The relentlessness of Gate City’s Luke Reed helped the sophomore earn this week’s top honor for Southwest Virginia.
The Dobyns-Bennett volleyball team survived a tough first day at the TSSAA Class AAA tournament by outlasting Station Camp in four sets in an elimination match Tuesday night.
After falling to defending state champion Portland earlier Tuesday in its TSSAA Class AA tournament opener, Sullivan South bounced back with a 25-10, 25-17, 27-25 victory over Chester County in an elimination match.
The Dobyns-Bennett Lady Indians opened the Class AAA state volleyball tournament Tuesday morning against the defending state champion Brentwood Lady Bruins. Brentwood defeated the Tribe, 3-0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-17). The Lady Indians (37-4) will now
Union, which has already clinched the district’s No. 1 seed for the Region 2D tournament, can clinch at least a share of the Mountain 7 title with a win over John Battle on Thursday.
The J.I. Burton Hall of Fame Class of 2018 includes the former voice of the Raiders for over two decades, the leader of the football chain gang for over four decades and solid athletes from several decades.
“First and foremost, they’re all graduates and that’s the most important thing. They didn’t let basketball use them. They used basketball to get a great education at East Tennessee State. Then they get the honor of making money doing something they love.”
The Sullivan South Lady Rebels jumped out early and battled defending state champion Portland toe-to-toe in the opening set before falling 3-0 (25-23, 25-14, 25-13) in the opening round of the Class AA state volleyball tournament Tuesday afternoon
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Kody Lewis turned in one of the best all-around performances in the history of Northeast Tennessee high school football, torching West Greene for 396 yards and four TDs.
Since David Crockett and Daniel Boone opened in 1971, these teams have never met in a more meaningful game than the one that will take place Friday night in Jonesborough.
The TSSAA volleyball tournaments begin Tuesday in Murfreesboro, and both Dobyns-Bennett and Sullivan South are hoping to be holding up a championship trophy on Thursday evening.
Wofford looked like the class of the league until losing 34-14 to Furman last weekend. While that defeat slowed the Terriers’ momentum, they’re still ranked 12th in the country.
Shiso Go’s dramatic up-and-down par on the 18th hole Sunday cemented ETSU’s first victory in the 21-year history of the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate.
Aric Almirola capped an absolute Stewart-Haas Racing rout at Talladega Superspeedway with an overtime victory that earned him an automatic berth into the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs.
