Some personal news: I’m joining the
@DailyTimes
as a Tennessee and prep sports beat writer. I'm super excited for the opportunity to work with
@Troy_Provost
!
I’m a couple days late, but I officially became a UT graduate over the weekend. The Lord blessed me immensely over the last 3.5 years. My time at Tennessee was the best of my life. Thank you to each and every person that had an impact on me and my career!
At Heritage High School today, Grant Campbell (
@gcampbell_40
) signed with
@Vol_Track
after his state-record high jump, 7’3.25”.
He only started jumping for
@CLIMBHeritage
two years ago, and now he’s the No. 1 ranked high jumper in the country.
Some guy proposed to his girlfriend after she threw out the first pitch before the Smokies' playoff game tonight,
She took a full two minutes to say no.
Former
#Vol
Ben Joyce threw a scoreless inning against the Smokies. Struck out the first batter he faced and worked around a single.
The radar gun at Smokies Stadium can’t show triple digits. It reads simply “00.”
Congratulations to our 2023-24 All-Daily Times Boys Basketball Team!
For a second year in a row, Jahvin Carter (
@JahvinCarter
) and Caden Windle (
@CadeDog20
), Alcoa and WB’s all-time leading scorers, are Co-Players of the Year.
Congratulations to the 2024 All-Daily Times Baseball Team, including the Player of the Year, Maryville’s Cade Batchelor (
@BatchelorCade
), and the Rookie of the Year, Heritage’s Gaven French (
@GavenFrench
).
Final. Butler 3, Tennessee 13.
Vols win their 20th game this season (20-1). Vols homered three times to push their season total to 59.
No. 5 Tennessee will take on No. 1 Ole Miss this weekend in Oxford.
Farewell from The Hoover Met.
It’s been on heck of a week. Five days, four games and seven stories on my part. Full coverage, of course, at .
Never gets old how cool this job is. Super blessed to do it.
I’ve been trying to post this for the last 20 minutes, but Twitter is garbage. John Fulkerson threw out the first pitch of this afternoon’s game against Vandy, a day after he announced he would return for one more season with the
#Vols
.
Like Heupel last night, he bounced it in.
Final. Heritage 63, White Co. 62.
Heritage takes down No. 1!
Chloe Heath game-winner as time expired.
Heritage is going to state for the first time since 2000
Final. Maryville 88, Morristown West 57.
Brayden Hazelbaker totaled 29 points and
@MHSRebelsMBB
scored a season-high 88 points to clinch its first state berth since 2020.
The Rebels will play in the Class 4A quarterfinals on March 13 in Murfreesboro.
TENNESSEE IS YOUR NATIONAL CHAMPION.
Aaron Combs gets the last out as UT baseball beats Texas A&M, 6-5, for its first ever title.
The Vols are the first No. 1 overall seed to win the championship since Miami in 1999.
Some personal news: Wednesday will be my first day as the Sports Editor of the
@UTKDailyBeacon
. I'm excited to work alongside
@Ethanstone23
and the rest of the staff in covering
@Vol_Sports
this semester!
My story from an exciting sectional game last night:
@HeritageLMntnrs
took down No. 1 White County and is going to state for the first time since 2000.
Final. Heritage 55, Signal Mount 45.
What a gutsy effort by
@HeritageLMntnrs
to win the Region 3-3A championship. They’ll host sectionals Saturday.
Heritage outscored SM 21-9 in the fourth.
Hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend!
I’m pleased to announce our 2023-24 All-Daily Times Girls Basketball Team, including our Player of the Year, Carsyn Swaney (
@carsynswaney
).
Congratulations to all on a great season!
📰:
Made it all the way back home just to realize I left my computer charger plugged into the outlet at The Hoover Met.
I guess I’m not as professional as I thought. 🤦♂️
Alcoa’s Brady Haun, Eli Graf and Brandon Winton were named to the All-Tournament team.
Jahvin Carter (
@JahvinCarter
) was named the Region Tournament MVP.
If you've got time at 5 ET tonight, tune into the SEC Network where I'll be making an appearance on the
@finebaum
show to talk Vol football, The Daily Beacon and more live in front of Ayers Hall.
Sports doesn’t get A1 often, so it’s never not cool to see my name there on the front page.
Former Met and Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey spoke at the Maryville City Schools Spotlight yesterday.
📰:
We released our fall sports All-Daily Times teams of the year earlier this week.
