Sports
National Signing Day For West Tennessee Players
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Below is a list of local high school football players and the schools they signed with...
Player School Pos. College
Chase Hensley USJ DL Arkansas Tech
Robert Burleigh South Side OL UTM
Kadarren Bond Haywood OL UTM
Justice Brown Haywood RB Lane
Quintavious Caldwell Haywood WR Bethel
Carlos Walden South Gibson WR Bethel
Quincy Walden South Gibson WR Bethel
Rodney Napper South Gibson RB Campbellsville
Shemar Powell Haywood OL Bethel
A.J. Gray Lexington LB Austin Peay
Hayden Whitby Peabody DL Bethel
Taylor Ballagh Lexington OL Bethel
Skylar Sheffield Chester CO. OL Florida Tech.
Logan Diebold Huntingdon RB Bethel
Devan Ramer Dresden DB Bethel
Two Union teams honored with NCCAA Fall Scholar Team award
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Greenville, S.C. – The NCCAA national office presented 62 teams from across the country with the Scholar Team Award for the 2012 academic fall semester. Union University had two of their teams to make the list. Women’s Cross Country and Women’s Soccer were the two falls sports to earn this honor.
The women’s cross country team posted a combined 3.67 GPA, while the women’s soccer team posted a combined 3.60 GPA.
The purpose of this award is to honor NCCAA athletic teams that demonstrate academic success in the classroom, emphasize the importance of academics within our national organization, and promote individual student athlete scholarship on the team. NCCAA Scholar Teams have a minimum grade point average of 3.40 on a 4.00 scale.
This announcement comes after Union put 51 fall student-athletes on the Gulf South Conference Academic Honor Roll list and 15 fall student-athletes on the NCCAA Scholar Athlete list.
Cornerback out of Tennessee chooses Florida State
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State has landed one of the nation's top cornerbacks with Tennessee high school star Jalen Ramsey signing to play for the Seminoles.
Ramsey, who played at Brentwood Academy just south of Nashville, signed his letter of intent Wednesday. Ramsey, who was ranked as high as the 10th best player nationally by one recruiting service, had verbally committed to USC last summer.
The Seminoles also landed linebacker Matthew Thomas from Booker T. Washington High School in Miami. The 6-3, 205-pound Thomas was regarded among the nation's top 15 prospects and ranked by some as the top linebacker in this year's class of high school players.
But Thomas' high school teammate, offensive tackle Denver Kirkland, chose Arkansas over the Seminoles.
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Tennessee Girls Basketball State Poll 02.05.13
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The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through February 4, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:
| Class AAA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Riverdale (19) | 23-0 | 190 | 1 |
| 2. Science Hill | 23-3 | 153 | 2 |
| 2. Blackman | 22-1 | 153 | 3 |
| 4. Bradley Central | 21-2 | 125 | 4 |
| 5. Columbia | 22-3 | 114 | 5 |
| 6. Memphis Central | 17-4 | 97 | 6 |
| 7. Farragut | 22-3 | 63 | 8 |
| 8. Oakland | 19-4 | 53 | 7 |
| 9. Ridgeway | 19-2 | 51 | 10 |
| 10. Hillsboro | 21-4 | 12 | NR |
Others receiving 12 or more points: None.
| Class AA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Grainger (19) | 26-0 | 190 | 1 |
| 2. Covington | 25-2 | 163 | 2 |
| 3. McMinn Central | 22-3 | 154 | 3 |
| 4. Cannon County | 23-3 | 120 | 4 |
| 5. Westview | 23-3 | 112 | 5 |
| 6. Livingston Academy | 22-5 | 96 | 6 |
| 7. CPA | 19-5 | 58 | T8 |
| 8. Creek Wood | 21-3 | 53 | T8 |
| 9. Elizabethton | 20-4 | 46 | 10 |
| 10. Gatlinburg-Pittman | 20-6 | 14 | NR |
Others receiving 12 or more points: Knoxville Fulton 12.
| Class A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Union City (14) | 21-3 | 180 | 1 |
| 2. Jackson County (4) | 22-3 | 156 | T2 |
| 3. Summertown (1) | 20-3 | 151 | T2 |
| 4. Clarkrange | 20-6 | 118 | 6 |
| 5. Cosby | 18-3 | 99 | 4 |
| 6. North Greene | 20-7 | 81 | 8 |
| 7. Moore County | 24-4 | 72 | 9 |
| 8. Hampton | 20-6 | 62 | 7 |
| 9. Collinwood | 17-5 | 31 | 10 |
| 10. Oliver Springs | 17-6 | 27 | 5 |
Others receiving 12 or more points: Whitwell 14. Cloudland 13.
| Division II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Ensworth (16) | 21-1 | 168 | 1 |
| 2. Briarcrest (1) | 24-1 | 154 | 2 |
| 3. Franklin Road Academy | 21-2 | 137 | 3 |
| 4. Knoxville Webb | 21-5 | 119 | 4 |
| 5. Harding Academy | 19-5 | 94 | 6 |
| 6. St. George's | 17-5 | 69 | 9 |
| 7. University-Jackson | 21-4 | 67 | 5 |
| 8. SBEC | 17-4 | 62 | 8 |
| 9. Harpeth Hall | 14-6 | 28 | 7 |
| 10. Brentwood Academy | 13-9 | 14 | 10 |
Others receiving 12 or more points: None.
