Personal news: I have accepted the role of Sumner County Sports Editor with
@MainStreetPreps
. I'll be in charge of covering prep sports for The Gallatin News, Hendersonville Standard and Portland Sun.
Three-star recruit
@jayadams_5
turned heads last fall, committing to
@AustinPeayMBB
over schools such as TCU and Baylor. I got the chance to sit down with the freshman, and discuss his hot start to the 2019 season.
That’s a wrap on my first season as sports reporter for The Robertson County Connection and Main Street Preps.
I’ll still have some stories for you over the summer, but thanks to all of you for your support in my rookie year!
What a career it’s been for
@iamtaylorgroves
while at East Robertson:
@er_football
(Career): 4,118 all-purpose yards, 268 tackles, 40 TDs, 14 INTs
@erindianshoops
(Sr. Year): 22.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 2.9 APG
Lots to look forward to when Groves heads to
@OleMissFB
.
.
@Nathan_R_19
is headed to Knoxville.
The three-star
#vols
commit signed an intent to participate form with Tennessee this morning. He’ll ink his letter of intent in Knoxville on NSD.
With the signing, Robinson will practice with Tennessee in preparation for the Orange Bowl.
And thus, my first season covering the Titans has come to a close.
I never pictured myself writing on a stage this big, and I can’t thank
@terrymc13
for letting me tag along. Here’s to more two-tone pressers in my future!
Station Camp grad Ryan Ginther got his first career save for Vanderbilt in tonight’s midweek win over Eastern Kentucky.
Chase Burns isn’t the only Sumner County pitcher making Power Five impact.
In his first NBA Summer League appearance,
@TerryTaylor21
finishes with 6 PTS and 8 REB in 18 minutes of action.
The Pacers beat Portland 97-64. Here’s a clip of what the former
@GovsMBB
star does best.
I’m blessed to announce that I’ve accepted a sports reporter position with
@ConnectionRC
and
@MainStreetPreps
.
I have big shoes to fill, but I couldn’t be happier about returning to where I grew up. Let’s get to work!
It’s officially official for
@scbisonfootball
linebacker
@SandersEllis4
, who celebrated his previous signing to Tennessee State with a ceremony today.
Ellis, who flipped from Murray State to the Tigers in October, had 11 tackles for loss and four sacks as a senior.
UT Southern guard and Springfield High grad
@ImAdarionHudson
puts up 20 points, six assists and four steals in a near upset of Austin Peay.
“The goal was to get a win. I ain’t worried about points, really; I just want to get a W. 20 points, I mean, I’ll take it.”
@SocialDweebs
Bobby Luna is five wins away from his 500th win at Gallatin. He needs 15 to hit 600 in his career.
I chronicled Luna's legacy from five former players — from punted basketballs and shattered clipboards to state tournaments, scouting reports and Sun Drop.
Jha’Quan Jackson said he went through “probably 20 notebooks,” in trying to learn the
#TitanUp
offense as a rookie.
The sixth-rounder from Tulane seemed knowledgeable against Seattle. He might have solidified a WR spot with his performance tonight.
So blessed to earn second place for Best Sports Writer in this year’s SEJC Best of the South awards.
To go from seventh to second in a year is a great honor. Thanks to everyone
@TheAllState
for getting me here!
As made official during tonight’s county commission meeting, April 19, 2022 will be proclaimed as East Robertson Boys’ Basketball and Cheerleaders’ Day in Robertson County.
East Robertson (27-6) won the county’s first state basketball title since 1989 this season.
.
@VoiceOfCatsTN
mascot Bobby Bobcat inked a full-ride scholarship to Austin Peay Saturday afternoon.
Bobby was Greenbrier’s mascot for seven years and will become “The Governor” starting his freshman year.
After an impressive first half of the season with
@trashpandas
, Robertson County could witness its first MLB call-up since 1923 in
@LukeMurphy27_
.
Why the
@ER_Indians
and
@VandyBoys
product is less focused on the majors and more on his “neutral mindset.”
Springfield’s Brie Asmondy and Sarah Nicholson have pushed each other since their elementary days in Coopertown.
The softball stars and best friends get to keep it going next year at Trevecca.
@sbnicholson07
@AsmondyBrie
@TNUsoftball
@SpringfieldSof1
.
@JRStroupQB9
and
@CoachStroup
are working through their first preseason with
@GHSWaveFootball
— one as coach and the other as quarterback.
Michael could be calling plays for his son by the season opener. Get to know them and their connection:
FINAL:
@WHHHoops
(11-7, 1-0 9-2A) - 52
@shs_sycpride
(4-13, 0-2) - 48
About everything that could’ve gone wrong did for Heritage in the fourth quarter. But the Patriots survive with a crucial and-one late from Gavin Burnett.
@MainStreetPreps
@cvp51
Football Scoop says Austin Peay’s Scotty Walden is headed to UTEP.
How Walden treated media members, especially a fumbling sports reporter in college, stuck with me. This message after his first season meant a lot. The Miners are getting a good one.
From Will Clinard and Luke Murphy to John Massey and his dad
@sethmassey31
, Station Camp pitcher Matthew Massey's family practically destined him to be a baseball success.
