The Lyons Midget Girls, Midget Boys and Junior Boys have all advanced to the championship round of the Lyons Youth Tournament with big wins on Friday. The Lyons Midget Girls defeated a strong Bacon County team 9-1, the Lyons Midget Boys took care of Jeff Davis 8-1 and the Lyons Midget Boys beat Vidalia 7-2. Lyons Junior Boys 7, Vidalia 2 Brantley Upshaw pitched five shutout innings and allowed the…
Shaylin Stringer is a left-handed pitcher for the Lyons Midget Girls (11-12 years old) softball team and in her 2 1/2 inning no-hit game against Evans County- in the Lyons Youth Tournament- she recorded all nine outs on strikeouts as her team roared to a 14-0 win. In the first inning Shaylin struck out the first two batters, than hit one and ended the frame with a K. In the…
The 2019 Lyons Junior Boys All-Star baseball team features a handful of players in the starting lineup that won a championship at Toombs County Middle School. On Wednesday Lyons opened up the Lyons Youth Tournament at Partin Park with a 10-2 win over Swainsboro. Seven All-Stars had at least one hit and four stroked mulit-hit games. Catcher Will Watts led the offense going 3-for-4 with a triple and two singles….
The Lyons Midget Boys (11-12 years old) opened the Lyons Youth Tournament with a 20-0 two inning win over Dublin early in the day on Tuesday and then they came back under the lights at Little Fenway and they edged Wayne County 2-1. The local boys are off until Friday when they play Jeff Davis. Tucker Braddy was the winning pitcher against Dublin and then he relieved T.J. Stanley, who…
Jeremy Beasley has been pitching professionally for two-plus seasons and he has started and relieved in games from California to Utah to the Midwest and various stops in the Southern League. On May 28 Jeremy finally got to pitch in a ballpark which for his biggest fans- his family- only required a trip of 162 miles to see him start a game at Bragan Stadium, home of the Jacksonville Jumbo…
Former Toombs County Bulldog Jeremy Beasley and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos always seem to be on a collision course and the Mobile BayBear right-hander normally wins the battle. Entering his May 20 start- at Pensacola- Jeremy had pitched 21 innings against the Wahoos in his two seasons in the Southern League and had allowed only four earned runs (1.71 ERA) and an amazing 20 of those innings against the Blue…
The Toombs County High School Class of 2019 held their graduation ceremonies before a big crowd at Booster Stadium and 175 seniors received their diplomas on May 18. Listen to Y-101 Radio’s coverage of graduation TCHS 2019 Valedictorian is LiliAnn Pittman Listen to LiliAnn’s speach TCHS 2019 Salutatorian is Samantha Ruiz-Santana Listen to Samantha’s speach TCHS 2019 Honor Graduates with Distinction:Carlie Morgan, Mary Lopez, Bret White, Cynthia Hernandez, Alexander…
After allowing seven earned runs in 3 1/3 innings in a home start against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp in the AA Southern League, Mobile BayBear righty Jeremy Beasley was back on his game in a home start against the Jackson Generals. Jeremy pitched five shutout innings and allowed only four hits with six srikeouts and three walks. All the runs in Jackson’s 2-1 victory were scored after Beasley left the…
One day after teammate Bryce Deloach signed with Brewton-Parker College, catcher Cole Graham made the same decision and despite interest from South Georgia State he decided to sign with the Barons. Graham is coming off a stellar senior season with the Toombs County Bulldogs. He lead the Bulldogs with a .402 batting average and with runs batted in with 23. He also had a .472 on base percentage and a…
On May 18 LiliAnn Pittman and Samantha Ruiz will lead the Toombs County High Class of 2019 at graduation as the Valedictorian and Salutatorian. Both seniors decided early in their high school careers that they wanted to pursue the goal of being a top student and now that that has been accomplished they each want to work in the medical field when they graduate from college. LiliAnn wants to be…