Sports Editor at the Citizen Tribune l Sports Information Director for Walters State l McCallie Alum | UTK Alum | Former Managing Editor for The Daily Beacon
Beyond grateful for this opportunity! Iโve loved doing this job in a part-time role the past 4 years and am excited to stay in Morristown and continue to promote the Walters State brand.
South Carolinaโs baseball coach just got mad at UT for celebrating a home run too much. Tbh if I was him, Iโd be more worried about his pitching staff giving up 14 runs.
I am excited to announce that I will be continuing my baseball and academic career at the University of Tennessee! I am grateful for my time at Walters State and for the people that have helped me get to this point!
#GBO
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#jucoproduct
Matthew 6:34
Rick Barnes just told Bob Kesling to be careful out in NYC tomorrow because โI almost pick pocketed you getting on the bus today, and Iโm not a professional.โ
Tennessee baseball fans might not want to look at where all the kids on the Tennessee Tech team are from. Lots and lots of kids from around the Knoxville area.
@BWalkerSEC
First American History question. She doesnโt say anything the whole time until she suddenly looks to the side and then somehow knows the answers last name.
Would like to give a huge congratulations to our All-Lakeway football award winners!
Coach of the year โ Spencer Riley
Defensive Player โ Tucker Gillette
Offensive Player โ Hunter Delaney
Most Valuable Player โ Micah Simpson
๐ NEWS: Morristown East has announced Justin Combs (
@CoachJCombs
) as their new Girls Basketball Coach.
Combs has been an assistant coach at Lakeway Christian for the past 4 years. Before that, he was the head coach at Grainger for 9 years.
There might not be a better 1-2 punch in college baseball on the mound than
@WSCCbaseball
โs Jake Knapp and Kohl Drake.
Knapp: 9-0, 42.1 IP, 0.43 ERA, 2 ER, 66 Kโs, .136 opponents batting average.
Drake: 7-0, 45.3 IP, 1.18 ERA, 6 ER, 75 Kโs, .171 opponents batting average.
Mr. 2,000!
Congrats to
@Hurricane_Hoops
โ Kyle Cloninger on scoring his 2,000th career point. The third in school history to accomplish this unbelievable feat.
Vitello said that he's focused on UT AD Phillip Fulmer throwing a strike when he throws out the first pitch before Friday's game against Alabama. Said that Fulmer whipped up on Alabama when he was a coach so he's hoping he can bring some karma to the table.
I havenโt been taking photos for very long at all, and still donโt know a ton about cameras in general, but itโs always dope to see progress. Took maybe my best basketball photo yet last night.
Covered 8 basketball games and 2 baseball games in 3 days. Please support local journalism because weโre working our butts off to give everyone the coverage they deserve.
First Tennessee High School AP Poll is out. Here are the teams in the Lakeway Area ranked:
Boys Class 3A:
Grainger at 15-1 is the No. 3 team in the state.
(Waiting on the 4A poll to come out. I expect East at 1 or 2.)
Girls Class 3A:
Grainger at 13-4 is ranked No. 7.
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Class 4A Boys ๐ Sectional
FINAL
Morristown East 54, Bearden 52
For the second time in school history and first time since 1979, Morristown East is headed to State!
โKyle Cloninger is full of humility. Heโs quick to credit his teammates, his family and his coaches. He doesnโt care about stats or his point total. He cares about winning, any way possible.โ
What a week for Grainger Baseball
Former Grainger star
@treycabbage
is being called up by the Angels to make his MLB debut. Trey hit .287 with 23 homers, 64 RBIs and 24 stolen bases in AAA this year.
Dude has worked his tail off to get to this moment. Congrats, pal!
Walters State had arguably the best pitching staff in Juco baseball this year, and the MLB Draft backs that up.
Congrats to Wesley Scott , Kohl Drake and Geo Rivera on being taken in this years draft.
MTSU going to have to put up a statue of โฆ
@RBishop41
โฉ if he keeps getting his teams to the tourney.
Huge shoutout to the Grainger girls for an unbelievable season. Not done yet!
What a start to the season for the
@UTKDailyBeacon
intramural basketball team with a big 62-32 win. Hear what Coach Wombles had to say about the big win.
