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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 ...

he Governors were spoiling for one of the early season’s biggest upsets a year ago, leading the Bulldogs, 10-0, at the half. Super-quick Bearden back Devrin Young, who’s been offered by Stanford, was held to less than 100 yards rushing, ...

Maryville’s Rebels opened last season’s meeting with a 15-play, eight-minute statement drive and never looked back in rolling to a 38-17 rout of West. Maryville limited West to a field goal through three quarters and yielded only 59 yards of ...

The Tornadoes were coming off a win over Maryville a year ago heading into this one, and it showed. The Redskins trailed, 7-0, at the half and remained close until Alcoa opened some breathing room with two third quarter touchdowns ...

So much for easing your way into the season. The Maryville College football team opens the 2010 season at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, and the Scots couldn’t have picked a more explosive opponent to begin the new campaign. ...

The Mountaineers blew out the Panthers, 31-3, last season in Lenoir City. The story of the game was defense. While the offense struggled for a half, Heritage trailing, 3-0, at the break, end Evan Brown and the defense kept the ...

Fellow eighth-graders Ashland Cooper and Kasi Knight made Union Grove Middle School history this week with a pair of back-to-back home runs in an 11-1 win over Alcoa.

It’s easy to forget it was 27-24 Alcoa with less than a minute to play in the third quarter. Maryville didn’t have the ball very much in what became a 41-24 loss to the Tornadoes last season at Goddard Field, ...

After a turnover, the Mountaineer defense withstood a Cherokee drive that began first-and-goal at the Heritage 7-yard line with seven minutes remaining in Week 1 last season. South-Doyle would net 2 yards in four snaps in a 26-19 Mountaineer win. ...

The Governors won in a thriller a year ago, getting a two-point conversion run after a touchdown with four seconds remaining to extract a 35-34 win. It was 14-14 at the half on a night William Blount passed for 192 ...

Anyone familiar with Tony Ierulli is aware the Maryville College football coach knows a thing or two about being tough. The Fighting Scots weren’t even in full pads yet, and Ierulli’s voice was already getting hoarse on Monday. His toughness, ...

You saw it in Rommel Hightower’s declining numbers. You saw it in the injuries to quarterbacks. Maryville College needed a bigger line. “It all starts up front,” sophomore Lane Dodson said. “If we can’t move the (opposing) linemen, if we ...

“The Six Million Dollar Man” went to high school there. Harvey Lee Yeary, a.k.a. actor Lee Majors, was a pretty good football player for the Middlesboro Yellow Jackets back in the 1950s. The future Col. Steve Austin was talented enough ...

The Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference championship could prove a close-run thing this season. Member teams made their 2010 debut at the Blount County Middle School Jamboree last Saturday morning at Heritage High School. The defending champion Maryville Middle Bulldogs got ...

The Maryville Elite Level 5 Young Champions Cheerleading team traveled to South Haven, Miss., to compete in the Young Champions National Cheer Competition on July 31. The National Cheer competition is an end-of-the-year event with the purpose of crowning champions ...