DCHS Baseball Fans Enjoy Night of Food and Fellowship (VIEW VIDEO HERE)

March 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DCHS baseball fans enjoyed a night of food and fellowship while supporting the program during the annual chili supper and LIVE auction held at the county complex auditorium Monday evening.

Mike Corn, the head baseball coach of the Columbia State Community College Chargers was the guest speaker.

Coach Corn admonished his audience to have a clear vision about “how you see your life” and “never let negative attitudes and bad habits cloud that vision”.

“We are all intertwined more than you can imagine. Everything you do and every chance you have to help someone else do it because you just don’t know how that may come back to you.” He said.

“Eliminate the I negatives. I can’t, I don’t have time and I know, but! There’s no such thing as I can’t. When you say I can’t you immediately put up an obstacle in your mind”.

“Do what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability every single time whether you want to or not with a smile on your face. If you do that you will suddenly see things more clearly. If you want to feel love, you love. If you want to be better, you make people better around you,” Coach Corn continued.

“I often tell a story about my Uncle John who was a carpenter and built houses for a living for nearly 40 years until one day he went to his boss and said he wanted to retire. His boss pleaded with him to stay on to just build one more house. Although he was burned out, Uncle John agreed to build it but he had lost his focus and began to cut corners, contracted things out, and used cheaper materials trying to finish quickly. Finally he completed the house ahead of schedule. Not knowing that Uncle John had just finished the worst house he ever built, his boss handed him the keys to the home and said it’s yours. This is your reward for working so hard all those years”.

“The point is we must also live in the house we build whether it’s your house of faith, your financial house, baseball house, relationship house or whatever you are going to live in the house that you build, day by day, board by board, nail by nail. What I say is look around. Surround yourself with good neighbors and build wisely. Choose your materials and location well and don’t overlook a single day of your life because time is the most precious thing in the world on this earth. Build wisely,” said Coach Corn.

March 4, 2019
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Cumberland’s Kayley Caplinger earned Mid-South Conference Pitcher of the Week honors Monday after recording three victories and allowing just two runs over 17.0 innings of work for the Phoenix.

The Auburntown, Tenn., native worked 4.0 scoreless innings versus Hiwassee College, giving up two hits with four strikeouts in an 8-0 CU victory. The sophomore righthander then won the second game of the doubleheader at 20th-ranked Truett-McConnell, tossing a four-hit shutout and allowing just four hits with six strikeouts.

Truett-McConnell managed only seven total baserunners in the contest, with Caplinger walking two and hitting another. The Bears had two runners in the same inning in the second and sixth innings, but she got a strikeout and lineout to end the second and a pop-out to finish the sixth.

Caplinger ended the week with 6.0 innings versus Bryan College, giving up two runs in the first inning and nothing after that. She scattered six hits, walked two and struck out one, running her season record to 4-1 with a 0.48 ERA over 29.0 innings with 23 strikeouts.

March 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DEKALB COUNTY SCHOOLS TO BE CLOSED WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6