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By Jim Hayes

Tim Goodrich scored 37 points to lead the Volunteer State Community College Volunteers to a 91-86 win over the Roane State Community College Rebels Jan. 12, at Pickel Fieldhouse.

Goodrich’s heroics offset the loss of four Volunteer players, including the nation’s leading junior college scorer, George Stanberry, who were unable to play because they were academically ineligible.

“George was a big factor to our team,” said Goodrich.  “I was only trying to do what he would have wanted us to do and help the team.”

By Jim Hayes

The Volunteer State Community College Lady Volunteers rode sophomore Aliyah Miller’s triple-double to a 61-51 win over the Roane State Community College Lady Raiders Jan. 12, at Pickel Field House.

Miller led all scorers with 20 points.  She made eight of her 12 field goal attempts and all four of her free throws.   Miller also had 10 rebounds and 10 assists on the afternoon.

After losing three players to academic ineligibility, Erica Mason, LaMonica Mintlow and Titania Lavender, the Pioneers needed every point they could get.  The bench contribution just 7 points and 6 rebounds for the entire game.

By Katelyn Marshall

Volunteer State Community College will host the International Film Series, “Stairway to Heaven,” Jan. 24, at 5:30 pm in Caudill Hall.

This film is a romance, fantasy, drama, comedy, and war genre movie about a British wartime aviator who cheats death and must argue for his life before a celestial court, according to IMDb.

“This movie really tells two interwoven stories,” Vol State’s English instructor Sarah Crotzer, said. “One on earth as Peter the fighter pilot fights what appeared to be some sort of seizure that comes over him and seeks help from a local doctor, and in heaven the angel is working to claim his soul. He ultimately has to go up in front of a celestial court to argue that he should stay alive in the arms of the woman he loves.”

By Jim Hayes

Seven Volunteer State Community College basketball players, four from the men’s team and three from the ladies’, were ruled academically ineligible over the winter break.

Included in that group is the nation’s leading junior college men’s scorer, George Stanberry.  None of the men, Stanberry, Devon Chapman, Daverix Cleves, and Jordan Lockridge will be eligible to return this year.  

On the ladies side, Erica Mason, is lost for the year while LaMonica Mintlow and Titania Lavender were eligible to return last Wednesday.