Here’s our All-Daily Times football team, including
@alcoafootball
’s Eli Graf, our Player of the Year, and Bacon Lauderback, our Special Teams Player of the Year.
2022 was a pretty good year for me as a journalist. I covered a couple SEC championships for
@UTKBeaconSports
, got a job with
@TDT_Sports
and finished my degree.
Here’s a thread of some of my favorite/memorable stories from this past year (Apologies, it is a bit long).
“Knox shows what pure love and pure joy is whenever you’re around him.”
The story of Knox Borgerding and his unexpected friendship with
@Vol_Baseball
’s Jorel Ortega and
@EvanRussell_4
.
- All-Conference player ✅
- Win conference championship ✅
- Finish degree ✅
- Sign professionally … ✅
@MylesRasm
checked off the last goal that he came to
@MCMensHoops
with by signing with Miasto Szkła Krosno in Poland this weekend.
📍Omaha, NE
Bucket list item. Didn’t go in 2021 when I had the chance and I always regretted it. Glad to be here now.
Lots of coverage coming to
@TDT_Sports
over the weekend, so be sure to follow along!
Maryville-William Blount round four in an elimination game in the Region 2-4A semifinals, Tuesday night at WBHS.
@MHSRebelsMBB
won both regular-season meetings, but
@WBHSHoops
won the district-tournament matchup.
This is gonna be must-watch television.
News from Maryville College: the
@MCScots
are joining the SAA.
Football and women’s golf will begin SAA play in fall 2025, and the rest of their varsity sports will follow in 2026.
Big move for the Scots, who left the USA South to form the CCS in 2022.
Latest news here from Greeneville: the Greene Devils are ready to call the game, but Alcoa does not want to.
Both teams have to agree before it is officially called one way or the other, so TBD.
Heritage is your District 5-3A regular-season champs.
Mountaineers have come a LONG way this year. Currently 6-1 with a district title after going 0-10 in District 4-4A last season.
CLINCHED the District 5 AAA Regular Season Title!
Eli Williams 29
Parker King 9
Matthew Marsh 8
Ty Keeble 8
Gaven French 3
David Marsh 2
Landin Burrell 2
@TDT_Sports
@5StarPreps
@prepxtra
Final. William Blount 65, Maryville 52.
@WBHSHoops
avenges its two regular-season losses to the Rebels by routing them in the district semis.
The Govs will face Bearden in the district championship game Tuesday.
Maryville will get Knox West in the third-place game.
Big-time win for
@MCMensHoops
tonight at Berry, 85-83.
Reed Kemp had his best game as a Scot, with 39 points, six 3-pointers and the game-winner. Sheesh.
MC is at home for the first time this season Saturday against Washington & Lee.
Final. William Blount 45, Morristown East 35.
@wbgovsfb
survives a wild fourth quarter, improves to 4-0 for the first time since 2007, and starts Region 1-6A play 1-0.
Brett Cortez led the way with six total touchdowns.
Congratulations to the 2024 All-Daily Times Softball Team, including the Player of the Year, Alcoa’s Halle Bailey (
@hallebailey2026
) and the Pitcher of the Year, Maryville’s Bekah Duck (
@bekah_duck
).
I just showed up to William Blount for tonight’s game against Morristown East, and I have been informed that there had been a lightning strike, and everything is currently delayed.
So I guess we’re doing this again 🤦♂️
Latest news here from Greeneville: the Greene Devils are ready to call the game, but Alcoa does not want to.
Both teams have to agree before it is officially called one way or the other, so TBD.
Excited to be out in Knoxville tonight as
@MHSRebelsFB
faces Knox West.
Rebel vs. Rebel action between two really good programs. Maryville hasn’t won the rivalry since 2021.
Kicks off at 7. Follow along for updates.
Here’s the story from
@HHS_MNTNEER_FB
‘s win at South-Doyle.
The Mountaineer defense shined in the second half and Clay Travis’ pick-six sealed Heritage’s first victory of the season.
Jordan Harris (
@JordanHarris209
) contributed to
@alcoafootball
’s 8th consecutive state championship in every way possible, accumulating over 1,800 all-purpose yards and 28 total TDs as he was named The Daily Times Offensive Player of the Year.
Final. Heritage 65, Soddy Daisy 48.
The Lady Mountaineers advance to the Region 3-3A final and clinch their second straight sectional appearance.
