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OCTOBER 10, 2012
Bison boys advance in district tennis tournament

The team portion of this years District 9-AAA Tennis Tournament got underway on Monday as rivals Gallatin and Station Camp met at Volunteer State in a boys match. The Bison, who posted two victories over the Wave during the regular season, made it a perfect 3-for-3 with a 4-0 victory. In tournament play, only four points are needed to pick up the victory. The fourth-seeded Bison got wins from Austin Smith at No. 1 singles, Aaron Wright at No. 2; Florin Matei at No. 3 and Zach Dearmin at No. 4. With the victory, Station Camp moves on to play topseeded Hendersonville next week at Memorial Park. Smith was a 6-2, 6-0 winner against Luke Starkey; Wright was a 6-0, 6-2 winner against Jordan Scott; Matei defeated Chris Guita 6-1, 6-1 and Dearmin defeated Abil Guita 7-5, 6-2. I am pleased with the way they played and we were up in the fifth set, too, Bison coach Farrell Zissette said. Its pretty tough (to beat a team three times). Anytime youre playing Gallatin you have to be prepared because the Gallatin boys have improved so much this year, and you couldnt take them lightly. I was a little nervous at first, but my boys played well, too. In the other match on Monday, third-seeded Mt. Juliet took on sixth-seeded Lebanon with the winner moving on to play second-seeded Beech. The girls tourney started on Tuesday with fourth-seeded Lebanon playing host to fifth-seeded Wilson Central. The winner meets top-seeded Hendersonville next week at Memorial Park. And Memo-
By Joe Biddle
HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY
A number of Sumner Rugby Football Club players stop an Oakland player during their playoff match in Murfreesboro on Monday night. The Sumner RFC All Blacks won 31-12 and move on to play at Ravenwood. Photo by Corby A. Yarbrough l THE GALLATIN NEWS
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Sumner County wins first playoff match in higher division
By CORBY A. YARBROUGH
Sports Editor
Sumner RFCs Dakota Wink, right, goes up in the air to try and gain possession against Oakland.
Photo by Corby A. Yarbrough l THE GALLATIN NEWS
MURFREESBORO A 19-0 run and a four-minute goal line stand propelled the Sumner Rugby Football Club to a playoff road win against Oakland Monday night and keeps the second-year squads season alive for at least another two weeks. Behind two trys each from Heath Johnson and Taylor FeONLINE lice, one from Kody Burr and For a gallery and more from Sumner RFCs three conversions from Austin playoff match, log on to GallatinNews.com. Morris, the All Blacks posted a 31-12 win over Oakland Rugby at Mustang Park. With the victory, Sumner RFC assures itself of a trip to the state semifinals on May 4. The team will likely have two more matches to determine what seed and at what level Cup or Bowl it plays at in the semifinals. Next up for the All Blacks is another familiar opponent Ravenwood. The defending champions in Division I, the Raptors
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Lady Bison look for the one

Young Station Camp squad seeks to avoid the big inning or make one of their own
By DOUG DYER
For The Gallatin News
Station Camps Florin Matei picked up one of the Bisons four wins during their 4-0 win over Gallatin Monday in the 9-AAA tournament.
File photo by Corby A. Yarbrough THE GALLATIN NEWS
The smallest details can sometimes make the biggest difference on the softball diamond. One small mistake can turn into a 5-run inning for the opposing team. Such has been the story for Station Camp softball this spring. The Lady Bison have come so close so many times but one big inning did them in, according to coach Ken Crook. Thats been the story of our season, he said. When youve got a young team and have that one inning, its hard to get back up.
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Station Camps Alli Fulcher one of three returning starters for the Lady Bison rounds third against visiting JPII Monday.
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Station Camp track makes it five in a row

