Prep Sports

Soddy Daisy, Signal Mountain In 6-3A Finals

Top Seeds Split During Regular Season

  • 5/3/2024

Soddy Daisy baseball coach Jim Higgins is well aware of the difficulty of making a district tournament final as well as the prize for doing so: more baseball. The 6-3A regular season champs punched a ticket to next week's Region tourney with a convincing 13-2 win to complete a two-game sweep of rival Hixson Thursday night in the semifinals. "Two years in a row we fell short at this juncture and it hurts. It's such a good feeling to punch that ticket, and I'm really happy for these kids," said Higgins, who will play in a region tourney for the first time since his first year at the Trojan helm in 2019. And then there is Signal Mountain, who has to plan vacations around the region ... (click for more)

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Long jump at Red Bank meet #3 Thursday.
Long jump at Red Bank meet #3 Thursday.
Photo by M.A. Locke

Boyd Buchanan Advances In DII-A Region Softball

Lady Bucs Face Lakeway Christian After 13-3 Win Over CAK

  • 5/2/2024

There’s often a lot of conversation surrounding most sports about opportunities and how the team that takes advantage often wins while the team that doesn’t doesn’t. That was certainly the case at Boyd Buchanan for the first day of action in the Division I-A East Region softball tournament where the host Lady Buccaneers advanced to Friday’s ... (click for more)

McMinn County Edges Walker Valley To Take Lead In 5-4A Series

Cherokees Score In Seventh To Best Mustangs, 1-0

  • 5/2/2024

CHARLESTON, Tenn. — In a near repeat of their first meeting this season it took a final at bat run to lift McMinn County over Walker Valley in the District 5-4A semifinal series opener, Thursday at Mike Turner Field. While the 1-0 tally in early April took en extra inning to decide, this time around the only the regulation seven frames ... (click for more)

Steele's Early Goal Seals Win For Soddy Daisy

Trojans Edge McMinn Central, 1-0

  • 5/3/2024

Soddy Daisy got the best of McMinn Central’s men’s soccer team last night for a senior night thriller. The Soddy Daisy Trojans faced the McMinn Central Chargers at home as the season begins to wrap up. The game was not a give away by any means. The Chargers put up a good fight but ultimately lost 1-0. Soddy Daisy began the night honoring ... (click for more)

Top Seed Cleveland Run-Rules Rhea County In 5-4A Action

Blue Raiders Clip Golden Eagles, 11-1

  • 5/2/2024

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Reaching the 20-win mark for the first time since 2005, Cleveland rolled past Rhea County in a "mercy rule" victory to open the District 5-4A Tournament, Thursday at Bill Talley Stadium. The top-seeded Blue Raiders (20-11) rolled past the fourth-seed Golden Eagles (4-23) for the fourth time this season with an 11-1 ... (click for more)

PREP SCHEDULES
  • 5/30/2024

Prep Schedules for Week of: April 29th All times are local to the event (Coaches/ADs: Please send any schedule corrections or addititions to Dennis Norwood, Prep Sports Editor, at dennisnorwood56@gmail.com; send your results to sports@chattanoogan.com) BASEBALL FRIDAY, MAY 3 District 5-A Tournament TBD: Copper Basin at Sale Creek TBD: Copper Basin at Sale Creek (if needed) District 4-AA Tournament (@ Sequatchie Co.) 4:00 pm: (GM2) Winner GM1 ... more

Lookouts Beat The Biscuits 3-1
  • 5/3/2024

The Lookouts (7-16) held the Montgomery Biscuits (12-12) scoreless until the 9th inning on Thursday night at Riverwalk Stadium and held on for a 3-1 win. Ben Peoples dominated through five scoreless innings in his fifth start of the season. The 22-year-old allowed just one single and two walks. The Lookouts did not have a base runner until two outs into the fourth inning. The game was scoreless through five innings. In the sixth, Chattanooga scratched across a run on a wild pitch ... more

Wrecker Board Hears Of "Astonishing Charges" By 2 Allied Wrecker Firms
  • 5/2/2024

The ordinance regulating the towing industry in Chattanooga only pertains to towing companies that are on the city’s rotation list. Those are companies that are called by the city to move vehicles on a rotating basis. That means the city has no authority over towing businesses other than those on rotation, leaving others to make their own rules. During the past year, two businesses, Chattanooga Impound Services, 2800 Rossville Blvd. and American Tow and Recover, 5910 Shaw Ave., have ... more

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