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FRIDAY FOOTBALL: HILLCREST @ COVINGTON • MILLINGTON @ BRIGHTON • MUNFORD @ JNS

It’s playoff timeWhat: Hillcrest (4-6) vs. Covington (10-0)When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: Covington Notables: Covington will be the heavy favorite, ranked No. 2 in the Class 4A AP state poll and fea-turing one of state's top tailbacks in Johnston White and a suffocating defense. The Vikings have lost four of their last five games, with the only win in that span coming Memphis Northside, a team that hasn't won a game in several years.

What: Millington (5-5) vs. Brighton (7-3)When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: BrightonNotables: The Cardinals won six straight games to end the season, earning a second seed in the Class 6A west quadrant and a first-round home game. An aerial attack led by QB Brady Stewart and WR Artez Harris and a ground attack featuring Antonio Dick-erson have led the way. Brighton beat Millington 28-27 on Sept. 21 in Millington.

What: Munford (5-5) vs. Jackson North Side (10-0)When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: JacksonNotables: Munford had a chance to earn a higher seed, but fell to Westwood last week, ended up with an eight seed and drew undefeated North Side on the road. It will be a tough test for sure. Huge games from quarterback Hunter Harden and tailback D'Marious Exum will be needed for Munford to pull the upset. The Indians routed MHS 54-14 on Oct. 12.

By JEFF [email protected]

A lot can change in a week. At this point seven days ago, Munford was prepar-

ing to host Westwood and seeded sixth in the Week 9 Class 5A playoff standings.

But the Cougars fell to Westwood and had to wait and wonder if their name would be in the TSSAA brackets Saturday morning.

It was, but the Cougars were seeded eighth and matched up with an undefeated Jackson North Side team that beat them by 40 points less than a month ago.

“At least we're playing a team that we're familiar with,” said Munford head coach Matt Saunders. “We were hoping for a higher seed, but it didn't help us by losing to Westwood.”

There are, however, reasons to be optimistic. Mu-nford didn't play well the first time around against North Side.

Three weeks ago, North Side barely beat Millington, a team that Munford defeated earlier this season.

Saunders was a little worried about his team's mindset following last week's loss, but said his team appears to have recovered.

“We're preaching it's a new season and everybody has the exact same 0-0 record,” Saunders said. “I didn't know how the kids were going to respond to the loss, but I've been pleased with their attitude.”

The situation for Covington, which will host Hill-crest Friday night in round one of the Class 4A play-offs, couldn't be more different.

Ranked second in the state with a 10-0 mark, the Chargers are on a roll, having vanquished longtime rival Milan two weeks ago before routing Ripley a week ago.

The Vikings, according to Wheeler, have “some good speed and are aggressive on defense,” but will clearly be underdogs.

Covington has an experienced team with several guys who played key roles during the team's run to

the semifinals a year ago. “They know if we lose we're done,” Wheeler said.

“We've been in some close games this year and the kids have responded. Any time you have experience it can be nothing but a benefit for you.”

Brighton's playoff position has changed drastically. A week ago the Cardinals were seeded seventh in

the Class 6A third quadrant. After Friday night's win over Dyer County in Newbern, the Cardinals were

moved to the fourth quadrant and seeded second, meaning the Cardinals would be at home in the sec-ond round if they can get past Millington, which they host Friday.

In early September, Brighton was 1-3. But a dra-matic win over Millington on Sept. 21 kick started a six-game winning streak to end the season.

Now the Cardinals face the Trojans again, looking to keep that streak alive.

Chargers, Cardinals will host; Munford hits the road

Covington's Johnston White gets past a Ripley defender during the Chargers' 49-15 win Friday night at home. Covington is 10-0 heading into the playoffs tomorrow night. Photo by Phil Ramsey - covingtonchargerfootball.com

By STEVE [email protected]

Johnston White turned in an all-star performance with an interception, two fumble recoveries, 151 yards rushing and five touchdowns as Coving-ton rolled to a 49-15 win over Ripley on Friday at home.

The win gave Coving-ton a perfect 10-0 regular season record and earned them the top seed in their quad and home field ad-vantage throughout the Class 4A state playoffs.

The Tigers (4-6, 3-5) had four fumbles with two lost and two inter-ceptions, including Wil-liams’ sixth of the season, one off the all-time re-cord. Covington’s start-ing defensive 11 gave up 54 rushing yards and no yards passing.

White had TD runs of three, two, 46, 27 and 40 yards. Aretavious Brown added a 3-yard run for a score and T.Aa Watson hit Carlos Williams with a 42-yard scoring strike.

Bobby Van Cleve con-nected on all seven PATs to set a new single season record with 52, eclipsing Josh Watts’ record of 50 set in 2011. He also holds the CHS record of con-secutive PATs with 52.

"I thought we came out flat on both sides of the ball,” said Covington coach Marty Wheeler. “We did a poor job of breaking down and hit-ting the runner on kick coverage as well. That is something that can be corrected.”

Friday was Senior Night for Covington.

“Senior Night was a bit of a distraction because we had so many seniors to recognize and it threw us off our schedule just a little,” Wheeler said. “As we have all season, we won the field position battle. Our passing game continues to improve and we continue to be aggres-sive defensively.”

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Brighton continued it's hot play of late with a 26-23 win over Dyer County in Newbern on Friday.

The win gave the Cardinals a six-game winning streak heading into this week's first round of the Class 6A state playoffs.

Brighton quarterback Brady Stewart had an-other big game, completing 24 of 41 passes for 266 yards, including a touchdown pass in the closing minutes that erased a 23-20 deficit.

Brighton (7-3) also put together an impressive defensive effort, holding Dyer County to just 136 yards, including negative 42 rushing.

One of the Choctaws' (4-6) touchdowns came on interception return.

Brighton led 20-9 in the second quarter and 20-

Cards stay hot; Munford falls

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15 at the half. In other area action:Munford could not overcome a 22-point second

quarter from Westwood on Friday at home and lost its regular season finale 34-28.

The Cougars (5-5) tied the score at 14-14 when Hunter Harden rushed for a one-yard touchdown early in the second quarter, but the Longhorns (8-2) answered with three second-quarter touchdowns, including a 49-yard TD pass from Jerome Gilkey to Nikia Mathey.

Trailing 34-14, Munford rallied in the fourth. Harden hit Andrew Bell on a 31-yard TD pass and

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D'Marious Exum, who rushed for Munford's first touchdown, ran for 176 yards on 17 carries. Harden completed 12 of 19 passes for 173 yards and rushed for 82 yards on eight carries.

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Brighton High School soccer players, from left, Hannah Whitefoot, Kelsi Williams and Heidi Meeks were named all-tournament and all-district.


The Covington Lady Chargers entered the 2012 regional soccer tournament last week as the second seed for the second straight year.

With a much-needed bye in the first round to heal some nagging injuries, CHS capitalized, bouncing South Fulton 4-0 in round two.

J’La Brandon, who has battled injury most of the season, turned the hat trick. Anne Marie Van Cleve added the fourth tally for Covington.

“J’La has had to miss so many games this season, it’s great to get her back right now,” Covington coach Robert Luttrell said.

The semifinals pitted the Lady Chargers against nemesis Westview, the top seed from the east side of the bracket.

“We had some confidence coming in,” said Luttrell, “ having tied them 1-1 during the season.”

A shot just past the outstretched fingers of goalie Karlie Sorrentino put Westview up 1-0 early in the second half.

“Karlie was playing her second game in goal. She was great all night,” said Luttrell.

Van Cleve tied the score late in the half to send the match overtime, where Westview prevailed on a pen-alty kick.

“This has been one of the more satisfying seasons I have experienced in my seven years as coach,” Lut-trell said. “I am extremely proud of the girls, and es-pecially the senior leaders.”

Callie McDaniel was selected as the regional de-fensive MVP. All-region honors went to Sarah Anne Franklin, Whitney Young, Sorrentino and Van Cleve. Briuna Dean, Jasmine Brown and Brandon were named to the all-tournament team.

In other CHS sports action:Covington’s cross-country team ran well in both

the women’s and men’s division in the regional meet at Obion County on Oct. 24.

The ladies finished fifth among 15 teams. Top fin-ishers were Alexis Johnson, Cyeisha Hall, Treasury Poindexter, Kate Armstrong and Kaitlynn Poole.

On the men’s side, the team finished seventh out of 15 teams. Top runners were Jamerio Mitchell, Lo-gan Lanley, Mychal Bandy, Jordan Max, Sam Wauford and Dustin Pugh.

“I am really proud of both teams,” said head coach Sharman Coley. “They worked well together all sea-son and really improved all year long.”

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Boxing starts SaturdayThe Covington Boxing Club will host its first show of the sea-

son Saturday night at 7:30 in the Covington Boxing Arena. Locals will take on fighters from all around the state – Jackson, Nashville, Memphis, Ripley, Paris – as well as Arkansas and Mississippi. “Sev-eral Covington boxers will be in action,” said Covington coach Jimmy Glover. “It should be a really good event.”Last weekend the team traveled to Jackson, Tenn., and won three of four matches in the Halloween Bash. Locals Marcus Carlton, Antonio Grandberry and Tyronza Boyd each won. Covington's C.J. Robinson lost a close bout.

Three-on-three soccerA three-on-three soccer tournament will be held Nov. 3 at the

Covington Parks and Recreation fields for ages middle school and up. No more than five players will be allowed on a team in male, female or co-ed divisions. The fee is $45. There will be special rules on a short field with 12-minute halves. For more information or to register, contact Covington Parks and Recreation at 476-3734

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In the top two photos, the Munford High School band entertain's the crowd dressed up in Halloween costumes. Below, Covington's Carlos Williams hauls in an interception. Band photos by Jeff Ireland; football photo by Phil Ramsey - coinvgtonchargerfootball.com

Scenes from Friday night

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 ▪ A13


Strong opening act


In a game shortened to six-min-ute quarters and a running clock by coach’s request, the Covington Chargers were dominant in a 55-0 win over Memphis Hillcrest in the opening round of the TSSAA Class 4A playoffs Friday at home.

The Chargers (11-0) put up 28 first-quarter points, turning a Kha-mal Pendelton interception on the game’s second play into a touch-down less than two minutes into the game.

Hunter Peery gave CHS another shot with a fumble recovery at the Viking 20-yard line on the first play from scrimmage on Hillcrest's next possession.

Johnston White skipped into the end zone from 18 yards out with the second of his six TDs on the

What: Covington (11-0) vs. Sheffield (7-4)Where: CovingtonWhen: Friday at 7 p.m.Key pwlayers: CHS - RB Johnston White, WR/DB Carlos Williams, RB Tyrone Tipton; SHS – RB Tarrance Dixon, QB Brandon Leachman, S Trevaughn KiddNotables: White has been all but unstop-pable lately, tying Covington's record for most touchdowns in a season last week. He's got 33 … Covington's defense has been just as impressive, holding Hillcrest to negative yardage in last week's round one win … Dixon, a senior, will be the focus of Covington's defense. He's had a huge year with 1,396 yards and 23 touchdowns, both team highs … Sheffield passes about as infrequently as Covington, so expect a run-heavy game … Don't expect the Knights to be a pushover like Hillcrest was last week. Sheffield beat Raleigh-Egypt, a team that gave Brighton some trouble this season, last week. The Knights lost to Mitchell, the top 4A team in Memphis, by just a point in September. What's next: The victor advances to the quarterfinals and plays the winner of the Mitchell-Trezevant game next Friday. Cov-ington would host with a win.

- Jeff Ireland

TSSAA playoffs: Round 2

Chargers dominate, advance

How Munford tailback D'Marious Exum and Brighton quarterback Brady Stewart perform will fi gure heavily into who wins tomorrow night's showdown between the Cardinals and Cougars. Photo by Phil Ramsey - www.covingtonchargerfootball.comSEE CHS, PAGE A21

Brighton, Munford fall in first roundTrojans stop streaking CardinalsBy JEFF [email protected]

The 2012 football season was one of ebb and flow for Brighton.

