For six innings, in a home start against the Jackson Generals (Arizona Diamond Back’s AA affiliate in the Southern League), Jeremy Beasley was rolling along having allowed two earned runs on solo homers in the fourth and fifth innings. In the top of the seventh with his Mobile Baybear team trailing 2-0 Jeremy allowed a run on three singles before he was lifted from the game with Jackson leading 3-0…
Since the summer of 2015 the Lyons Recreation Department has won seven GRPA State Championships including three each of the last two seasons. In the last week of this June five more Lyons teams will be seeking titles. Flea Girls- 8 and under- This young group is going to state as the District 1 Champions. They lost their first game in the district tourney at Effingham County and then reeled…
Most Southeast Georgia high school football players, who are talented enough to be recruited by college programs, usually wind up visiting and signing with a local school or one from the south, but so far that has not been the case for Toombs County High School senior quarterback Trey Cloud. Y-101 interview This past weekend Cloud, who is an excellent student, visited Cornell University (Ivy League) in Ithaca, New…
For the second time in his professional career former Toombs County Bulldog Jeremy Beasley was matched against a Major League pitcher in a minor league game. Last season, while he was a member of the Inland Empire 66ers of the Advanced A California League, Beasley threw 4 2/3 innings allowing six hits and two earned runs with seven strikeouts and no walks at Rancho Cucamonga. The starting pitcher for the…
Due to the rain which soaked Southeast Georgia on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the Lyons Flea Girls softball team had to wait until Thursday to play their first game in the District 1 Tournament at Effingham County. That game didn’t go so well for the 8 and under girls. They lost to Swainsboro 6-3 and that sent the team straight to the losers bracket. Y-101 interview with coach Pittman and…
The 8 and under Lyons Flea Boys All-Star baseball team can really swing the sticks. These boys know how to handle the pitching machine. In eight tournament games in both the Lyons Youth Tournament and the District 1 Tournament- both staged at Partin Park- they scored in double-digits in seven of their eight games played. Do that and you normally win the big trophy and that is what these sluggers…
The Lyons Midget Girls (11-12 years old) qualified for the GRPA State Tournament by winning the District 1 Championship with an 11-3 win over Swainsboro at Partin Park in Lyons. Lyons will travel down to Tifton and open state tourney play on June 26 at 10 a.m. at the E. B. Hamilton Complex on Field #4. Y-101 interviews with Bryce Braddy Lyons led Swainsboro 5-1 after the first inning,…
Entering the sixth and final inning of the Mite Girls (9-10 years old) District 1 Championship Game, the Lyons All-Stars trailed Swainsboro 9-6. Although Lyons had a cushion being the only undefeated team in the tourney and if they lost the championship would go to the if necessary game, Lyons rallied with a big inning. The big hit came off the bat of Rayne Sears, who hit the ball just…
Former Toombs County High School head basketball coach Donnie Arrington traveled to Brazil last summer on behalf of the Southeast Georgia Fellowship of Christian Athletes to teach his sport and spread the Gospel to young Brazilans. This summer Arrington has organized two trips to Brazil and on the first one he brought along TCHS head football coach Richie Marsh and former Bulldog head coach Mark Stroud. “They are very pleased…
Toombs County Bulldog junior wide receiver and defensive back Chandler Lynn participated in Kirby Smart’s High School Camp at the University of Georgia. The Bulldogs’ leading receiver in 2018 with 52 catches for 892 yards and four touchdowns played in 7-on-7 competition as both a wide receiver and a safety. He made numerous catches and on defense intercepted a deep vertical pass in the end zone. Check out the pick…