It’s going to be hard for any opponent to compete with my All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy baseball team.

With a coaching staff and an infield in place, my All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy baseball team made up of Henry County High School players starting in 1985 is in need of catchers and outfielders.

Henry County High School football head coach James Counce Jr. (right) is handed a pump handle by Kiley Pearson of 501K Recycling Friday at the HCHS fieldhouse. Pearson’s company donated three five-gallon buckets of hand sanitizer to the football team. Counce said he will put the sanitizer in…

Henry County High School has been recognizing its senior spring sports athletes this month on social media. Lady Patriot tennis player Meg Gardner is one of five senior tennis players at HCHS.

Henry County High School catcher Kasey Winsett (center) prepares to place a tag on a sliding Clarksville Northeast runner during a 2007 girls’ softball game played at HCHS. Winsett was an All-District pick in 2007.

Baseball teams at Henry County High School have been filled every year with some outstanding individual performers.

Henry County High School has been recognizing spring sports senior athletes on social media this month. Patriot Adam Millette is one of three senior soccer players this spring.

Freed-Hardeman University senior baseball player Cody McSwain of Paris was honored with a Senior Spotlight announcement on social media. McSwain plays on the infield for the Lions and is a career .281 hitter. He was recently named to the All-Academic team by the American Midwest Conference.

Shutdown pitching and a slugging infield has my All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy girls’ softball team made up of Henry County High School players looking good to go for an undefeated season in any league they would play in.

Having a truly dominating pitching staff makes winning softball games easier but the pitchers can’t get the job done by themselves.

So far, I have battled my way through picking fantasy teams of Henry County High School players since 1985 for football, boys’ basketball and girls’ basketball.

Henry County High School has been honoring its senior spring athletes this month on social media. Patriot baseball player Matthew Joyner helped the Patriots open with a 2-2 start before the season was halted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Henry County High School basketball great Randy Harris is pictured in his Austin Peay State University uniform in a media photo from the 1982-83 season. Harris averaged 10 points a game for the Governors that season. 

The late James Counce (right) does a television interview with Paducah station WPSD during the Henry County High School football team’s summer camp in 1984 at Dawson Springs, Ky. For several years early in Counce’s head coaching career, he took the team out of Paris in the summer to do worko…

In the early 1990s, former Henry County High School basketball standout Shannon Martin (left) plays defense for the then-Bethel College Lady Wildcats in a game played at Baker Fieldhouse in McKenzie. She is better known these days by her married name, Shannon Osbron.

In the early 1990s, former Henry County High School basketball standout Shannon Martin (left) plays defense for the then-Bethel College Lady Wildcats in a game played at Baker Fieldhouse in McKenzie. She is better known these days by her married name, Shannon Osbron.

Back in April of 1976, Henry County High School girls’ basketball standout Amy Underwood became the first female athlete to sign a grant-in-aid at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Henry County High School has been recognizing its senior athletes who play spring sports on social media this month. Patriot baseball player Lucas Wofford is part of a team that only got to play four games this season before it was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Patriots were 2…

Lady Patriots’ softball player Katie Coffield has been honored by Henry County High School on social media for her contributions as a senior athlete. She has played softball for four years at HCHS with the team earning two state tournament berths during that time. She plans to attend college…

Backcourts for the Henry County High School girls’ basketball teams have been filled with brilliant playmakers and tremendous shooters since I began covering sports at The Post-Intelligencer in 1985.

Maybe the easiest pick I will make for one of my Tee Pee Talks fantasy teams of Henry County High School athletes since 1985 will be naming Kitty Allen to my girls’ basketball team.

Henry County High School is recognizing the senior spring sports athletes. Today, Lady Patriot softball player Mattie Vermillion is being featured. Vermillion is a center fielder who has played on two state tournament teams and has been an All-District 10-AAA selection during her career. She…

I seem to have written enough about Henry County High School boys’ athletic history in the past couple of weeks to last a lifetime, so how about I start naming the All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy girls’ basketball squad?

Henry County High School has presented a senior athletic honor on social media to Lady Patriots softball player Emily Brown. Brown is the Lady Patriots’ all-time leader in career wins with 60 over her four years on the team. She is No. 2 on the single season win list with 24 in 2017. She is …

Troy State University quarterback Steve Summers (22) hands off the football during a late 1980s game. Summers graduated from Henry County High School in 1985 and was a reserve on a Trojans team that won the 1987 NCAA Division III national championship. Now called Troy University, the Trojans…

Former Henry County High School football players Todd Hudson (left) and Fred Tharpe (right) stand on either side of then- University of Tennessee at Martin assistant coach Larry Shanks. Both Hudson and Shanks are now deceased. This shot was taken in the early 1980s when the UTM athletic team…

Jeremy Latimer (right) makes a pass for the Christian Brothers University basketball team during a game played at Bethel University in the mid-1990s. Latimer, a former Henry County High School standout, played at CBU from 1994-98.

Scoring statistics are available for the Henry County High School boys’ basketball program all the way back to the inaugural 1969-70 season but numbers for rebounds, assists or steals weren’t kept.

One thing the Henry County High School basketball program has been blessed with through the years is ballhandlers and strong outside shooters.

Having tabbed Mike Brown and Mike Greer to coach, I’m going to get busy picking out players today for the All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy boys’ basketball team.

Having just finished naming the All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy football team that is made up of Henry County High School players that played since the 1985 season (which is when I started covering sports at The Post-Intelligencer), I thought I’d go back and look at some of the great players that …

Many times, special teams players are only remembered if there is a mistake made during a football game.

Whittling down the names for lists of Henry County High School quarterbacks and running backs was nearly an impossible chore for my All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy football team.

After a week of talking about some of the offensive leaders I’d use on an All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy football team of Henry County High School players, it is now time to turn to the defensive side of the ball.

Today, I’m going to wrap up the offensive unit for the All-Tee Pee Talks Henry County High School football fantasy team by picking some wide receivers, fullbacks and tight ends.

It seems a great many of our readers are enjoying a look back at some of the football greats that have played at Henry County High School, while I amuse myself in naming the All-Tee Pee Talks fantasy football teams.

In the early years of football at Henry County High School, the forward pass was used mostly when the Patriots fell behind or just enough to keep an opponent from putting all 11 defenders at the line of scrimmage.

Even before the coronavirus struck down the entire sports world, I had been considering at some point this year writing some columns naming some All-Tee Pee Talks teams in the different sports played at Henry County High School.