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The Gleason Lady Bulldogs picked up a big win heading into the district tournament as a two-out RBI-double from freshman Taylor Stout in the top of the seventh inning gave the Lady Dawgs a 4-3 win over rival South Fulton on Thursday afternoon at South Fulton.

South Fulton got on the board early as a leadoff single in the bottom of the first inning by Kaci Beadles got the offense started. Beadles scored on an error with two outs to give the Devilettes a 1-0 lead.

However, Gleason came right back in the top of the second inning. After reaching on a walk, Stout scored on a bases-loaded single from Amy Spain to tie the game at 1-1.

South Fulton answered in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI single from Johnson to give the lead back to the home team at 2-1.

After stranding a runner at third in the top half of the third inning, the Lady Dawgs got back on the board in the top of the fourth. A leadoff single from Ashley Coble was followed by a triple from Breanna Wallace to plate her teammate. Wallace then scored on a Lacie Trevathan base hit to give Gleason a 3-2 advantage.

The Lady Dawgs held that advantage until the bottom of the fifth inning when a leadoff walk to Beadles led to her scoring on a groundout to third to tie the game at 3-3.

After keeping the Devilettes from scoring in the bottom of the sixth after a leadoff double, the Lady Dawgs retook the lead in the top of the seventh inning.

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Hewett to be ranked No. 1 going into sectionals

On the strength of a second place finish in the Union City Relays, Dresden senior Matt Hewett will go into the upcoming sectional and regional meets as the No. 1 seed.

Hewett finished the Union City race with a time of 10.95 – the fifth fastest recorded time of the year in the state.

Distance runner Rick Herron also did well, getting a time of six minutes in the mile race and 12:36 in the two-mile race. Also, Dylan Nanney and Justin Cobb fought hard against each other during their heat in the 800-meter with Nanney edging Cobb with a time of 2:27.

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Greenfield tennis ends regular season 9-6

The Greenfield Lady ’Jacket tennis team wrapped up its second regular season with a hard-fought loss to Dyersburg last Tuesday to go into the district tournament with a 9-6 record.

Dyersburg 4, Greenfield 3

For their last match of the season last Tuesday, the Lady Jackets traveled to Dyersburg to take on the Lady Trojans, last year’s district champs. Greenfield played the Dyersburg squad a good match, but came up one point shy of the upset losing a heartbreaker to Dyersburg by a 4-3 margin. Greenfield’s three points came from 2 singles wins and one doubles win.

Lady ’Jackets Katie McCall at No. 1 singles and Mallory Robinson at No. 4 singles accounted for all 3 points as they each won their singles match and then teamed up to take the No. 1 doubles match. McCall beat Molly Herman (D) 8-0 and Robinson beat Cameron Tipton (D) 8-3. McCall/Robinson defeated Sarah and Shelly Epperson (D) in doubles 8-2.

Dyersburg took the No. 2 singles when Sarah Epperson defeated Summer Hoke (soph) (G) 8-2. The match was closer than the score indicates with nearly every game going to deuce. Number 3 for Greenfield, Taren Hatcher (junior) played a similar match against her Dyersburg opponent, Shelly Epperson. The games were all close but Epperson, the more experienced player, won more key points and the match 8-4. Meagan Porter (G) (freshman) was tied with Lady Trojan, Amber Moody, 5 to 5 before Moody escaped in another close match 8-5.

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