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Boris top academic athlete at MMC
Alan Sloan - Thu, Jul, 2, 2009
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| Boris makes a put-out at third base for Martin Methodist. - Photo submitted |
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In addition to her team-leading nine home runs for Martin Methodist College, Alicia Boris knocked it out of the park academically and was “team-leading” among all student-athletes.
A former Bearden High School standout softball player, Boris earned both softball and academic honors at Martin Methodist, a NAIA school in Pulaski, highlighted by receiving an award for highest grade point average among all 280 MMC athletes.
“I was kinda surprised because there was another girl on the team who is very, very smart as well, so I thought she was going to be our top [scholar] athlete,” said Boris, who graduated with a 3.91 grade point average. “It was a great surprise. I was proud, but it was a shock.”
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Carroll greets ‘Big Unit,’ Jeter
Ex-Bulldog hits first career MLB home run off 300-game winner as Marlins’ ‘part-time’ guy
Alan Sloan - Thu, Jul, 2, 2009
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| Brett Carroll preparing to bat as a Florida Marlin. - File photo |
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Brett Carroll greeted a 300-plus game winner rudely one warm Florida evening, as he did one of Major League Baseball's top younger arms a few days later.
Smacking his first career Major League home run off likely Hall of Fame pitcher Randy “Big Unit” Johnson June 21, this former Bearden Bulldog standout, college All-American and Florida Marlins outfielder greeted another likely Hall of Famer in a quite different way.
Following a double against New York Yankees staff ace CC Sabathia June 21 in Miami, Carroll, 27, found himself at second base next to famed Yanks shortstop Derek Jeter.
“It was kinda funny when I got to second. Jeter came over and said, ‘There you go knocking our best pitcher out of the game, thanks a lot,’” Carroll, a part-time outfield starter who made the Marlins team after Spring Training, remembered the Yankees' multi-All-star shortstop saying.
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FMS’s Thomas wins Furman Junior Classic
Staff Reports - Thu, Jul, 2, 2009
Stuart Thomas, Tennessee Middle School Golf Association State champ in May representing Farragut Middle School, is champion of the Male 14-15 division of the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour’s Furman Junior Classic, held June 23-24 at Furman University Golf Course (S.C.).
Stuart led the entire male field after day one with a first round score of 73. His two-day total of 154 gave him a one-shot victory versus David Yowell of Marietta, Ga.
In addition to Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia, SJGT also covers Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
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Strickland ‘nursing’ new KCS football program, facilities
Alan Sloan - Thu, Jul, 2, 2009
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Attempting to build his second football program from scratch since 1999, Chip Strickland serves four roles at Knoxville Christian School.
He's athletics director, head football coach of the new middle school team, teacher of “nine subjects — and school nurse.”
“I do it all,” said Strickland, a registered nurse after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Duke University earlier this decade, who’s beginning his second season as school AD.
Strickland, a former Tennessee Volunteers offensive lineman in the mid-1880s, had “about 24 kids” out during KCS football spring practice.
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sports briefs
- Thu, Jul, 2, 2009
• An 8-under baseball traveling team is being formed in the Farragut-West Knox County area to play in tournaments in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Tryouts begin at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 7 and July 14, at Farragut Baseball, Inc. Field No. 1 along Northshore Drive. All prospective players are required to have their parents/guardians buy a uniform and pay a portion of all tournament fees. For more information, e-mail knoxdodgers@aol.com
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