Creek Wood High School is scheduled to close out the basketball regular season with back-to-back district games against Waverly and East Hickman. The Red Hawks and Lady Red Hawks are both 14-0 in District 11-AA and have already locked up the regular season championships and earned the top seed for next week’s tournament. Creek Wood will hold its rescheduled Senior Night hosting Waverly in Charlotte tonight then try to complete undefeated district seasons with a trip to East Hickman on Friday that was postponed from earlier this week due to snow. Both teams are on 12-game winning streaks with their last losses coming in holiday tournaments in December. The Red Hawks have not dropped a regular-season district game since a loss to Waverly Jan. 21, 2014, a streak of 34 games. Coach Tom Mullinicks has been forced to re-work the Lady Red Hawks lineup as the team has been hit hard with injuries. In Friday’s 47-19 win at Hickman County, the Lady Red Hawks were without Reagan Hohl, Rachel McCutchen and Sam Morgan after already losing Julie Nunnemaker and Riley Kilian for the season for injuries. Caroline Edmondson and McKenzie Broadway led the way with 12 each while Ally Kerr got a start with Taylor Moore coming off the bench while Hadley Williams, Sam England and Josie Neblett saw additional playing time. The Red Hawk offense continues to be in high gear as Creek Wood came close to its first triple-digit game of the season in a 98-72 win at Hickman County. Mercer-signee Ross Cummings led five Red Hawks in double digits with 29 points while Coulter Dotson scored 21, Ross Plunkett had 15 and Clay Ruf and Gabe Cummings added 11 each. Regardless of the outcome in the last two district doubleheaders, Creek Wood will be the top seed in both the girls’ and boys’ brackets for the district tournaments that start with play-in games on Monday. The Lady Red Hawks will host a quarterfinal game Tuesday and the Red Hawks will host on Wednesday before the tournament moves to Waverly for the semifinals Friday and championship games on Saturday, Feb. 20. Tonight’s Creek Wood-Waverly doubleheader starts at 6 pm on WDKN, 101.5 The One FM, wdkn.com, 1015theone.com and The One FM app with coverage beginning at 5:45 in the A-1 Signs Pregame Show. Dickson County High School concludes its regular season Friday at Brentwood.

Family members wept as a jury was shown a picture of the lifeless body of 16-year-old Marvin Andrew Morton still clutching the steering wheel inside the crushed cab of his pickup truck. When a second photo of the teen’s torso with his seatbelt still fastened flashed on the large screen in Dickson County Circuit Court, his mother left the courtroom sobbing. The photos were part of a first day of emotional testimony in the trial of 33-year-old truck driver Daniel Taylor Maupin of Pikeville. Maupin is facing two counts of vehicular homicide for the June 12, 2014, wreck that killed the Dickson County High School student. Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper William Goodman took the pictures at the scene of the wreck on Highway 46 at Livestock Road while working with the Dickson Police Department. After more than a dozen photos showing the final resting points of Maupin’s Prime Inc. tractor trailer with Morton’s 1989 GMC pickup partially under the trailer, Assistant District Attorney Jack Arnold switched to the first photo inside the cab. With the driver’s side roof caved in, Morton’s body was visible from the chest down, his right hand still at the 2:00 position on the steering wheel. Although it couldn’t be seen in the photo, Goodman said his left hand also was still on the wheel. The last picture zoomed in close on Morton’s torso clad in a blue t-shirt and showed his seatbelt still fastened. Becky Bear, Morton’s mother, was the first witness to take the stand as testimony began Wednesday after an 11-man, three-woman jury with two alternates was seated Tuesday. The start of testimony was delayed after a van bringing jurors from Montgomery Bell State Park where they were sequestered for the night experienced a problem on the park’s snow-covered roads. During 30 minutes on the stand, Bear smiled as she talked about her oldest son, his love of baseball and hunting and his desire to become a landscape architect. She struggled to hold back tears as she recounted the events of June 12, 2014, when she received a call from a friend while driving to Jackson who said he thought her son might be involved in an accident. Bear testified that she began calling anyone she could think of to confirm the report but could not get any information other than she needed to get there as soon as possible “I started understanding it was more than just a fender bender because nobody would tell me how Andrew was doing,” Bear said. She learned her son had died as her mother drove her back to Dickson and when she got off the interstate on Highway 46 she drove past the wreck scene and saw her son’s mangled pickup. Bear said her son was an extremely careful driver who had previously chastised her for texting while driving by telling her she was putting his life at risk. Bear testified she checked her son’s cell phone bill to verify that the last text or call he sent or received was 45-60 minutes prior to the wreck. She also said he had purchased a bluetooth-enabled sound system for the truck and used his phone to listen to music from Spotify but would not have been messing with it while driving. Gary Canfield of Knoxville testified he was working at Alexander Chevrolet the day of the wreck and as he parked a car at the front of the lot he heard brakes squealing. Canfield said he looked up and saw a southbound pickup truck pulling a trailer and mower with its brakes locked up slide into the trailer of a semi that was turning left from Highway 46 onto Livestock Road. Canfield said he called 911 as he ran to the scene but could see no signs of life inside the pickup with its roof caved in partially under the trailer on the driver’s side. Under cross examination by Public Defender Jake Lockert, Canfield said he believes the pickup was going 20-25 miles an hour when it hit the trailer “pretty hard” and was dragged several feet. Maupin was indicted for vehicular homicide by driver intoxication and vehicular homicide by reckless driving. A police officer testified at a bond hearing last year that a blood test showed amphetamines and Oxycodone in Maupin’s system and he had taken Adderall, which is used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder in children but also commonly abused by truck drivers to stay awake. Officer Scott Hull also testified that Maupin said he saw the approaching pickup truck but thought he had time to make the turn. Maupin faces 8-12 years in prison if convicted of the Class B felony. Testimony resumes today in the trial that is expected to continue into Friday.