After losing three of their first four games, the Cardinals won six straight to earn a two seed in the Class 6A state playoffs.

The flow started on Sept. 21 with a dramatic win over Millington.

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, Millington brought the ebb to town Friday night, beating the Cardinals 35-14 in the first round of the playoffs, ending Brighton's winning streak at six and season at 7-4.

The quarterback-running back combo of Eldon Timbs (119 yards passing, two touchdowns) and Anto-nio Webber (148 yards rushing, two touchdowns), plus some untimely penalties and turnovers, proved to be too much for Brighton to overcome.

After falling behind 14-0 midway through the second quarter, Brighton rallied.

Brighton quarterback Brady Stew-art hit Antonio Dickerson for a 36-yard TD pass with 6:38 left in the sec-ond quarter to trim the lead to 14-7.

Trailing 21-7, Brighton's Montavo Terry recovered a Millington (6-5) fumble at the Trojan 33. Three plays later, Blue Currie scored on a one-yard run to cut the lead to seven again.

But it was all Millington after that. A 40-yard touchdown pass from

Timbs to George Odum pushed the

lead to 28-14 midway through the third.

A fake punt by Brighton was unsuc-cessful late in the third quarter, two drives ended on downs in the fourth and Patrick Macon intercepted a Stewart pass and returned it 24 yards for a score with 5:29 left to provide the final margin.

“Penalties hurt us and we couldn't get into a rhythm,” said an emotional Brighton head coach Will Wolfe fol-lowing the game while giving hugs to several seniors in tears.

“(It was lack of) execution on our part. They played good. Coach (Chris) Michael did a great job of get-

Brighton senior Antonio Dickerson fi nds some running room against Millington Friday night in the fi rst round of the Class 6A playoffs. Brighton fell, 35-14. Photo by Jeff Ireland

Top-seeded JNS dispatches MunfordBy JEFF [email protected]

Munford gave the top-seeded and unde-feated Indians a scare Friday night in the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs.

The eighth-seeded Cougars led 7-3 in the second quarter and trailed by just a touch-down at the half, but North Side scored 21 straight points in the third quarter and ended visiting Munford's season with a 45-17 win.

Munford (5-6) tried to gain some momen-tum with an onside kick to start the second half. North Side (11-0) recovered and took a 24-10 lead moments later.

Munford gave up the ball on downs on its next possession, and North Side quarter-back Adam Craig, who rushed for 175 yards and threw for 101 more, broke a 62-yard touchdown run to push the lead to 31-10 midway through the third.

“JNS is a great team and has a great quar-terback,” Munford coach Matt Saunders said. “Their team speed was just too much for us. Our seniors gave it their best shot and played their hearts out. I told them after the game that we had nothing to be ashamed of.”

Early on, Munford's defense managed to keep North Side's high-octane offense in check for the most part.

D'Marious Exum, who had a monster last game with 196 yards on 27 carries, scored on a 16-yard run early in the second quarter to stake Munford to a 7-3 lead.

North Side answered with a long touch-SEE MHS, PAGE A21SEE BHS, PAGE A21

Malcolm Terry Jr, left, and Ira Terry will be on a 12-fight card Nov. 20 at New Daisy Theater in Memphis.

Covington native Ira Terry will take on Ver-quan Kimbrough, a three-time amateur national champ. Malcolm Terry Jr. is a senior at Brighton High School. BHS stu-dents will be admitted for a discounted price of $10.

Bell time is 7 p.m. Former world champ

Roy Jones Jr. will be a special guest. The event is raising money for a na-tional campaign against bullying.

For ticket information, log on to www.midsouth-boxing.com.

Boxers in action Nov. 20 in Memphis

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2012-13 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PREVIEW


It's been a while since the Munford Lady Cougar basketball team has en-tered a season with realistic goals of a state tournament berth.

Third-year head coach Steve Poin-dexter would never come out and say it, but considering his team returns all five starters, including the dis-trict player of the year, from a team that won 19 games and came within an overtime loss of advancing to the sectionals last year, it's pretty obvious what his goal is.

“On paper, with everybody coming back, expectations are obviously pretty high,” Poindexter said. “But the thing about our girls … They know last year doesn't mean anything.”

Another sign that Poindexter's goals are high is his decision to schedule Memphis Central in the season opener on Tuesday at home.

The Lady Warriors have been one of the best teams in the state for years. They have a player who has already signed with national champ Baylor and advanced to the Class AAA state quarterfinals a year ago.

“That's the kind of team we want to measure ourselves against,” Poin-dexter said. “We want to see how we measure up.”

Senior Robneisha “Bird” Lee will lead the way for the Lady Cougars this year.

A slashing forward who can handle the ball on the perimeter, Lee averaged 14 points and eight rebounds during the regular season. In the postseason she scored 18 a game and was named the district regular season and tourna-ment MVP.

Munford's offense revolves around Lee getting to the hole and perimeter players making threes. Seniors Alex Turner and Shaliyah Wiggins, as well as sophmore Kierra Richardson, can all knock it down from beyond the arc.

Senior Lauren Zvolanek mans the

post and does the dirty work around the basket.

Junior point guard Kierra Webb is the teams' fifth returning starter.

A pair of sophomores, Lindsey Owen and Precious Mills, will play key roles off the bench.

Munford's fortunes have improved since Poindexter took over two sea-sons ago.

However, he says the program's suc-cess is not about a coach coming in, waving a magic wand and producing wins.

“It's not about the coach,” Poindex-ter said. “It's about these young ladies deciding what they want the program to be. That's special. They're willing to put in the work.”

MHS girls bring back five starters

Munford senior Robneisha Lee, last year's district MVP, returns to lead a loaded Lady Cougar squad. Photo by Jeff Ireland


In his first season as head coach at Brighton last year, Darryle Rogers made quite an impression.

The Cardinals won 16 games and came within a buzzer-beater loss to Bartlett in the region semifinals of making the sec-tionals.

This year Rogers' team will have a much different look.

The team's top two scorers last year, Johnathan Stark and Demetrius Dyson, are gone, both having transferred to coun-ty rivals.

Stark, a senior point guard, is now at Munford.

Dyson, a senior forward who missed the second half of the season with an injury, will suit up for Covington this year.

Moses Harper and Kameron Foster, two other players who saw a lot of action last season, also transferred to Munford.

Seven seniors graduated as well. “That's (the seniors graduating) going to

be our biggest loss,” Rogers said. “That's a lot of maturity and experience on the floor we lost.”

Rogers will depend a lot on 6-3 sopho-more guard/forward Lorenzo Hunt, who is the most experienced player among those returning.

“He's a utility guy who can play differ-ent positions,” Rogers said. “We'll be look-ing for a lot of minutes out of him.”

Juniors Tyvon Cooper, Jericho Williams, Will Curry, Tanner McDivitt and Milton Hardy return after seeing limited action a season ago.

Rogers said freshman John Francis is expected to see plenty of time on floor as well.

“He's going to have be big off the bench,” Rogers said, “giving our guys some rest.”

Last year the Cardinals depended on Stark, Dyson and an experience group of seniors.

“We're young,” Rogers said. “We're looking for a big-time player in this group. We're going to win some, and we're going to lose some. The big thing will be how come back after losses … and wins.”

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night to give CHS a 14-0 lead with 8:55 left in the first period.

White added two more TDs in the quarter with a 69-yard scoring pass re-ception from T.A.Watson and a 25-yard scoring run. He had 118 yards on 10 carries in the game.

Turnovers set up two

second-period scores. Jalen Henderson re-

covered a fumble at the Viking 20 and Carlos Williams tied Darron White’s single season in-terception record with his seventh pick of the year.

White added his final TDs of the night with runs of three and 11 yards to cap off the turnovers.

White scored six touch-

downs and now has 33 on the season, tying the record set by Darron White in 2000.

Williams closed the first-half scoring with a 52-yard punt return for a score and a 48-0 lead.

Davian Bates got the fi-nal TD of the night on a two-yard run. Jordan Hill came up with an inter-ception at the Viking 20

with less than two min-utes left] in the game.

“I thought we execut-ed very well in all three phases of the game,” Covington coach Marty Wheeler said. “We came out ready to play.”

CHS out gained the Vikings (4-7) in yardage 309 to negative 5.

ting those guys ready.”With 1:31 left in the

first quarter, Brighton had a chance to tie the game, but a fumble at the Millington seven ended the drive.

Brighton got to the

Millington nine-yard line trailing 28-14 with 11:47 left in the game, but the drive ended when a fourth-and-goal play was unsuccessful.

Dickerson had an im-pressive final game,

rushing for 95 yards on 14 carries and racking up 90 yards receiving. Stewart, also playing his final game in a Cardinal uniform, threw for 173 yards.

Millington, the seventh

seed in the West Quad-rant, travels to German-town tomorrow night for round two of the play-offs.

down drive and then a 56-yard interception re-turn for a touchdown by Jerry Neylon to push the lead to 17-7.

Tyler Gray kicked a 37-yard field goal before halftime to close the gap.

Munford didn't score again until Hunter Hard-en threw a TD pass to Antonio Moore midway through the fourth quar-ter.

Marcus Maxwell an-swered with a 42-yard TD run for North Side, which moves on to host Hamilton tomorrow night in round two.

Harden completed 12 of 28 passes for 164 yards in his final game and Moore caught six passes for 85 yards.

“I was pleased with the way our football team played, especially in the first half,” Saunders said. “We had a great game plan and the kids executed it perfectly for 24 minutes … I really felt walking off the field that we gave it our best and I wouldn't have done anything differently. Not one. And I can take satis-faction in that.”

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Under the leadership of head coach Bubba Chambers and assistant Justin Kramer, the Brighton Middle School girls soccer team won the 2012 district title. It was the three-year program's best season. Pictured are, from left, front, Lilyan Williams, Maegan Nichols, Savannah Dickerson, Madison Alexander, Danielle Rezach, Markesha Stephens, Tess Hendrickson, captain Lexi Smith, captain Lila Lumpkin, Shelby Ross, Brianna Langford, Bailey Kendall; second row, Bubba Chambers, Riley Clark, Savannah Dickerson, Tiffany Ragsdell, Addie Mallard, Catherine Fletcher, Savannah Hart, Emily Kaesberg, Tatiana Re-pelin, Haylee Carlew and Wynonna Linn. Justin Kramer is not pictured. Courtesy photos

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It may be a little bit early this year but that is not all bad. We just finished the first of two Juvenile Deer Hunts with the second hunt to be after Christmas. Any time that you help a youngster in the outdoors, it is not too early. So here goes, moms and dads, take note and also remember the hunter safety classes that will start up again after the first of the year. Stay with your son or

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Chargers Skylar Ramsey (54) and Clayton Click (60) get a Sheffi eld runner airborne during playoff action Friday night in Covington. The Chargers won handily, 42-6, to remain undefeated and move into the state quarterfi nals. Photo by Phil Ramsey - covingtonchargerfootball.com

Chargers roll into quartersBy STEVE [email protected]

Were it not for 145 penalty yards, the Covington Chargers’ demolition of the Sheffield Knights Friday night might have been more complete than it was.

As it happened, the Chargers (12-0) rolled to a 28-0 lead at the half and cruised to a 42-6 home win in the second round of the TSSAA Class 4A state playoffs.

Covington, now two wins away from a berth in the state title game, moves on to host Trezevant tomor-

row night in the quarter-finals.

“We came out ready and executed well in the first half,” said Coving-ton coach Marty Wheeler. “Once we adjusted to their speed we defended better as well. Our red zone play was efficient and our spe-cial teams were on point

in the first half.”Mr. Football finalist Johnston White continued his

record-setting season, scoring five touchdowns while rushing for 315 yards on 29 carries.

Friday’s totals give White 2,342 rushing yards for the year, eclipsing his record-setting total of 2128 yards in 2011. The five touchdowns push his season total to 38 (37 rushing, 1 by pass), also a new record, replacing Darron White’s previous record of 33 in the 2000 season.

