Youth sports

If they’re still playing basketball 100 years from now, defense will still win the big ones. Emily Herron’s baseline jumper pulled Union Grove within a single point with four minutes remaining in the championship game of the Blount County Middle ...

On one second quarter burst, tiny Alcoa Elementary guard Riley Hicks blocked a Madisonville shot, recovered the ball along the baseline, pushed the ball up the court on the break, then fed the ball inside for the tying basket with ...

Don Sentell has been coaching youth football in Blount County for 44 years. It blew him away. “Oh, gosh!” he said. “Unreal. Unreal. Probably the worst I’ve ever seen.” A cold, grey, soaking rain drenched Blount County for seven hours ...

The Maryville Middle Bulldogs made history this season, becoming the school’s first team to complete a 10-0 season. The Bulldogs punctuated the run with a Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference championship at season’s end. Five Maryville players were named to this ...

Carpenters ran the table, finishing 12-0 en route to the Blount County championship. The Lady Cougars are duly represented with four players on this season’s All-Blount County Middle School Softball Team, but there are several others to keep an eye ...

These kids are going to make a lot of noise on the high school level one day soon. The Carpenters Middle School softball team capped an undefeated season in grand style recently, polishing off their Loudon counterparts, 20-12, to win ...