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The DeKalb County Tigers fell to the White County Blue Devils Friday night on the road 36 to 14.

Whitehouse wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, going up 7-0 with 9:23 left in the first quarter on a 52 yard touchdown run by Demarques Payne and the extra point by kicker Zach Trobaugh.

The Blue Devils put another score on the board with 5:11 left in the first quarter on a 10 yard touchdown run by Bryan Dixon. Payne's 2 point conversion run was good to give Whitehouse a 15-0 lead.

Cody Allen got a touchdown on a 5 yard run for the Blue Devils with 10:26 to go in the second quarter. Quarterback Aussie Light then found Kirk Fulghum on a 2 point conversion pass play and Whitehouse owned a 23-0 lead.

Dixon scored his second touchdown of the night on a 45 yard run with 5:18 to go in the second period and the extra point by Trobaugh put Whitehouse up 30 to 0. That was the half time score.

The DeKalb County 10-11 year old Senior Tiger football team will play for the Middle Tennessee Youth Football Conference championship tonight (Saturday) in Livingston. The Senior Tigers will battle the Smith County Chargers at 8:00 p.m. This marks the eighth straight season the 10-11 year olds have played for the conference title.

The Senior Tigers advanced to the championship game by virtue of a 33-0 rout of Fentress County, last Saturday, in the conference semifinals. DeKalb County pounded Cannon County, 52-7, in the opening round of the playoffs. Smith County edged DeKalb County, 13-12, back on September 1st in Carthage in the regular season meeting for the two teams. The Senior Tigers dropped the championship game, last season, to Overton County.

The DeKalb County High School Tiger football team won for the first time in over a year, snapping an 11-game losing streak with a 31-10 thumping of the Upperman Bees, Friday night in Baxter.

Quarterback Hunter Poteete did more damage with his legs than his arm, as he ran for just shy of 100 yards and scored three touchdowns. Junior tailback Matthew Lawrence added another score, while senior kicker Juan Ruiz nailed a 31-yard field goal late in the third quarter to cap off the scoring.

Upperman, using a no-huddle offense, drove swiftly down the field on the opening drive. The Bees marched 43 yards in four minutes, but came away with only a Caleb Robichaud field goal. From there, DeKalb County scored the next 14 points, one on Lawrence's four-yard run and the other on a seven-yard scramble by Poteete. The Tiger defense shut Upperman out for the rest of the first half, and DC took a 14-3 lead into the locker room at halftime.

With a first day score of 309, the DeKalb County High School Tiger golf team sits third out of eight teams at the Class A-AA State Tournament in Murfreesboro. After the first 18 holes on Tuesday, the Tigers trailed only the University School of Jackson, who had a first-day score of 296, and David Lipscomb, who finished with a 300.

Individually for DeKalb County, Payne Denman shot a 71 on Tuesday, which tied him for fourth among individual medalists. Goodpasture's Joe David shot an 8-under-par-64 on Tuesday, which gave him a two-stroke lead over Scott Metcalf of the University School of Jackson. Dylan Walters of David Lipscomb was third, with a 69, while both Denman and Matthew Smith of Rutledge were seven strokes off the lead.

Austin Garrett shot a first round score of 75 for the Tigers, while Grant Goodwin tallied a 78. Grant James shot an 85 through the first 18 holes, while Tyler Robinson scored an 88.