High School Sports

Bry Blanco did something you don’t hear about very often last year. The Maryville High School junior went the entire regular season without being retired once by strikeout. The highly-touted national prospect would fan only twice in the ensuing district ...

It’s a sweep. Alcoa High School junior Grant Daugherty made up a three-stroke deficit after a day to roar through to a convincing victory at the Class A/AA State Golf Championships last Wednesday at WillowBrook Golf Club in Manchester. Shooting ...

School spirit can be contagious. Blount Today High School Pep Rallys on the Patio are proof of that. The first pep rally was held Sept. 9 at Aubrey’s and featured Heritage High School. The second pep rally will be Thursday, ...

Alcoa High School junior Grant Daugherty made up a three-stroke, first-round deficit to win the Class A/AA state golf tournament on Wednesday at WillowBrook Golf Club Manchester.

Just prior to the start of her senior season, Maryville High School’s Torie Vaught has made a verbal commitment to play basketball for Belmont University in Nashville. A 6-foot post player, Vaught averaged 14 points and eight rebounds per game ...

For more than a decade in District 4AAA volleyball, it’s been Farragut - and everybody else. The Lady Admirals have won nine of the 10 regular-season district titles since 2000, eight of the 10 district tournament crowns. Farragut has produced ...

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, ...