By CORBY A. YARBROUGH
Sports Editor
Neelly breaks his own school discus record

A few members of the Gallatin track and field team spent time at multiple sites over the last week, including both of Tennessees Southeastern Conference Schools. And one broke his own school record and set a National Elite number in the process. Bookending last weeks Sumner County Track and Field Championships were the Great Eight meet at Vanderbilt and the Volunteer Track Classic on the campus at Tennessee-Knoxville. Gallatins Brett Neelly, Travis Pryor and Beatrice Armstrong all competed at the Great Eight meet on Tuesday a day after compet-
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The Station Camp boys and girls track teams swept the Sumner County Track and Field Championships team titles for the fifth straight season after the conclusion of the meet on April 18 at Hendersonville High School. The Bison boys scored 200 points on their way to victory, while the Lady Bison scored 171.5 points in the win. This is Station Camps sixth sweep overall since the meet began in 2003. Station Camp junior Josh
Malone scored 38 points and was MALONE named MVP for the second straight year. Malone won the 100-meter dash (11.08), 200-meter dash (22.66), was second in the 300-meter hurdles (43.06) and won the high jump with a county meet record of 6-2 on Tuesday.
ing at the opening day of the county NEELLY meet. Armstrong and Pryor returned on Thursday to run in the county finals. On Saturday, the trio joined the rest of the Gallatin track squad by competing at the meet at UT. The Gallatin boys finished 10th amongst 43 teams with 22 points.
It was bound to happen. Terrorists attacked a major sporting event last week, the Boston Marathon. It was a soft target, virtually impossible for authorities to prevent. It was an attack pulled off by amateurs compared to lifelong terrorists determined and trained to bring this country to its knees. If you didnt believe before Boston that we have terrorists living in our country, our states, cities and neighborhoods, I bet you do now. What better place for them to strike than a sporting event? College and NFL football stadiums are packed on weekends during football season. More than 100,000 fans attend Tennessee games at Neyland Stadium. Occasionally, the thought has crossed my mind about what would happen if a planned terrorist attack occurred during a Titans game at LP Field. The same applies to Bridgestone Arena when they have a sellout crowd for the Predators or an SEC or NCAA basketball tournament. We live in a much different world than we did before September 11, 2001 when maniacal terrorists hijacked commercial flights and flew the planes into the World Trade Center. They flew a plane into the Pentagon, causing death and destruction to perhaps our countrys most impenetrable building. Who knows what would have happened if a handful of brave Americans had not overtaken hijackers who were allegedly headed toward Washington, D.C. on another suicide mission? Those American heroes were able to crash the plane into a Pennsylvania field before it could reach its intended target. Those terrorists were trained to fly in our country. At our flight schools. Under our noses. Most of them werent interested in how to take off or land. They just wanted to learn how to fly a plane. How incredibly stupid were those instructors if any of them heard the students say that? The Boston bombings should change the way we protect sporting events in our country. Pastor Sam Boyd of Forest Hills Baptist Church in Nashville ran the Boston Marathon last week with his son-in-law. They finished less than 25 minutes before the first bomb went off, but were only a block away from the start-finish line. They heard, saw and felt the explosions. The sound was deafening. The ground vibrated. They were part of the chaos that followed. Reflecting on the situation after he returned home, Sam Boyd said in his Sunday sermon he will never look at a backpack again like he did before the blasts killed and maimed the most innocent of runners and spectators. An American tradition turned into an American tragedy. Whether we admit it or not, the war we are involved in going forward is a war on terrorism. Fought with no rules. No conscience. How could the now captured and wounded 19-year-old terrorist drop the bag he was carrying so close to a family that lost their eight-year-old son, took a leg from his six-year-old sister and seriously wounded their mother? All of us better wake up, pay attention to everything and everybody around us. Terrorist cells are here. They are determined to kill, many of them radical Islamics who profess their highest calling is to give their lives and kill others in the name of Allah. I dont care if I have to get stripsearched at Titans games or any other sporting event. You shouldnt either. If it will stop another deadly attack, it will be well worth it.
Reach Joe Biddle at joebiddle11@gmail.com
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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Bison boys advance in district tennis tournament

HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY

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Lady Bison look for the one

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Station Camp track makes it five in a row

Neelly breaks his own school discus record

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