MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Like the two before it, the GPS softball class of 2009 will be remembered as one that went out on top.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — St. Benedict at Auburndale made an early uprising stand throughout the rest of the game and forced a second championship game today.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Bill Matthews wasn’t so much worried about the rest of the field as he was his own body.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The sister connection was highly evident Friday at the Middle Tennessee State tennis courts. Arts & Sciences twins Ahmee and Kayla Kelly got to experience the joy of winning a state tennis championship side by side, as sisters and doubles partners.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Although he is just days from concluding his junior year at Ooltewah High School, Jacques Smith knew Friday was the final track competition of his high school career.

CLASS AAA

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Science Hill High School’s Chris Smith, the 2009 Class AAA state singles champion, recently decided to take his tennis skills to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Boyd-Buchanan’s Tarah Garner and St. Andrew’s-Sewanee’s Sadie Shackelford successfully defended their state tennis singles championships Friday. Garner won the Class A/AA title again, defeating University School of Jackson’s Madison Patey 6-1, 6-3, and Shackelford edged her sister Avery 6-4, 6-4 for her second consecutive Division II-A title.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The buzz began working its way through the spectators early in the evening, just before the sun had set behind the Dean Hayes track stadium at Middle Tennessee State University.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Arts & Sciences had never advanced to a state championship doubles match in tennis, but Ahmee and Kayla Kelly felt the need to change that.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A little inspiration almost went a long way for Andy Driggans and Will Reynolds.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — On a field where dreams are made, the Cleveland soccer Blue Raiders saw theirs shattered Thursday night.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Marjorie Butler smiled at the question, then sheepishly confirmed the rumor.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Baylor’s softball season came to an end Thursday night in the losers-bracket final of the Division II-AA state high school softball tournament at Starplex No. 3.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — GPS is in position to win its third consecutive high school softball state championship.