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Dyersburg picked up its second win of a busy week on Friday night, avenging its season-opening loss to McNairy Central as the No. 10 Trojans (14-4) shot their way to a double-digit halftime lead on the way to a 62-37 win over the Bobcats to celebrate Homecoming 2022...

Dyersburg High School celebrated Basketball Homecoming 2022 on Friday night as the homecoming queen and court were announced between girls and boys games when the black and gold hosted McNairy Central in hoops action.

With the District 13AAA schedule approaching at the end of next week, the Lady Choctaws (14-5) got some more tune-up work in preparation as the Dyer County girls took a 64-63 win over Chester County on Thursday night in Henderson in a makeup of a game postponed from Dec. 10...

For the second straight year, it will be an all Lady Choctaw final in the West Tennessee Athletic Conference Girls Basketball Tournament as Three Oaks dominated Ripley in the second half to join Northview in the championship game on Monday night with a 43-25 win over the Lady Tigers on Thursday night in Newbern.

For the second time this season, Southwest TN handed Dyersburg State its first loss, getting a late first-half run to get some breathing room then held off the Eagles in the second half for an 81-72 win in Dyersburg on Wednesday night.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com Over the past three weeks, I have spent my Wednesday night over at Dyersburg State watching the Eagle men continue their stellar season. The Eagles suffered their first loss (oddly for the second time) to Southwest TN this past Wednesday and I am interested to see how things go - how they will respond if you will - on Saturday when they travel to Motlow...

With their annual trip to the Blue Suede Tournament approaching next week, the DMS girls (19-0) remained undefeated on the season with a 46-32 win over the Lady Chargers at Martin on Thursday night. Led by a Kathleen Harrell three-pointer as well as buckets from Kay Kay Strayhorn and Lily Kate Jones, the Lady Trojans played Martin to a 7-7 stalemate through the opening frame...

Coming off a tough loss last Friday night on the road at Medina, Dyersburg’s boys bounced back in a big way on their return home to the Terry Glover Gymnasium, dominating the first half against Chester County on the way to a 71-40 win over the Eagles on Tuesday night.

Coming off a season which saw the Trojans advance to the Class 3A State Semifinals for the first time since 2006, the accolades continue to come in for the Dyersburg football players as two were selected to the Tennessee Sportswriters Class 3A All-State Team.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com Playing well is obviously the goal of every team when they step on the field or the court. This kind of goes without saying as the overall object of sports is to win the game. What was that soundbyte - “you play to win the game.”...

Entering Saturday night’s Northwest Middle School Athletic Association Championship Game against Gibson County without a loss in 17 games, the DMS girls had a comfortable lead in the fourth quarter but had to battle late to take a 37-35 win over Gibson County to get the title...

The Trojans struggled shooting from the field in their first action since Jan. 4 as a strong second half by South Gibson helped the Hornets knock off No. 8 Dyersburg (12-4) 65-50 on Friday night in Medina.

The Lady Choctaws dominated possession over the Lady Devils Friday night in Memphis, as a strong defensive effort led to a 63-42 victory over Germantown.

The Dyersburg High School football team and cheerleading squad were honored at the annual Football Awards Banquet on Thursday night in the DHS Commons.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com As the local high school teams took the court on Friday night, both Dyersburg and Dyer County were 14 days away from opening District 13AAA play. To me, the districts are going to be a little more interesting than they have been in a while...

Just three days after the Dyersburg Middle School girls punched their ticket for the Northwest Middle School Athletic Association Championship Game on Saturday, the DMS Trojans joined them on the title game schedule, advancing to the championship game with a 55-29 win over Union City on Thursday night in Trenton...

The Dyersburg State men continued their winning ways on Wednesday night, running their record to 16-0 with a 90-81 win over Jackson State at DSCC.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com The Dyer County Co-ed Cheerleading team’s tradition of sending its members to cheer at the next level continued on Wednesday afternoon as senior cheerleader Ethan Marshall signed to cheer at Jones College next year...

Despite being down 16 at the half and 22 at one point in the third quarter, the Dyer County girls (12-5) battled back on the Lady Patriots home court on Tuesday night in Paris, putting together a second-half rally which resulted in a 73-70 win for the Lady Choctaws at Henry County.

Blue-collar players can be a must for a team to be successful, especially at the high school level where a lot of players’ skills are still in development.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com With the high school softball season almost two months away, Dyer County senior Reagan Thompson knows where she will play at the college level as the Lady Choctaws’ power-hitting catcher signed with Blue Mountain on Wednesday morning...

Though the DMS girls trailed after one quarter in the semifinals of the Northwest Middle School Athletic Association Tournament semifinals in Trenton on Monday night, the unbeaten Lady Trojans (17-0) took the lead in the second quarter then pulled away late in the game to take a 34-23 win over South Gibson and advance to Saturday’s title game...

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com To me, you know what the most disappointing thing you can hear in sports other than you have lost? “The game has ended in a tie.” Being happy about ending the game in a tie is like getting a D on a final exam in school...

