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SPRING FUNG Area tennis players eliminated Baseball Tennis TEAM RESULTS Division li Boys Semifini iinals In Class AAA boys' doubles, Jackson Central-Merry's Bo Hardegree and Sean DeWitt lost to Science Hill's Bryan Breese and Ryan Reynolds, 7-6 (3), 6-1. "We played bad," DeWitt said. "It was not one of our better days. They were good, though. You've got to give them credit.

DeWitt and Hardegree both will attend the University of Tennessee in the fall, but Hardegree will be in Knoxville a little bit earlier. Til be up there in a month," said Hardegree, who signed a football scholarship with the Vols. "I'm already on the workouts and ready to go." Jeremy Peppas, 425-9635 By JEREMY PEPPAS jpeppasjacksonsun.com MEMPHIS It was one and done for West Tennessee tennis at Spring Fling in Memphis on Wednesday. University School of Jackson's Namrata Patel lost in straight sets to Gracie Glassmeyer of Donelson Christian Academy in Class A-AA singles. This was the second consecutive day that Patel, just a sophomore, faced Glassmeyer.

In the Class A-AA team title match on Tuesday, Glassmeyer won, 6-0, 6-2. "She's a variety player, and I have trouble with those kind of tennis for the past four years, as has Meyers. "The other team played pretty well" Meyers said. 1 didn't think we played our best tennis. You get up here, it's stout competition." In Class A-AA girls' doubles, the USJ duo of Katie Emery and Meg Gore lost to Kara Cook and Megan DeSha of Chattanooga Christian, 6-2, 6-1.

"They were really good," said Emery, a recent USJ graduate. "They were all over the net" "They had great strategies," Gore said. "They were changing things up." And in an echo of her teammate, "they were great net players." players," Patel said. "She also knew what to do at the right times." In one of the more entertaining matches of the day, Will Cotton and Justin Peach of Friendship Christian defeated Micah Meyers and Shuntarra Tsukiyama of Crockett County, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2 in Class A-AA doubles. Meyers and Tsukiyama, both juniors, have plans for next season.

"We'll work really hard this summer and fallwinter," said Tsukiyama, a foreign exchange student from Yokohama, Japan. "Micah is a good tennis player and we moved pretty well together." Tsukiyama has been playing Haywood soccer makes early exit A I -A STEPHAN FRAZIERTlte Jackson Sun University School of Jackson's Adam Warren, left, and Andrew Long, just miss running into each other as Long catches a ball to end the second inning against Goodpasture on Wednesday. USJ won, 8-7, and will face the winner of the Goodpasture-Rockwood game at 7:30 p.m. today. CLASS A Tuesday's Results Game 1 Davidson Academy 5, Jackson Christian 4 Game 2 Chattanooga Christian 8, Unaka 1 Game 3 USJ 6, Friendship Christian 4 Game 4 Goodpasture 10, Rock-wood 1 Wednesday's Results Game 5 Jackson Christian 9, Unaka 4 Game 6 Rockwood 5, Friendship Christian 2 Game 7 Davidson Academy 7, Chattanooga Christian 6 Game 8 USJ 8, Goodpasture 7 Today's Gaines Game 9: Greenbrier (27-9) vs.

Jack- i son Christian (33-3), 10 a.m. Game 10: Rockwood vs. Goodpas- ture (32-11), 12:30 p.m. Game 11: Davidson Acad. (33-9) vs.

winner of game 9, 5 p.m. Game 12: Univ. School of Jackson (42-9) vs. winner of game 10, 7 p.m. CLASS AA Tuesday's Results Game 1 Ripley 14, Greenbrier 6 Game 2 Marshall County 14, Seymour 4 Game 3 Gibbs 3, Ridgeway 2 Game 4 South Side 5, Meigs 'County 3 Wednesday's Results Game 5 Seymour 4, Greenbrier 3 Game 6 Ridgeway 12, Meigs County 0 Game 7 Ripley 4, Marshall Co.

2 Game 8 South Side 7, Gibbs 5 Today's Games Game 9: Seymour (22-15) vs. Marshall Co. (28-7-2), 10 a.m. Game 10: Ridgeway (33-3) vs. Gibbs (28-9), 12:30 p.m.

Game 11: Ripley (33-11-1) vs. winner of game 9, 5 p.m. Game 12: Jackson South Side (28-10) vs. winner of game 10, 7 p.m. CLASS AAA Wednesday's Results Game 1 Farragut 3, Houston 0 Game 2 Hendersonville 4, River-daleO Game 3 Munford 4, Mt Juliet 1 Game 4 Oakland 12, Sullivan East 4 Today's Games Game 5 Houston vs.

