High School Sports

The moment wasn’t lost on Larry Fowler. “Six years ago, could you have imagined this?” the Alcoa assistant coach asked. In a word: No. Six years ago, Goddard Field would have needed some new nets afterward. Six years ago, Bearden ...

The right guy hit the shot. For much of the opening half, Gatlinburg-Pittman had put on a clinic. The Highlanders opened the Region 2AA quarterfinal last Saturday at Alcoa on a 9-0 run. The lead ballooned to 15 before Alcoa ...

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 ...

The Blount County Baseball Jamboree is scheduled for Saturday at William Blount. First pitch for the season tune up for area high school teams is at 10 a.m., when the Alcoa and Heritage junior varsity teams get things started.

The Heritage Girls Spring Basketball Camp is scheduled for March 15-17 at the high school gymnasium. The camp is open to girls first through eighth grade. The camp will emphasize good sportsmanship and fundamental basketball skills, including individual and team ...

The meteor that hit the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago is the first thing that comes to mind. Bradley Central, Cleveland and Walker Valley hit the Region 3 wrestling tournament last weekend at Alcoa High School with genuinely terrific ...

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 ...

After a couple of games, you knew what Alcoa was going to do. Everybody knew. Didn’t make any difference.

When the Maryville High School football began the season, only two offensive linemen were back from the previous year’s Class 4A state finalist. One of the two was senior Tevin Owsley, and, on national signing day last week, the Rebel ...

On a Maryville High School girls’ soccer team that started as many as seven freshman on occasion this past season, senior Caitlyn Templeton was part of a core group of upper classmen that held it all together. The Lincoln Memorial ...

Bethel University is really taking a liking to Maryville High School offensive linemen.

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 ...

Once again, word is the former Tornado will never play the position in college for which he won much of his fame in high school. Tyler Robinson isn’t buying it.

Philip Juhlin is one of the fastest quarterbacks to ever play the position at Maryville. He’s even better with his arm. For that reason, Carson-Newman is getting a field general like few the school has ever seen. Juhlin signed a ...