High-scoring Brainerd High School wing Demetrius Kitchens has signed to continue his basketball career with Chattanooga State, while guard Jabari Evans will move on to Charis Prep School in Wilson, N.C. Kitchens led the Panthers with 18.6 points a game and also averaged 7.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 4.1 steals this past season.
In the beginning, Ooltewah's best offense was its defense Friday night.
Brainerd coach Stanley Jackson calls it a three-to-one rule, necessary because the Panthers have only 30 players for a season in strong District 6-AA.
Barring a last-minute appeal, the high school basketball season is over for the girls' teams at Brainerd and Howard following a fight on the court immediately after Monday's game.
Brainerd's basketball coach piles up victories leading into the Panthers' game with Howard tonight.
The Bradley Central football team gained 467 yards Friday night against Oak Ridge, but it was 5 yards the Bears lost that made the most difference.
A lot of points in a football game doesn’t necessarily equate to a well-played game.
Brainerd’s defense delivered a fourth-down red-zone stop, and quarterback William Hughes steered a season-saving 89-yard touchdown drive in the closing minutes as the Panthers upset Central 6-3 in a District 6-AA game Friday night.
Sometimes the technical adjustments coaches make during halftimes of football games make the difference in ultimate outcomes. In the case of Howard on Friday, the coach’s speech made the difference.
On the next-to-last play of Brainerd’s 34-8 loss at home to Austin-East Friday night, Panthers defensive back Monte Cross broke through and dropped a Roadrunners tailback for an 8-yard loss.
East Ridge stood less than a yard from another likely defeat Friday night.
The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's six Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters.