Additionally, White needs 13 yards rushing to set a new CHS career-rushing total. He scored on runs of 19, 37, 24, three and six yards. He has fumbled just once in 244 touches this year.

No contest: White leads second round rout

Inside: Covington-Trezevant

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MHS girls fall to CentralCougars top Warriors in season opener

2012-13 PREP BASKETBALL PREVIEW

New coaches take overBy JEFF [email protected]

The 2011-12 Brighton Lady Car-dinal basketball season was one to forget.

Brighton won just three games and saw its season end in the district tournament.

Former assistant Kent Cates takes over this year and will be attempting to take the program in a new direc-tion.

“In my viewpoint, the players have responded with nothing but determi-nation and hard work,” said Cates, who had been an assistant at Brigh-ton the last two seasons. “Everyone is excited about getting the season kicked off. I believe that this team has a strong desire to compete and win. I could not have asked for the team to work any harder and I feel that it will pay off on the court. The senior leadership has been great.”

Cates will have three senior start-ers returning in Hailley Shepard, Mc-Callie Ruffin and Alaina Bierdz.

Kate Price, Morgan Shaver and Brianna Brown round out the senior class.


Back in 2004, Butch Hopkins stepped down after coaching Dyer County to multiple state tournament appearances during his 10-year ten-ure.

Over the last eight years, he's served as a volunteer coach at vari-ous places, all the while considering getting back into the profession full time.

When the Munford job came open last spring, the time seemed right for Hopkins to enter the fray again.

Now, along with his brother and assistant coach Bill Hopkins, he's in charge of a Cougar program that has largely struggled the last few years.

“It was just a situation we were looking for,” said Hopkins, 66. “There were several reasons why.”

One of which is his connection to Tipton County.

Hopkins graduated from Byars-Hall High School (now Covington High School) in 1965, finishing his career with as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,434 points.

He coached Tipton County Schools

Cates leads BHS girls Hopkins at Munford

SEE HOPKINS, PAGE B10SEE CATES, PAGE B2


Munford Lady Cougar head coach Steve Poin-dexter scheduled power-house Memphis Central in the season opener to get an idea how his team stacks up against the best teams in Class AAA.

The Lady Cougars lost to Central 46-34 Friday night at home, but Poin-dexter feels like his team proved it can compete with the best.

“I'm not discouraged,” Poindexter said. “I feel like we can compete with anybody … The fight was there.”

Poor shooting proved to be Munford's down-fall. The Lady Cougars shot just 20 percent from the field and made just 2 of 21 3-pointers.

Nevertheless, Munford found itself in the game late in the third quarter.

Precious Mills hit a 3-pointer from the corner with 2:09 left in the third to trim Central's lead to 29-19.

But Central, behind Baylor commitment Nina Davis, responded with a 12-2 run and Munford never got closer than 12 points the rest of the way.

Munford senior Rob-neisha Lee led the way for Munford with 16 points. Lauren Zvonalek

added eight and Shaliyah Wiggins added seven.

Davis led Central with 16.

Munford had a lot of open looks but failed to

convert most of them. “I felt like we got the

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Covington gave up a lone score following a kick-off return to the CHS 30 yard line to open the second half.

“We came out flat in the second half,” Wheel-er said, "and that’s my fault. We relaxed with a lead and we did not place the kick where we wanted to and it led to a big return. Overall our kick coverage was good. We just had way too may penalties (17).”

Wheeler pulled the starters for the most part midway through the

third period, giving the “B” team some valuable playing time and playoff experience to boot.

The second teamers ac-quitted themselves well, shutting out the Knights and adding a final CHS score on a seven-yard run by Jalen Henderson early in the fourth quarter.

The Charger defense held Sheffield (7-5) to 190 yards.

All of Covington's yardage (489) came via the ground game.

Aretavious Brown re-turned to the backfield

and added 49 yards on five carries for Coving-ton. Henderson had five touches for 89 yards and a TD.

Khamal Pendelton picked off a pass and recovered a fumble for Covington and Trae Wil-son recovered a fumble.


CHSContinued from B1

What: Covington (12-0) vs. Trezevant (10-2)Where: CovingtonWhen: Friday at 7 p.m.Key players: CHS - RB Johnston White, WR/DB Carlos Williams, LB Khamal Pendleton; THS – QB Jordan Spencer, RB Jamal Jones, WR LeMarcus StewartNotables: Covington and Trezevant have one common opponent this year in Dyersburg. The Bears shut out Dyersburg 26-0 in the first round of the play-offs. Covington trailed Dyersburg 3-0 at the half before rallying for a 20-3 win on Aug. 30 in Dyersburg … Trezevant advanced to the 2010 Class 4A state title game, losing to Greeneville 60-12. Because of multiple personal fouls and general misconduct, the team was banned from last year's playoffs by the TSSAA. Treze-vant beat Covington 48-6 in the first round of the 2010 playoffs … Stewart caught three touchdown passes and intercepted a pass during the Bears' 36-6 win over Mitchell last week. Stewart was a member of the 2010 state runner-up team. Quotable: “Trezevant is comparable to Milan and Ridgeway in 2002. (Ridge-way beat Covington that year in the quarterfinals and went on to a state title. Wheeler was an assistant coach on that Covington team.) They are young, fast, well-coached, disciplined and very aggressive on defense. They have a balanced offense, running and passing the ball equally well. They will be the most physi-cal team that we have seen all year.” - Covington head coach Marty WheelerWhat's next: The victor advances to the state semifinals to take on the winner of the Liberty-White House game. Covington would host next week with a win.

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in the game we had some drives and we didn't fin-ish them. They got ahead and that hurt us.”

Central led 11-4 after one quarter and 23-12 at the half.

In boys action, Mun-ford got its 2011-12 cam-paign off to a great start, taking down Central, last year's Class AAA state runnerup, 63-58.

Jonathan Stark and

Kameron Foster, both of whom transferred from Brighton to Munford this year, led the way.

Stark scored 25 points and Foster added 17 as Munford went on a 15-5 run in the third quarter to take control.

Central led 19-17 at the half.

Joshua Jones led the Warriors with 25 points.

Junior Teiona Lewis and sophomores Kaeyln Forbess, Lily Hill and Jada Johnson also return with limited experience.

The team will be look-ing to make up ground in a very difficult District 13-AAA that includes ex-perienced teams like Mu-nford and Jackson North Side.

Cates said his goal is to achieve long-term suc-cess for a program that has struggled the last few years.

“I'm working towards building a program, not just a one-year wonder,” Cates said. “My goal is to foster an environment that encourages the pur-suit of excellence.”

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Optimism is the operative word coming from the 2012-13 Covington Charger basketball camp, and that is applied to both the women's and men’s squads.

“I am really excited about the prospects for our la-dies this season,” said Dion Real, who coaches both teams. “We lost five seniors who will be difficult to replace. Nonetheless we are capable of returning to sub-state. We will be more fun to watch because we have more ladies who can do more.”

Precious Harvey returns at the point, coming off a great sophomore campaign. Real says that he expects an even better junior showing from her.

Also returning are senior shooting guard Precious Dyson, who is deadly from long range when on, and junior LeShundra Smerville ,who is a rebounding and scoring presence in the post.

Newcomers include freshman Treasury Poindexter, who Real says has a bright future at CHS.

Returning to CHS is junior Janeika Mason. Senior Ashia Jones also joins the team this year.

“Jones and Mason will both surprise folks this year,” said Real. “They are long and athletic and can really play.”

Joining Real on the bench this year are former CHS stars Katresha Glass and Katasha Poindexter for their third season as ladies assistant coaches.

On the men’s side, Real is a little more guarded about his team’s chances this year.

“We are capable of being good,” he said. "With this

new group it will take some time to learn each other. We have to learn as a group to play tough with de-fensive play the priority. When and if we figure it out and gel, this team could be special.”

Senior post Jalen Dyson and forward Montel Wil-liams are back for their final go, along with outside threats at guard in juniors Jesse Somerville and De-marcus Seaberry.

“These guys have to be leaders for us,” Real said.Three newcomers have added to the buzz around

the program. Senior Demetrius Dyson, a former Brighton stand-

out, looks to add firepower at forward. Haywood transfers Chevia and Tarecus Hughes, a senior and junior respectively, will be called on to provide shoot-ing and rebounding improvement.

"These new players will have the opportunity to take this program to another level,” Real said. “They just have to learn this system and our way of doing things. I have really high expectations. We should be entertaining to watch. I look forward to fans packing the gym to see both teams.”

Real is in his fifth season at the Charger men’s helm and in his third with the ladies. He has taken the men to one sub-state, two regional semifinals and one re-gional first round. Additionally, his ladies reached the sub-state last season. He has 181 career wins in men’s basketball.

Courtney Smith and Steve Poindexter will be on the bench to assist Real for the season.

The 2012-13 campaigns open this Saturday with each team playing a pair of Hall of Fame exhibition

games. The ladies will face off against JCM in Alamo at Crockett County High at 10 am and the men will take on Liberty Tech at the same site at 11:30 a.m. in the McDonald’s Region 7AA Tip-Off Classic.

The teams will then return home to host a Hall of Fame Extravaganza on Saturday afternoon and eve-ning.

In ladies action, Union City will play MHEA at 3 p.m. and Covington will play Cedar Ridge (Ark.) at 4:30 pm. In men’s play, Southwind will take on MHEA at 6 pm and Covington will close out the night against Union City at 7.

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“I heard they needed a coach,” Hopkins said. “Just out of curiosty, I talked to Steve McCullough about it … We’d been doing this (coaching) for nothing for four or five years, so I said, ‘Let’s do it like we used to do it.’”

Hopkins will be working with

an overhauled roster. Jonathan Stark, a Division re-

cruit who played for Brighton the last three years, transferred to Munford during the offseason, as did Kameron Foster and Moses Harper, two other key players for the Cardinals last year.

Returning players like seniors Sedric Pryor and Antonio Moore and juniors Andrea Bell and Kylon Hall also figure to make major con-

tributions. Stark and Foster combined to

score 42 points in Munford’s 63-58 win over Memphis Central in the season opener Tuesday.

Hopkins has had success at all of his coaching stops and plans to continue that trend.

“We think we’re going to be competitive,” Hopkins said. “But thinking that and doing that are two different things.”

The following property transfers were recorded in the office of Tipton County Register of Deeds Claudia Peeler between Oct. 22 to Nov. 8, 2012 and appear in books 1567 and 1569.

