After arriving home to Ringgold early Tuesday evening following a GHSA baseball second-round playoff two-day doubleheader sweep of Hampton, Heritage High School coach Eric Beagles was relieved to somehow beat the weather and the opponent at the same time.
It's said experience is the best teacher, an adage Cody Thomas put to good use in the past six months during a difficult time.
The football championship pedigree at Coahulla Creek High School just increased.
As his Gordon Lee High School baseball team edged closer to another region championship, Mike Dunfee reiterated the ultimate goal for the Trojans has become much higher.
The national pastime is facing a national crisis, the ramifications of which are already being felt in the greater Chattanooga area.
Todd Middleton admits he's not the type to look too far ahead. So when asked following Tuesday's 6-2 Region 7-AAAA win over Heritage about where his Northwest Whitfield High School baseball team stands with just over two weeks remaining in the regular season, the veteran coach hedged his answer a bit.
It's the time of the prep baseball season when Mike Dunfee usually begins to fine-tune his Gordon Lee High School team for another long postseason run.
There's a saying in football, one popular among coaches, that "Iron Sharpens Iron." In other words, the better the competition faced the better a team or individual may become.
The negative impact on high school athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented.
The start of a new baseball season, or any sports season for that matter, is a time for optimism. Atlanta Braves fans have every reason to feel all shiny as the 2021 season begins. After all, the team is coming off three consecutive National League East titles and has, by nearly every expert analysis, the best of its Brian Snitker-managed squads.
