facebook.com/SportsDPA SCORES&MORE .A14 @DPASports MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021 WWW.DAILYPOSTATHENIAN.COM A13 McPhail to undergo surgery Tuesday DONATE TO Tumors on brain discovered after stroke MCPHAIL FAMILY BY GABRIEL GARCIA McPhail “A lot of times we think ON THE WEB: Meal Train Sports Writer underwent jobs, sports, et cetera, are mealtrain.com/5emrk7 an MRI the most important things in Tim McPhail is set to Wednesday our lives. They are not, and undergo surgery Tuesday, night and unfortunately sometimes it assistant coach with the the first step of his treatment was informed takes something like this to Cherokees’ football team, following a frightening med- Thursday put things back in order.” was moved out of the inten- ical incident and diagnosis. that he had According to the corre- sive care unit on Wednesday. The McMinn County High Tim three tumors spondence, McPhail was A Meal Train account has School girls’ basketball McPhail on his brain “awake and in good spirits” been set up to take dona- coach had been airlifted to that had orig- following his stroke Tues- tions for the McPhail family. the University of Tennessee inated somewhere else. The day in Knoxville. A CT scan As of Sunday evening, more Medical Center in Knoxville surgery scheduled for Tues- Wednesday morning showed than $2,200 had been raised Lamb this past Tuesday, March day will remove one of those nothing had gotten worse, toward a $5,000 goal. 9, after suffering a hemor- tumors, while the other two and he “sounded good” on To donate to the McPhail rhagic stroke, according to will be treated with chemo- the phone that morning as family, visit the link correspondence McMinn therapy or radiation therapy. well. mealtrain.com/5emrk7 Meigs archers athletic director Bo Cagle “It really puts things in McPhail, who also coach- shared with The Daily Post- perspective,” said Cagle to es McMinn’s middle school EMAIL: gabriel.garcia@ Athenian. The DPA. football program and is an dailypostathenian.com hoping for bullseyes Lamb fi nishes 3rd Bulldogs done in NAIA in fi rst tournament BY SCOTT POWER Sports Writer DECATUR — Meigs County’s archers are hoping to hit the mark once again this season. Since there was no 2020 season due to COVID-19, the Tigers are technically the defending 3D state title holders from 2019. Whether or not they experience that level of success this season is yet to be determined, but Coach Anthony Smith expressed some optimism about this year’s team. “We actually had our first meet two weeks ago and we were competitive against one of the top teams in the state and one of our archers, Isaiah Lamb, finished third,” Smith said. “We have a small group this year, just 13, but we are hanging in there and we were competitive.” Lamb grabbed third with a score of 281. Teams need 12 archers to compete in bullseye tournaments and six for 3D tour- naments. The Tigers lost two archers to gradua- tion this year and bring back 13, including four seniors. Smith said archery is becoming more pop- ular, especially with the onset of COVID, as archery can compete and still maintain social distancing. NASP (National Archery in in the Schools Program) began in Ten- nessee in October of 2004 and now has almost 500 schools from across the state participating. SEE BULLSEYES, A15 FAULKNER UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION Tennessee Wesleyan’s Jonathan Webb (30) pulls up for a shot attempt near the basket against Warner University (Florida) on Friday in the first round of the NAIA Men’s Basketball National Championships tournament at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. Teammate Todd Lansden (20) looks on at the play. Webb scored seven points in the Bulldogs’ 67-62 loss. TWU baseball TWU can’t hold sweeps Bryan, o Warner rally improves to 21-0 in opener From staff reports DAYTON — No. 5 Tennessee Wesleyan BY GABRIEL GARCIA ran its record to 21-0 with a three-game Sports Writer series sweep on the road at Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) rival Bryan MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Regard- College on Friday and Saturday. less of the end result, Tennessee Wes- Of the Bulldogs’ wins at this point in the leyan spent much of Friday proving it season, 14 of them have come against oppo- belonged on the national stage. nents ranked in the NAIA national polls. However, after leading by as many as The Lions are ranked No. 21 in the poll. 18 points early in the second half, the TWU dominated Friday’s game 18-4 and third-seeded Bulldogs could not hold also coasted in Saturday’s first game 9-2, off the rally from second seed Warner but Saturday’s nightcap to clinch the sweep University (Florida) and slipped to a was a battle in which the Bulldogs hung 67-62 loss in the first round of the NAIA on for a 4-3 win. Men’s Basketball National Champion- Dan Fry’s two-run home run in the fifth ship tournament at Faulkner University. inning broke a 2-2 deadlock and provided Wesleyan ended its season in the Wesleyan the ultimate winning runs in national tourney for the first time since Saturday’s finale. Bryan plated a run in 2016. the bottom of the fifth, but Robert Gon- “They really fought hard this sea- zalez held the Lions without a hit for the son,” said TWU coach Ray Stone. “We last 2 1/3 innings. Irving Martin was the approached this season with a chip on winning pitcher for the nightcap after his our shoulder. We felt like we needed to 4 2/3-inning start. The two pitchers com- continue to improve, and we had certain bined for nine strikeouts. goals. You can’t take back the experi- In Friday’s game, TWU exploded for a ence of being on the national stage and six-run second inning and an eight-run being in that type of environment, and sixth. Anthony Hickman hit a grand slam I’m very proud of them.” in the second inning and led the team with Warner took a 62-61 lead with 30 five RBIs, while Gary Mattis tallied three seconds left, and TWU missed four RBIs and Carson Ford, Zach Hogueisson, free throws in the last 24 seconds that Shamoy Christopher and Jermayne Ward could’ve either given it back the lead or two RBIs each. Nick Hollas (5 Ks) was kept its deficit within one possession. Friday’s winning pitcher. The Bulldogs (16-9) shot better from Bryce Giles and Mattis notched three the field overall (41% to 35.5%) and from RBIs each in Saturday’s first game, with 3-point range (30.4% to 26.3%), but War- FAULKNER UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION Giles hitting a homer. Kobe Foster (5 Ks) ner attempted 24 free throws and made Tennessee Wesleyan’s Ty Patterson (0) pulls up for a 3-pointer. Patterson scored 25 points got Wesleyan’s first win Saturday. 18, while Wesleyan was just 5-11 from in Friday’s loss. Wesleyan’s next game is a road rematch the stripe. at No. 8 University of the Cumberlands, “That’s just part of the game, and the that stage again and we’ll know what of them came after halftime, helping with first pitch at 6 p.m. Wednesday. TWU guys now have that experience, and to expect,” Stone said. then returns home Friday and Saturday to hopefully we’ll be able to get back on And of TWU’s 19 turnovers, eight SEE TWU, A15 host Columbia International in AAC play..