With a senior class that's been part of a 7-23 record the last three years and working now for its third head coach, it might be easy for the Meigs County Tigers to enter this season in a down frame of mind.
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Annual prep tour kicks off practice
What started as a fun idea has turned into a tradition and the one event I get asked about more than any other that I cover.
Rowland to play baseball for Vols
The Meigs County player spent most of the past season as a designated hitter after suffering a stress fracture to his elbow.
Jake Rowland spent most of the 2010 high school baseball season as a designated hitter, and it is hitting that has earned the Meigs County player a scholarship offer from the University of Tennessee.
Curt Jones is coming back to the Chattanooga area. The former Central coach has been hired as the football coach at Meigs County.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Meigs County's softball team had one of the most potent offenses in the Chattanooga area this season, but that wasn't what the developments from the TSSAA Class AA state tournament revealed.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Not only had Central's and Meigs County's players never played in a high school state-tournament softball game before Tuesday, but no one in those program's uniforms had in several years.
Mired down in a pitcher's dual for the region championship, both the Central and Meigs County softball teams knew it was going to take a big hit at the right time to clinch the win.
Maybe it was a premonition. Maybe it was wishful thinking.
Meigs County sent 13 to bat in an eight-run fourth inning and rolled to a 12-3 semifinal win over East Ridge in the Region 3-AA high school softball semifinal game Monday at Decatur.
Give the seniors on Meigs County High School's softball team a challenge, and they're up for it.
The way Shelby Willard is pitching these days for the Central Lady Pounders, any game is a potential special one.
