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The latest Central coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Prep section.
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Chattanooga area high school standouts for April 2
• Jacob Maynard, Bradley Central: He had a home run and a triple and drove in three runs as the Bears edged McMinn County in baseball, 3-2.

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Central’s Lady Purple Pounders win Silver bracket
In a roundabout way, Central's Lady Purple Pounders can claim they were third-best over the weekend among the 16 teams in Soddy-Daisy's 23rd Lady Trojan Classic high school softball tournament at Soddy Lake Kids' Park.

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High school standouts for March 29
* Blake Layne, Baylor: He went 4-for-4 with two doubles and scored two runs in the Red Raiders' 8-3 baseball win at Montgomery Bell Academy.

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Pounders receive pounding
Colton Morgan had his moments Thursday evening, but there were way more for the pitching ace and his Central teammates to forget than to remember.

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Chattanooga area high school standouts for March 26
• B.J. Rowland, Thomas Delay, Dalton: They won at No. 1 doubles, 6-1 in the first set, but the Catamounts lost 3-2 in Georgia boys' tennis to Alpharetta's River Ridge.

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Lady Trojan Invitational softball tournament smaller this year
At Soddy Lake Kids' Park

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Chattanooga area high school standouts for March 22
• Jack Bosworth, Chattanooga Christian: He doubled twice and had two RBIs as the Chargers defeated Lookout Valley 11-1 in a five-inning baseball game.

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Lookout Valley helps Red Bank track
Coaches don't always welcome letters from the TSSAA, but the one Red Bank track coach Hugh Enicks got recently has opened the door for some unexpected help. Because Lookout Valley didn't have enough interest to field a complete track team, the athletes from that school who did want to compete were cleared by the TSSAA to co-op with the Red Bank program.

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Central softball holds off GPS
Central pitcher Chasidy Ainslie began to falter a little in the late stages of Wednesday's high school softball game at GPS. After limiting GPS to two hits and no runs through four innings, she gave up five hits over the last three innings, including LeeAnn Jackson's drive over the center-field fence in the sixth.

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Chattanooga Christian grabs baseball tourney win
NOTE: This is the start of a weekly Thursday notebook on Tennessee high school baseball.
