The Heritage baseball team replaced their cleats with running shoes, and traded in the diamond for a little mud.
Bradley Central girls basketball star Rhyne Howard was named the 2018 Class AAA Miss Basketball of the year Tuesday night.
After a long day of battling two top teams, only one made it to the championship on Saturday.
Former Central head football coach Cortney Braswell has accepted the head coach position at Ridgeland High School.
Silverdale Baptist Academy senior Elijah Kirk became the fourth member of SBA's Fishing Team to sign a college scholarship in six years. Elijah Kirk signed to fish at Bryan College on Wednesday.
Calhoun may have been the underdog the last couple weeks of the post-season, but now they have the hardware to prove the Yellow Jackets shouldn't be underestimated.
Exactly twenty years after the Tyner Rams won their first state championship over Union City, the Rams would face the Golden Tornadoes once again for the 2A State Title. Except this time, Tyner would fall short.
For the the first time in its 140 year history, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will be competing in the state championship game.
The Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Awards will be presented to the top football players in nine classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association on Monday, November 27, 2017, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Nine locals were named semifinalists.
Have you ever heard a coach say it's moments not scores that you remember later in life? The Central Purple Pounders had one of those moments last Friday. It's a heartwarming story about how an unselfish act made the night's final score all but irrelevant.
Wednesday marked the start of the early signing period in basically every sport except football. More than a handful of local prep stars took advantage of it and signed college scholarships.
Cleveland raced right past region rival Ooltewah 42-7 Friday night.
A doctors visit four weeks ago changed the course of Zach Scott's junior season, as well as his future in football.
Another Friday Night Football Game of the Week vote went down to the wire. In the end Central at East Ridge won the honor by just 41 votes.
Bill Napier, a beloved football coach in North Georgia, passed away Tuesday night.
The voting wasn't close this week, North Murray at Murray County ran away with our #FNF3 Game of the Week vote. That means for the first time in recent history our Game of the Week crew is headed to Chatsworth, GA.
A star on the court and on the field, Taye Cobb was just fourteen years old when a deadly crash threw him into the jaws of life.
A late surge in the polls lifted the Cleveland vs. Bradley Central rivalry back into the #FNF3 Game of the Week spotlight.
Friday Night Football's Game of the Week crew will be at Ooltewah on Friday as the Owls host the Bears.
After ten long years, the Generals' wait is finally over.
Week two features another cross town rivalry in our Friday Night Football Game of the Week with Heritage hosting Ringgold. Ringgold has won nine straight meetings dating back to when Heritage's first year open in 2008. The Generals had the Tigers on the ropes last year in our Game of the Week but fell in overtime 40-34. We'll hear from both teams leading up to Friday when Ch. 3 Sports Reporter Jill Jelnick will be live at Heritage High School with pre and post game live coverage. ...
Old foes McMinn Central and McMinn County will be featured in 2017's first Friday Night Football Game of the Week.
The nightcap in Chattanooga's Kickoff Classic at Finley Stadium wasn't short on offense as Central beat Walker Valley 48-36.
East Hamilton's Achilles heel over the past couple years has been their depth at quarterback.
For the second year in a row the Times Free Press will be the proud sponsor of the Kickoff Classic Best of Preps jamboree at Finley Stadium.
The Pioneers have a handful of backs returning, and the running game could see more of a team effort this season.
Tyrus Ward had all the excuses in the book to not take the Brainerd football head coaching job, but Ward wanted nothing to do with excuses and everything to do with Brainerd football.
The high school football season is less than two weeks away, and Boyd Buchanan head coach Carter Cardwell is eager to get started.
Head Coach Mark Mariakis is getting ready for his second year with Chattanooga Christian School, and once again it looks like growing pains will be the story for the Chargers this year.
Central continues to grow as Cortney Braswell pushes to flip the script on the winless team he inherited last year. Braswell said, "last year we found ways to lose games. When things didn't go our way our level of competition went down. I tell them all the time, they don't shut the scoreboard off until the game is over. We're gonna keep playing until then. I think we'll see it in how we play for the entirety of the game." The Pounders finished 3-8 in 2016. Central lost two...
After making it to the Div.II-AA state quarterfinal last season, the Blue Tornado graduated a talented senior class.
Not many teams would call a 12-2 season that ended in the 1A state semifinal a disappointing season, but not many teams have expectations as high as South Pittsburg.
The Ringgold Tigers missed the playoffs for just the second time in 10 years under head coach Robert Akins in 2016. The double overtime loss to Sonoraville in the play-in game still lingers, but in a good way.
McMinn Central will now be in the brand new Class AAA-District 3, with Brainerd, Red Bank, Signal Mountain, Loudon, and Sweetwater.
The Marion County Warriors have been to the 2-A State Championship the last three years in a row, and they're goal this year is to make it a fourth.
Northwest Whitfield led by its offense won its first ever home playoff game in 2016. The Bruins are loaded again on offense and it all starts with returning quarterback Luke Shiflett and running back Dominique Sistrunk.
Red Bank will lean on a mix of multi-position athlete Calvin Jackson and a veteran defensive line led by Jamel Davis as the Lions look to defend their region championship.
The Ridgeland Panthers are coming off a region championship under third year head coach Wesley Tankersley.
UTC head football coach Tom Arth invited high schools from around the area to compete in the Moc's 7-on-7 tournament.
The Dalton Catamounts will play on ESPN2 vs. region rival Harrison led by the nations top ranked recruit Justin Fields on October 19 at Harrison High School.
Former Baylor School football player Ryan Seaberg may not be in the NFL, but in a few short weeks he'll be competing for something no player has ever accomplished.
Dalton High School rising senior Dylan Cole committed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Tuesday.
McCallie's Drew Viscomi has already signed with Northwestern University, but may be taking another award with him to college. V
Meigs County head coach Jason Fitzgerald was the head coach of the "Fighting Fitz's, who got on the board first.
Meigs County battled from the losers bracket to beat Forrest twice on Friday winning a second straight TSSAA Class A State Softball Championship. A visibly emotional Head Coach Jeff Davis after the game said, "It's a great group of kids, we've had a rough year off the field, had several family members that died. This is for him. It's just really emotional. I've got a dear friend fighting cancer, he was big part of our softball program, he had two kids in it. Jeff this is for you...