Johnston shoots Cougars past North

    GREENVILLE – Freshman guard Travis Johnston scored 32 points, including the game-winner with 15 seconds remaining, as Grayson County scored a thrilling 52-51 win over the struggling Muhlenberg North Stars at North Gym on Friday night.
    Scotty Wells scored eight of his 12 points in the second quarter as the Cougars managed a slim 29-28 lead at the half. 

North’s Aaron Morris led the Stars with 24 points Jan. 26 at home. The Stars lost to Grayson Co. 52-51. (Photo by George Austin)

    The Muhlenberg South boys’ basketball team had their second district loss Jan. 26 as they fell to Ohio County 68-63.
    Ohio County took charge early, hitting a three-pointer on the first play.   The Eagles then went on a series of runs making it 13-5 before the first timeout was called.  They continued on with a hot-shooting performance, adding another three-pointer and missing one shot inside the arc, making it a 22-11 Ohio County advantage.

South’s Richard Carver shoots the ball from the free throw line Jan. 26 at Ohio Co. Carver led the Suns with 20 points. Ohio Co. beat South 68-63. (Leader-News Photo/Paul Moore)

    When Steve Waltrip of Greenville decided to put together a Christian fellowship group for hunters, he knew just the way to go about it.
    “I saw a hunting video called ‘The Harvest’ where they show hunts and then at the end of the video, they give their testimonies,” he said. “I thought it was a neat idea to be able to use the tool of hunting to reach men for Christ.”



    When Eddie Lewis of Bremen got a message on his machine from the publisher and editor of ChopTalk magazine, the official monthly magazine of the Atlanta Braves, he didn’t even take time to call his wife before he returned the call.
    “I knew who he was when he left the message, and I couldn’t believe he was calling because I knew it had to be about the contest I had entered in the magazine (for the Ultimate Spring Training Getaway),” he said. “I am just lucky. You never expect to win anything like that.”

Eddie Lewis of Bremen watches a Atlanta Braves baseball game with his sons, Will, 8, and Cole, 5. The whole family will get the chance to see the Braves in spring training because Lewis won the “Ultimate Spring Training Getaway” from the Atlanta Braves. (Photo provided)