▪ Danny E. and Pamela S. Petrey to HSBC Mortgage Services Inc., 27 Kelly Drive, 38019, Lot 15 East-ern Heights, $68,192▪ Stone, Higgs & Drexler PC to InSouth Bank, 138 Sunshine Drive, 38053, Lot 75, Section C, Quito Estates, $45,000▪ Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Sid Bracken, 167 Lee Street, 38011, Lots 6&7 Liberty Subdivision, $157,000▪ Apex Home Builders to Scott W. Ewen and Deborah A. Ewen, 541 Sterling Ridge Drive, 38004, Lot 16, Phase 1, Oak Creek Subdivision, $235,700▪ Yvonne Laraine Seginak to Midfirst Bank, 2714 Marshall Road, 38058, Lot 3 Marshall Acres, $19,389▪ Diana Mendoza and Ricky Mendoza to The Bank of New York, 1615 Fayne Road, 38011, Lot 35 King Farm Subdivision, Sec. B, $56,432▪ Brandon M Dixon to Jacqueline Dixon, 1395 Akins Store Road, 38058, Lot 26 Marshall Acres, Sec. B, $113,500▪ Eric French and Kimberly French to JP Morgan Chase, 105 Anita Drive, 38004, Lot 64 Blaydes Estates, Sec. D, $113,900▪ Tennessee Housing Devel-opment Agency to Secre-tary of Housing and Urban Development, 80 Patricia Lane, 38053, Lot 22 Tipton Manor Estates▪ Jerry Curle and Alicia Curle to Federal National Mortgage Association, 5709 Atoka Idaville Road, 38011, Lot 2 Crosscreek Subdivi-sion, Sec. A, $137,790▪ Paul Davis and Jennifer Davis to Gary Barber, 451 West Drive, 38058, Lot 2 Sec. A Munford Estates, $143,000▪ Aaron Michael Buys and Jamie Marie Buys to The Bank of New York, 213 Nancye Reeder, 38058, Lot 48 Reeder Place, $62,572▪ Laresa Harkness Draffin and Johnathon Draffin to Douglas Arthur and Phyllis Arthur, 38058, Lot 44 Cole Heights, Sec. E, $100,000▪ Jeffrey Lovell and Shirley-ann Lovell to Christopher D. Burgess and Lisa K. Burgess, 51 Thomas Ter-race, 38004, Lot 518 Blaydes Estates, $172,900▪ Jarred L. Holloway and Shanna Holloway to Christopher T. Seeley, 6316 Munford Gilt Edge, 38015, Lot 2 Sec B Wawrzon Mi-nor, $79,000▪ Robert Bradley Walk and Crystal Walk to Gerald L. Patrie, 2933 Holly Grove Road, 38019, Lot 1 Louise F. McKee, $144,000▪ Richard A. Collins and Tara L. Collins to JP Mor-gan Chase Bank, 9664 Holly Grove Road, 38011, $80,750▪ JP Morgan Chase Bank to Shannon Reburn and

Patsy Reburn, 131 Nancye Reeder, 38058, Lot 26 Sec D Reeder Place, $75,000▪ Terry W. Wright and Cathey A. Wright to Juardine Elizabeth Kinard, 13259 Hwy 59 West, 38015, Lot 1 Whittington West, $135,000▪ William M. Ammons to Cathey A. Wright and Terry W. Wright, 1.06 ac Hwy. 59, 38015, $109,000▪ Brenda Glass, Donna Justice and Robbie Halling to Dana K. Reed and Vicki Reed, 1.05 ac Randolph Road, 38023, $75,000▪ Dennis N. Carter and Gwendolyn M. Carter to Hogan Maughan and Shelby O’Brien, 415 Bloom-ington Drive, 38011, Lot 138 Sec E Woodlawn Planta-tion, $100,000▪ InSouth Bank to Bobby Douglas Money, 2160 Detroit Road, 38015, Lot 47 Detroit Estates, $5,000▪ James H. Pollock Testa-mentary Estate to Randall Chase and Danielle Nicole Cousar, 862 Quito Drum-monds, 38023, $50,000▪ Reconstruct Company to Bank of America, 115 Wil-liam Blaydes St, 38004, Lot 127 Sec G Blaydes Estates, $131,313▪ Reconstruct Company to HSBC Bank USA, 439 Sadler School Rd, 38011, $81,000▪ Willie Kent to Debra Kent, 341 Brierhedge Rd., 38019, Lot 38 Sec C Laura’s Meadow, QC▪ Federal National Mort-gage Assn to Jerry Beaird, 4464 Portersville Rd, 38004, Lot 10 Sec A Jones Ridge, $63,000▪ Venture Capital Properties LLC to Lori Ann Fowler, 114 Sharon St, 38004, $89,000▪ Larry G. and Sheila M. Glass to Donald R. and Pamela K. Dalrymple, 430 Walkhill Ln, 38019, Lot 2 Glass Walkhill Lane, $126,000▪ Joseph A. and Mary Ann Gross to Teresa Rhea, 38058, Lot 11-A Walden Woods, QC▪ CitiMortgage Inc. to Jerry and Anita Turner, 3600 Ray Bluff Rd, 38053, $52,750▪ Florence Gilbreath Gad-omski to Mark Gilbreath, James Gilbreath and Chris Gilbreath, 106.47 ac H.R. Smith estate, QC▪ Cindy Choate to Michael C. and Jessica L. Jarvis, 608

Shiloh Road, 38019, $77,500▪ Curtis and Anita Sand-ers to Gifford and Te-resa Walker, 221 Wakefield Road, 38019, $136,510▪ Gilt Edge Stop & Go to Om Sai Ram Drummonds LLC, 10816 Holly Grove Road, 38011, $225,000▪ Taylor and Laura Rolfes Forrester to Dwayne Cran-ford, 1501 Herring Drive, 38019, Lot 3 Sec B Arlington Heights, $150,000▪ Ronnie R. and Karen D. Tice to Billy Quay and Elizabeth D. Flanagan, 102 Kenny Lane, 38019, $114,300▪ John Fultz to Jeff Adkins, 4282 Quito Drummonds, 38053, 1 ac partition, $2,000▪ Gerard L. and Becky R. Rogers to Elizabeth A. Alsbrook and Jake Yoes, 179 Smith Lane, 38019, Lot 9 Holly Grove , $168,000▪ Autumnwood Homes Inc. to Christie L. and Heath Sartain, 1874 Walnut Grove Rd, 38015, Lot 1 Bradshaw-Walnut Grove Rd, $113,000▪ JP Morgan Chase Bank to Richard G. and Jennifer N. Lazure, 38 Don Street, 38019, Lot 67 Sec C Baskin, $45,000▪ Federal National Mort-gage Assn to Adam and Leah Hayse, 367 Rae Dr, 38058, Lot 75 Sec G Reeds Estates, $119,050▪ David A. Frederick to Amanda Frederick, 31 Rae Drive, 38058, Lot 85 Sec D Happy Valley, $86,804

▪ John R. and Charlotte C. Kelley to Fairview Farms LLC, 16 parcels: Bradshaw/Cothran Farm, Wooten Farm, Roe Farm, Bennett Farm, Bride Farm, Flat Iron Farm, Lizzie Rice Farm, Willie Glass Farm, Hatchie River Farm, Sales Farm, Bradshaw Farm, Roberts Farm, Glen Antioch acre-age, Teamer Farm, Ray Farm, McKee Farm, Butler/Turkey Scratch Farm, QC▪ B.E. and Lilly Carol Massengill to Bob Dalsa-nia DDS, 115 Munford St, 38058, $25,000▪ Nico Kranz to Rockey Everett Kranz, 177 Susans Circle, 38023, Sec E Planters Point , QC▪ JP Morgan Chase Bank to JP Morgan Chase Bank, 178 Woodlawn Plantation, 38011, Lot 92 Woodlawn Plantation, $85,000▪ David and Teresa Wheat to Andrew T. and Hailey M. Patterson, 399 Stafford Rd, 38011, $187,650▪ Gregory and Sharon Bay-lous to William W. Owen, Lot 106A Reed, $37,000▪ Daniel Glover to Nadine Davis, 61 Austin Store Rd, 38019, $30,000▪ Ashley Leigh-Ann Barnett to John W. Barnett, 2.78 ac Walker Field Road, QC▪ Gary A. and Therese A. Strong to Brenda Webb Jefferson, 4051 Meade Lake Rd, 38053, Lot 15 Sec B West Rd, $110,000

Property Transfers

HOPKINSContinued from B1

A pair of local boxers will be a part of a boxing event next Tues-day at the New Daisy on Beale Street in Memphis.

Malcolm Terry Jr., and Ira Ter-ry will be on the 12-fight card.

Covington native Ira Terry will take on Verquan Kimbrough, a three-time amateur national champ and former world champ, in the main event.

Ira Terry is a former top-rated light-weight contender.

“This will be an exciting fight with one fighter moving up in line for a major shot at world contention,” said Malcom Terry Sr., the event’s promoter.

Terry Jr., a senior at Brighton High School, will have former pound-for-pound champion Roy Jones Jr. in his corner.

A host of other fighters from

the Mid-South and across the country will all be on hand to support Mid-South Boxing’s An-ti-Bullying Campaign.

Visit www.midsouthboxing.com for more information and to purchase tickets, or call (901)497-3726.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door.

In other area action, a pair of MMA fighters from The Gym in Covington will be compet-ing in Memphis. Richard “The Lion” Conner will compete in a professional match and Chris Barlow will be making his ama-teur MMA debut at the Cook Convention Center Dec. 15. The fights are hosted by Prizefight MMA.

Local boxers in Memphis on Tuesday

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Covington's Demarcus Seaberry hauls in a game-clinching interception after Johnston White (5) tipped it in the closing seconds of Covington's 23-18 quarterfi nal win over Trezevant Friday night in Covington. The Chargers host Liberty on Friday with a berth in the state title game on the line. Photo by Phil Ramsey - www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

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“I told you they were good.” Those were Marty Wheeler’s first

words on field following his Chargers’ 23-18 Class 4A quarterfinal playoff win over the Trezevant Purple Bears Friday night in Covington.

With the win, the Chargers earned a berth in the state semifinals for the sec-ond straight season.

Covington will host Liberty Friday night with a spot in next Saturday's state title game on the line.

Friday's game was a tale of two halves, the best and worst of times.

“We executed our offense as we in-

tended in the first half,” Wheeler said, “and our defense gave us big opportu-nities. Fortunately we capitalized. The touchdown pass to Carlos was a big play.”

Covington (13-0) looked to be a run-away winner after the first half.

Johnston White recovered a fumble at the Bear 49-yard line on the sixth play from scrimmage. With Jalen Hender-son and White carrying the load, CHS scored in six plays with Henderson go-ing the final yard with 4:11 left in the first quarter. Bobby Van Cleve contin-ued his perfect season with the first of three extra points for a 7-0 lead.

Daiquon Norfolk pounced on a fum-ble on the second play of the second

quarter and the Chargers set up shop at the Bear 39. Five straight runs by Carlos Williams, White and Henderson and a facemask penalty on Trezevant (10-3) put the Chargers in a first and goal at the 8.

White tallied his 38th touchdown of the season on third down from four yards out and Covington led 14-0. He led the Chargers in rushing for the night with 71 yards on 17 carries, mak-ing him the all time leading rusher in CHS history.

A fumble for lost yardage and a sack by Tyrone Tipton forced a Bear three and out on the next possession.

T.A. Watson wasted no time. A per-fectly thrown 52-yard strike to a streak-

ing Williams put Covington up 21-0 with 1:10 left in the half. Trezevant would roar downfield to the CHS 25, but come up empty with Trae Wilson recording a half-ending sack.

“We weren’t flat coming out for the second half,” said Wheeler. “It was our goal to take the second half kick-off, drive, score and keep momentum, but their adjustments worked and we were unable to sustain a drive. However, the defense stepped up when it counted. A safety, five sacks, two interceptions and three stops on two-point conversions were game changers.”

The potent CHS offense was stymied for the entire second half. Covington

Chargers hold off late rally, advance to semifinals

SIGNING DAY


When watching a Mu-nford softball game, it's hard not to notice Sami Jo Schulz.

She seems to make a “wow” play at shortstop nearly every game and is lightning fast around the bases.

The coaching staff at the University of Mem-phis has noticed her for a long time.

And Thursday in the Munford High School cafeteria, Schulz, a senior, decided she wanted to go play for the Lady Tigers and signed scholarship papers in front of fam-ily, friends, coaches and teammates.

“I really wanted to stay close to home,” said Schulz. “That was impor-tant to me. And I really liked the coach.”

Schulz helped led the Lady Cougars to the Class AAA state tourna-ment last season, hitting over .400 and leading the team in stolen bases and on-base percentage.

“She's one of the best base runners I've ever coached,” Munford head coach Glenn Goulder said. “Just an all-around athlete. She makes some defensive plays that will make you scratch your head and say 'How did she do that?' … She's just so fast.”

Schulz, a prototypical slap-hitting lead-off hit-ter, said she was recruit-ed to play shortstop for the Lady Tigers.

Schulz signs with U of M

Munford senior Jonathan Stark signed a basketball scholarship with UT-Chattanooga on Friday morning. Pictured are, from left, front, MHS assistant Bill Hopkins, Stark, MHS head coach Butch Hopkins; back, MHS athletic director Steve McCullough, Jerry Stark Jr., Jerry Stark, Greg Maclin and Kameron Foster.

