It was another close loss for Washington as Sullivan escaped the Hatchet House with a 49-47 win in the home opener for the Lady Hatchets on Friday.
After Washington (0-3) had battled back to take a 47-44 lead with 1:37 to play, it was Sullivan (2-0) who made the big plays down the stretch to secure the win. First, the Lady Arrows’ Joscelyn Mann followed a pair of free throws by Washington’s Mikala Barber with a 3-pointer to knot the score at 47-all with 1:19 to play. Following an exchange of turnovers, Washington’s Olivia Brashear missed on a short jumper in the lane with :19 to play.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — On a homecoming day full of emotion, the East Tennessee State’s men’s basketball team made the plays it needed to make in the final minutes to outlast rival Appalachian State 62-58 in the 2009-10 season opener Saturday afternoon inside Memorial Center.
In a game that began with a memorial service for former ETSU center, Washington’s Seth Coy, who tragically died in a car accident last summer, the Buccaneers were the recipients of a fortuitous intentional foul call with a minute left in regulation and capitalized at the foul line with five makes in six tries to pick up the victory. A crowd of 5,562 fans looked on as sophomore guard Adam Sollazzo — who roomed with Coy and now wears his No. 43 jersey — hit two of those free tosses with 16.2 seconds left to help ice the game.
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Indiana contributed more than 200,000 soldiers to the Union effort in the Civil War, and Daviess County played a major part in supplying that manpower for the war effort. One of those men, William A. Myers, was the topic of discussion at Monday’s monthly meeting of the Daviess County Civil War Roundtable held at the Daviess County Museum in Washington.
Roundtable president Monty Critchlow gave the gathering a history of William A. Myers, who was born in Daviess County near Cornettsville in 1840, just a few years after his father, Daniel Myers, relocated the family to Indiana from North Carolina. Myers was 21 years old when war broke out in April, 1861, and he enlisted, along with 44 others, in Company G which was being formed by Eli McCarthy in Washington. In September of that same year. The company was assigned to the 42nd Indiana infantry.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn — Former Washington Hatchet standout and East Tennessee State University basketball player Seth Coy will be remembered by ETSU prior to homecoming and the Buccaneers season opener with Appalachian State at Memorial Center today.
Coy, a key member of the Hatchets’ 2008 Class 3A state championship team who played as a freshman for an East Tennessee squad that qualified for the 2009 NCAA tournament, was killed in a car accident while traveling home to Daviess County from ETSU this past summer. Game time today is 4 p.m., with a memorial service slated to honor Coy prior to the contest. Over 50 family and friends from Washington are expected to be in attendance for the game.
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The North Daviess Lady Cougars and Jenny Dove made Ron Knepp a winner in his first time out as head coach in a 38-29 win over Washington Catholic at the Bird Cage on Thursday.
Dove scored 13 of her game high 18 points in the second half and recorded a double-double with 13 rebounds. North Daviess trailed by one at 18-17 going into halftime after a rebound basket from Washington Catholic’s Katie Sellers — who led the Lady Cardinals with 15 points — just ahead of the second quarter. But North Daviess outscored WC 15-9 in the third quarter to take control of the game.
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MONTGOMERY — Liz Horton signed her national letter of intent to continue her basketball career with Valparaiso University.
For Horton, a dedicated gym rat, Wednesday’s event was the culmination of a long term goal.
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MONTGOMERY — Before Barr-Reeve’s Hilliary Fox chose the college where she was going to continue her athletic career, she had to make a different choice — which sport did she want to play after high school.
Last fall Fox, a standout for the Lady Vikings in both volleyball and basketball, chose the former and committed to Purdue, and she made that commitment official by signing a national letter of intent on Wednesday to continue her volleyball career for the Boilermakers of coach Dave Shondell.
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Lady Vikings fall at BSU.

EVANSVILLE — The Washington Hatchets faced Evansville Memorial senior quarterback Grant Gribbins for the final time on Friday in the championship game of Sectional 40 at Enlow Field. And for Hatchet Nation, the final Gribbins sighting couldn’t have come soon enough.
Gribbins led Memorial (9-3) to its second straight sectional title with a 42-20 win over Washington (7-5).