Baylor's girls moved from No. 3 to No. 2 in the Associated Press TSSAA Divison II girls' basketball poll released Monday.
The Lady Red Raiders defeated Class AAA program Bradley Central and fellow East/Middle Region member Father Ryan last week to improve to 12-1. Last week's top-rated Knoxville Webb had a loss to unranked Class AA Alcoa among its three games since the last poll was released and fell to third.
Brentwood Academy moved from second into the No. 1 spot. The first of two scheduled meetings between the Lady Raiders and Lady Eagles is Jan. 20 at Brentwood Academy.
In the boys' listings, previously unbeaten McCallie (17-2) fell from the top spot in Division II to third after a week that included losses to East/Middle Region opponent and eighth-ranked Montgomery Bell Academy and non-TSSAA member Hamilton Heights. The Blue Tornado rebounded Saturday with a victory over District 6-AA-leading Brainerd.
No teams in the Chattanooga area are ranked in any of the Division I top 10s, but Meigs County is the first team listed among the Class A boys' teams receiving 12 or more points in the voting.
'Meet Cummings'
A "meet the coach" night is scheduled Thursday at Cleveland High School's library to give the community a chance to meet new football coach Scott Cummings.
The event, sponsored by the Cleveland High quarterback club, is scheduled for 6-7 p.m. Further information can be obtained by emailing Blue Raiders athletic director Eric Phillips at ephillips@clevelandschools.org.
Cummings is scheduled to begin work at the school in February.
Bradley takes Fandetti
Bradley Central won Science Hill's Fandetti-Richardson Brawl this past weekend in Johnson City, Tenn. The Bears scored 268 points to 180 for runner-up Christian Brothers and 155 for third-place Pigeon Forge.
Twelve of the Bears got in the medals, including champions T.J. Hicks (106), Toribio Navarro (113), Knox Fuller (126) and Brett Brown (182).
Their runners-up were Ryan McElhaney (120), Stephen Scott (138) and Stephen Scott (138). Other medals went to Josh LaCoe 4th/132), Donnie Beyer (5th/145), Caleb Adkins (5th/152), Clay Bandy (5th/160) and D.J. Adams (3rd/285).
Cleveland runner-up
Cleveland finished second to Union County, Ky., in the G.P. West Invitational at Brentwood over the weekend. The Blue Raiders had 233 points, 49 points behind the winners. Soddy-Daisy placed a distant third with 156 points, and McCallie was fifth with 144.
The Blue Raiders had four champions: Chris Debien (132), Ezra Taylor (145), John Gaither (220) and Koran Kennedy (285). Aaron Oliver (160) placed second, Cody Matthews (106) and Jonathon Martin (170) fourth and Tristan Blansit (126) and Seth Garcia (182) fifth.
From Soddy-Daisy, Jacob McClure was second (126), Charles Wheaton (132), Austin Houser (132) and John Williamson (170) were third, Chase Payne (120) was fourth and Tucker Russo (145) was sixth.
McCallie medalists were third-place finisher Jay Roberts (220), fourth-place finishers Sam Harrelson (145), Anders Heald (152) and River Henry (285) and fifth-place Brock Herring (132) and Mac Patton (138).
Hixson third at Ryan
In its first trip to Nashville for the Father Ryan Invitational, Hixson finished third behind the host Purple Irish and Montgomery Bell Academy.
Wildcats junior Landon Goforth won the 145-pound weight class along with the tournament's outstanding wrestler award for the lower weights.
The Wildcats also had three second-place medalists in Dylan Bargerstock (195), Chris Nicholson (170) and Brody Gregory (285). Isaac Yates (126) and Truman Ross (220) took thirds, Jacob Newman (106) was fourth and Cederick Harris (132) was fifth.
Hixson has a major district dual meet at home against Red Bank tonight.