Signal Mountain wins in OT, joins Tyner in Region 3-AA final
Wil Allen celebrated his 17th birthday Tuesday at Red Bank, and a whole bunch of his schoolmates from Signal Mountain celebrated with him.

Wil Allen celebrated his 17th birthday Tuesday at Red Bank, and a whole bunch of his schoolmates from Signal Mountain celebrated with him.

Cookeville boys' basketball coach Kevin Bray said after Saturday's Region 3-AAA quarterfinal at Cleveland that coming into the game he wasn't sure that if his team played great if it would be good enough to win. He now knows the answer to that question.

East Hamilton girls use good start to set up win

If the Cleveland boys learned anything in the last couple of weeks of this high school basketball season, it's how to put a bad loss behind them quickly. Fellow District 5-AAA member Walker Valley now hopes to do the same thing.

LaFAYETTE, Ga. - Amid raucous surroundings Thursday inside his team's gymnasium, LaFayette boys' basketball coach Hank Peppers said he kept preaching the same message to his players during each timeout down the stretch in his team's second-round game in the GHSA state tournament.

Notre Dame's boys did enough in the recent postseason to gain a home game Wednesday in the state tournament, but their reward was hosting the No. 4-ranked team in the Associated Press Division II state poll.

The weather may have been unusually warm for February, but inside Walker Valley's gymnasium Tuesday night there definitely were some flurries. They were of the scoring variety, and all provided by Cleveland's Blue Raiders.
Bradley Central's Rhyne Howard could not have beaten East Hamilton by herself Monday night. She needed someone to inbound the ball to her.

Red Bank's girls found themselves defending several four-on-three situations in the second half of their District 6-AA high school basketball tournament semifinal Saturday at Howard - just like they liked it.

As a quarterback who threw for more than 3,000 yards during football season, Walker Valley's Kolten Gibson knows a good pass when he delivers one. And he delivered a key one in the Mustangs' District 5-AAA high school basketball semifinal Saturday at Walker Valley.
