Berry Aldridge's summer 

Berry Aldridge catching in the Dominican Republic on a FCA trip

Toombs County's Berry Aldridge followed up his sophomore season, in which he .411 with 35 RBI's and two homers including a walk-off blast off the left field foul poll in game three of the second round of the state playoffs, by representing Georgia in Florida and the Dominican Republic. In June Berry traveled down to Florida to play in the USA Baseball National East Championship and he batted .450 and hit a game-winning home run as his team made the final four. Then in July Berry traveled down to the Dominican on a FCA Trip. Check out Berry's Slideshow   Y-101 Story

Tyler's tunes please Y-101 audience

Tyler (left) and Scott Lightsey at Y-101

Tyler Lightsey, visiting his family in Toombs County, called Y-101 Radio on Tuesday requesting the opportunity to sing on the air. The 17-year old, from Florida, sang "Wagon Wheel" and he so impressed Elmira that he was invited to sing in studio on Wednesday. The audience response was to the three songs that he performed was very positive. Scott, Tyler's father, also sang a couple of songs including one that the two wrote together. Check out some highlights from the Lightsey's Y-101 visit Video

Bulldogs go 7-on-7

The Toombs County Bulldogs faced some outside competition in a 7-on-7 passing league camp at Vidalia High School. The Bulldogs led by quarterback Ryan Davis played six games on Thursday. Davis threw to a variety of receivers including the Hamptons, O'Shea and Tamond, Malcolm Burley, Brett Jernigan and Patrick Craft. Watch Highlights Video  and this Slideshow

GRPA State Tourney Scoreboard

Lyons Jr. Girls finish second 

Jeannie Smith pitched 20 innings and		struckout 25 & allowed 1 earned run

Saturday- The Junior Girls were trying to be the first team from Lyons to win a summer state championship since the Mite Boys and Girls did so in 1993. Unfortunately, their effort was dashed by a pair of losses to Wayne County 9-6 and 7-4. Lyons took a 4-0 lead in the first game on a two-run double by Jeannie Smith and a two-run triple smashed by Katie Norfleet. Wayne County took advantage of three Lyons errors in the bottom of the first and scored six runs. Lyons rallied and tied the game in the third when Smith singled and scored on a wild pitch. Wayne County pulled away by scoring single runs in the bottom of the third, fourth and fifth. In the second game Lyons fell behind 4-0 in the second and the girls didn't stroke their first hit and score their first run until the sixth when Kayla Mosley reached on a RBI infield hit. Lyons stoked two more hits in the seventh and scored three runs. Madison Hart drove in one with a grounder to short. The girls wrapped up their summer by finishing second in the Lyons Youth Tournament, the District 1 Tourney and the GRPA State Tournament. Watch highlights of both games Video Friday- In the first six innings of their winners bracket match up with Villa Rica the Lyons Junior Girls left 14 runners on base including 10 in scoring position. In the third, fourth and fifth the girls left the bases loaded. Finally in the fifth Harley Beck singled in a run to cut the Villa Rica lead to 2-1 and later in their last at bat, in the seventh, Katie Norfleet singled in Jeannie Smith and Beck, with Norfleet at third and one down, laid down a squeeze bunt that scored Katie to give Lyons a 3-2 win. Smith pitched a complete game three-hitter and she struckout 10 batters for a second day in a row.  Watch Highlights Video Thursday- It took an inning before the Lyons Junior Girls began to pull away and then eventually run-rule Bainbridge 14-2 in six innings in the opening round of the GRPA State Tournament at Ed Smith in Vidalia. Jeannie Smith pitched a complete game four hitter and struck out 10 batters. Lyons stroked 12 hits and Smith, Megan Meadows and Lakayla Faison each had two hits.  Watch Highlights Video   The Lyons Junior Boys summer came to an end with an 8-5 loss to Calhoun in Guyton. Wednesday- The Lyons Junior Boys opened up state tourney play in Guyton by losing to Coffee County 5-2. Lyons got the leadoff hitter aboard in six of the seven innings, however, the boys grounded in to three double plays and left three runners in scoring position. Trailing 3-0, Lyons scored two runs in the fourth on a single by Logan Martin and a Coffee error and also a James Ethredge RBI hit. Martin added a sixth inning triple in his 2-for-3 game. Ethredge pitched the first three innings and allowed three earned runs on four hits with five strikeouts and two walks. Jeremy Beasley pitched four innings in relief and allowed two earned runs and four hits and he struckout four. Watch Highlights Video

The Light is finally turned on!!!

Yellow has never looked prettier

Toombs County finally entered the 21st century on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. A much needed traffic light was finally turned on at the intersection of 280 and Harris Industrial Boulevard. The light allows member of the Wellness Center to safely make a left hand turn on to 280. Also, the  Harris Boulevard extension was opened connecting 280 to 292. Check out one of the greatest things to happen to Toombs County since the invention of the onion. Video

Bulldogs wrap up summer ball

Ricardo Jackson (left) and Brandon Driggers defend pick and roll

The Toombs County basketball team wrapped up a busy summer by splitting a pair of games at Vidalia High School. The Bulldogs beat Portal and then lost to Bacon County 42-39. Brandon Driggers scored 12 points against Bacon and dished out a handful of assists including several to Tamond Hampton, who scored eight points. Watch Highlights Video The Bulldogs, with new head coach Reggie Wilkes, competed on Tuesday nights in the Vidalia Summer League and they also played games at Brewton-Parker College. The varsity played .500 ball while the junior varsity went 10-5.