Local Football Teams Brace For Practices

On what turned out to be the hottest day of the summer so far, the Big Red Tiger football team hit the practice field this week. The Tigers will not practice in full pads until next week but they still had to brave the extreme temperatures just the same. Once full pad practice starts, the Tigers will have very little time to get ready for the season. Lexington will play its first scrimmage game August 1st. The Tigers will travel to Lewis County. August 8th LHS will host a scrimmage as they take on Scotts Hill. As week one draws closer, Lexington will travel to Crockett County and play in a first look scrimmage on August 15. Teams will include Lexington, Crockett County, McKenzie, Bolivar, and Huntingdon. The Tigers will have their dress rehearsal on August 22nd at the Huntingdon jamboree. Lexington’s opponent will be Crockett County. The Lexington Middle School football team is also getting ready for the upcoming season. The Minutemen are in their second week of conditioning and will start full contact practice Monday. LMS has no time to waste as their season begins August 14th. The Minutemen will open the season at home against Chester County. LMS will play in the McKenzie jamboree August 16th. The weather may be hot, but no one knows more than the players and coaches. Just a couple of weeks and all the hard work will be paying dividends.

 

A pair of Lexington High School baseball players signed scholarship papers to attend college and continue their baseball careers at Dyersburg State. Pictured (above) is Roy Beecham with parents Marion and Teresa Beecham and Dyersburg State head baseball coach Roger White. Also joining his Tiger teammate is Celtic Rush (below). Celtic is joined by mother Daphne Rush, grandfather Harold Rushing, and LHS assistant coach Adam Harrington, and DSCC coach Roger White. A signing ceremony was held last Thursday at the LHS Auditorium.

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Local NWTF Chapter to Hold Banquet

The Natchez Trace Gobblin Toms chapter of The National Wild Turkey Federation would like to announce our upcoming Hunting Heritage Banquet and Auction. The banquet will be held Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at the (cool-air-conditioned) Henderson County Fairgrounds Building, 106 First Street in Lexington. The Doors will open at 6:00 PM. with dinner served at 7:30 PM.
Regular member ticket prices start at $40.00, which includes one meal and your NWTF membership. Couples are $50.00 which includes one membership and two meals. Jakes memberships (children 17 and under) are $10.00, which includes one Jakes membership and one meal. Dinner tickets at the door are $15.00. All ticket holders will be eligible to win valuable prizes exclusive to the NWTF events. Place the highest bid and you could go home with sporting art, hunting guns, knives, calls, outdoor equipment and much more.
A drawing during the auction will be held for 15 youth deer hunts this fall during the annual statewide youth deer hunt weekend. All hunters must be at least 10 and no older than 16 to qualify far these hunts. Along with the deer hunts we will also draw for 10 youth turkey hunts to be held next spring during the annual statewide youth turkey hunt weekend in March. All young hunters must have their hunter safety card to participate in these hunts. A parent or NWTF member, at least 21 years of age, must accompany the hunters. All Jakes memberships purchased at the banquet or before the banquet will be eligible to be drawn for these hunts. Mr. Dennis Beecham will sponsor these hunts again this year, on his farm in Carroll County. This will make the fifth year he has sponsored these hunts.
We look forward to seeing you at our banquet. If you have any questions about our chapter or would join us in working toward our goals for 2009, please call Bill Thomas (968-3813), Dennis Grissom (968-4509), or Jeremy Lawson (614-8475).