Our Staff has 28 years of combined experience
Have an injury and need physical therapy? Call the SportsWorks Rehab team at 731-352-4189
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SportsWorks Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Our Staff has 28 years of combined experience Have an injury and need physical therapy? Call the SportsWorks Rehab team at 731-352-4189 |
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Holland Farms Strong supporters of McKenzie sports and athletes for generations GO REBELS! |
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McKenzie Feed and Grain 2016 Cedar Ave., McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone: 352-2084 STIHL Your licensed STIHL dealer |
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New Generations Furniture Check out our convenient outlet store McKenzie Shopping Plaza _____ Phone: 352-7147 GO REBELS! |
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BETHEL COLLEGE Academic Excellence...Personally Phone 731-352-4000 |
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McKinney Hardware 181 South Main Street, McKenzie, TN 38201 For all your hardware, plumbing, electrical and hunting needs Phone 352-2141 |
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MBC McKENZIE BANKING COMPANY Serving McKenzie, Paris, Alamo and now Jackson CONVENIENT Drive in hours: 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; Lobby hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday Highland Branch hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; Drive-through hours 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays-- We'll Be Here! |
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McCaslin Motors Quality Pre-Owned Vehicles, Trucks, ATVs 25255 Highway 22, McKenzie, TN 38201 Call 731-352-2233 |
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Brummitt Funeral Home Supporting the Rebels and Serving McKenzie since 1945; Obituary Line 352-9391 |
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CHET'S PIZZA 21810 E. Main Street, Huntingdon, just past the overpass For the BEST pizza in West Tennessee, call 986-9705 |
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Alexander Thompson Arnold, PLLC CPAs 16208 Highland Dr. McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 731-352-3513 See Mark Downing for your accounting needs |
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R & R Quality Construction Licensed and Insured Custom Homes, Remodeling, Additions, Any of your Home Improvement Needs Call Terry Reeder 731-352-9849 (h) 731-694-3019 (c) or Richard "Soup" Raymer at 731-644-7676 (h) 731-693-6578(c) |
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G&B MOTORS Highland Drive, McKenzie, TN 38201, phone: 731-352-7251 Good dependable used cars On the spot financing! See Greg Blackburn
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Brents K. Priestley 16194 Highland Drive, McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 352-7822 See Brents for personal investment advice |
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Phipps Pharmacy 205 Hospital Drive McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 |
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City of McKenzie P.O. Box 160 McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 |
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Kee Photography 50 Willard Ave. McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Steve Kee, owner and photographer |
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My Ezee Web Ez4me, Ez4u Let Us Customize Your Website Just for Your Business; It's Never Been so Ezee! Steve Kee, Owner/Web Designer |
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Mars U.S. Pet Food 399 Euclid Ave. McKenzie, Tenn. 38201 Phone 731-352-3396 GO REBELS! |
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Backhoe Services Septic Installation, General Excavation Keith Robertson, Prentice McClerkin, Jr. 3102 Hwy. 423 McKenzie, TN 38201 (mail) |
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By JIM STEELE
mckenzierebels.com
MURFREESBORO - McKenzie trailed South Pittsburg 21-0 early in the second quarter of the Class A state championship game and was looking for anything to hang its hat on.
It seemed that the Rebels had settled down and were starting to move the football. They had marched down to the Pirate 11 in the first half, but couldn't score, but they were moving. On the Rebels first possession of the second frame, MHS senior quarterback Derek Carr found Rusty Chapman up the middle for a gain. Chapman twisted, turned, spun and tried to get the most out of the reception.
When he landed, both knees on the ground and clearly down, he reached the ball forward to finesse for those extra yards. The ball squirted loose. One official spotted where Chapman was down. About that time, South Pittsburg's Terrell Robinson scooped up the football and scampered 26 yards for the score. Replay evidence suggests that Chapman was down at least three seconds before the ball came loose. Officials looked at each other waiting for someone to take the lead. There was no whistle.
Only when Robinson started to streak toward the end zone did the official's bean bag come out to mark the spot. One can't unring the bell and the TD stood. Even the TV announcers said, "It seems South Pittsburg has a 12th man and he's wearing stripes."
Nobody will ever know if McKenzie could have scored on the drive, but if it had, the Rebels would have had a more-manageable two-score deficit than an almost-insurmountable four-score deficit.
"I thought I was down," said Chapman, who came off the turf in disbelief when there was no whistle. "When that happened, it was like a kick in the gut, I never expected for something like that to happen."
"It killed us," said a dejected Carr. "That was a contrvoversial play. We had to come out and score and they got the call and they scored. It killed us."
South Pittsburg coach Vic Grider said that play was a pivotal point in the game.
"When he scopped up that fumble, that play was huge," he said.
McKenzie football coach Wade Comer said that play was big, but there was more to the 52-20 loss than that one play.
"The momentum flipped to their side," said Comer. "That call didn't beat us; we just didn't make plays and they did."
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