High School Sports

Rob Daugherty is a man with all the bases covered. During the day, his son, Grant, is a student in his chemistry class at Alcoa High School. After school, the father and son pairing head to the golf course, where ...

It began innocently enough with a phone call, a professional baseball scout working his sources looking for talent. The end result is a summer Heritage High School sophomore Trevor Clifton won’t soon forget, one that has the Mountaineer right-hander now ...

David Allen and Ken Hawkins have talked about this for three seasons now. It’s no longer just talk. Maryville High School athletics director George Quarles announced on Tuesday that Allen has been named the school’s new softball coach, replacing Hawkins, ...

The force is strong with the young one. The jump pass-style, two-handed backhand, just the thing for doing battle with a heavy, top-spin serve, is real Jedi stuff. Yusuke Yodono doesn’t walk from place to place between points; he bounds. ...

It took the Alcoa High School boys soccer team 20 years to reach the state tournament for the first time last season. It’s going to take at least another year for the Tornadoes to bring home that first title. One ...

Freshman Tiffanie More got Alcoa even with a daring piece of base running in the home half of the seventh. An inning later, senior Lara Nuchols finished the rally with a drive to right center, scoring Abigail Walker from third, ...

Erica Tuck ended one of the most remarkable streaks you’ll ever come across Tuesday afternoon. The William Blount High School junior retired Maryville’s Bry Blanco by strikeout the latter’s first time up in a District 4AAA tournament winner’s bracket final ...

Mark Dowlen was disappointed — but far from discouraged — after the Heritage High School softball team was eliminated from the District 4AAA tournament with a 6-1 loss to Farragut on Tuesday. “Give us a couple of years,” the Lady ...

Dr. John Reisser is as cool a customer as you’ll find. When his daughter, Ashley, was badly injured in an automobile accident on an iced-over road in January, the Maryville physician knew without thinking where to find the best doctors, ...

You could see it in her eyes and the way she smiled. It was a story JoEllen Moore had long wanted to tell. Moore’s son, Caleb, was 6 when his father, Mike, died of a heart attack in 1998. It ...

And now the postseason. There’s little the William Blount High School softball team didn’t achieve during its run to the District 4AAA regular season championship this spring. Junior Erica Tuck became the league’s top ace. The Lady Governors (26-8) achieved ...

Tyler Lee didn’t take up tennis until high school, but the Alcoa senior is sure a fast learner. Lee committed recently to continue his tennis career at Ferrum College in Ferrum, Va., next season.

Kylie Whaley played three sports at Maryville High School and played each of them well. It’s on the volleyball court where the 6-foot middle blocker did her best work, Whaley signing a National Letter of Intent with Milligan College recently ...

Heritage High School ace Miranda Hurst signed a National Letter of Intent recently to continue her softball career at Cleveland State Community College next season. Hurst posted 3.51 earned run average and hit .294 at the plate for the Lady ...

Here’s something to think about. Maryville High School senior Clint McKelvey won the 3200 meters at the Blount County Track and Field Championships on Tuesday at William Blount in a time of 10 minutes, 4 seconds, finishing more than a ...