Prep Sports

Boyd Buchanan Crushes CSTHEA Patriots

Bucs Use 24-2 Run At Start To Jumpstart 59-23 Win

  • 12/10/2024

It’s always nice when high school basketball coaches can see the results of hard work in practice paying off on game day. That was the case at Boyd Buchanan’s Jett Gym Tuesday night where the host Buccaneers played one of their best and most complete games of the season and the results were evident as the Bucs improved to 5-3 with a lopsided 59-23 victory over the CHSTEA Patriots. The home-schooled guests are much better than what the game showed as they had won eight of 12 games before Tuesday, but everything that could have gone wrong did for the Patriots while everything that could go right also did for the Buccaneers. Matt Hoppe is having the time of his life as a first-year ... (click for more)

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Ooltewah’s Adrian Wood shoots against Bradley Central’s Andrew Walker Tuesday at the home court of the Owls.
Ooltewah’s Adrian Wood shoots against Bradley Central’s Andrew Walker Tuesday at the home court of the Owls.
Photo by M.A. Locke

McCallie Rally Tops Notre Dame, 47-38

Gaas Herman Scores 25, But Irish Fall In Second Half

  • 12/9/2024

The Notre Dame boys basketball team got off to a great start at McCallie Monday night, but they couldn’t sustain that same effort in the second half and ended up falling to the Blue Tornado in a non-region game between two private schools located less than a mile from each other. Gaas Herman – pronounced Jace – had the hot hand for the ... (click for more)

Back In The Hardware Business, Marion Wins 2A Title

Warriors Bring Home 5th Championship And 1st In 29 years

  • 12/7/2024

Tim Starkey understood the moment Saturday evening perhaps as well as any of the several thousand Marion County clad fans who made the trek from the football-crazed community of Jasper for Saturday night's 2A BlueCross Bowl championship at Finley Stadium. He knew it despite having played for and coached at that other football crazed community ... (click for more)

Oakland Explodes Past Houston In 6A Title Game

Patriots Exact Revenge In Rematch For 3rd Title In 4 Years

  • 12/7/2024

Once you have lived on the mountain top only the penthouse suit view seems to matter and the Oakland Patriots were more determined than ever to get back on top. With three straight state title runs getting interrupted last season on this same field by this same Houston team, the Patriots ended the 2024 prep campaign with a decisive 42-20 victory ... (click for more)

Macon County Overcomes Slow Start To Claim 4A Title

Tigers's MVP Borders Scores Four Second Half TDs To Lead Win Over Melrose

  • 12/7/2024

A sunny, but cold Davenport Field greeted Macon County and Melrose Saturday as the Tigers and Golden Wildcats lined up to do battle for the Tennessee 4A football championship inside Chattanooga's Finley Stadium. The Tigers, after a slow start, put together a strong second half to capture the title by a score of 45-14 over the Wildcats. ... (click for more)

PREP SCHEDULES
  • 12/30/2024

Prep Schedules for Week of: December 9th All times are local to the event (Coaches/ADs: Please send any schedule corrections or additions to Dennis Norwood, Prep Sports Editor, at dennisnorwood56@gmail.com; send your results to sports@chattanoogan.com) BASKETBALL MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Notre Dame at McCallie St. Andrew’s-Sewanee at Silverdale Collegedale at Georgia Cumberland Academy Bledsoe Co. at Whitwell Sequatchie Co. at F.C. Boyd Polk Co. at Greenback ... more

Mocs’ Bonham Proud To Finish His College Journey In Chattanooga
Mocs’ Bonham Proud To Finish His College Journey In Chattanooga
  • 12/11/2024

Trey Bonham was faced with a critical decision at the end of last season. He had ventured down this path before, but he now had the benefit of wisdom and prior experience ... more

Wamp County Attorney Choice Praised At Commission Meeting; Taylor Says Sees Legal Issues
  • 12/11/2024

County Commission members on Wednesday praised County Mayor Weston Wamp's choice of Janie Parks Varnell as the next county attorney. The commission next week is set to vote on resolutions that would put attorney Varnell on the county payroll in January and have her take over as county attorney in July. One resolution says County Attorney Rheubin Taylor would stay on as contract attorney through the end of 2025. County Attorney Taylor said at the end of the discussion that he did not ... more

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