Carsyn Swaney led with 32 points and Chloe Heath added 17. Jay Coker scored 10 points.
Back in Pigeon Forge for the girls District 2-2A Tournament championship game.
It’s No. 1 seed
@alcoagirlsbball
against No. 2 Gatlinburg-Pittman in a rematch of last year’s game, which GP won.
Tip-off is just under 10 minutes out. Follow along for updates all night.
Here's a cool feature I wrote on Maryville offensive lineman Alex Boyd ahead of the Knox Central game tonight.
Boyd, a senior, is committed to Air Force and wants to be a fighter pilot.
"He’s not going to shy away from the blood and the sweat."
From this weekend:
@Daryl11Rice
hit the game-winning shot in Maryville College’s 84-83 win at Belhaven.
The important CCS win was also
@McCoachPlaceres
’ 50th with the Scots. Of all of Maryville’s great coaches, Placeres was the fastest to 50 wins.
Plenty of
@MCMensHoops
on the CCS All-Conference awards.
Player of the Year: Reed Kemp
1st Team: Kemp and Chase Morgan
2nd Team: R.J. Simmons, Jackson Garner and Daryl Rice
Sportsmanship: Javi Rosell
And the Coach of the Year:
@McCoachPlaceres
Special thanks to
@DamichaelC
for sitting down with me! Such a cool story here on the
@UTKDailyBeacon
alum now covering his hometown NBA team in the playoffs.
It’s time to round out our spring all-county teams, so last but certainly not least, here’s the 2024 All-Daily Times Soccer Team.
Alcoa’s Diego Ojeda and Maryville’s Seth Meade are Co-Players of the Year.
Congratulations on a great season!
Tennessee is SEC champs for the first time since 1979.
#Vols
took down Texas A&M 65-50 for their first title in 43 years. Rick Barnes finally gets the Vols over the hump.
Story from last night at Maryville:
Matthew Covert had an interception, a touchdown, a fumble recovery and a forced safety — all in the first half — as the Rebels waltzed past Heritage in the opener.
Here at Alcoa High School, where I definitely saw that tip-off time was bumped up 30 minutes.
@alcoagirlsbball
leads Pigeon Forge 16-2 after the first quarter.
Should be a good one tonight between the Govs and Fulton here at WBHS.
@LadyGovsHoops
are up first at 6, and then it’s
@WBHSHoops
and Fulton boys at 7:30. Fulton recently had its 32-game winning streak snapped.
Follow along for updates all night.
Final. Alcoa 72, Gatlinburg-Pittman 55.
Alcoa defeats G-P in the Region 1-2A Championship for the second consecutive year, another banner to go along with its District 2-2A title.
Jahvin Carter had 25 points, Brady Haun had 14 with three 3’s and Eli Owens had 12.
So long from Murfreesboro. 🫡
It’s been a fun week, though I never want to see another cicada again.
Thank you to everyone who followed along this season!
Final coverage of the Spring Fling is coming to
@TDT_Sports
over the next couple days.
📰
Final. Tennessee 12, Florida State 11.
That was an instant classic. Dylan Dreiling with the walk-off hit.
The Vols rallied for four runs in the bottom of the ninth to win it. Blake Burke atoned for his error and it saved Christian Moore's cycle.
Here's a thread of the six preview stories in alphabetical order, starting with Alcoa.
Seniors Eli Graf and Eli Owens will lead the way for the Tornadoes.
"Hopefully we can lean on Eli and Eli to get us through until the rest get ready to go."
Big one tonight at Shields Stadium.
Maryville (
@MHSRebelsFB
) hosts Bradley Central to open Region 2-6A play.
The Rebels are looking to get back at the Bears after losing to them twice last season, including the playoffs.
Kicks off at 7. Follow along for updates.
Scott Cline, who took over at home plate in the umpire change midway through the Tennessee-North Carolina game, is a Maryville College alum (‘92).
Here’s the story on Cline’s frantic wardrobe change and his path to Omaha:
Good to be at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium for the very first time for Game 2 of the Knoxville Super Regional.
Tennessee and Texas coming up at 3. The Lady Vols can clinch a berth in the Women’s College Series with a win today.
Officially high school basketball season.
Maryville hosts Sevier County tonight to open the season. Girls play at at 6, boys should start around 7:30.
Follow along for updates all night.