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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 ...

Eighteen intrepid souls affiliated with Maryville College headed south for Spring Break last week, but the destination definitely wasn’t Margaritaville. A collection of students, professors and administrators planned to spend the week cycling across Georgia. The trip is led by ...

Maryville’s first trip to the state tournament since the turn of the millennium will have to wait at least another year. Morristown West hands were everywhere in the opening minutes, the Lady Trojans pulling away from the Lady Rebels with ...

Megan Willis and Cat Osterman were one of college softball’s most dominating batteries the middle part of last decade. Osterman tossed 20 no-hitters and 10 perfect games in a University of Texas career that rewrote the record books. Willis, the ...

The Maryville College baseball team is off to a start that shows a lot of what the Scots have to offer for the 2010 campaign. Maryville showed off its hitting ability in a weekend sweep that saw the Scots rake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Maryville College baseball team looks to climb above .500 on the young season when it hosts arch-rival Sewanee on Thursday at Scotland Yard at 4 p.m. The Scots (4-4), the defending Great South Athletic Conference champions, are powered, in ...

The Maryville College men’s and women’s basketball teams begin play in the Great South Athletic Conference tournament at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. The top-seed Lady Scots will meet the Agnes Scott/Spelman winner in a women’s semifinal on Friday ...

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 ...

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 ...