MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Union City Mr. Basketball finalist M.J. Brown made four free throws in the fianl eight seconds and finished with 19 points to lead the top-ranked Tornadoes to a 59-55 win over Tennessee Temple in the Class A state tournament.
Union City (35-0) scored the game's first 11 points, but the Crusaders rallied and took a short-lived lead early in the fourth quarter. Junior Jeremy Sexton led all scorers with 30 points and nine rebounds for Temple (23-10).
For more on this story, read Thursday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press Sports section.
Stephen has covered high school sports in the tri-state area since the early 1990s, starting at the News-Free Press as a 19-year-old reporter. He has been with the Times Free Press since its inception and has been an assistant sports editor for more than seven years. Stephen is among the most decorated writers in the TFP’s newsroom, winning numerous state and regional awards for his writing on high school athletics. He has two children, Riley ...
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