More on
@Matthew_Massey3
and his family's strong baseball heritage.
@SCHSBisonBB
.
@whhbaseball
has announced Joel Goff as its newest head baseball coach.
Goff, an assistant on last year’s staff who currently serves as the school’s athletic director, has coached baseball and football for over 30 years.
@PFL_Sports
@MainStreetPreps
Former East Robertson and Ole Miss safety Taylor Groves has announced his transfer to Vol State basketball.
Groves, a four-star football prospect, averaged 22.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists as a high school senior, leading his team to a state basketball championship.
Jo Byrns baseball’s
@TCHead18
signed with
@TNUBaseball
this morning.
Head, who has played every position outside of first base with the Red Devils, hit .402 and pitched a 1.60 ERA as a junior.
Gallatin High School basketball coach Bobby Luna is doubly honored tonight — once for his 500th win with
@WAVEbasketball
and twice for the official naming of Bobby Luna Court.
Thursday marks one year since I started as Sumner County Sports Editor with
@MainStreetPreps
.
I’ll be celebrating with a weeklong vacation overseas. Thank you to all who have followed along in the past year. I’m excited to wrap up winter and jump into spring sports next week!
The Atlanta Braves kicked off their second day of the MLB Draft by taking
@_BeechBaseball
and Indiana star pitcher Luke Sinnard with the 99th overall selection.
Sinnard joins Chase Burns as the second Sumner County pick of the 2024 draft.
Tennessee State comes up with the loss today against APSU, but former Springfield standout
@fatcat__5
has a monster game for the Tigers.
242 all-purpose yards: 95 receiving, 140 off returns and seven on the ground.
#sptbrand
Pope Prep senior and Trevecca commitment
@FredBailey1k
on
@popeprepmbb
’s quarterfinal win and first final four appearance.
“This is what we’ve been waiting on since last season.”
It was a total team effort in
@GHSWaveFootball
's upset at previously undefeated Green Hill.
The defense forced four takeaways, the offense and special teams delivered and
@JRStroupQB9
's three scores gave him Gallatin's single-season passing TD record.
“Not every kid can go through that with the grit and the grace that he has."
Inside the inspirational fight of Logan Hall, an East Robertson middle schooler battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
A special moment shared between
@Drcoachwade
and
@FredBailey1k
in Pope Prep’s postgame presser.
What a run it’s been for Wade’s Knights and Bailey, who closes his high school career all through the record books.
Coming out of Clarksville High School,
@garrettspain28
had just one Division I offer.
Thursday morning, the former
@AustinPeayBSB
and
@ClkHighBaseball
star will be on a flight to Dunedin, Fla. to officially become a part of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Four years ago he modeled himself after Antonio Gates and caught passes at LSU as a tight end.
Now,
@EKUFootball
product
@_Tk_88
is making an ever-increasing impact on defense for the
#Titans
:
FINAL:
@erindianshoops
(25-6) - 50
MAHS (23-6) - 49
Down go last year’s runner-up!
@ElijahGroves6
hits the game-winner with four seconds left. East Robertson plays Hampton tomorrow in the Class 1A semis.
@MainStreetPreps
I wrote at the start of the season that
@DanielBale2022
would have to be in the spotlight for White House Heritage’s basketball team.
He averaged 21.8 points on 57.5% shooting, set a new school record for points in a season, and eclipsed the 1,000-point threshold as a senior.
.
@__JMurph__
through his first three starts with
@BU_FootballTN
: 776 passing yards, 8 total touchdowns and a perfect 3-0 record.
The
@DCCOUGARS
alum is slinging it so far for the Wildcats.
How does
@BeechFootball
feel about being labeled a dark horse in the Class 5A championship chase?
I asked senior linebacker
@ClaryGunnar
and junior QB
@Kadenpowell2026
their thoughts. The Buccaneers return a boatload of talent but could face a tough road to Chattanooga.
This year's
@CommandoHoops
postseason run was Cinderella-like and deserves such credit.
Hendersonville has swept our annual All-Sumner County boys hoops awards. Player of the Year
@tjkolbe
headlines the 22-athlete team that spans 10 Sumner schools:
BREAKING: White House Heritage has announced a familiar face as its newest head football coach.
Chad Broadrick, a Gallatin assistant who coached at East Robertson from 2015-19, will take over Heritage's football program this season.
@MainStreetPreps
@PFL_Sports
What a seventh inning. Giles County ties it with a five-run T7, but Cayden Waggoner walks it off to send Heritage to its first-ever region championship.
FINAL:
@whhbaseball
(18-9) - 9
Giles County (19-11) - 8
@mainstreetpreps
@pfl_sports
Former Dickson County QB Jacob Murphree has had a long-stinted journey as a collegiate athlete. However, he now has a chance to close it out
@BU_FootballTN
with a few familiar faces beside him.
My story:
.
@WSURaidergang
signee
@lax_chet
pitched his final game for
@JPIIAthletics
last night.
Through a down season for Pope Prep baseball, Lax managed to make the most of his senior year — as an ace, first baseman, centerfielder and closer.
