Ooltewah's Antonio Jackson guards Bradley's Justin Houston Tuesday night at Jim Smiddy Arena. Bradley beat the Owls 64-58 for the District 5-AAA championship. Bradley will host Coffee County in the regional tournament Saturday, while White County visits Ooltewah. The 3-pointer Bryce Copeland hit, falling into the Ooltewah bench as the first quarter buzzer sounded Tuesday night never could have happened on Dec. 6. The 21 points he scored and the free-throws he made down the stretch were an impossibility two-and-a-half months ago. A lot has changed since then - the night Ooltewah won on the road inside Jim Smiddy Arena, 63-58. As Bradley lost its first of two district games in a weeks span, Co
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Bliss at Brainerd: Panthers win 6-AA title with last-second shot
Brainerd claimed the District 6-AA tournament crown Tuesday night in dramatic fashion with a 63-62 victory over East Ridge at High-Jackson Gymnasium. For the second night in a row at Brainerd High School, a last-second buzzer-beater decided the game, this time courtesy of the hosts Demetrius Kitchens putting a layup through the iron before time expired. East Ridge led 14-11 after one quarter, but a 12-point run by Brainerd to open up the second quarter put the Panthers ahead 25-19 at halftime. The Panthers allowed East Ridge to score only five points in the entire second period. In the fourth quarter, the East Ridge offense exploded for 14 points in less than four minutes to cut the Panthers
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With loss at Samford, Lady Mocs' title hopes dim
Chattanooga'sslim chances to climb atop the Southern Conference standings before the regular season's conclusion all but vanished Wednesday night. The Lady Mocs lost 58-48 at Samford, to fall two games behind conference leaders Davidson and Appalachian State. Paige Andersons 18 points led the Lady Bulldogs , which improved to a perfect 10-0 at the Pete Hanna Center. They just come out in the first half and hit us in the mouth and say, Hey its ours, UTC coach Wes Moore said during the Mocs' postgame radio show. We werent ready to play and they were. And they hit shots. Samford led 34-23 at halftime and shot 45.1 percent on the night. By contrast, the Lady Mocs shot 29.8 percent from the field
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Vols to open 2012 football season vs N.C. State on Aug. 31
Tennessee announced Thursday that the Vols will open the 2012 football season in Atlanta against North Carolina State on Friday, August 31 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. The game, televised nationally on ESPNU, will be part of a weekend doubleheader at the Georgia Dome with Auburn and Clemson squaring off on Saturday. "When we created the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game with ESPN, our goal was to kick off the season in a special and memorable way," Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO Gary Stokan said in a release. "With these two games, and these four teams and their fan bases, this is going to be a colossal weekend of football in Atlanta - like nothing you have ever seen before." The press releas
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BCS leaders far from agreement on changes
GRAPEVINE, Texas - Before there will be significant changes to college football's postseason and how to determine a champion, there are plenty of options to be considered. Conference commissioners who run the Bowl Championship Series are just getting started on that process. "We're just trying to understand conceptually what the pieces are. ... It's at the very beginning," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said. "While I think people have a reasonable idea on the range of what's under consideration, the study and the inspection and understanding of that range I think is going to be months in the making." The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director spent two days meeting
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