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| All Associated Press members in Tennessee are eligible to participate in the high school basketball poll. Those who voted for this week's poll are: Chattanooga Times Free Press; The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville); Cleveland Daily Banner; The Daily Herald (Columbia); Cookeville Herald-Citizen; State Gazette (Dyersburg); Elizabethton Star; The Greeneville Sun; The Jackson Sun; Johnson City Press; The Knoxville News Sentinel; Marshall County Tribune; The Commercial Appeal (Memphis); The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro; The Tennessean (Nashville); The Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge); Union City Daily Messenger; WCMT, Martin; WNWS 101.5 FM (Jackson). |
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Tennessee Boys Basketball Prep Poll 02.05.13
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The Associated Press' Top 10 teams in each of Tennessee's three Division I non-financial aid classifications and in the combined Division II financial aid classification as selected by Tennessee AP-member sportswriters and broadcasters. With first-place votes in parentheses, records through February 4, total points based on 10 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 10th-place vote:
| Class AAA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Blackman (17) | 22-0 | 186 | 1 |
| 2. Science Hill | 28-2 | 154 | 2 |
| 3. Southwind (1) | 22-4 | 149 | 3 |
| 4. Ridgeway (1) | 20-3 | 142 | 4 |
| 5. Brentwood | 23-2 | 110 | 5 |
| 6. Siegel | 23-2 | 93 | 6 |
| 7. Melrose | 19-7 | 69 | 9 |
| 8. Dyer County | 22-2 | 66 | 7 |
| 9. White Station | 15-6 | 33 | 8 |
| 10. Powell | 20-2 | 20 | 10 |
Others receiving 12 or more points: None.
| Class AA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. CPA (18) | 24-2 | 189 | 1 |
| 2. Covington (1) | 23-3 | 150 | 3 |
| 3. Giles County | 20-2 | 149 | 2 |
| 4. Jackson South Side | 18-2 | 124 | 4 |
| 5. Sheffield | 17-5 | 101 | 5 |
| 6. Waverly | 20-4 | 73 | 6 |
| 7. Knoxville Fulton | 18-6 | 67 | 7 |
| 8. Cheatham County | 20-3 | 61 | 8 |
| 9. Sullivan East | 22-6 | 47 | 10 |
| 10. Fayette Ware | 19-6 | 22 | 9 |
Others receiving 12 or more points: Howard 13. McMinn Central 13.
| Class A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. Booker T. Washington (15) | 18-3 | 184 | 1 |
| 2. Wartburg Central (4) | 19-3 | 163 | 2 |
| 3. Mt. Pleasant | 18-2 | 152 | 3 |
| 4. Watertown | 21-3 | 107 | 7 |
| 5. Union City | 16-7 | 94 | 6 |
| 6. Richland | 20-5 | 93 | 9 |
| 7. Columbia Academy | 19-4 | 69 | 4 |
| 8. Trinity Christian Academy | 20-4 | 58 | 5 |
| 9. Cloudland | 18-8 | 47 | 10 |
| 10. Humboldt | 18-5 | 37 | NR |
Others receiving 12 or more points: Clay County 21. Hampton 13.
| Division II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. CBHS (13) | 21-4 | 163 | 2 |
| 2. Ensworth (2) | 17-6 | 141 | 3 |
| 3. Briarcrest | 22-6 | 128 | 1 |
| (tie) Franklin Road Academy (2) | 22-3 | 128 | 4 |
| 5. Knoxville Webb | 21-6 | 108 | 5 |
| 6. MUS | 17-7 | 59 | 6 |
| 7. Lausanne Collegiate | 19-4 | 48 | NR |
| 8. Father Ryan | 15-7 | 46 | 8 |
| 9. St. George's | 19-5 | 36 | 9 |
| 10. Pope John Paul II | 18-6 | 34 | 7 |
Others receiving 12 or more points: DCA 16. St. Benedict 13.
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| All Associated Press members in Tennessee are eligible to participate in the high school basketball poll. Those who voted for this week's poll are: Chattanooga Times Free Press; The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville); Cleveland Daily Banner; The Daily Herald (Columbia); Cookeville Herald-Citizen; State Gazette (Dyersburg); Elizabethton Star; The Jackson Sun; Johnson City Press; The Knoxville News Sentinel; Marshall County Tribune; The Commercial Appeal (Memphis); The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro; The Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge); Union City Daily Messenger; WCMT, Martin; WNWS 101.5 FM (Jackson). |
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.