Basketball

Alex Breazeale has developed into one of the region’s top, clutch shooters this season. What we didn’t know until Monday was just how tough the Maryville High School junior has become. Sophomore Miranda Maples erupted for a game-high 29 points, ...

It has become a theme. Intent on stopping Torie Vaught from going wild inside, a Maryville opponent opens the game in a zone. Guards Alex Breazeale, Rebekah Singleton and Carrie Goodson shoot the opposition out of said zone. Vaught takes ...

Tré Tate was doing it with feeling Tuesday night. The Alcoa High School sophomore continued one of the great, late-season success stories in some time as the Tornadoes stunned host and No. 8-ranked Stone Memorial, 81-78 in overtime in the ...

No Maryville College men’s team had ever lost to Piedmont. Ever. To make sure Maryville really felt it, the Lady Lions made it a clean sweep three weeks ago in Demorest, Ga., Piedmont taking both halves of a Great South ...

District player of the year, two wins from a school record, regular-season district championship, district co-coach of the year. It would be easy to assume Maryville’s Lady Rebels are simply planning a coronation at this week’s District 4AAA basketball tournament ...

It’s been a good week for Maryville’s Lady Rebels. It’s been a super one for junior Torie Vaught. Finishing off a stretch that saw the Lady Rebels play five games in seven days and win them all, Vaught visited a ...

What more could Maryville College senior Greg Hernandez ask for while averaging 28 minutes per game, leading the team in points and rebounds and reaching the 1000-point mark, becoming only the 15th Scot in school history to do so? How ...

Catholic is reeling now. Intent on finishing the Irish before they can gather themselves, Tracy Hardiman pushes the ball hard down the right side on the break. Three Catholic defenders, including one at Hardiman’s left shoulder, are coming fast. Just ...

If they’re still playing basketball 100 years from now, defense will still win the big ones. Emily Herron’s baseline jumper pulled Union Grove within a single point with four minutes remaining in the championship game of the Blount County Middle ...

There was more than bragging rights on the line when Maryville visited William Blount’s Marvin Boring Gymnasium last Friday. The Governors and Rebels are both looking to avoid the Day 1 knockout round at next month’s district tournament, and there’s ...

Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle were this good together. Then the money got in the way. It’ll be a while yet before we know if Maryville is Destiny’s new team, but Torie Vaught, Miranda Maples and Kylie Whaley had the Lady ...

Just as Maryville is getting healthy, Alcoa has been dealt another setback. The Rebels welcomed back Stian Romberg last week, the junior swingman cleared to play for the first time season after injuring the thumb on his shooting hand during ...

The Maryville College men’s basketball team has displayed a real affinity for sharing the wealth this season. The Scots enter Saturday’s Great South Athletic Conference game with Huntingdon College at Boydson Baird Gymnasium leading the nation in assists per game ...

When Huntingdon visits Boydson Baird Gymnasium this weekend for a Great South matchup on Saturday, the Lady Hawks will try to match baskets with one of the nation’s highest scoring teams.

Only a handful of high school basketball players will score 1,000 points before they’re done. Fewer still will reach that milestone on a night so bittersweet. William Blount senior Micah Ballard was honored for eclipsing 1,000 prior to Tuesday night’s ...