Riverdale at Sowell, 10 a.m. Game 6 Mt. Juliet vs. Sullivan East at Sowell, noon Game 7 Farragut vs. Hendersonville at Gagliano, 5 p.m.

Game 8 Munford vs. Oakland at Gagliano, 7 p.m. Softball At Greenbrook Softball Complex in Southaven, Miss. ClassA Tuesday's Results Game 1 Friendship Christian 18, Harriman 3 Game 2 Goodpasture 1, USJ 0 Game 3 Boyd Buchanan 6, Christian Academy of Knoxville 0 Game 4 Forrest 14, Huntingdon 2 Game 5 USJ 8, Harriman 2 Game 6 Huntingdon 6, Christian Academy of Knoxville 2 Wednesday's Results Game 7 Goodpasture 5, Friend-' ship Christian 0 Game 8 Boyd-Buchanan 4, For-rest2 Today's Games Game 9 USJ vs. Forrest, Field 6, 10 a.m.

Game 10 Huntingdon vs. Friendship Christian, Field 6, 11:30 a.m. Game 11 Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10 on Field 6, 5 p.m. Game 12 Goodpasture vs.

Boyd-Buchanan, Field 6, 6:30 p.m. Friday's Games Game 13 Winner Game 11 vs. Loser Game 12 on Field 6, 10 a.m. Game 14 Championship: Winner 1 Game 12 vs. Winner Game 13 on Field 6.

5 p.m. Saturday's Game Game 15 Championship on Field 6, if necessary, TBA Class AA Tuesday's Results Game 1 Lenoir City 3, Marshall County 1 Game 2 David Lipscomb 2, Brighton 2 Game 3 Greenbrier 7, Camden 4 Game 4 Gibbs 4, Covington 3 Game 5 Brighton 9, Marshall County 5 Game 6 Camden 4, Covington 1 Wednesday's Results Game 7 Lipscomb 1, Lenoir City 0 Game 8 Greenbrier 4, Gibbs 1 Today's Games Game 9 Gibbs 8 vs. Brighton on 5, 10 a.m. Game 10 -Lenoir City vs. Camden Field 5, 11:30 a.m.

Game 11 Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10 on Field 5, 5 p.m. 0 Game 12 Lipscomb vs. Green-1 brier on Field 5, 6:30 p.m. Friday's Games Game 13 Loser Game 12 vs.

Winner Game 11 on Field 5, 10 a.m. Game 14 Championship: Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 13 on Field 5. 6 p.m. Saturday's Game 1 Game 15 Championship on Field 5, if necessary, TBA Directions to Softball complex Approximate drive time from Jackson: IVi hours Take 1-40 West to Memphis, then 1-240 West toward Jackson, Miss.

fi Take the South Airways Blvd. exit, No. 23B, toward Memphis International Airport, then merge onto Blvd. Turn left onto Rasco Road East Turn right onto Greenbrook Park-8 way. Greenbrook Softball Complex is on I the left about two-tenths of a mile at the corner of Greenbrook Parkway and Stowewood Drive.

i Soccer At Mike Rose Soccer Complex CLASS A-AA Wednesday's Results Game 1 Lenoir City 1, Ridgeway 0 Game 2 Chattanooga Christian Franklin Road Academy 0 Game 3 Christian Academy of Knoxville 3, Chattanooga Arts Sci-. ences 0 Game 4 Ezell Harding 2, By TROY SCHNEIDER sportsjacksonsun.com MEMPHIS Haywood's dreams of advancing in Spring Fling came to end Wednesday afternoon as Ezell-Harding sent the Tomcats packing with a 3-2 victory in the first-round of the state soccer tournament. Ezell-Harding struck late in the second half to break a 1-1 tie and the hopes of the Tomcats. The game-winning shot came from an Eagle forward from about 17 yards out, the shot was punched away by Tomcat goalkeeper David Black. Unfortunately, the punched ball hit the post and ricocheted back into the net.

"I really didn't have that much time to react," Black said about the game-winning shot. "It started to go right of me and after that it was just behind me. I don't know what happened." With the Tomcats facing elimination after the Ezell goal, the team looked to Monday's sectional heroes Freddy Tims and John Michael Emerson. But the prolific goal-scoring duo could not answer the call for a goal. "They are one of the better teams in the state, so we knew they would be good," Black said.