Stark honors mom, signs with UTCBy JEFF [email protected]

As Munford senior basketball player Jona-than Stark signed his name on a bundle of University of Tennessee-Chattanooga scholarship papers Friday morning in the MHS cafeteria, it was the culmination of a lot of things.

It meant years of hard work had finally resulted in a dream that was a long time coming: play-ing Division 1 basketball.

It was a special day for another reason too. Six years ago to the day, his

mother Mary Stark died. “I know my mother is

in heaven smiling down on me,” said Stark, who also considered offers from New Mexico State, Southeastern Lousi-ana, Arkansas, David Lipscomb and Western Kentucky. “She always wanted me to sign a D1 scholarship.”

His father, Jerry Stark, was on hand Friday and was smiling down on him while standing a couple of feet away.

“I just thank God he's got this gift,” Jerry Stark said. “It's been a long

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managed only four first downs, while Trezevant rolled up points and yard-age.

George Monson put the Bears on the board with a twisting, acrobatic 10-yard run at the 5:26 mark of the third period to cut the CHS lead to 21-6.

Just three minutes later, LeMarcus Stewart took in a Watson punt at the Bear 26 and set sail for the end zone, cutting the advantage to 21-12.

“We punted away from Stewart all night,” Wheeler said. “We made a mistake and punted to him and he burned us.”

Charger fans breathed a little easier

when Norfolk corralled the quarter-back to record a safety for a 23-12 ad-vantage with 9:29 remaining, but the relief was short-lived.

After a CHS three and out, the Bears embarked on a seven-play drive to get into winning position at 23-18 with six minutes on the scoreboard.

With both crowds howling, White snuffed out one of Trezevant’s last two chances with an interception at the 2:36 mark and Demarcus Seaber-ry closed the door with another inter-ception off a tip by White with three ticks left.

For the first time this season the Chargers were out gained, 226 to 218.

road. He's worked very hard to get to this point … I thank God for this dream coming true.”

Stark transferred from Brighton to Munford over the summer. Although injured for much of last season, he averaged 17 points a game, leading Brighton to the region semifinals. He's averaging 24 points a game this year.

He thanked several people for help-ing him get to this point, including his

father and stepmother Elizabeth Stark, whom he called a “big inspiration.”

Stark said the coaching staff at UT-Chattanooga was the biggest reason for his college choice.

“I like the coach's system,” Stark said. “I thank God for giving me the opportunity to play and achieve my dreams … This feels good, but I know I have a lot of work to put in to play on the D1 level.”

Munford senior Sami Jo Schulz signed a softball scholarship with Memphis on Thursday. Pictured are, from left, front, father Dave Schulz, Schulz, brother Steven Schulz, mother Annette Schulz; back, Team Elite coach Troy Sisson, Munford coach Glenn Goulder and Munford athletic director Steve McCullough.

Mady Kate Gantt signed a softball scholarship with Bethel University last Thursday. Pictured are, from left, front, mother Amy Easley, Gantt, father David Gantt; back, TRA coach Amber Needham, Bethel coach Larry Geraldi and TRA coach Joe Layton.


Tipton-Rosemark senior Mady Kate Gantt was probably her team's most versa-tile player last year, playing outfield, pitching and holding down other positions when necessary.

That versatility was noticed by Bethel University coach Larry Geraldi and he signed her to a softball scholarship Thursday at TRA.

“I'm looking forward to four years with Mady,” Geraldi said. “She's a great player. She'll fit right in with us.”

Gantt was an all-region player last year, leading the Lady Rebels to the state tournament. In 2011 she helped TRA win a state title.

“I really like Coach Geraldi,” Gantt said. “It was one of the schools that would work with my major (special education) and I really like the location (McKenzie, Tenn.). It's really homey.”

TRA head coach Joe Layton said Bethel is getting a great person and player. “She's done anything we've asked of her,” Layton said. “Name a position and

she's played it.”

Gantt goes with Bethel

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CHSContinued from A11


The Brighton Lady Cardinals and first-year head coach Kent Cates near-ly got a season-opening win on Nov. 13, but came up just short in over-time.

Brighton led 33-26 heading into the fourth quarter, but visiting Fayette-Ware rallied to force overtime and prevailed 50-45.

“We played well until the fourth quarter but seemed to lose composure a bit in the fourth quarter,” Cates said. “I take full blame for that because I backed off the pressure trying to pro-tect a 10-point lead and we slowly lost our mojo.”

Alaina Bierdz led the Lady Cardi-nals with 14 points, including a pair of 3-pointers, and eight rebounds and Brianna Brown added 11 points. Jada

Johnson scored eight for Brighton. Brighton made just 6 of 21 free

throws. In action last Thursday, FCA defeat-

ed Brighton 71-17. Brighton (0-2) was led by four points

from Bierdz. In other area action:• The Munford boys moved to 2-0

on the season with a dramatic 43-42 win last Thursday at home over Lib-erty.

Jonathan Stark hit a free throw with 2.7 seconds left break the tie. Munford has now beaten two teams (including Memphis Central) that advanced to the state tournament last year.

• The Munford girls improved to 1-1 with a 53-57 win over Liberty.

Robneisha Lee led the way for Mun-ford with 15 points and Lauren Zvol-anek added 13.

Munford led 28-18 at the half.

Lady Cardinals fall to Fayette-Ware

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Covington assistant coach J.R. Kirby, with help from coaches Colin Pinner (left) and Matthew Shearon, leads the Chargers through a set of celebratory pushups following the team's 34-14 home win Friday night over Liberty in the state semifi nals. Covington, now 14-0, takes on Knoxville Fulton on Saturday in Cookeville looking for the program's fi rst state title. Photos by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtonchargerfootball.com.

Chargers to play for state titleBy JEFF [email protected]

When the ball takes flight after the opening kickoff of Saturday afternoon's

Class 4A BlueCross Bowl, the head coaches taking in the action from op-posite sides of the field will be familiar with one another.

Back in 2003, the last time Coving-ton made it to the state title game, the Chargers played Fulton.

Current Covington head coach Marty Wheeler was an assistant for the Chargers and Rob Black, Fulton's cur-rent head coach, was an assistant for the Falcons.

The game didn't go well for the Chargers.

Fulton jumped out to a 28-0 halftime lead en route to a 36-9 win and its first state title.

Covington came up empty in its third trip to the title game.

Although the players are different nine years later, Black believes some things will be the same.

“There are a lot of similarities when you look at it,” Black said. “They have a lot of athletes … It's Covington. That's what you expect.”

Wheeler remembers the game as well, and he's familiar with Coving-ton's state title game loss in 2000 too.

He believes things look better, at

least on paper, this time around. “I think we match up better with

Fulton than any of the teams we played in previous trips to the finals,” Wheeler said.

Fulton won state titles in 2004 and 2006, has finished second three times and has been in the playoffs 21 times.

Although Covington will be looking for its first state title, the program's postseason resume matches up favor-ably.

The Chargers have finished second in the state three times, made the semifinals five times and been to the postseason 16 times, posting a 34-16 record.

Covington hasn't finished unde-feated since 1956 when the team (then named Byars-Hall) went 11-0. There was no state title game back then, but the team won the Big 10 Conference title.

Fourteen wins is already a team record.

History is fun to talk about, espe-cially for fans who have followed Covington football over two and three generations.

Wheeler certainly has a sense of Covington football history.

But he's been focused on the here and now since his team dispatched Liberty last week in the semifinals.

“I just hope,” Wheeler said moments after last week's win, “we're standing here in a week after we've done some-thing we've never done before.”

Steve Holt contributed to this story.

What: Covington (14-0) vs. Fulton (12-2) in the Class 4A BlueCross Bowl When: Saturday at 3 p.m. Where: Tennessee Tech in Cookeville Tickets: $12, available at 9:30 a.m. at the gate TV: WKNO Channel 10 Radio: 93.5 U.S. 51 Country, commentators Rodger Beasley and Tom Barton Online: ESPN3, tssaa.org Notables: The football team will leave for Cookeville tomorrow at 9 a.m. The team will caravan by Crestview Middle School and around the Square before leaving town. The community is invited to send them off.



Covington running back Tyrone Tipton leaps through a pair of Liberty defenders during semifi nal action Friday night in Covington. Covington won 34-14 to earn a spot in Saturday's state title game in Cookeville Photo by Phil Ramsey - www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

CHARGING TOWARD HISTORY

Three years ago at this time, advancing to the state champion-ship game must have seemed like

a million miles away for Covington's players, coaches and fans.

Covington had just put the wraps on a 2-8 season and missed the playoffs for the third straight year – heresy for a school that had one of the most dominant pro-grams in West Tennessee from 1997 to 2006.

But after Fri-day's 34-14 Class 4A state playoff semifinal win over Liberty, all seemed right in the world of Charger Nation.

Just like the old days, students stormed the field when the final horn sounded.

As head coach Marty Wheeler, a Cov-ington assistant during the glory days who returned as head coach before that 2-8 season, gathered his 14-0 team for a postseason talk, a throng of fans circled around their hometown heroes.

Wheeler could not walk a step without getting a congratulatory hand shake or hug.

There is, of course, one more chapter to be written when the Chargers take on Knoxville Fulton on Saturday in Cookeville, looking to bring home the school's first state title.

That challenge was no doubt on the head coach's mind.

But he took a second to reflect on what the program has accomplished under his leadership the last four years.

“To be honest with you, Jeff, it prob-ably hasn't sunk in yet that when we came back here four years ago we would be in this situation,” Wheeler said in between handshakes with sup-porters. “It's really gratifying to have a vision of where you want the program to go and to see it go there. You believe, but when it really happens it's hard to take it all in.”

Many of the usual suspects made it happen Friday night.

Senior Johnston White, a Mr. Football finalist, had a huge night rushing and made several key plays in the defensive backfield.

Carlos Williams, another senior, caught a TD pass, ran for another and played stellar defense as well.

But the team is full of players who don't get their names in the paper all that often who stood out as well.

The Chargers' undersized offensive line cleared space all night.

Skylar Ramsey, generously listed at 5-8, 180, is one of those guys.

He seemed surprised when asked for comment after the game.

“It's just a big step up,” said Ramsey, who was a freshman during that 2-8 season. “I'm proud of the team for mak-ing it this far and having an undefeated season and reaching our ultimate goal of making it to Cookeville.”

T.A. Watson might be the most anonymous quarterback for a 14-0 team ever.

The Chargers run the ball … a lot.But Friday he found himself making

perhaps the two biggest plays of the game when he hit Tyrone Tipton on an 85-yard TD pass and Williams for a 75-yarder.

“It's unbelievable right now,” Watson said. “No words can describe what's happening.”

Unbelievable is an apt adjective for sure.

A full house braved chilly tempera-tures Friday night.

Even little kids, who typically run around during a game, were paying attention.

I heard a little boy of seven or eight, donning a purple and gold mohawk-type winter hat, ask his mom why Wat-son wears his hand warmer backwards.

When I didn't hear an answer to his query, I couldn't help but interject.

“So it doesn't get in the way when he gets the snap,” I told him.

The boy nodded his head and turned back to watch his heroes finish off the win.

Program has made huge strides

'I' On the Ball

Jeff Ireland

COVINGTON VS. FULTON • 4A BLUECROSS BOWL • SATURDAY, 3 P.M. • COOKEVILLE

Covington defenders Khamal Pendleton (4) and Johnston White corral a Liberty runner during action Friday night against Liberty. Photo by Phil Ramsey - www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

Big plays propel Chargers into BlueCross BowlBy STEVE [email protected]

Covington got off to a fast start Friday night and never looked back.

First possession, first play: A touchdown and a lead that would not be relinquished and the Coving-ton Chargers were on their way to a 34-14 Class 4A semi-final win over Liberty Tech and a berth in the BlueCross Bowl on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Cookeville against Knoxville Fulton.

It was Covington’s eighth semifinal appearance and will be the program's fourth title game in school history.

“I was pleased with our response in the game," said head coach Marty Wheeler, whose team improved to 14-0 on the season. "We performed to our ability and executed the game plan. I was really happy with the improvement in kick-off coverage.”