Kaylor West punctuated
@LibertyCreekSB
's first championship with perfection.
The sophomore threw just the fifth perfect game in state tournament history, and the first in a championship game, with a 1-0 win over Huntingdon.
@kaylor_west
@LCWolvesSports
White House Heritage quarterback
@taye_francis5
has committed to Bellarmine sprint football.
Francis totaled 1,130 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior and will be a part of the school's first sprint football team.
@PFL_Sports
@WHHeritageFB
Brian Rager's football career has taken him from Beech scout-team quarterback to Mr. Football candidate in a matter of two years.
How
@LCWolvesFball
became the ideal landing spot for
@BrianRager
, and vice versa:
Sophomore QB
@Kadenpowell2026
played his best game with
@BeechFootball
last night, perhaps when the Buccaneers needed it most.
He accounted for all five touchdowns and set the offense back on track with a 34-14 rivalry win at Hendersonville.
Nathan Robinson said there wasn’t much mystery in picking his college football home.
Once the three-star defensive lineman received an offer from Tennessee last April, he all but knew he would be a Volunteer.
@GreenbrierFB
@Nathan_R_19
FULL STORY:
Former
@SCHSBisonBB
and
@_BeechBaseball
pitcher Chase Burns was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds with the second pick in Sunday’s 2024 MLB Draft.
Burns is the highest selected Middle TN prospect since David Price.
Brian Rager transferred from Goodlettsville to Hunters Lane High in the late 1980s, later making history as their first football signee.
His son,
@LCWolvesFball
and now
@DUFootball
QB
@BrianRager
, accomplished the same feat Friday with Liberty Creek.
After spending a year with one of the nation’s top high school teams,
@Kavien_Jones
has returned in a big way for
@BGABasketball
.
He’s one of many reasons why the Wildcats (17-7) are enjoying their best season since 2018.
@CoachTreyMeyer
@BGASports
White House Heritage has booked its first trip to the state baseball tournament.
The Patriots (19-10) downed Milan 8-2 on the road Friday night.
@PFL_Sports
@whhbaseball
After a dim two decades of football in Cross Plains, first-year
@er_football
coach Chase Brooks has turned his team into an overnight success.
How confidence and competition transformed East Robertson from cellar dweller to contender:
I'll still be around in Robertson until my replacement is named – don't think I'm missing another East title run – but my responsibilities will begin to change immediately.
I'm so grateful to have spent the past 16 months growing in an area that means so much. Thank you all.
Lipscomb Academy has been atop the proverbial football mountain the last two years.
Wednesday, four of their top players extended
@LAMustangsBB
's season past the first round.
Can they piece together one more playoff run?
@BryantLoving2
@Maureice2
His high school season ended just over a month ago, but Greenbrier's
@Nathan_R_19
will be back in practice Thursday — this time for
@Vol_Football
.
It's nothing new for the
@GreenbrierFB
standout and three-star
#Vols
signee, who is now Orange Bowl bound.
What a weekend it was for
@BrandonGillisp4
.
The junior hit .625 (10-16) with three doubles, two home runs and a triple in four games. He added eight RBIs for
@SCHSBisonBB
(6-0).
He's our Hendersonville Standard Player of the Week. Be sure to grab a copy when it hits racks!
Meet
@UTSMensBBall
’s new all-time leading scorer:
@SHSJacketsNest
grad Adarion Hudson.
Hudson needed 12 to break the school’s all-time record. He reached that mark in the first half against Freed-Hardeman.
Now presenting the 2023 All-Robertson County baseball team:
Pitcher of the Year:
@JacobConquest
Position Player of the Year:
@j_smitt_1
Two-Way Player of the Year:
@TCHead18
Coach/Team of the Year:
@ER_Indians
.
@GallatinSB
is priming itself to make history entering this postseason.
@gainessoftball1
, the team's Alabama A&M commitment, is leading the Green Wave's midseason surge both at the plate and in the circle.
BREAKING: Gallatin assistant
@CoachJ_Adkins
has been hired as the new head football coach at
@FHSAdmiralsFB
.
Adkins spent the past five seasons as Gallatin's defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator, tight ends coach and wrestling coach.
BREAKING: After sending White House Heritage to its first ever state tournament appearance this spring, Chris Logsdon has resigned after 13 seasons as head baseball coach with
@whhbaseball
.
@MainStreetPreps
@PFL_Sports
Springfield quarterbacks are becoming synonymous with Robertson County’s top player award.
First-year QB Devon Crenshaw has been named The Connection’s All-County Football Player of the Year.
Full team ⬇️
What you need to know from today’s ASUN presser:
-Unlike Jacksonville State and EKU, APSU plans to pay the OVC’s exit fee through privately raised funds.
-President Michael Licari and AD Gerald Harrison called the move “an aggressive step” to becoming a national contender.
.
@SHSJacketsNest
(Bransford) and
@GreenWavePride
(Union) rocking throwback uniforms for tonight’s “Back in the Day” game.
Bransford and Union were Robertson and Sumner County schools for Black students prior to the desegregation movement.