0 5-1 Houston Co. 2-2 3-5 McEwen 0-2 1-5 Perry Co. 0-3 2-5 Bruceton 0-3 1-7 Region 7-1A Reg. Over. Dresden 5-0 8-0 Lake Co. 4-1 4-3 Union City 3-1 4-3 S. Fulton…

“Is that a tumbleweed,” I joked sitting at my desk on Monday. “Fall break makes Gibson County like a ghost town as people are at the beach or at the mountains or just out of town.” “Fall break makes the pickings slim this week as for high school athletics,” Mirror-Exchange editor Victor Parkins said. “No…

11 days after the incident took place, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) has handed down its final ruling from when both benches emptied during the first half of the Huntingdon-Milan game. Huntingdon and Milan have both been placed on probation until the end of the 2024-25 school year, and probation results in a…