After the first of many defensive stops, CHS took possession at their own 17-yard line. On a pitch sweep, student body right, Johnston White flashed

Immovable forces meet for state titleBy JEFF [email protected]

As is usually the case in state title games, something will have to give Saturday af-ternoon when Covington and Fulton meet in the Class 4A BlueCross Bowl.

The Chargers roll into town with a 14-0 record and a gaudy average margin of victory of 32 points.

Just one game, a 23-18 quar-terfinal win over Trezevant, has been decided by single digits.

Senior running back John-ston White, a Mr. Football fi-nalist, has been unstoppable.

He's set school records this year with 2,607 rushing yards and 41 touchdowns.

Last week with the voices of Liberty's coaches stilling ringing in their ears (Whatever you do, watchout for num-ber five!), Liberty's defenders couldn't prevent White from rushing 83 yards for a touchdown on Covington's first play from scrimmage.

Carlos Williams, another senior, is one of the fastest players in the state. He scored twice last week and has racked up 575 re-ceiving yards and seven scores on a team that runs the ball about 90 percent of the

time. Add to that a defense that is allowing

just 11 points a game and the recent emer-gence of junior quarterback T.A. Watson and Covington looks unstoppable.

“The thing that stands out about them is their overall speed,” said Fulton head coach Rob Black. “And their really good

on defense. They run to the ball … You look at number five (White) and number one (Williams) obviously, but they have several other guys too … A lot of things concern me.”

Similar things can be said of Fulton.

Junior Daryl Rollins has numbers nearly as good as White.

He's rushed for 2,258 yards and 30 touch-downs.

Junior quarterback Penny Smith has thrown for 1,494 yards and 22 touchdowns. Xavier Hawkins, his favorite target, has hauled in 31 passes for 793 yards and 12 scores.

If all that wasn't impressive enough, the Falcons took down Giles County, the state's top-ranked 4A team all year, 41-27

Key players: Covington – RB Johnston White, WR Carlos Williams, RB Tyrone Tipton; Fulton – RB Daryl Rollins, WR Xavier Hawkins, QB Penny SmithMatchups to watch: It's pretty simple. Can Covington line-backers Aretavious Brown, Lo-gan Morris and company slow down Rollins? Can Fulton's defense prevent White from breaking the long run as he has done all year? Whichever defense is more successful is likely to win. X factor: Covington kicker Bobby Van Cleve has missed just one extra point all year, and it came last week. He made 72 straight. If the game comes down to a point or two, having a solid kicker can make the difference. Notables: Covington practiced at the University of Memphis on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. The team will depart tomorrow at 9 a.m. and head to Nashville where they will hold an afternoon practice at Vanderbilt before heading to the team hotel in Cookeville Friday evening.

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last week. “They have speed to

burn and size to go with it,” Covington head coach Marty Wheeler said. “Their running back is as big and as fast as anyone we have on our team.”

Fulton's defense has allowed just 10.5 points a game this season and forced six turnovers last week against Giles Coun-ty.

“They are opportunis-tic on defense and are able to force turnovers and cash in,” Wheeler said.

It's unlikely both teams will continue on their current pace.

One team will probably slow down.

The other will be hoist-ing a large trophy as darkness sets in Saturday evening in Cookeville.

Steve Holt contributed to this story.

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downfield for 83 yards and a 7-0 Charger lead.

Covington’s Mr. Foot-ball finalist enhanced his bona fides with an-other 11-yard TD to close out the Crusaders with 2:30 left in the game and added a fumble recovery, tackles all over the field and 184 rushing yards on 24 carries.

A holding penalty ne-gated a 41-yard Liberty gain to the CHS 30 on the next possession. The Chargers drove to the Crusader one-yard line, but stalled and turned the ball over on downs.

Liberty mounted a drive to the Covington 26, only to have Demar-cus Seaberry snuff it out with an interception at the Charger two.

White gave CHS some breathing space with a run for a first down at the 15. On the next play, quarterback T.A. Wat-son hooked up over the middle with a wide-open Tyrone Tipton for an 85-yard score and a 14-0 lead with 1:17 left in the half.

There was time for more fireworks.

Two incomplete pass-es and a tackle for loss forced a Liberty punt, giving CHS possession at its 25-yard line.

A streaking Carlos Wil-liams hauled in a perfect-ly thrown Watson pass and cruised 75 yards for a 21-0 halftime lead.

Jalen Henderson’s fumble recovery at the Liberty 37 gave the Char-gers one more chance to score, but a 39-yard field goal attempt by Bobby Van Cleve fell just short.

“We threw the ball well and took advantage of the situation when they loaded the box on us,” Wheeler said.

Watson had his best night of the year, pass-ing for 183 yards and two TDs on 4-of-7 passing.

"We had some third down situations where we had to throw a pass in there and when we did coach made the right call," Watson said. "We caught the safety kind of cheating over to the run. He (Tipton) snuck behind him and we got it in there."

The Chargers were forced to punt to open the third quarter.

A controversial pass

reception at the CHS one-yard line highlighted an 80-yard drive by the Cru-saders. Jalen Henderson appeared to have his second interception of the night but was ruled to have made a simulta-neous catch with the re-ceiver and the ball was awarded to Liberty.

Courtney Bush scored from a yard out to cut the CHS lead to 21-7.

On their first posses-sion of the fourth quar-ter, CHS took over at its 49 after a Liberty punt. On third and four from the Crusader 43, Carlos Williams bounced off a would-be tackler and scored his first rushing TD since the second game of his junior year, upping the margin to 28-14.

Liberty tacked on a TD at the 7:24 mark with a nine play, 82-yard drive capped off by a 10-yard scoring run by Bush, cut-ting the CHS lead to 28-14.

Covington responded with a 71-yard scoring drive with White cover-ing the last 11 yards.

The one down note of the night occurred next. Van Cleve’s PAT attempt hooked wide left, break-ing his record string of 72 consecutive PATs this season.

“Our defense did its job,” Wheeler said. “They gave the offense four turnovers and we capitalized on three of them.”

In addition to White, Henderson and Seaberry, Williams picked off his eighth interception of the year, setting a new team single-season record.

“This is a special group," Wheeler said. "They have worked and fought hard to get to this point. We are one game away.”

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Covington got a huge night from newcomer Demetrius Dyson and some hot shooting by Jesse Somerville Tuesday at home in the District 13-AA opener against ri-val Haywood.

The result was an 82-72 win in front of a near-ca-pacity crowd.

The Chargers (4-2) fell behind by seven points in the first quarter. But Covington went ahead midway through the sec-ond quarter and never trailed again.

Dyson, a 6-6 senior who transferred from Brigh-ton during the offseason, was the story. He scored 17 points in the first half and finished with 30.

Somerville hit four 3-pointers and finished with 18.

“We scored 82 points,” said Covington head coach Dion Real. “That's not a problem, but the defense has to improve … Seventy two points? That's not what we want to do.”

Covington got a 3-pointer from Somer-ville with 4:20 left in the third quarter to push the lead to 53-46, but Hay-wood (2-2) cut it to two three moments later on two buckets by Montra-vious Maclin.

A 14-0 Covington run followed though, led by Dyson and Chevia Hughes, one of two play-ers (Tarecus Hughes is the other) who trans-ferred from Haywood

during the offseason, and Covington was in control the rest of the way.

A near skirmish dis-rupted play in the open-ing minutes of the game. Dyson and Haywood's Sadarius Delk faced off briefly after a Delk foul. No punches were thrown, but four Haywood play-ers were disqualified, in-cluding one starter.

Nigel Peeples and Delk led Haywood with 13

points each and Maclin had 12.

In girls action, Coving-ton got 10 points each from Precious Dyson, Ashia Jones and Janekia Mason in a 49-27 win.

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The Covington Chargers are Carlos Williams, Demarcus Seaberry, Mateo Jackson, Khamal Pendleton, Johnston White, Dakota Phillips, Kirk Winberry, Davian Bates, Isiah Dowell, Brad Wallace, Timmy Barnes, T.A. Watson, Jaylon Dyson, Nathan Parish, Andrew Harris, Zack Tifner, Jalen Henderson, Paul Maclin, Trae Wilson, Tyrone Tipton, Shawnelle Darling, Daulton Gunn, Devonte Young, Tavis Maclin, Daquon Norfork, Jaidarius Temple, Aretavious Brown, Trey Partee, Skylar Ramsey, Logan Morris, Clayton Click, Andrew Miller, Hunter Taylor, Hunter Peery, Brandon Armstrong, Jaleel Tate, Mackie Bradfield, Mackenzie Russell, Jacob Bennett, Tevin Robinson, Cody Carter, Tanner Price, Delvin Russell, Weston Downing and Luke Wright. Coaches are Marty Wheeler, Felix Fayne, Antonio Gaines, John Katrosh, J.R. Kirby, George Pinner, Colin Pinner, Chris Sage and Matthew Shearon. Managers are Austin Kuykendall, Clay Max and Kyle Wright

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Covington native Ira Terry defeated Verquan Kimbrough, a three-time ama-teur national champ and former world champ, in a second-round TKO.

Terry Jr. (3-1, 3 KOs), a senior at

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“It was a good event overall,” said promoter Malcolm Terry. “We had over 500 people in attendance.”

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Williams signs with Ole MissBy JEFF [email protected]

Covington senior Carlos Williams was one of the best baseball players in the state last year, and the coaching staff at Ole Miss noticed.

Last week Williams, who led the state in several categories last year, signed a scholarship to play baseball at Ole Miss.

“He's the fastest baseball player in the country,” Covington baseball coach David Sage said about Williams, who attended several major league talent showcases this year and turned heads with his record-setting home-to-first base times. “They (Ole Miss) see a lot of upside with him … They feel like he can

be an impact player in their lineup.”Williams, who was named first team

all-state, led Tennessee in stolen bases (65), runs (63) and hit by pitches (24), and was in the top five in walks (30) and hits (65). He hit .405 with an on-base percentage of .695.

Two weeks ago Under Armour named Williams to its 2013 Preseason All-American Team.

Williams helped the Chargers ad-vance to the Class 2A state tournament last season.

There's a chance Williams could be chosen in next June's major league draft.

Sage said Williams has been projected between the fifth and 10th rounds.


The Munford boys continued their hot play of late, dispatching Arlington on the road Tuesday night, 62-58.

Munford trailed by four points in the first quarter, but outscored the Tigers 18-6 in the second quarter and went on to the win.

Jonathan Stark led all scorers with 25 points and Kameron Foster and Andrea Bell each added 11 for the Cougars. An-tonio Moore chipped in with nine.

K.J. Bates led Arlington with 24. In girls action, Munford got 22 points

from Robnneisha Lee, but it wasn't enough in a 46-36 loss to Arlington.

Arlington held Munford to just four points in the second quarter to take an 11-point lead into halftime.

Shaliyah Wiggins scored nine for Munford.

Chyna Ellis led Arlington with 17.

In other area action:• The Brighton girls picked up their

first win of the season with a 65-55 vic-tory over Fayette-Ware. Senior Alaina Bierdz led the way with 17points and six rebounds and McCallie Ruffin add-ed 14 points and seven boards. Katelyn Price had 13 points and Brianna Brown and Morgan Shaver combined for 14 points and eight rebounds.

• Fayette-Ware defeated Brighton's boys 82-40 on Tuesday in Somerville. Jericho Williams led Brighton with eight points and Chris Young had sev-en. Shaquille Cooper led Fayette-Ware with 17.

• The Tipton-Rosemark Lady Rebels moved to 4-2 on the season with a 53-27 home win over Bishop Byrne on Tues-day. Bethany Berger led TRA with 14 points, Brooke Bridges scored nine and Sara Hall added eight. TRA held Byrne to seven combined points in the second and third quarters.

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Munford boys, Brighton girls win


The Lady Chargers swept through the Madison Academy Classic in Hunts-ville, Ala., going 3-0 in the tournament last week.

