* Mike Bowman, Ridgeland: The four-star recruit at wide receiver signed with Alabama.

The Harris and Farris show played to rave reviews Tuesday at GPS.

Despite leading most of Thursday's District 6-AA boys' high school basketball game against Howard, East Hamilton found itself trailing the Hustlin' Tigers by five points when the three-minute mark of the fourth quarter went by.

Cleveland didn't have a particularly good finish to its District 5-AAA boys' high school basketball game Tuesday at Ooltewah. But thanks to the start it had, it didn't need one.

Cleveland senior C.J. Bryant scored a career-high 33 points and led the Blue Raiders past host Ooltewah 68-60 in District 5-AAA high school boys' basketball action.

Baylor senior Reggie Upshaw on Saturday made his return to the court for the first time in 14 games and wound up with the most points

Baylor senior Reggie Upshaw played for the first time in 14 games Saturday and scored 31 points.

Xavier Harris has become the "X" factor on the Howard boys' basketball team. And it has less to do with his name than with the room for growth in his game.

East Hamilton's girls didn't win Thursday's District 6-AA high school basketball game at Howard in the first quarter. Or maybe they did.

A good start wasn't enough for Silverdale Baptist Academy's girls to bury Grace Academy on Tuesday, but a good finish was.

Teenagers Katy Richardson, Madi Stanley, Corey Swafford and Taylor Battle are practically lifers when it comes to softball — and relative newbies at bowling.

Boyd-Buchanan's Buccaneers were the epitome of relentless Friday night at Grace Academy.

Signal Mountain didn't seem to mind trying to defend Bledsoe County's Jamal Worthington one-on-one throughout the second half of Tuesday's District 7-AA boys' high school basketball game at Signal Mountain.

Jamal Worthington hit a basket with three seconds left to give visiting Bledsoe County High School a 58-56 boys’ basketball win tonight over Signal Mountain.

The race on the boys' side in District 5-A got a little tighter after Arts & Sciences and Grace Academy slugged it out in high school basketball Friday night at CSAS.

Arts & Sciences overtook Grace Academy for good when Nick Moore scored underneath with 2:11 to play and the Patriots went on and defeated the Golden Eagles 60-56 in a District 5-A boys' high school basketball game Friday at CSAS.

SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. — A transformation is taking place at Richard Hardy Memorial School.

Remnants of the recent Christmas break were evident in the girls' high school basketball game Tuesday at East Hamilton.

Boyd-Buchanan showed two things Friday night in its District 5-A boys' high school basketball game against Arts & Sciences.

Arts & Sciences fought back from an 18-point deficit against Boyd-Buchanan late in the first half to pull even at 47-all in the fourth quarter before the Bucs regrouped and claimed a 58-50 win in District 5-A boys' high school basketball action.

Ask different people with connections to the long-running high school basketball series between Brainerd and Howard when the rivalry was at its peak, and the answers will vary from decade to decade.

From start to start to start to finish, Baylor's Kaleigh Clemons came up big Saturday and helped the Lady Red Raiders earn the girls' championship in the Times Free Press Best of Preps basketball tournament at Chattanooga State.

Things didn't start well for the Cleveland High School girls' basketball team in its semifinal Friday in the Times Free Press Best of Preps tournament at Chattanooga State.

After his team's semifinal victory Friday in the Times Free Press Best of Preps tournament at Chattanooga State, Baylor girls' basketball coach John Gibson talked of the various defenses the Lady Red Raiders used and mentioned 1-3-1 and 2-3 zones.

McCallie basketball coach Dan Wadley didn't think his team played particularly well Thursday night against Boyd-Buchanan in the Times Free Press Best of Preps tournament at Chattanooga State.

Usually a basketball team owning a lead late in a close game has to make some free throws to win.

Among the Nos. 1 through 5 positions in basketball, the point guard is referred to as the one.

Red Bank High School volleyball coach Christel Brooks has resigned her coaching position, citing a desire to spend more time with family.

Filling the fourth quarter with layups and free throws, Brainerd held off Tyner's second-half charge and defeated the Rams 60-56 in a District 6-AA high school basketball game Friday night at Brainerd.

Fortunately, the only shots taken Friday night at Brainerd High School were on the basketball court.

Matt Clendenen's go-ahead driving layup with 14 seconds to play in the boys' high school basketball game Thursday at Baylor looked like it might be the heroics of the night. But then he upstaged himself.

Jim Boles has spent the last four years doing what he can to promote area musicians who play his favorite type of music. On Wednesday, some of those musicians hope to return the favor.

Brainerd's Panthers were sitting on an 11-point halftime lead in Tuesday's District 6-AA basketball game against East Hamilton when assistant coach Levar Brown reminded them they were ahead of the Hurricanes at home last season, only to lose the game.

Signal Mountain on Saturday hosted the fourth annual Hoops for Hope event for the first time, and things went just the way the Lady Eagles wanted it to.

This weekend's Hoops for Hope high school basketball benefit for the MaryEllen Locher Foundation Scholarship Fund has its third home in four years. But thanks to Signal Mountain, at least it still has one.

Howard's Lorenzo McCauley admitted he doesn't spend time practicing turnaround jumpers from around 22 feet. It was hard to tell that Friday.

There could be several factors why visiting Chattanooga Christian lost 40-29 to GPS in basketball Tuesday. Home-court advantage was not one of them, because the game took place at East Hamilton.

CALHOUN, Tenn. — Calhoun's defense allowed 275 passing yards and 16 first downs Friday night — and looked great doing it.

Boyd-Buchanan's football season ended last year with a controversial 21-20 overtime home loss to Friendship Christian in a TSSAA Class 2A quarterfinal. Kyle Thomas, a senior two-way starter on that team, still hasn't gotten over it.

When senior forward Chappel Sharrock attended GPS's first basketball practice this season, many of the familiar faces she'd been used to seeing — some she'd grown accustomed to as far back as fifth grade — weren't there.

Precious Birdsong is yet another returning player from Baylor's 40-5 TSSAA Division II-AA state-championship softball team to accept a scholarship offer recently.

Baylor junior catcher Cassi Pickett had in mind where she wanted to play softball in college and patiently waited, hoping to get that opportunity. Last Thursday, East Tennessee State obliged.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. — An early two-touchdown deficit did little to deter host Columbia Central.

Baylor junior Noelle Winkles has accepted a softball scholarship offer from Kennesaw State University, a former NCAA Division II power now competing in Division I's Atlantic Sun Conference.

Things have changed for Ooltewah's football team since the early part of the regular season. Or one might say things have "turned over."

ONEIDA, Tenn. — After last week, Boyd-Buchanan's Buccaneers knew their road to the Class 2A state-championship game would take winning on the road along the way.

A little more than a year ago, Garrett Morrison was writhing on Ooltewah's football practice field.

GPS's hopes of a dream soccer season had a nightmarish ending Saturday on the Bruisers' home field.

ATHENS, Tenn. — McMinn County's Cherokees weren't quite as dominant in the three phases of football during the rest of the TSSAA Class 6A first-round playoff game as they were in the first quarter. But then again, they didn't have to be.

Based on the last two high school football seasons at McMinn Central, a berth in the Class 3A state playoffs in 2012 would've seemed far-fetched for many. But what do they know?