"We knew we would have to bring our best game, we did play hard, just not as hard as we could have." Tims had the two best looks to even the score late in the game. The first chance came on a Tims header from a crossing pass. However, the shot bounced off the post. The second chance came when Tims was dribbling in the box and looking for a shot when he was knocked down. "Honestly, I thought Tims was fouled in the box," Haywood coach Steve Svenbakken.

"I had a Eagles Continued from cover "This win builds some confidence going into the next game," Smith said. "It took awhile to get our bats going today, but once we did, it started rolling." Indeed, it did. For four innings, JCS managed only one hit off Unaka left-hander Randy Swearingen (10-2). Their only two runs had come off three consecutive walks, a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly by Lee Mauney in the fourth. But the fifth inning was all JCS.

With two outs, the Eagles scored seven runs on four hits and four Unaka errors. Chris Harris had an RBI double to right-center, and Gary Cadigan's RBI single to right tied it 44. A walk and hit batsman loaded the bases for senior catcher Dal Cop-lin, who was frustrated after striking out twice. "I was just looking for a fastball down the middle, and I got it" Coplin said. He stroked the pitch on a line drive into centerfield, where the MBA 4, Baylor 0 Championship MBA 4, MUS 3 Girls Semifinals St Agnes 4, Baylor 0 Knox.

Webb 4, Harpeth Hall 1 Championship St Agnes 4, Knox. Webb 1 INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Boys Class AAA Quarterfinals Singles Brenton Deal, Lipscomb, def. Adam Bedwell, Columbia 6-5, 7-5. Sebastian Lopez, Ripley, def. Eike Bordt Cannon 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Marcus Dedrick, Ridgeway, def. Andre Resseguie, Lenoir City, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Stan Goss, CSAS, def. Kunal Jar-dosh, Gatlinburg-Pittman, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles Quarterfinals Adam Wilson and Jake Musgrave, Marshall def.

Joel Diament and Derrick Brassel, Ridgeway, 6-2, 6-1. Ray Davenport and Daniel Regnitz, Chart def. Terry Stevens and Cagney Randolph, Kingston, 6-1, 6-2. Will Cotton and Justin Peach, Friendship Christ, def. Micah Myers and Shuntarra Tsukiyama, Crockett 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2.

Mark Dorris and Nathan Williams, David Lipscomb, def. Drew Parsons and Flonan Schuchert, Unicoi 6- Gifts Singles Julie Mages, Hixson, def. Charlotte Clayburn, Celina, 6-0, 6-0. Christy Marshall, Columbia def. Francesca Guerrieri, CAK, 6-2, 7- 5.

Christie Brough, Ridgeway, def. Amber Campbell, Unicoi default Gracie Glassmeyer, DCA, def. Namrata Patel, USJ, 6-2, 6-1. Doubles Victoria Reed and Crystal Harwell, Mt. Juliet Christian, def.

Rachel Scheidt and Jessica Goodfellow, Ridgeway, 6-3, 6-1. Liz Dove and Amanda Pike, Eliza-bethton, def. Amy Smith, and Hannah Sherrod, Kingston, 6-3, 6-2. Kara Cook and Megan DeSha, Chart. Christian, def.

Meg Gore and Katie Emery, USJ, 6-2, 6-1. Brittany Stewart and Leigh Ellen Bruce, Lipscomb, def. Adrienne Adams and Kayla Branaman, Marshall 6-2, 6-2. Class AAA Quarterfinals Boys Singles Andrew Felsenthal, White Station, def. Jason Friedman, Hendersonville, Ben Rogers, Dobyns Bennett, def.

Andrew Womack, Ooltewah, 6-2, 6-3. Brian Hartness, Brentwood, def. Brent Dickenson, Bearden, 6-1, 6-4. Brandon Clayborn, Bolton, def. Justin Proctor, Cookeville, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Doubles Brady Neal and Joseph Sherer, -Oakland, def. Michael and Mitchell Hubert, Hendersonville, 6-7, 6-2, 6-3. Trip Wills and Okechi Womeadu, White Station, def. Sean Hawk and Zach Legan, Franklin, 6-3, 6-1. Bryan Breese and Ryan Reynolds, Science Hill, def.

Sean DeWitt and Bo Hardegree, Central Merry, 7-6 (3), 6-1. Brett Blocher and Luke Koehler, Oak Ridge, def. Tyler Lane and John Schwenk, Rhea 7-6 (3), 6-0. Girls Singles L.K. Caffey, Blackman, def.

