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Te team portion o thisyears District 9-AAA ennisournament got underway onMonday as rivals Gallatin andStation Camp met at Volun-teer State in a boys match.

Te Bison, who posted twovictories over the Wave duringthe regular season, made it aperect 3-or-3 with a 4-0 vic-tory. In tournament play, onlyour points are needed to pick

up the victory.Te ourth-seeded Bison

got wins rom Austin Smithat No. 1 singles, Aaron Wrightat No. 2; Florin Matei at No.3 and Zach Dearmin at No.4. With the victory, StationCamp moves on to play top-seeded Hendersonville nextweek at Memorial Park.

Smith was a 6-2, 6-0 winneragainst Luke Starkey; Wrightwas a 6-0, 6-2 winner againstJordan Scott; Matei deeatedChris Guita 6-1, 6-1 and Dear-min deeated Abil Guita 7-5,6-2.

I am pleased with the waythey played and we were upin the th set, too, Bisoncoach Farrell Zissette said. Itspretty tough (to beat a teamthree times). Anytime youreplaying Gallatin you have to beprepared because the Gallatinboys have improved so muchthis year, and you couldnttake them lightly. I was a littlenervous at rst, but my boysplayed well, too.

In the other match on Mon-day, third-seeded Mt. Juliettook on sixth-seeded Lebanonwith the winner moving on to

play second-seeded Beech.Te girls tourney startedon uesday with ourth-seed-ed Lebanon playing host toth-seeded Wilson Central.Te winner meets top-seededHendersonville next week atMemorial Park. And Memo-

By Joe Biddle

Reach Joe Biddle at joebiddle11@gmail.com

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It was bound to happen.

errorists attacked a majorsporting event last week, the Bos-ton Marathon. It was a sot target,virtually impossible or authoritiesto prevent.

It was an attack pulled o byamateurs compared to lielong ter-rorists determined and trained tobring this country to its knees.

I you didnt believe beore Bos-ton that we have terrorists living inour country, our states, cities andneighborhoods, I bet you do now.

What better place or them tostrike than a sporting event? Col-lege and NFL ootball stadiumsare packed on weekends during

ootball season. More than 100,000ans attend ennessee games atNeyland Stadium.

Occasionally, the thought hascrossed my mind about what wouldhappen i a planned terrorist attackoccurred during a itans game atLP Field.

Te same applies to BridgestoneArena when they have a selloutcrowd or the Predators or an SECor NCAA basketball tournament.

We live in a much dierent worldthan we did beore September 11,2001 when maniacal terrorists hi-jacked commercial f ights and fewthe planes into the World rade

Center. Tey few a plane into thePentagon, causing death and de-struction to perhaps our countrysmost impenetrable building.

Who knows what would havehappened i a handul o braveAmericans had not overtaken hi-jackers who were allege dly headedtoward Washington, D.C. on anoth-er suicide mission? Tose Americanheroes were able to crash the planeinto a Pennsylvania eld beore itcould reach its intended target.

Tose terrorists were trainedto fy in our country. At our fightschools. Under our noses. Most othem werent interested in how totake o or land. Tey just wantedto learn how to fy a plane. Howincredibly stupid were those in-structors i any o them heard thestudents say that?

Te Boston bombings shouldchange the way we protect sportingevents in our country.

Pastor Sam Boyd o Forest HillsBaptist Church in Nashville ranthe Boston Marathon last weekwith his son-in-law. Tey nishedless than 25 minutes beore therst bomb went o, but were onlya block away rom the start-nishline.

Tey heard, saw and elt theexplosions. Te sound was deaen-ing. Te ground vibrated. Tey werepart o the chaos that ollowed.

Refecting on the situation aterhe returned home, Sam Boyd saidin his Sunday sermon he will neverlook at a backpack again like he didbeore the blasts killed and maimedthe most innocent o runners andspectators.

An American tradit ion turnedinto an American tragedy.

Whether we admit it or not, thewar we are involved in going or-ward is a war on terrorism. Foughtwith no rules. No conscience.

How could the now capturedand wounded 19-year-old terror-

ist drop the bag he was carryingso close to a amily that lost theireight-year-old son, took a leg romhis six-year-old sister and seriouslywounded their mother?