The Dyersburg Trojans brought the first week coming out of the Christmas Break to a successful close on Saturday evening at the Tangle on the Trail at Pontotoc, Miss., defeating the hosting Warriors 56-54 in boys-only action.

The second half of the basketball season at every level can have challenges, and one of them proved to be weather late this week as multiple games were canceled on Thursday and Friday after Thursday’s snowfall in West Tennessee.

In a low-scoring game which barely made it past the century mark in combined scoring, the Dyersburg State men held Columbia State to its lowest point total of the season, picking up their 15th win of the season with a 58-49 win over the Chargers on Wednesday night in Dyersburg.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com It’s becoming an annual tradition in college football to see at least one team from the Southeastern Conference will be playing for the NCAA National Championship in the final game of the year. Looking back at the recent history of the title game, in the eight years of the current playoff system, at least one SEC team has reached the final game of the year every season but the first...

A basketball team at the high school needs quite a few things to compete and succeed – shooters, rebounders, distributors and numerous other things.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com Despite being down ten points early in the first quarter on Monday night in Newbern, the Northview boys basketball team battled hard on both ends of the court in the fourth quarter to rally back and take a 44-43 win over visiting Black Oak at home...

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com Like many throughout the state of the Tennessee my age, I have been a Titans fans for about half my life. After all, the Oilers didn’t become the Titans until I was 19, so, admittedly, it would have been hard to be one my whole life...

History repeated itself on Tuesday night in Dyersburg and it was in the Trojans’ favor, as Dyersburg rallied from as much as six in the fourth quarter before a three-point play by senior Meshach Jones gave the black and gold its second win over Ripley, 47-46.

Six local high school football players received big individual honors to start the new year as they were selected to the Tennessee Football Coaches Association All-State Teams.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com With the end of 2021 coming at midnight last night, another year is in the books and another one is about to begin. For basketball, though, it’s the one sport I can think of at all levels which straddles the changing of the years on an annual basis...

The Dyersburg Middle School girls basketball team battled Greenfield in the final round of the DOT Foods Christmas Tournament and came away with a 33-22 victory and the tournament championship.

With only six players dressed out for Thursday night’s game Dyersburg put up a good fight early against Shelbyville but the fatigue proved to be too much as they lost 64-30 in the third-place game of the DOT Food High School Girls Christmas Tournament at DHS.

Despite the TSSAA's reclassification separating Dyersburg and Westview into different districts for the first time in over a decade, the two teams found themselves meeting up in the 57th Annual Martin Lions Club Christmas Tournament with the Trojans coming out on top 63-34.

Though Collinwood was able to keep it close early on during the fifth-place game of the Coca-Cola Point Guard Classic at Huntingdon High School on Wednesday afternoon, Dyer County (11-5) got a strong finish to the first quarter then dominated the second frame on the way to a 79-44 win over the Trojanettes.

The Dyersburg girls, fresh off their win against Humboldt the night before, looked to move past Greenfield High School to go to the championship game in their Christmas tournament but were stopped in a 47-22 defeat in Dyersburg Wednesday night.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com As we sit here with less than 48 hours remaining in the year 2021, the past 12 months have been a busy one. And, for many of our local high school teams, it’ was a successful one. The first half of the year brought us our first postseasons taken to completion in both winter and spring sports for the first time in two years...

A strong second-half effort from the Vikings coupled with Trojan (9-3) struggles from the free throw line throughout the game proved to be a bad combination for the Dyersburg boys as the black and gold fell to Hillcrest 56-53 in the semifinals of the 57th Annual Martin Lions Club Christmas Tournament on Wednesday evening at Westview High School.

Coming off a disappointing loss in Tuesday's opening round to South Gibson, the Lady Choctaws bounced back in a big way in the consolation round of the Point Guard Coca-Cola Christmas Tournament at Huntingdon with a 78-27 win over West Carroll on Wednesday...

Both Dyersburg Middle School teams got big wins on Tuesday evening in the semifinals of the DOT Foods Middle School Christmas Tournament in the DHS Auxiliary Gym to advance to the finals on Thursday evening in their respective brackets.

Though Dyer County led at the end of the first half and still by one after three quarters, the South Gibson girls rallied in the final eight minutes to take a 47-43 win over the Lady Choctaws in the Point Guard Coca-Cola Christmas Tournament at Huntingdon on Tuesday morning...

With only seven players available for the Lady Trojans on Tuesday in the opening round of the DOT Foods Christmas Tournament at Dyersburg High School, the black and gold girls battled through early foul trouble to take a 56-45 win over Humboldt.

Coming out of a lengthy break with the Christmas holiday, the Trojans (9-2) made the short trek over to Martin on Tuesday morning and came away with a win after holding off the Peabody Golden Tide for a 77-74 victory on the first day of the Martin Lions Club Christmas Tournament at Westview High School...

On a successful team, for a player to start from the time they are sophomores through the senior year, there are different qualities which can make this happen.

JASON PEEVYHOUSE jpeevyhouse@stategazette.com As you’re enjoying your gifts and Christmas Day with your loved ones, the sports world here locally is in the middle of a rare halt. There have been no school-related games since Wednesday and we won’t see more hoops action for a couple more days...