Ella Wampler for the win!
West Ridge ties the game with 10 seconds to go but Ella Wampler throws in a put back at the buzzer for the Lady โCanes victory, 46-44.
And then there was one.
31-3 Grainger is the Lakeway Areaโs final girls team remaining.
Congrats to all our other girls teams on being able to navigate through a pretty strange basketball season and put together some fabulous seasons.
A 0.89 ERA. Made 12 appearances on the mound, striking out 126 of the 257 batters he faced in 62.1 innings. Allowed just 26 hits the entire season.
Congrats to
@t_franklin22
, Mr. Baseball in Class 4A.
Class 4A Boys ๐ Sectional
FINAL
Morristown East 54, Bearden 52
For the second time in school history and first time since 1979, Morristown East is headed to State!
FINAL (Boys ๐):
Morristown East 100, Alcoa 80
Triple digits for the โCanes as they cruise in their first game of the day.
Micah Simpson finishes with 30 while Kyle Cloninger added 25 and 17 for Braden Ilic.
Congratulations to the 2022 Lakeway Area Football Award Winners:
Coach of The Year: Alvin Sanders
Offensive Player of The Year: Izaiah Hall
Defensive Player of the Year: Dallas Williamson
Player of The Year: Tison Johnson
Aightโฆ itโs time to own up to. In my defense, I received zero head start even though I was told I would. Second, they werenโt supposed to tackle meโฆ..
Some peopleโs opinion of Rick Barnes changed on Wednesday when he locked up five-star Josiah James.
However, if you really know basketball, you already know the impressive job Barnes has done.
The craziest part about this? This is the second of Marshall Millsโ 50-year-old records Micah has broken this school year.
Micah broke Millsโ career touchdown receptions record during football season.
New Tennessee High School AP Basketball Poll
4A Boys: No. 2 Morristown East
3A Boys: No. 6 Grainger
3A Girls: No. 4 Grainger
DII-A Girls: No. 1 Lakeway Christian
I have throughly enjoyed my four years at the
@UTKDailyBeacon
, and it's hard to believe that it's already over. Here is my 190th and final article for them.
A couple of shots from this morning's
@MoEastFB
and
@GraingerFtball
7-on-7 work at Burke-Toney.
You can catch stories on both squads offseason work in Friday's Citizen Tribune.
What a week for Carlin. First, itโs announced that heโs redshirting and now heโs out here scoring touchdowns according to ESPN.
(Yes, I know Quavaris actually scored.)
Congratulations to all the members of our All-Lakeway Football Team.
If you havenโt picked a paper from yesterday with stories on our award winners as well as the team itself, you still have time to do that so make sure to grab a copy.
I have covered 18 high school football games since I started at the Tribune in October of 2019.
The teams I have covered are 0-18 in those games. The Harvey Curse is as real as it gets.
Lol at ESPN trying to take credit for the news that Davenport hadnโt signed the MOU. My boy
@DavidWCobb
was all over that first. Donโt be fooled by ESPN
THREAD: Will be posting all our stories throughout the day on here. First, here is our All-Lakeway Area Basketball Team. Congrats to all. Selecting these teams was about as tough as it gets.
Wrapped up another year on the job this week. Hard to believe itโll be 4 years at the Tribune in October. Thank you to all that read and support everything weโre trying to do as a sports staff. It may not be easy at times, but itโs always worth it in the end.
New Tennessee High School AP Basketball Poll
4A Boys: No. 2 Morristown East
3A Boys: No. 4 Grainger
3A Girls: No. 4 Grainger
DII-A Girls: No. 1 Lakeway Christian
๐ NEWS: Morristown West announced this morning that Joe Dobyns has officially been named the Boys Head Basketball Coach. Dobyns was the interim coach of the Trojans last season.
UT fans get made fun of a lot by other fan bases for how passionate they can be at times. But this is why Vol Nation is so special. Kid and his family need help and within weeks, UT fans raised thousands and thousands of dollars so they can buy a new home. Unbelievable.
If you do nothing today, watch Tennessee Point Guard Zakai Ziegler and his family move into their home in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This family has been through a lot, and it is so awesome to see VolNation do just a little bit to help out.
Just an awesome story all the way around.