Courtney Smith, McMinn 6-1, 6-2. Hayley Dittus, Brentwood, def. Tara Byrne, Science Hill, 6-2, 6-3. Laure Lynn Williams, Knox. West, def.

Ann Claire Butler, Beech, 6-0, 6-0. Connor Vogel, Germantown, def. Monica Keshwara, Cordova, 6-0, 6-0. Doubles Laura Baty and Sheena Bharti, Science Hill, def. Brittany Dove and Virginia Penner, Oakland, 6-1, 6-4.

Ruthie Fleming and Jennifer Pollack, White Station, def. Hannah Turner and Monica Bertram, Cumberland 6-1, 6-0. Whitnie Warren and Lauren Stras-burger, Brentwood, def. Patricia Graves and Julie Frame, Oak Ridge, Jill Walker and Rachel Slade, Hendersonville, def. Savanah Gill and Emily Dehority, Bolton, 6-2, 6-0.

Track Girls events will be held today and boys events on Friday. At Briarcrest High School Field Events 9 a.m. Class A-AA pole vault 10:30 a.m. Class AAA long jump 10:30 a.m. Division II triple jump 10:30 a.m.

Class A-AA high lump 10:30 a.m. Class AAA shot put 10:30 a.m. Division II discus 11a.m. -Division II pole vault 11:45 a.m. Division II long jump 11:45 a.m.'- Class A-AA triple jump 11:45 a.m.

Class AAA high jump 11:45 a.m. Division II shot put 11:45 a.m. Class A-AA Discus 1 p.m. Class A-AA long jump 1 p.m. Class AAA triple jump 1 p.m.

Division II high jump 1 p.m. Class A-AA snot put 1 p.m. Class AAA discus 1 p.m. Class AAA pole vault Running Events Events begin at 5 p.m. 100 hurdles 400 relay 3200 relay 100 dash.

1600 run 800 relay 400 dash 300 hurdles 800 run 200 dash 1600 relay Running Events order: A-AA, Division II, AAA Directions to Briarcrest High School Approximate drive time from Jackson: Vh hours Take the 1-240 to Poplar Ave. (US-72, exit 15) exit towards Germantown Turn left on Poplar Pike Extended Continue on Ridgeway Loop Road Turn right on Briarcrest Ave, good view of the play, and Tims was tripped from behind. I know it was a close game in the state tournament and the ref didn't want to call a penalty kick in that kind of situation. But he still was fouled." Haywood jumped out in front of the eighth-ranked Eagles early, when Luis Rosales scored just seven minutes into the game. However, that was the only offense the Tomcats could muster all day.

A surprising fact considering Haywood had not been held to just one goal all year. "We just got out of sync late in the first half and they took control," Svenbakken said. "We tried to come out of halftime looking to attack more and getting back to fundamentals, but it never happened." Svenbakken said that Ezell's midfield and goalkeeper were extremely sharp, but it was their possession game that really hurt the Tomcats. "We played hard, and our players played well, but their possession game was to hard for us to adjust to," Svenbakken said. Haywood ends an 18-5-1 season.

Ezell-Harding advances to play Christian Academy of Knoxville today at 7:30 p.m. in the state tournament semifinals. The Tomcats were West Tennessee's first soccer team ever to advance to Spring Fling. The Tomcats end their season as the Region 7 A-AA champions, state tournament qualifiers and set records for wins and goals in a year. am really proud of this team," Svenbakken said.

"For this school to never, have a winning season and then turn around and make the state tournament is great" Troy Schneider, 425-9635 defender attempted a diving catch. The ball got past him, and Coplin's double cleared the bases for a 74 lead. Two errors later, the Eagles had two more runs and a state-tournament victory. "Dai's hit was huge," JCS coach Jim Carter said. "And I'm so proud of Andrew's effort.

He was put in a very difficult situation with the bases loaded and only one out We basically asked him to not let them score anymore, and he didn't. To see a hard worker like him succeed really makes you proud." JCS only had five hits, but four came in the decisive fifth inning. Carter was certain his Eagles would finally get to Unaka's left-hander. "We knew if we could put a couple of hits together and put pressure on Unaka, we could score some runs," Carter said. "That lefty was their best pitcher, and he was tough.

But we survived for another day." Dan Morris, 425-9635 JCS 9, Unaka 4 Unaka 400000t-49S JCS M0270X-951 WP: Andrew Smith (6-1). LP: Randy Swearingen (10-2). 2B: JCS- Chris Harris, Dal Coplin. Leading hitters: U- Thomas Guess 2-4, Rusty Chambers 2-3, Cody Collins 2-3: JCS- Robert Matlock 2-4. Records: JCS 34-12.

