Brittany Hoffman's perfectly placed shot provided the perfect ending to a near-perfect season.

Brittany Hoffman scored both goals, the difference-maker coming with 1:44 to play, and Christian Academy of Knoxville defeated Notre Dame 2-1 in the Class A/AA girls' high school soccer final Saturday afternoon at GPS.

In what many may have projected to be at least a quarterfinal matchup, Farragut defeated host Ooltewah 24-7 on Friday in a first-round game in the Class 6A high school football state playoffs.

Usually when athletic teams are placed in a playoff bracket, those that win and move on tend to face tougher competition next time out.

Soddy-Daisy and Riverdale have now played twice this season in girls' soccer. Soddy-Daisy won the season opener. Riverdale's Lady Warriors won the Lady Trojans' season-ender.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The Bucs stopped here, and that's right atop the TSSAA Class A volleyball world.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Records will show the second time Boyd-Buchanan and Red Bank each advanced to a TSSAA state volleyball final, the outcome came out right.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Second-year program Signal Mountain qualified a team with no seniors for the Class A state high school volleyball tournament and ended up with a third-place finish.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The largest family within the Red Bank volleyball family had a lot to be happy about Friday.

Red Bank won its first state volleyball championship by beating Page 3-1 in the Class AA final Friday at Middle Tennessee State University

Lady Bucs roll to crown

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- If Red Bank makes it to the championship match in the Class AA high school volleyball state tournament, it will have done it the hard way.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Boyd-Buchanan hasn't lost a game to its region rival Signal Mountain, but the Lady Eagles are making the task increasingly tougher.

Boyd-Buchanan defeated Signal Mountain 3-0 in the winners-bracket final of the Class A high school state volleyball tournament at Middle Tennessee State University.

Boyd-Buchanan returning to the high school volleyball state tournament has a great deal to do with the players it returned from last season. What's unusual is that most have returned to different positions.

Football is a complex game, but sometimes simplifying things is the best approach. It seemed to have worked for Brainerd this past week, and the Panthers responded with a 42-14 victory over Hixson in a District 6-AA high school football game at Brainerd.

Last year Ooltewah's volleyball season ended earlier than the Lady Owls wanted, so Libby Peigen came into her senior season with a strong desire to have her team back in the high school state tournament. Thursday, when it counted, she played like it.

Being familiar with its district rival, Chattanooga Christian was expecting a tough match from Notre Dame after both won Region 4-AA high school volleyball tournament semifinals Tuesday at CCS.

When Baylor coach Sarah Lail introduced herself to her new volleyball team in July, she said she addressed her players by saying: "Ninety-two days and counting."

Boyd-Buchanan welcomed back setter Erica Morris from injury on Monday and did so by winning the Region 3-A high school volleyball tournament at Signal Mountain.

The Greater Chattanooga Sports and Events Committee has announced that the National Softball Association is bringing its girls' fastpitch Class B World Series for the Eastern half of North America to Chattanooga next summer.

Courtney Lawson almost couldn't help becoming a volleyball player. What she's worked hard to become is arguably the best all-around high school player in the Chattanooga area.

The District 6-AA high school football game at Central on Friday came down to the last second, and the last yard. Central made its last gasp, but Tyner made the last grasp.

There's a friendly competition among Brainerd's veteran linebackers this season.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- When one team scores 98 points in a high school volleyball match, no one point figures to be that pivotal, and maybe less so when that point was one of 35 in that game. However, that was not the case in Wednesday's District 5-AAA championship match at Cleveland Middle School.

Boyd-Buchanan remains unbeaten against its league opponents this high school volleyball season, sweeping through Silverdale Baptist in a semifinal and Grace Academy in the final of the District 5-A high schoo

Sale Creek and Lookout Valley were among the winners Monday at Signal Mountain in opening-round matches in the District 6-A high school volleyball tournament.

Postseason has arrived for TSSAA Division I volleyball teams, which means seniors are down to the final few matches in their high school careers.

Brainerd struck quickly after two second-half Central miscues and came away with an 18-6 victory in the District 6-AA high school football game Saturday at Central.

The District 6-AA high school football game between Brainerd and Central scheduled Friday night at Central was postponed because of lightning and the threat of thunderstorms. The game has been rescheduled for

Second-year high school volleyball program Signal Mountain served two things Thursday.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- When Baylor won the two-day Division II-AA girls' high school golf state championship, it truly won the team championship. Three Lady Red Raiders competed Tuesday and Wednesday at Old Fort in Murfreesboro and each had at least one daily counting score along the way.

CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. -- Now that postseason play is about to get under way for Georgia high school volleyball teams, Gordon Lee's Lady Trojans are ready to substantiate something.

Ask Heritage coach Becky Forkner or assistant Brandi Kendall a question about the Lady Generals volleyball team, and their collaborative answer often turns out to be: "It depends on which girls show up."

It was Keon Williams to the rescue for Red Bank on Friday night.

A future employee of the Greater Chattanooga Sports and Events Committee might be sitting in Room 202 this morning at Ooltewah High School. So might be the next great equipment salesperson, promoter or agent.

As many strange occurrences as took place on Red Bank High School's football field Friday night, one might've thought that Halloween came a month early, or the half moon in the sky was an optical illusion. Either way, nothing, not even a continuous clock the entire second half, prevented the Lions from handing Cleveland its worst whipping in school history.

Soddy-Daisy volleyball coach Lorri Johnson knew she wasn't seeing the "real Ooltewah" when she viewed tape of her team's recent high school match against the Lady Owls in preparation for Wednesday's match at Ooltewah. She has that footage now.

Andrea Johnson is a senior volleyball player at Soddy-Daisy High School, where her mother, Lorri, is head volleyball coach. The Lady Trojans play in a tough new District 5-AAA and host McMinn County and play at Ooltewah the next two days.

No. 2-ranked Ensworth's football team resembled a train on the loose Friday night at McCallie. It favored The City of New Orleans, engine No. 10.

Junior blocker Alex Martin easily leads Ooltewah High School's volleyball team in kills this season, and the 6-footer's 15 paced the Lady Owls' 3-0 District 5-AAA home victory Tuesday against Cleveland.

Go ahead. Load up the tackle box and take away Ooltewah's plays to the tailback. Make quarterback Brady Reed beat you. He obliged Franklin on Friday.

Much like high schools do midway through the nine-week periods during the school year, four local Class AA teams got together at East Ridge around the midpoint of the TSSAA volleyball season to examine progress reports.

Dobyns-Bennett went undefeated through 10 matches in the Choo Choo Classic high school volleyball tournament, capping its effort Saturday at East Ridge by beating Red Bank 25-19, 25-20 in the Gold Division championship match.

Red Bank served notice Friday night that it can be a complete football team.

Bryon Coleman's son was all over the Finley Stadium turf. A couple of his seven tackles were emphatic hits, too.

If Walker Valley's matches are any indication, the new District 5-AAA created by the TSSAA's reclassification is going to offer up several gut-wrenching battles in volleyball.

The local high school volleyball community was affected by two deaths in last week.

The city's $14 million investment in two softball parks should be belting financial home runs for years to come, according to the man who helps promote Chattanooga as a tournament destination.

City officials made the decision a couple of years ago to reinvest in softball, and if signs from the summer of 2009 are any indication, the choice could end up being a big hit.