Ooltewah coach Norma Nelson was just trying to advance a runner a base when she signaled for Sara Kelley to bunt in the bottom of the eighth inning. What she gained instead was the winning run.

At halftime of the District 6-A/AA championship game, the Chattanooga Christian boys’ soccer players were challenged to look for their heart.

BATTING min 55 at-bats Name School AB H RBI R Avg Josh Hunt Hamilton Heights 55 36 22 0 0.655

The high school postseason has reached deep into classrooms and budgets of Chattanooga’s Division II schools, adversely effecting Baylor, GPS and McCallie.

Stats through May 8 GIRLS’ 100 METERS Time Lashondra Spralling, Brainerd 12.2

Joey Bryson has been hired as the boys’ basketball coach at Southeast Whitfield High School. The former Western Carolina University player was an assistant coach with the Raiders for two seasons before becoming the head coach at Model High School for one year. He replaces Tim Rogers, who resigned following a 6-20 season.

Goals Player, School Matches No. Ricky Rodriguez, Dalton 17 21

Red Bank High School has hired Ben Reichel as its wrestling coach.

McCallie outfielder Guerin Higgins made two spectacular catches.

Walker Valley’s Megan Smith didn’t want to play a third set against Ooltewah’s Caroline Denton.

The challenge facing the Ridgeland Panthers in today’s Georgia Class AAAA baseball first-round series at top-ranked East Paulding was already difficult enough.

Chattanooga Christian’s Holly Scholl expected a tough tennis match with Arts & Sciences’ Albany Kelly. Playing against each other growing up, it’s always been that way.

Victor Rodriguez feels like he’s living a dream.

For most of the Division II East District soccer final, it looked like regulation would end the same way it did the last time Baylor and McCallie met: in a scoreless tie.

Not long after Daniel Tackling scored the go-ahead goal with 2:19 to play in overtime Thursday, the hotly contested District 6-AAA soccer championship game at Ooltewah erupted into chaos — and the Owls’ 2-1 win over Soddy-Daisy was all but an afterthought.