24-12. will face each other at 5 p.m. USJ vs. Huntingdon, and Camden vs. Brighton.

"If we throw strikes, play defense and put the ball in play, we feel like we can play with anybody here," USJ coach Jody Evans said. "But we'll see tough pitching from here on out In Wednesday's games, Goodpasture beat Friendship Christian, 5-0, and Boyd Buchanan defeated Forrest 4-2, in Class A. Goodpasture and Boyd Buchanan play at 6:30 p.m. today. In Class AA, David Lipscomb beat Lenoir City, 1-0, and Greenbrier defeated Gibbs, 4-1.

Lipscomb and Greenbrier play at 6:30 p.m. today. Game sketch Score: USJ 8, Goodpasture 7 Play of the game: Colin McPeak struck out Derek deGrijs for the final out in the bottom of the seventh inning as USJ survived a startling rally by Goodpasture. i Player of the game: USJ's Lee Tabor ended a slump by going 3-for-4 with two RBI and he scored three runs. What's next USJ faces the Goodpasture-Rockwood winner in the lower-bracket championship at AutoZone Park at 7:30 p.m.

today. Goodpasture plays Rockwood in an elimination game at 12:30 p.m. today at AutoZone Park. couple of weeks so it was good to see," Tabor said. "I guess time got me out of it Baseball will do it to you so it was tough times, but we're two games away from winning state so it's all right." Ryan Ross' fifth straight hit in the state tournament, an RBI single, gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

Cobb tied the score 1-1 in the bottom of the first with a one-run single. USJ took a 4-1 lead after its first four batters in the third got hits to spark a three-run rally. Aaron Harper and Ross both had RBI singles and another run scored on Casey Johnson's groundout. The Bruins doubled their lead to 8-1 after adding four more runs in the fourth on Tabor's two-run triple, Adam Warren's sacrifice fly and William Wallace's RBI single. USJ 8, Goodpasture 7 USJ 103 4X 12 4 Goodpasture 1M6M6-7M2 WP: Colin McPeak (9-1).

LP: Austin Tlce (5-3). 2B: USJ-Adam Warren, Aaron Harper. 38: USJ-Lee Tabor. Chassen Hayes. Leading hitters: USJ-Tabor 3-4, Ryan Ross 2-4.

Will Woods 2-4, Harper 2-3. G-Oanny Pulley 2-4, Brad Cobb 2-4, Austin Tice 2-2. Records: USJ 42-9; 31-10. Bruins Continued from cover has got a great baseball program and I did not expect them for the least bit to roll over and lay down," Bruins coach Jimmy Carey said. "Colin was throwing well.

We boot a ground ball and two or three guys cue one off the ends of bats. It's hard to take a guy out when he's throwing that well all daylong." Goodpasture, a four-time state champion, sent 10 batters to the plate during the improbable rally in the seventh. "We've done it several times in tournaments, coming back and they never cease to amaze me," Goodpasture coach Richie Estep said. "We kept getting them on, we kept getting hits and we kept getting walks. I guess we just came up short and ran out of innings.

We started too late. That was our USJ rallied from a four-run deficit during the last two innings to beat Friendship Christian 6-4 on Tuesday in the quarterfinals, but this time it was Goodpasture's turn to stage a rally. "Our team has got a lot of heart and we know how to fight back," said Cougars right fielder Danny Pulley, who had two hits. "We tried to find anything we could to come back and win, little hits or whatever. It didn't matter." Third baseman Lee Tabor led the Bruins' 12-hit attack as he went 3-for-4 with two RBI.

"Well, it's about time because I've been in a slump the last University School of Jackson's Paige Dif-fee throws a ball from the Infield in the Lady Bruins' 1-0 loss to Goodpasture on Tuesday. The Lady Bruins face Forrest at 10 a.m. today. STFPHAN FRA7IFR Softball resumes today The Jackson Sun SOUTHAVEN, Miss. It's do or die for area teams today at the state Softball tournament at Greenbrook Softball Complex.

All four area teams that survived Tuesday's round are in the loser's bracket with no room for error. The day begins at 10 a.m. when University School of Jackson (35-9) plays Forrest (32-8) in Class while Brighton (39-10) faces Knoxville Gibbs (32-12) in Class AA. At about 11:30 a.m., Huntingdon (15-11) will play Friendship Christian (35-9) in Class while Camden (36-12) faces Lenoir City (34-8) in Class AA. If all four area teams winjj they -i; The Jackson Sun fc.