They defeated Athens (Ala.) in game one. Ashia Jones led all scorers with 27 points and 22 rebounds. Precious Har-vey chipped in 13 points and Precious Dyson 10.

Game two saw Covington drop host Madison Academy 56-47. Dyson led CHS with 20 points, shooting 6-for-13 from 3-point range. Jones added 17 points.

CHS drubbed Clements 60-36 in the final game. Harvey scored 18 and Jones 14 for the Lady Chargers. Covington is 6-0 on the season.

"I was proud of the way we played,” Covington coach Dion Real said. "We got better on this trip and bonded more on and off the court.”

The Charger boys traveled to New Madrid, Mo., for two games in the Riv-er Bend Classic last week.

Charleston (Mo.) stopped the Char-gers 91-66 in the first game.

Demetrius Dyson led the Chargers with 26 points. Tarecus Hughes had 13 points and Bobby Shanks 10.

Game two saw the Chargers take down Scoot County (Mo.) 73-64. Dyson led the scoring with 21. Shanks put up 17 and Hughes 16 in the win. The Char-gers are 3-2 for the year.

“We are still trying to find a rhythm,” said Real. “ We looked better Saturday. I am looking forward to opening dis-trict play this week.”

This week’s scheduled has changed to accommodate CHS football. The Nov. 30 game at South Gibson has been moved to today. The Dec. 1 game with Munford has been postponed. A play-ing date will be announced at a later time.

Lady Chargers go 3-0 in tournament action

Allie Moss, a 2012 graduate of Covington High School and freshman volleyball player at Freed-Hardeman Uni-versity, was recently named the Transouth Conference Freshman of the Year. She was second on her team in kills with 370 and fourth in the conference in kills and hitting percentage. The team fi nished second in the conference. Moss, right, is pictured with teammates, from left, Fernanda Ferriera, Renata Ferreira and Callie West.

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The “Holiday Tour of Homes” has been a longtime favorite fundraiser for the Covington High School Baseball team. We are particularly excited to be working with the Covington Chamber Of Commerce and the Dickens Family Christ-mas celebration. This will be a cozy two day event that the entire family can enjoy. We are hopeful that many will come visit our beautiful town square and quaint shops and also take a few moments to tour the lovely homes that will be delightfully decorated for the Holidays. The Covington Charger baseball team is coming off a fantastic 2012 season which included a State appearance in Murfreesboro. We did lose four talented seniors but Coach Sage is positive that

the players we have this year are hungry and talented enough for another State appearance. Tickets for the Tour of Homes are $10 and can be purchased from any Charger baseball player.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill McGowan 422 South Main StreetAlbert Hall bought this lot in 1904 at which time the Presbyterian Parsonage occupied the lot. The architect was richard b. Shelton. In either 1904 or1905, Albert Hall had this one-story building moved to the south end of his lot and sold the parsonage and small lot in 1905. With the old parsonage out of the way, Albert Hall began the construction of his home in 1905-06. This home was sold to mrs. Kate N. reid in 1920; to Harriet S reid in 1937; and to William Oliver mcGowan in 1942. mr. mcGowan died in 1947 but his widow, Annie Laurie bryan mcGowan, continued to reside here until her death in 1983. The home passed after her death to her grandson, William Wooten “bill” mcGowan Jr., who is the current owner. He and his family have done many major renovations to the interior of the home.

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Culver831 South Main Street

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the Lindo barber Shop. Throughout the downstairs, the floors are heated by water that circulates through the copper tubes which are heated in a boiler. mary Culver has over 350 teddy bears through the house. One bear is only the size of a dime. The entry hall will dazzle you with a 9 foot fully decorated Christmas tree, Wayne has

a playroom upstairs with a tournament class pool table. Throughout the house you will find funny trees, little trees and trees that will make you cry and be proud to be an American. many old items can be seen that have

been collected from the Square and roper’s Drug Store. The Culvers want to be sure all visitors know that their home is handicap accessible.

Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Jones824 Harvest Trail LaneThe house was custom built by Tommy and Jennifer Jones with the concepts of Lewis Allan Architects. The total square footage of the house is approximately 3,750 and 2,650 on the ground floor and 1,100 upstairs. The floor plan is very open between the dining, kitchen and living room and makes a great place to host gatherings. In the back of the house you have a spare bedroom and a scrapbooking/craft room. Across the hall from them is the master bedroom, sitting room, and master bathroom. Upstairs becomes very kid friendly with 2 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, playroom, and a game room. Overall, the home has 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths.

Mr. and Mrs. Tanner Wakefield1239 Terry Lane North

The home of Tanner and Chrissy Wakefield and their daughter molly Palmer is located at 1239 Terry Lane North in Covington. It sets on a family farm where Tanner was born and raised. The home was built in 2009 and designed personally by the Wakefields. It is a two

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A past column, written on March 3, 2011, has been requested by a reader con-cerning some of the bills in-troduced into the Tennessee House and Senate. The time that I am writing this col-umn is Thanksgiving Eve 2012, ready to leave the of-fice and enjoy the holidays, so the reader request was sort of a nice bonus for the relaxation of the holiday season.

Now, the old column:By the time you read this

column, Tennessee 2010 and 2011 rabbit, quail and squir-rel seasons will be a thing of the past. When hunting sea-sons close, it is almost like losing a good friend.

However, we are already making provisions for next year. Last Friday night at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church’s Wildlife Supper hosted by the church and MC’d by Bob Whitworth, we donated a rabbit hunt won by Payne Fuller and a deer hunt won by Billy Dan Huggins' son, Grayson. At the wildlife supper, duck, pheasant, venison tacos and sausages , Alaskan Red Salmon soup, mallard duck dressing and rainbow trout were just a few of the things on the menu Saturday night. Boys, we are looking

forward to the hunts. Recently the Tennes-

see Legislature introduced NRA-drafted House Bill 1668 and companion bill Senate Bill 1768, the Ten-nessee Gun Own-ers Improvement Act. Sponsored by State Repre-sentative Judd Matheny (R-47) and State Senator Bill Ketron (R-13), HB 1668/SB 1768 would improve upon the current Tennessee Permit Law by cleaning up redundancies that are found in federal law and remove unneces-sary restrictions placed on law abiding citizens.

HB 1668: Allow gun own-ers to lawfully store firearms in their privately owned and locked vehicle while parked in publicly acces-sible parking lots controlled by their employer or a busi-ness that they frequent. The bill would not affect a situa-tion in which firearms were banned from the premises, as a matter of state or fed-eral law, or in which the ve-hicle had no authority to be on the property in the first place.

Strengthen current fire-arm preemption laws by

prohibiting local govern-ment entities from banning firearms outside “buildings” under their control or in pri-vate vehicles. It would also fix the local parks provision

and eliminate the patchwork of laws across the state by invalidating exist-ing ordinances, rules, or other pro-visions that would conflict with the state firearm pre-emption law.

Create provi-sions that would prevent the Tennessee Bureau of In-vestigation (TBI) from using the fees charged for back-ground checks as a general revenue source and limit the fees to no more than what it costs to run the background check system.

Require TBI to destroy records pertaining to an ap-proved firearm transfer by the end of the business day on which the background check occurred and prohibit the duplication, transfer, or reproduction of such re-cords while moving up the date of issuing permits from 90 days to 45 days.

Prohibit public or private landlords from enacting leased clauses that ban fire-arms from a lessee’s residen-

tial or business premises.Repeal the general bans

on the carrying of handguns by those with permits in ref-uges, public hunting areas, or wildlife management ar-eas that are located within the boundaries of a state park or state natural area.

Codify the Fraudulent Firearms Prevention Act and stop private sting op-erations by cronies of anti gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Repeal over reaching dis-qualifiers for a carry permit including those who have had their rights restored, bringing Tennessee in line with current federal stan-dards.

Clarify a positing provi-sion for school buildings and grounds from where firearms are banned.

Several years ago, I wrote in this column that black bears were about 75 miles away from us, Tipton Coun-tians, on our west side in Walnut Ridge, Ark., and Paris, Tenn., on the east side and they were headed our way . Arkansas folk, this past year had their second best bear hunting year, ever, with the harvest of more than 450 bears during the 2010-11 bear season but the 2009-10 bear season still claims the state record for the highest number of bears harvested

at 530. Archery and cross bow hunters took the major-ity of the harvest. Polk and Scott counties were the two top counties for hear hunt-ers. In Polk County, 40 bears were harvested, followed by 35 bears in Scott county and both of these counties are on the western bound-ary of the state of Arkansas. Could that mean the bears are moving west instead of east?

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Hunter Reed (above), 9, the son of Alicia and Shannon Reed, killed this eight-pointer while hunting with his father. Tanner Reed (left), his eight-year-old brother, killed his fi rst buck, also an eight-pointer, with a muzzleloader.

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4,799 Career rushing yards for Johnston White, breaking Lareko Boykin's mark of 4,502

2,671 Rushing yards this season for White, breaking his record of 2,128 set last year

74 Extra points converted by Bobby Van Cleve this year, breaking Josh Watts' record last year of 50

14 Wins this year for Covington, breaking the pre-vious record of 13 set in 2001

578 Points this year for Covington, breaking the record of 520 set in 2000

969 Tickets sold at Covington High School for the state title game

1,500 Estimated number of Covington fans in attendance Saturday, dwarfing the Fulton crowd

4,764 Total rushing yards for Covington this season

Go Figure ...

Post game press conferences in high school only hap-

pen at football state title games and basketball state tournaments.

I've been to a few of them and they're kind of cruel for the teams that end up on the wrong end of a score.

Such was the case Saturday evening in Cookeville when Cov-ington head coach Marty Wheeler and seniors Carlos Williams and Johnston White, just moments after a dream season had come to a disappointing end, were asked to enter a small room in the stadium's bowels and sit at a table

and explain why they lost to reporters like myself.

The table was located just a few feet away from another that was popu-lated by four Fulton players and their coach. The room was so small that Wheeler and his players couldn't help but over-hear Fulton's contingent explain how awesome it feels to win a state title and how all their dreams had come true.

Several news cam-

eras were shining bright lights and the Fulton players and coaches and

seemed to talk louder and louder.

Meanwhile, one other reporter and I quietly asked for the thoughts of Covington's three repre-sentatives.

Wheeler, White and Williams probably wished they

were sitting at the other table and were still try-ing to digest what went wrong.

The last thing they wanted to do was talk to me and I certainly don't blame them.

But, to their credit, they answered all my questions.

Wheeler talked about some of the details of what went wrong: not being able to stop Fulton on third down, turn-overs, etc.

“We got off to a great start,” Wheeler said. “Our defense definitely made some plays early on too … I think what ultimately happened … We couldn't get off the field on third down. We have been a team that has played extremely well on third down all

year. In the second half it just didn't happen.”

Still, despite the disap-pointment and having little time to digest it, Wheeler managed to re-flect on a special season and how far the program has come.

“It's a sad day for our program,” Wheeler said. “It would have been a sad day win or lose. These seniors have nothing to be ashamed of. What these seniors have done to get our

program back in the situation where we have an opportunity to play for a state championship. This is a special group. They'll be remembered for a long time.”

Added Williams: “It hurts deep down inside knowing how far we've come … Our program has been through a lot. I wouldn't trade this team for nothing in the world. Everybody on this team is my brother.”


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Despite early lead, CHS drops state title gameBy STEVE [email protected]

A record-setting season for Cov-ington football saw more firsts in its Class 4A BlueCross Bowl state cham-pionship showdown with Knoxville Fulton in Cookeville on Saturday.

Covington took its first lead ever in a state championship game, won its first quarter and first half in such a game and had its first halftime lead.

Unfortunately for the Chargers, the Falcons had other designs ready for the second half, running away on 39 unanswered points for a 39-14 win. It was their fourth state championship since 2000 to go along with two run-ner-up finishes.

Taking the opening kick-off at the CHS 19 yard line, the Chargers hit Fulton in the mouth with a seven-play, 81 yard drive highlighted by a 51-yard rumble to the Fulton 12 by senior Daiquon Norfork, who took team-rushing honors with 113 yards on five carries.

