Area Sports

Prepsters from the Macon County Track & Field team competed in the TSSAA State Track and Field Meet this week held in Murfreesboro. There were three individuals and one relay team competing.

The Macon County Trap Team kicked off the 2012 season traveling to the Holly Fork Shooting Complex in Paris, TN to compete in the Tennessee Junior Olympic State Championships.

The District 10-AA All-District and Tournament teams were announced at the league championship game. MCHS Tiger Juan Agustin was named to the All-Tournament Team and Austin Carter was named to the All-District Team.

The Macon County High School Track team had a strong showing at the Sectional Finals held last week.

The Macon County Boys and Girls Track and Field teams competed in the A-AA East Sub-Section at TPS this past week. The Tigers had quite a few athletes competing and had some really strong showings.

MACON, Ga. – Belmont men’s track and field sophomore Caleb Darnell earned Academic All-Conference distinction, as announced by the Atlantic Sun on Friday.

This week three MCHS Seniors signed a letter of intent to attend school and play football with Cumberland University. Jacob Salyer, Tyler Manning, and Chris Escamilla gathered in the MCHS auditorium to make it official.

This week the District 9AA All-District Baseball Team was announced. The following Tigers were members of this years team. Pictured are Ian Whittemore, Austin Craighead, Dalton Shrum, Coach Juan Clariday, Larken Whittemore.  (Not pictured – Andrew Kempf and Austin Taft)

The MCHS Boys soccer team ended their regular season this week against Jackson County. The game also was the last home game for the six seniors on the team.

A long tough season for the Macon County Softball team concluded this week at the District 9AA tournament in White House. The Tigerettes needed to win at least one game to advance in the tournament.