All o us better wake up, payattention to everything and every-body around us. errorist cells arehere. Tey are determined to kill,many o them radical Islamics whoproess their highest calling is togive their lives and kill others inthe name o Allah.

I dont care i I have to get strip-searched at itans games or anyother sporting event. You shouldnteither. I it will stop another deadly

attack, it will be well worth it.

Bison boys

advance indistrict tennistournament

HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY

By CORBY A. YARBROUGHSports Editor

Te Station Camp boys andgirls track teams swept theSumner County rack and FieldChampionships team titles or theth straight season ater the con-clusion o the meet on April 18 atHendersonville High School.

Te Bison boys scored 200points on their way to victory,while the Lady Bison scored 171.5points in the win.

Tis is Station Camps sixthsweep overall since the meet beganin 2003.

Station Camp junior Josh

Malone scored 38points and wasnamed MVP or

the second straight year.Malone won the 100-meter

dash (11.08), 200-meter dash(22.66), was second in the 300-me-ter hurdles (43.06) and won thehigh jump with a county meet re-

cord o 6-2 on uesday.

Station Camp track

makes it fve in a row

See BISON l Page 8

By DOUG DYERFor The Gallatin News

Te smallest details can sometimes make thebiggest dierence on the sotball diamond. Onesmall mistake can turn into a 5-run inning or theopposing team.

Such has been the story or Station Camp sot-ball this spring. Te Lady Bison have come so closeso many times but one big inning did them in,according to coach Ken Crook.

Tats been the story o our season, he said.When youve got a young team and have that oneinning, its hard to get back up.

See ONE l Page 9

Lady Bison look or the one

A number o Sumner Rugby Football Club players stop an Oakland player during their playof match in Murreesboro 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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MALONE

See TENNIS l Page 8

Station Camps Florin Matei picked

up one o the Bisons our wins

during their 4-0 win over Gallatin

Monday in the 9-AAA tournament.File photo by Corby A. Yarbrough

THE GALLATIN NEWS

Station Camps Alli Fulcher one o three returning starters or the

Lady Bison rounds third against visiting JPII Monday.Photo by Phil Stauder l THE GALLATIN NEWS

Young Station Camp squad

seeks to avoid the big inning

or make one o their own

By CORBY A. YARBROUGHSports Editor

MURFREESBORO A 19-0 run and a our-minute goal linestand propelled the Sumner Rugby Football Club to a playo roadwin against Oakland Monday night and keeps the second-yearsquads season alive or at least another two weeks.

Behind two trys each romHeath Johnson and aylor Fe-lice, one rom Kody Burr andthree conversions rom AustinMorris, the All Blacks posted a31-12 win over Oakland Rugby at Mustang Park.

With the victory, Sumner RFC assures itsel o a trip to thestate seminals on May 4. Te team will likely have two morematches to determine what seed and at what level Cup or Bowl it plays at in the seminals.

Next up or the All Blacks is another amiliar opponent Ravenwood. Te deending champions in Division I, the Raptors

Good conversionSumner County wins rst playof match in higher division

Sumner RFCs Dakota Wink, right, goes up in the airto try and gain possession against Oakland.Photo by Corby A. Yarbrough l THE GALLATIN NEWS See RUGBY l Page 9

A ew members o the Gallatintrack and eld team spent time atmultiple sites over the last week,including both o ennesseesSoutheastern Conerence Schools.

And one broke his own schoolrecord and set a National Elitenumber in the process.

Bookending last weeks SumnerCounty rack and Field Champion-ships were the Great Eight meet atVanderbilt and the Volunteer rackClassic on the campus at ennes-see-Knoxville.

Gallatins Brett Neelly, ravisPryor and Beatrice Armstrong allcompeted at the Great Eight meeton uesday a day ater compet-

ing at the openingday o the countymeet. Armstrong

and Pryor returned on Tursday torun in the county nals.

On Saturday, the trio joinedthe rest o the Gallatin track squadby competing at the meet at U.Te Gallatin boys nished 10th

amongst 43 teams with 22 points.

Neelly breaks his own

school discus record

See NEELLY l Page 8

NEELLY

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