Tigers Advance to TSSAA Class 4A Quarterfinals After Thrilling Win at Marshall County

November 16, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

For the first time in school history DeKalb County High School will be represented in the quarterfinals of the TSSAA Football Playoffs as the Tigers stunned Marshall County 28-24 Friday night at Lewisburg in the second round of the post season in Division I Class 4A.

The Tigers (8-4) will travel to Nolensville (10-2) Friday night, November 22. Kick-off will be at 7 p.m. and WJLE will have LIVE coverage. Nolensville eliminated Livingston Academy 33-7.

After the Tiger defense thwarted Marshall County twice in two drives on the DC side of the field, the Tigers got on the board first with 2:22 left in the 1^st period as Quarterback Axel Aldino found Desmond Nokes on a 25 yard touchdown pass. Alan Munoz booted the extra point and DeKalb County led 7-0.

Marshall County got its first points off a Tiger miscue. After a bad snap, Tiger punter Noah Roberts tried to run but lost the football and Marshall County’s Andrew Gold picked it up and raced 40 yards for a touchdown with 8:20 left in the 2^nd period. Jon Estes added the extra point and the game was tied at 7-7.

Marshall County extended its lead to 10-7 with 1:31 left in the 2^nd period on a 24 yard field goal by kicker Jon Estes.

The Tigers tried to tie the game in the 3^rd period but a 28 yard field goal attempt by Alan Munoz was no good.

DC took the lead on a 2 yard touchdown run by David Bradford with 4:49 left in the 3^rd period. Munoz tacked on the extra point and the Tigers led 14-10.

Marshall County grabbed the lead again with 10:38 left in the 4^th period on a 7 yard touchdown run by Kel Greer. The PAT by Estes was good and Marshall County was back out front 17-14.

A little razzle dazzle with 7:33 left in the game on a double reverse and a pitch back to the quarterback led to a 50 yard touchdown catch by Kel Greer. Estes added the extra point and Marshall County held a 24-14 advantage.

DeKalb County mounted another scoring drive and closed the gap on a 3 yard touchdown run by David Bradford with 4:37 left. The PAT by Munoz was good and the Tigers trailed 24-21.

DC scored the go ahead and winning touchdown with 40 seconds left in the game as Aldino found Tyzaun Ladet on a catch good for 44 yards and a score. Munoz booted the extra point and the Tigers pulled ahead 28-24.

Marshall County had the ball one last time but Aldino picked off a pass with two seconds left to seal the victory for the Tigers.

November 15, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

An outstanding DCHS softball outfielder has signed a letter of intent with Trevecca Nazarene University to play collegiate ball after she graduates here.

Megan Walker, a senior, put pen to paper Friday at the DCHS auditorium. Members of Walker’s family, coaches, and fellow players joined her for the occasion.

Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU), founded in 1901, is a private Christian liberal arts college in Nashville and is a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II

“The reason I chose Trevecca is because it’s a small Christian school so I really thought that would be best for what I want to do in my future. Right now I plan to become an Occupational Therapist,” said Walker.

Tigerette Coach Danny Fish said he is very happy that Megan will have a chance to play softball at the collegiate level.

“I am very proud of Megan reaching her goal of going to Trevecca. That is where she wanted to be. She has worked real hard to make that dream a reality,” said Coach Fish.

“Megan is a program changer. She is a great player and not just in one sport. She also plays basketball. Last year we got a little worried about her because she was playing in the Gold Tournament in Texas and suffered an injury and had surgery. She missed all of the basketball season last year and coming back from that injury I would never have thought she would have the impact she did last year in softball but she had a really solid year after her recovery. She has had three solid years so far and I expect her to have a great senior year,” said Coach Fish.

Before she heads off to college, Megan has one more high school softball season in front of her and she is looking forward to it.

“I think we have a lot of potential this year. We lost a lot of good players last year and we need a lot of people to step up into their roles but I think we can definitely do it,” said Walker.

November 15, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Although the Board of Education has policy restrictions passed down from the state on smoking and vaping at school campuses enforcement is often a challenge especially during after school events.

To better educate the public and to discourage smoking, members of the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD Club) at DeKalb Middle School in conjunction with representatives of the DeKalb County Health Department and DeKalb Prevention Coalition are asking that they be allowed to post anti-smoking signs at all schools.

Megan Kinslow of the health department and SADD sponsor, addressed the Board of Education during Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting.

She began by reading a letter to the board on behalf of the SADD Club.

“As a DeKalb County Health educator I have had the opportunity to partner with the DeKalb Middle School’s SADD Club on tobacco related topics. We would like to ask for your consideration to help increase awareness of the current tobacco campus policy by increasing signage at all schools and other school properties. We hope to decrease the amount of tobacco litter on school grounds. This includes after school events such as sports and extracurricular club activities and anything where adults would be present on our campuses,” said Kinslow

“As a baseline for your discussion the SADD Club students recently picked up cigarette butts for one hour after school at the middle school and high school and collected 87 cigarettes in just that one hour. To evaluate the added signage and decreases in the amount of tobacco litter, we will replicate that activity at the end of the 2019-20 academic year and compare results,” she said.

“Your policy says signs will be posted throughout the district’s facilities to notify students, employees, and visitors but when we recently went out to all the schools helping to administer flu vaccines the only school we saw that had a sign posted was at DeKalb West School,” Kinslow continued.

“My idea is to let our SADD Club members create signs which the health department would purchase and make them specific for each school with the school mascots in the hope that there would be fewer cigarette butts to pick up next time”.

“It takes seven years for one of these butts to disintegrate and they are all over your school ground properties.  We want to make sure our kids and others are not walking through smoke clouds, whether it be football games, baseball games, etc.”

“We also ask that you make sure your School Resource Officers are watching more closely and writing citations for violations.  We checked and learned that the problem is mostly at the high school.  Four citations have been written this year and about 20 to 25 were issued last year”.

Chairman Danny Parkerson and Director of Schools Patrick Cripps said the principals would have to be consulted before the board grants the SADD Club request.

In his monthly report on personnel, Director Cripps said those employed since last month are Samantha Antoniak, teacher at DeKalb Middle School to replace Justin Nokes and Natasha Tindle, school psychologist to replace Jennifer Shores.

Cody Randolph was granted a leave as requested and Jennifer Shores resigned.

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