Author: toombs44

It took two extra days to finish the 55th annual Lyons Youth Tournament. Rain washed out action on both Monday and Tuesday. So, on Wednesday the Lyons Mite Boys had to win four games to win the championship. The Boys won their first three knocking off Vidalia 15-5, Wayne County 9-7 and Appling County 16-12. However, in a second game with Appling Lyons fell behind 14-0 after the top of…

If you are a junior Toombs County Bulldog basketball player like Karis Harden or Tyrese Lewis, Ryan Lewis will be your third head coach since you arrived at the new school. Former Dawg Chuck Hill coached the Bulldogs in the 2015-16 season and then he took an assistant coaching job at West Laurens. He is now the head coach of the Raiders. Laberton Sims left Tift County, where he was…

The 2017 Toombs County High School baseball season certainly didn’t end like it started. The Bulldogs opened up the season playing .500 ball and then it got worse before it got better. After a 8-7 eight inning loss at Metter the Dawgs were 6-13 overall and 2-7 in Region 2. If the boys did not win their next five region games than the season could have ended on April 21…

The Lyons Flea Boys didn’t just win the Lyons Youth Tournament. The 8 and under boys conquered their competition outscoring their opponents 81-10 in the five games they played over three days. Lyons scored five runs in the both the first and second innings of the championship match up with Vidalia and then in the third inning they scored 13 more in a 21-1 victory. Earlier in the tourney Lyons…

The Lyons Flea Boys were seeking three wins on Friday to move into the championship round on Saturday needing just one victory to win the Lyons Youth Tournament and the 8 and under players accomplished that goal by beating Swainsboro 11-1 at 1 p.m. and then at 4 they took care of Vidalia by a score of 10-3 and finally they ended their long day with a 15-5 win over…

Everywhere Trayvan Harris goes around Partin Park his peers ask him one question. “How many home runs have you hit?” His answer, after Lyons 18-3 win over Metter, at Little Fenway, in the Lyons Youth Tournament, was 28. Harris, who flied out to deep left his first time up, smacked a three-run homer over the Green Monster in the second inning. He also singled in a run in the third…

The 8 under Lyons Flea Boys opened the Lyons Youth Tournament scoring 24 runs in just two offensive innings in a 24-0 win over Johnson County. The game ended after the top of the third inning due to the run rule. Ten Lyons batters had multi-hit games and cleanup hitter Trevor White led the way going 3-for-3 with a double and five runs batted in. Tyson Brantley, M.J. Burton, Parker…

Jeremy Beasley has always dreamed of being a major league pitcher and on Wednesday, June 14 his opportunity to live out that dream became a reality. Jeremy was drafted in the 30th round by the Los Angeles Angels. The Clemson Tiger pitcher was the 895th player selected. Jeremy, as a junior, had the option of continuing his college career, but he was a reliever at Clemson and he has always…

Toombs County High School coach Rusty Beasley was remembered at Memorial Service at Jacky Jones Field. Beasley, who coached at Tattnall County, Bryan County and Metter, joined the Toombs County High School family for the 2014-15 school year. Beasley was an assistant football and baseball coach. Beasley was remembered, by all, as a coach who placed others above himself and as a religious man who followed that path each and…

After losing to Twin City 12-2 on Friday, the Lyons Midget Boys had a long path to get to Monday in the Lyons Youth Tournament. They would have to win three games to make it into the Final 3. The boys rebounded from their defeat with a 13-10 win over Jeff Davis and a 16-0 three inning victory over Appling County. Lyons was scheduled to play Metter at 2:30 on…