Tennessee High School Sports News

Rainey Gaffin hit a walk-off triple in the bottom of the 11th inning Saturday as the Tennessee softball team reached the finals of the NCAA Knoxville Regional with a 1-0 victory over N.C. State.

Katelyn McEvoy of Franklin, a senior at Ensworth High School, has been selected as a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar, as announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

The East Hamilton boys soccer team punched their ticket to the Class A/AA state tournament in Murfreesboro next week for the second time in school history.

East Hamilton pitcher Maria Walshe already knew she would have to face Bledsoe County in Saturday's Class AA sectional game with an aching back.

The rain was sporadic Saturday afternoon during the Christian Academy of Knoxville boys' soccer game against visiting University School of Johnson City, but the Warrior scoring was quite steady.

All the Farragut High School soccer team needed for motivation Saturday was to check a result from earlier in the season.

The Father Ryan Lady Irish softball team never really had much of a chance against two-time defending state champion Baylor on Friday afternoon.

While the JCHS Varsity baseball team had a rough start and an even rougher finish to their season this year, the Longhorns had a hidden gem in their Junior Varsity, who did exceptionally well and performed far above the expectations set for them.

After a strong showing at conference, the JCHS track and field program continued their impressive season by sending nearly half the team on to sub-sectionals in Greeneville last week.

Sectional play, disrupted statewide Friday by the latest wave of storms, means action starts early Saturday and continues all day as the Spring Fling field fills out.

The season came to an abrupt end for Cosby High School's softball team on Friday evening.

In posting one of the best season's in school history, the Ooltewah boys tennis team came up one win short of advancing to the BlueCross Spring Fling XX state tournament.

Ooltewah senior Bryson Lype is doing just that as he has led the Owls to district and region team tennis titles this spring and due to a region title he has a place in the state singles tournament next Thursday in Murfreesboro at BlueCross Spring Fling XX.

Lynchburg third baseman Kyle Kubitza was having the kind of month that makes careers go away.

I don't have a pacemaker. I have no idea what one does, other than fire electrical impulses into your heart, to provide a steady heartbeat.

Riverdale defeated Tullahoma, 2-1, for the Region 4-AAA championship on Wednesday while Ooltewah lost to Cookeville, 11-9, in the Region 3-AAA title game on the Owls' home field.

The attraction first announced that it would not have military day this year on Memorial Day because of the opening of its new water park called SoakYa.

For the third time this season, the CCS and Notre Dame soccer teams met on the soccer field Thursday night.

A 21-year-old man wound up shot when he tried to get away from two Huckabee Bonding Company agents from Chattanooga in an incident in Trenton, Ga., the Discover Dade website reported.

Led by Univ. of Tennessee signee Ashlee Boles, Region 4 champion defeated host Region 3 champ Soddy Daisy, 4-1, in a Girls AAA Sectional match Thursday at the Middle Valley Courts.