For nearly 76 minutes Tuesday, the top-ranked Ooltewah boys' soccer team put shots everywhere but in the net. But when the Owls had to have some goals to survive, they got them.
Ooltewah waited out the rain and played through the fog in its Region 3-AAA baseball game Monday. The Owls, though, could not play through a series of untimely miscues -- mental and physical -- and paid the season-ending price in a nine-inning, 4-3 loss to visiting Warren County, the District 6-AAA runner-up.
Ooltewah coach Rick Adolph looked around the state Wednesday and saw some surprising losses in some district semifinal matches.
CLEVELAND — Led by their two Drews, the Ooltewah Owls made the most of their second shot at winning the District 5-AAA baseball championship Wednesday.
The softball teams at Walker Valley and Ooltewah appear to be so evenly matched the last couple of seasons, they could've played 25 times and odds are the series would end 13-12.
Ooltewah's Kerri Catchings suffered a cruel twist of irony in Monday's winners-bracket final in the District 5-AAA high school softball tournament at Soddy-Daisy.
Ooltewah's offense was both opportunistic and capitalistic in Saturday's winners-bracket game against Walker Valley in the District 5-AAA high school softball tournament at Soddy-Daisy.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Ooltewah left to celebrate. Soddy-Daisy left to practice.
Ooltewah will be hosting East Ridge in a "Pink Out" softball game Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Lady Owls will have another cancer-awareness fundraiser May 1 at 5 p.m. against Central.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Apparently tired of seeing Ooltewah's defenders make sparkling plays, Walker Valley's Hallie Davis hit a ball in the bottom of the ninth inning that none of them could reach.
In the beginning, Ooltewah's best offense was its defense Friday night.
For the final eight games of the 2010 season, Ooltewah’s Mikhail Creech was only half the player he was at the beginning.
The No. 1 seeding for the upcoming District 5-AAA boys' basketball tournament was in the balance Thursday at Cleveland High School, and both teams played like it.
Except for about a five-minute stretch in the middle of the first half of Tuesday's District 5-AAA high school boys' basketball game at Ooltewah, the hosts swarmed and pressured McMinn County from one end of the court to the other.
After Friday's development at Ooltewah, the top two places didn't change in the District 5-AAA boys' high school basketball standings, but the battle for supremacy did get a lot tighter.