Johnston White scored his 41st touchdown of the season with 3:03 left in the first quarter to give the Chargers a 7-0 lead.

Covington stopped the Falcons on their first possession, taking over fol-lowing a punt at the CHS 22.

Eight plays later Tyrone Tipton sailed around right end for a 26 yard TD, giving the Chargers a 14-0 lead with 1:12 remaining in the quarter.

It was the last time Covington (14-1) would see the end zone.

“We came out ready to go and ex-ecuted our game plan,” said Coving-ton coach Marty Wheeler. “With the exception of the touchdown in the second quarter where we lined up wrong, the defense played well in the first half. The goal line stand late in the half was huge. We had a couple of plays in the second that could have gone for TDs. It might have been a different game had that happened.”

As it happened, Fulton (13-2) came out in the second half clicking on all

Above, Covington senior Johnston White gets into the endzone to give Covington a 7-0 lead in the fi rst quarter. Below, Tyrone Tipton lays a huge hit on Fulton quarterback Penny Smith. At left, assistant coach J.R. Kirby and senior Dakota Phillips console one another on the sidelines after Covington lost the Class 4A BlueCross Bowl, 39-14. Top and botom photos by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtonchargerfootball.com; middle photo by Jeff Ireland

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At left, the defense makes a stop. At right, captains, from left, Johnston White, Skylar Ramsey, Andrew Miller, Carlos Williams and Tyrone Tipton go get the team's trophy. Photos by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtoncharg-erfootball.com

The Chargers pose for a pic after the game. Photo by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

Skylar Ramsey, left, and Andrew Miller take the runnerup trophy off the field. Photo by Phil Ramsey/www.coving-tonchargerfootball.com

Daiquon Norfork breaks a long run. Photo by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

In the top photo, the cheerleaders fire up the community during a caravan around town on Friday. In the middle photo, the crowd reacts to a first quarter TD. Above, the Chargers hit the field. Photos by Jeff Ireland

In the top photo, head coach Marty Wheeler walks the sideline during a break in the action. In the middle photo, T.A. Watson pitches to Johnston White. Above, the team rallies around the trophy after the game. Photos by Phil Ramsey/www.covingtonchargerfootball.com

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cylinders. Taking the open-ing kick off, the Falcons mounted an 81-yard, 11-play drive to close the gap to14-13with8:10remainingin the third quarter.

Fulton got a stop and took the lead for good 19-14 with an 88-yard drive with 2:27leftontheclockona23-yard scoring pass from Pen-ny Smith to Dean Taylor.

“We were in good shape but tired at the half," Wheel-er said. “In the second half, their size and depth began to take its toll. We had played against bigger teams all year but this team was the best we had seen. Their skill players had more speed and size than any we had seen and it was a factor.”ByWheeler’sownadmis-

sion, Covington lost its fo-cus in the third and fourth quarters, uncharacteristical-ly turning the ball over with a fumble, failing to recover a kick off and allowing a punt return for a score.

As well, Covington's de-fense did not get off the field on third down as it had most of the season. DamonWilliams’42-yard

punt return increased the Falcon lead to 25-14 with seven seconds left in the third quarter.

D.J. Campbell picked off a T.A. Watson pass, return-ing it 55 yards for a TD and a32-14leadatthe3:07markof the fourth.

Daryl Rollins was the leading rusher in the game with 161 yards on 28 carries. Smith was 9-of-17 passingfor 160 yards and two TDs.

Watson passed for 56 yards, connecting on 8 of 19 attempts with two intercep-tions. Whiteadded73yardsand

a TD to close his career with a new single season rushing recordof2,671yardsandanew school career record of 4,868 yards amassed in just two seasons. Tiptonrushedfor47yards

and a TD and Jalen Hender-sonhad30yardsrushing.

The team established a new single-season scor-ing recordwith 578points,eclipsing the previous re-cord of 520 set by the 2000 Charger squad.

“From day one, this group of players took all the pre-season hype in stride,” said Wheeler. “They worked hard and prepared one game at a time. It is hard enough to make the semi-finals and it is even harder when everyone expects you to be there. This team found a way and did not let it go to their heads.

"As for our fans ... our fan base is remarkable. When I interviewed for this job, things were at a low ebb. I was asked if we could turn it around. It was a part of the plan to get the commu-nity back and involved in

Charger football. It exceeds our wildest imaginations that the support is what it is just four years later. We have been impressed all year with the support but it all came to a head with that second TD in Cookeville. The reaction of our fans was what we had hoped for four

years ago.”Wheeler added: "I have

a feeling like none before. Our kids have tried to do everything we have asked of them. When I knew I wanted to be a coach 26 years ago at age 12, I began to dream of winning a state championship. I may not

ever get that chance again but to see a group of kids go all out and completely trust me and the other coaches ... It’safeelingIwouldhavetothink is as close as winning a state championship could be.”

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The Lady Cardinals hit the road Tuesday night to take onDistrict 13-AAA foe Jackson North Side. Brighton lost 55-33, but first-year

head coach Kent Cates took away some positives from the game.

“We played really well on the boards,” said Cates. “We had 32 re-bounds and only turned the ball over eight times … I told the girls before the game if we could limit our turnovers to 10 or less, rebound and shoot well from the charity line, we would win the game … I did not think we would shoot as bad as we did.”

Brighton shot 20 percent from thefield. “Wehad about 70percent of those

shots in or around the point,” Cates said, “exactly where we wanted them.”

North Side (1-8 overall, 1-1 district) led 29-12 at the half and stayed in con-trol the rest of the way. Brighton(1-5,0-2)wasledbyAlaina

Bierdz,whomadeapairof3-pointerand finished with 14 points and eight rebounds. Raygan Huffman added six points and Brianna Brown grabbedeight rebounds. BreonaCockrellledNorthSidewith

16 points. In boys' action, North Side defeated

Brighton 73-51 after leading by 10 atthe half. Brighton's Jericho Williams led all

scorers with 25 points. Inothergames:•TheMunfordboys (6-1)defeated

Millington at home on Friday, 61-49.Jonathan Stark led the way for the Car-dinals with 19 points. Kameron Foster added 10 andAntonioMoore scorednine.• The Lady Cougars (5-2) got 25

points from Robneisha Lee in a 51-42 win over Millington. Shaliyah Wig-ginsscored13forMunfordandKierraWebb added eight. Tiara Caldwell led Millington(0-5)with18.

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On Tuesday, the Gibson County Pioneers (1-4) and Lady Pioneers (1-4) paid their final visit to CHS as a mem-berofDistrict13andbothleftvictimsof withering defensive pressure from both Covington squads.The Lady Chargers (9-0, 3-0) took

a seven-point first quarter lead and neverlookedbackenroutetoa75-56victory.

Ashia Jones and Precious Dyson paced Covington with 18 points apiece, withallofDyson’spointcomingfrombehind the arc.

In the boys' game, Covington (6-2, 3-0) fell behind 15-10 with twomin-utes left in the first quarter. A spirited conversation from coach Dion Real later, the smoke cleared from a 16-0

CHS run and the game was history. TheChargerspulledawayfora75-42win,coastinghomeupby30-plusformost of the fourth period.CHS’sDemetriusDysonledallscor-

ers with 22 points, including 19 in the first half. TarecusHughes had 13 forCHSandBobbyShanks10.JoeLeeledthe Pioneers with 11.

The Lady Chargers play at Dyers-burg tomorrow night, tipping off at 5 p.m. The Chargers take on Dyersburg at 8 p.m.. Both teamswill be on theroad atMartinWestview onDec. 11.Thegirlstipat6:30p.m.Inotheraction:The Lady Chargers ran their season

record to 8-0 overall and 2-0 in the dis-trictwithawire-to-wire78-54districtwin over South Gibson on Nov. 29. Covington led by as many as 40 points in the game in posting the win.

Leshaundra Somerville led all scor-erswithacareer-high30-pointperfor-mance.Jonesadded17andMason11for CHS. Anna Warren led the Lady Hornets in scoring with 14 points.

“We are beginning to mesh and play Charger basketball,” said Real. “ I liked what I saw from both teams.”

What Real saw from his boys team wasan86-38drubbingoftheHornets.

“We jumped out early and did not look back,” he said.

Covington led 51-19 at the half and was not challenged.

Dyson continued his prolific scor-ing with a game-high 24 points. Jalen Clabon was the only other Charger in double figures with 16 points. Lo-ganEasonpacedtheHornetswith17points.

Covington girls move to 9-0 with win

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Brighton High School's wrestling team competed in the Black Horse Invitational at Houston High School over the weekend and junior Essex Ramsey's fifth-place finish led the Car-dinals against some of the toughest competition around.

“The toughest individual wrestling tournament in West Tennessee,” said Brighton Coach Larrick Johnson, “By far the hardest tournament.”

The field included Christian Broth-ers High School, a nationally-ranked team this year, state champions Brother Martin from Louisiana, Grissom from Alabama and Duncan High School from Oklahoma.

“We are very thin in our lineup this year,” Johnson said about sending only four wrestlers to the tournament out of a 14-man line-up. “Yes we are very light. I can’t fill all the weight classes. It's fine, though, because the wrestlers

we have are making progress.”Ramsey came into the tournament

with a 9-0 record on the season and a fourth place seeding.

“Essex has been working hard this year and it’s paying off, unfortunately sometimes he still get nervous,” John-son.

Ramsey lost in the second round of the tournament Friday night. It was a close match with Ramsey trailing 8-6 late in the third period before Ye-hia Riles of Brother Martin pulled out a 13-6 decision. That put Ramsey in the consolation bracket for Saturday where he had to win three matches just to get to the Medal Round.

Ramsey did just that Saturday morn-ing, going on a tear pinning Brian Kearney of Bolton in 3:51, and earning a major decision over Tyree Daniels of Cordova 16-4.

Ramsey pinned Conner Helton of Blackman next in 1:49. Trying to main-tain his fourth seed, Ramsey faced Ste-vie Dasro of Grissom, coming up just

short, losing a hard fought match 5-2. Ramsey pinned Dylan Bargerstock

of Hixson in 15 seconds to finish fifth. “Essex is one of four Brighton-Mu-

nford wrestlers to place in the Black-horse three times,” Johnson said.

As a freshman he placed eighth. Last year as a sophomore he finished sixth.

“For Essex to fight back and place higher than he did last year, after the disappointing loss on Friday, shows great character and perseverance on his part,” Johnson said.

Other Brighton wrestlers to com-pete were junior Matt Bargery at 126 pounds, senior Devon Rice at 132 and junior Travis Malone at 160.

Each wrestler went 1-2 at the tour-nament, earning pins and a technical fall (winning by 15 points or move), giving Brighton valuable team points.

Brighton wrestles at Briarcrest today at 6 p.m., and Saturday at Millington in the Trojan Wars Dual Team Tourna-ment, which begins at 9 a.m.

Ramsey takes fifth at prestigious meet

Covington senior Gabby Glenn, front, second from left, recently signed a softball scholarship with UT-Martin. Also pictured are, from left, front, Chuck Glenn, Gabby, Donna Glenn, Brock Glenn, Gaynell Clay; back, Jordan Glenn, Neeley Glenn, Terry Clay and Martha Lawler. Photo courtesy Tab McDivitt


The TSSAA and the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association re-cently announced their All-State and All-Region baseball team for 2012.

Covington figured prominently in the selec-tions.

D.J. Max, Tommy Bea-

sley and Carlos Williams were named to the first team for Region 7.

Williams was named first-team All-State. He was first in the state in runs scored, stolen bas-es and hit by pitch and fourth in hits, sixth in walks and ninth in bat-ting average.

Beasley was first in the state in RBIs and Max

was 14th in the state in strikeouts and 12th in ERA.

Charger head coach David Sage was voted the TSSAA Sectional Coach of the Year.

In related awards, CHS athletic director Mark McClain was tapped as District Athletic Director of the Year in A.F. Bridg-es balloting.

CHS baseball players honored

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