Tennessee High School Football News

Alfred Dickson stops Tony Jefferson here, but the Whitehaven running back ran wild all game long Friday, gaining 256 yards.

The frustration of losing their sixth consecutive playoff game hit home hard as the Manassas Tigers gathered in the end zone following a hard-to-swallow, 28-27, defeat to Martin Westview Friday night at Booker T. Washington.

CLARKSVILLE - Last week anything that could go wrong did for the Gallatin High School football team .

HENDERSONVILLE -- Quarterback Jarod Neal doesn't get a lot of opportunities to throw in the Beech High School run-oriented offense.

Riverdale returned to the playoffs with a bang Friday night. The sixth-ranked Warriors steam-rolled Coffee County 48-0 in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs after a one-year hiatus from the postseason.

DeShawn Smith's four-yard touchdown run in the first quarter tied the score 7-7, as Blackman remains in a battle with McGavock at halftime tonight at the Inferno.

HENDERSONVILLE - Jamaar Embry pointed to the sky and held the game- winning touchdown catch tightly after Northeast captured a 27-24 triple-overtime win over Hendersonville Friday night in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs.

CHARLOTTE - After nine straight wins, Creek Wood High's season came to an end at home Friday night as the Red Hawks were edged out in the first round of the 4A playoffs by Page 33-30. Markelse Lockridge scored two touchdowns in the fourth, three in the game, to put Page in next week's second round.

Only a freshman logging mop-up minutes during Fulton High School's 2007 run to a state runner-up finish, the 6-foot-2, 200-pound Pitchford is playing a major role nowadays.

If anything, confidence is on Happy Valley's side tonight. The underdog Warriors face a stern test when they meet No.

A home invasion ended with one man dead and another in custody in Castalian Springs on Thursday night.

Tennessee's new high school football playoff system at times seemed to create more questions than answers once the brackets were announced last weekend.

Cloudland will attempt to end a five game losing streak to Hampton tonight at Orr Field as well as vindicate a season that has not lived up to pre-season expectations.

Bartlett Panthers High School Running Back Willie Matthews enters Friday's Class 5-A Playoff Game against Melrose H.S. 11 yards shy of becoming the School's all-time leading rusher.

It's hard to argue against where the state's superior pockets for prep football are located; Knoxville and Murfreesboro.

This was not what the TSSAA had in mind... Their new football playoff brackets were released on Saturday morning, only to be pulled from their website after errors were discovered.

Heath Dyer had the game of his life Friday night at Fleming Field, as the senior closed out his high school football career at Clarksville Academy with a hand in all six touchdowns.

Oddities are nothing new during the Halloween season and Friday night's Greenback home loss to Grace Christian kept in the odd spirit of Halloween.

Saturday morning proved a kill joy for high school football coaches, players and fans who had waited weeks for the TSSAA to release first-round pairings for its new playoff system.

SAVANNAH - In a game with very little give, Hardin County took a 6-0 three overtime District 13-AAA win over North Side Friday at rain-swept Jim Carroll Stadium.