Local Sports

The District 7-AA Baseball Tournament is slated to begin on Thursday, with a pair of games in the play-in round.

The DeKalb County Tiger baseball team, the number-two seed, will host seventh-seeded Cannon County at 5:30 p.m. in the first official game of the tournament. WJLE plans live coverage from the DCHS Baseball Field. The winners in the play-in round move on to the double-elimination portion of the tournament, which begins Monday in Baxter.

Fourth-seeded Macon County will take on fifth-seeded Livingston Academy, Thursday at 6:00 p.m. while third-seeded Smith County is scheduled to battle sixth-seeded York Institute, Friday evening at 5:00 p.m. Play-in round games are at the site of the higher seeds.

Top-seeded Upperman has a bye for the play-in round, and will automatically move into the double-elimination portion of the tournament. The Bees will play the Macon County-Livingston winner, Monday at 7:00 p.m.

The DeKalb County High School Tiger baseball team used an 11-run second inning to blow out the Livingston Academy Wildcats, 13-2, Tuesday night in Smithville. The win came on Senior Night, as it was the last home game of the regular season, and also clinched second place for the Tigers in the final regular season district standings.

DeKalb dodged a bullet in the top of the first inning, as the Wildcats loaded the bases with no outs. Tiger starter, Zack Rowland, struck out LA's Cody Winton, then Lee Gatts hit into an inning-ending double play as the Tigers kept the 'Cats off the board. DC scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the second on a fielder's choice by Bray Page, which brought in Destry Wiggins for the game's first run, and an RBI single by Joseph Bowen.

The DeKalb County High School Tigerette fast-pitch softball team shut out visiting Watertown, 7-0, Monday afternoon.

Josie Culwell pitched seven innings of shutout ball for the Tigerettes. The freshman allowed three hits, struck out seven, walked one and hit a batter.

The DeKalb County High School Tigerette fast-pitch softball team split four games at the Coffee County Softball Invitational in Manchester, over the weekend.

The Tigerettes beat Chattanooga Christian, 4-3, on Friday, followed by a 1-0 loss to Cumberland County. DeKalb ended pool play, Saturday morning, with a 7-4 win over Cornersville, but the local team was ousted in the opening round of the single-elimination tournament, as Ravenwood spanked the Tigerettes, 13-0.

DeKalb County edged Chattanooga Christian, Friday, on Victoria Bennett's two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the fifth inning, as the one-hour, fifteen minute time limit expired. Morgan Page singled prior to the Bennett homer, and both came around to score. Chattanooga Christian led most of the game, scoring a run in the top of the first inning and two more in the third. The Tigerettes plated a run in the bottom of the second and another in the bottom of the third.