With Tennessee Tech attempting to hold on to a late lead Saturday against Southeast Missouri, sophomore point guard Jr. Clay grabbed a rebound, turned and fired a full-court baseball pass.

Seldom are basketball state quarterfinals decided in the first quarter, but Wednesday night at Ringgold's David Moss Gymnasium was one of those rare occasions.

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Bradley Central junior Mason Rothwell is always the player his teammates pick to make three straight free throws in order to end practice and go home.

Thanks to the peace the team has discovered through yoga, Tyner's boys' basketball team was able to add another piece of hardware.

If the LaFayette Ramblers had their choice, there would have been no halftime during their GHSA Class AAAA boys' quarterfinal game Tuesday against Cross Creek.

Looking for stability in the program, Dade County High School has promoted longtime assistant Jeff Poston to head football coach.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Bradley Central girls' basketball coach Jason Reuter has won every District 5-AAA championship since he took over the reins of the historic program.

A team that never needs a reason to run finally had good reason to apply the brakes. After taking a comfortable double-digit lead in the first half, Lookout Valley let its fast pace lead to mistakes, turnovers and an 11-2 Arts & Sciences run in the third quarter.

Baylor senior wrestler Noah Horst blew kisses to the crowd in the Williamson County Ag Expo Center with four fingers raised.

With very little drama, the higher-seeded teams held serve throughout Saturday's District 6-AA basketball tournament semifinals at Signal Mountain.

No one has to remind Baylor wrestling coach Ben Nelson what the final day of the TSSAA state traditional tournament will be like, but he made sure his Red Raiders understood what will be at stake Saturday in Franklin.

Playing as if their basketball season was on the line — because it was — the GPS Bruisers took rival Baylor to the wire before falling short Friday.

Justin Brown has spent two-thirds of his life in Trion, so his recent decision to resign as Trion High School's head football coach to explore new opportunities wasn't an easy one to make.

To little surprise, the TSSAA Class AAA state traditional tournament opened Thursday night in Franklin with wrestlers from Cleveland and Bradley Central leading the way.

The road to the TSSAA final four in Division II-A will be much tougher now for Silverdale Baptist Academy's Lady Seahawks and the Boyd Buchanan Buccaneers.

If history has taught high school basketball fans in Georgia anything, it's that boys' teams from the northwest corner of the Peach State rarely make it past the second round of the GHSA playoffs. That is especially true in the upper classifications, where Atlanta-area powerhouses usually dominate on a yearly basis.

The Chattanooga area made a splash during the 2020 college football recruiting cycle with a pair of top-100 national signees: Dalton running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who wound up with Georgia Tech, and McCallie defensive end Jay Hardy, who selected Auburn.

Bill Cherry, the former longtime athletic director of McCallie School, died early Thursday morning. He was 78.

Deleon Petty was crucial to keeping the Ooltewah boys' basketball team's season alive during Wednesday's play-in game in the District 5-AAA tournament at Walker Valley.

The Prep Players Spotlight is a weekly feature of the Times Free Press that highlights five area high school athletes whose performances since the previous Thursday stood out.

Built to be a defensive enforcer at middle linebacker, Noah Martin might not be the flashiest basketball player, but his energy remains top-notch on the hardwood.

The Christian Academy of Knoxville's Warriors held off Notre Dame's Lady Irish in a Division II-A postseason elimination game Monday night, 42-39.