Basketball

ERWIN - The Chuckey-Doak girls used a suffocating defensive effort on Saturday night to take down Happy Valley 56-20 and advance to the District 1-2A championship game. “Once we settled in we only allowed one field goal after the first quarter, and defense led...

ERWIN – It has been decades since the West Greene boys have played for district championship, but after holding off Hampton on Saturday night the Buffaloes will have a chance to capture the league title. West Greene never trailed on Friday, but the win...

CHURCH HILL - The Greeneville boys wasted no time proving why they earned the number one seed in the District 2-3A tournament, delivering a commanding performance that left no doubt about their championship aspirations after a 68-41 win over Volunteer. The Greene Devils came...

ERWIN – The South Greene boys sat idle for the past nine days waiting for their District 1-2A Tournament opener, but their offense showed no signs of a layoff as they turned their highest scoring output of the season on Saturday. The Rebels needed...

MARS HILL, N.C. --- Mars Hill's Kory Davis scored the final four points of the contest including a game-clinching three-pointer with 6.6 seconds to lead the Lions to a 66-61 South Atlantic Conference win over Tusculum, Wednesday night at Burt Stanford Arena. Mars Hill (7-17,...

MARS HILL, N.C. --- Aaliyah El scored 27 points and Tateyoina Harris had 20 points and 11 rebounds to lead Mars Hill University to an 81-53 victory over Tusculum University in South Atlantic Conference women's basketball Wednesday evening at Stanford Arena. The Lions (15-11, 12-10...

ERWIN – The West Greene boys got started fast on Tuesday evening and they never let up on the way to a 66-24 win over Chuckey-Doak in the opening round of the District 1-2A Tournament at Unicoi County High School. “Overall, I’m pretty pleased...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee men's basketball team is in the top eight of both major polls for the 13th consecutive week. Tennessee (21-5, 8-5 SEC) sits sixth in both the Associated Press Top 25 Poll and the USA TODAY Coaches Poll, as...

ERWIN – After falling behind big in the first half on Monday the South Greene girls were able to rally to keep their season alive with a 69-63 win over Johnson County in the quarterfinals of the District 1-2A Tournament at Unicoi County High...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee men's basketball team defeated Vanderbilt, 81-76, Saturday afternoon at a sold-out Food City Center, storming back from a 16-point deficit in the last minute of the opening half and a 13-point margin at the break. Senior guard Zakai Zeigler,...