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Best friends Camryn Sarvis and Brylee Mesusan first talked about their dream when they were in second grade: play for the Tennessee softball team and win championships. Twelve years later, that dream has come true.
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As a TSSAA official, Brent Warner made thousands of tough calls without making enemies. Warner, who died Saturday at the age of 46, was extremely well respected by both coaches and his peers.
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Big Stone Gap in the house! #Hokies
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Despite his rapid rise to fame, Gate City native Mac McClung has always kept things in perspective.
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With gratitude to those who have asked and those who have prayed, our Kevin Mays @kevmays is on his way home from the hospital. (Thanks for the photo, Sammy Belcher.)
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Former @GeorgetownHoops coach John Thompson Jr.: “I love Mac McClung. A lot of kids can’t handle the rigors of college basketball, especially at this level, but he has proven that he can. He is very polite and the type of kid that I would have recruited.”
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My, oh, my!! @pioneerslive RT @JBHTSports : Here it is.....Crockett is going to state with 73-70 win.. @patgood00
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Big Blue Country, here are your 2019-20 VHSL Class 2 state champs! 🏆
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Longtime @dbtribelive coach Graham Clark to be inducted into Tennessee Football Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame
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Landon Knack was on a historic roll when college baseball was shut down. The NCAA doesn’t have a record for strikeout-to-walk ratio on file, but it’s pretty safe to say few pitchers have approached the 51-to-1 mark the @ETSU_Baseball righty had fashioned.
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OFFICIAL: The Lakers have signed Mac McClung and Chaundee Brown Jr.
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“To finally be here is just unbelievable. I’m a blessed man." — Scott Vermillion after his @bluedevilslive boys captured their first state 🏀 championship Friday night, breaking records and reaching milestones along the way (with 📸 gallery)
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My, my, my! Southwest Virginia can ball, y'all. #276
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Gate City girls capture second state basketball title
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BREAKING: Former Gate City @bluedevilslive and Texas Tech basketball star @mcclungmac has signed a 10-day hardship contract with the NBA's Chicago Bulls
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Detroit Tigers pitcher and former @hilltopperslive standout @DanielNorris18 will serve as grand marshal of Johnson City 's Christmas Parade!
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The state champion Dobyns-Bennett boys basketball team is scheduled to arrive at the main parking lot on the school campus about 2 p.m. on Sunday. All Tribe fans are welcome to come celebrate the Indians’ title.
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Phil Robbins has seven state football championships and two state track titles. But to the longtime Powell Valley coach, most important "is how many kids you have that turn out to be productive people in society."
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Two years in high school, three state championships: Sasha Neglia of @dbtribelive named the Female Athlete of the Year for Northeast Tennessee
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McClung scores 21 as Georgetown knocks off No. 17 Villanova 85-73
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“I still can’t believe we actually did it.” — Daniel Boone’s Little League softball team goes from happy to make the regional to a World Series berth
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Senior Jaycie Jenkins of @booneblazerlive can be considered a rarity: a student-athlete who excels in three sports — basketball, softball and volleyball — as well as in the classroom.
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Kyleigh Bacon's homer leads Tennessee to victory; the girls from Gray are your Southeast Regional champs! They're going to Portland!
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Austin Lewis was a freshman All-American at Liberty, played on ETSU’s Southern Championship team and has been a part of the Tennessee Vols when they’ve beaten their two biggest rivals.
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Player of the year Bradley Dean heads up the 2019-20 Times News All-Southwest Virginia boys 🏀 team, which also features Isaiah McAmis, Elijah Hayes, Ethan Powers, Alex Rasnick and Chase Hungate; Scotty Vermillion of @bluedevilslive is coach of the year.
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BREAKING: Dobyns-Bennett survived a late push from Bearden to win the TSSAA Class 4A championship on Saturday at the Murphy Center.
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Joe Pennucci, the @ETSU_Baseball coach, had his team on a roll. The Bucs were 12-3 with a win over No. 24 Clemson to their credit, so when he told his players the season had been put on hold, it was an emotional moment.
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#NASCAR driver Joey Logano raved about the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race during his visit with Discovery Channel's "Street Outlaws," which will be racing and filming at Bristol on Tuesday. Admission is free and gates open at 11 a.m.
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🏀 Gate City becomes first public high school in U.S. to have back-to-back-to-back 2,000-point scorers. Bradley Dean crossed the mark Wednesday to become third player to hit the mark and put @bluedevilslive in some pretty elite company. Read more:
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Sandlick Field is hallowed ground to those who put on the red football uniforms of the Haysi Tigers. And for 33 years they fought with pride for their school and their program under the watchful eye and creative mind of James Colley
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Retiring @dbtribelive football coach Graham Clark: “I will miss Fridays and I will miss Sunday afternoons with the coaches. I loved everything about it. It was a blessing and honor to serve at Dobyns-Bennett.”
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⚽ Tony Weaver, who spent the past eight years as an assistant, got his chance at the top spot Tuesday when he was named the new girls soccer coach at @dbtribelive
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Nikole Counts of @ridgeviewlive and Cade Hungate of @AtownBSBL are the Times News players of the year for Southwest Virginia
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VHSL Hall of Famer Phil Robbins, coordinator of the the Backpack Lunch Project for students of Union Primary: “It’s about hope. If a kid doesn’t have hope, he doesn’t have a chance."
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Lights-out defense was the mantra for the @bluedevilslive girls basketball team in a stunning 53-43 upset of Region 2C champion Floyd County on Friday night inside Auburn’s Teel Gymnasium. Next up? The #VHSL Final Four — with @tcookJCPKTN 📸📸
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The outcome of Saturday’s Region 2D boys 🏀 championship game came right down to the final second but in the end, Gate City @bluedevilslive survived a furious Wise Central rally to take a dramatic 46-45 win and claim the title. — with Sammy Belcher 📸📸
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Mac McClung will be wearing Bulls red for another 10 days after signing a second 10-day contract with Chicago, the team announced Saturday.
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Senior Lendon Redwine — owner of "the best job in Kingsport — takes his role as the starting quarterback for the @dbtribelive 🏈 team very seriously
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📸🏈 @centralvalive fought its way to a 4th straight win, rushing for 375 yards to turn back host @bluedevilslive . But one GC player enjoyed a very special senior night surprise. (Roddy Addington 📸📸 gallery: )
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"I am blessed that God has allowed me to be a part of these kids’ lives." — After 20 years as a head basketball coach, Wise Central’s T.J. McAmis is hanging up his whistle.
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SURVEY SAYS ... Mac McClung and Logan Reynolds are the best high school basketball players ever to play the game in Southwest Virginia, according our completely informal, unscientific poll conducted via social media.
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🏀 Gate City has the Region 2D and Mountain 7 players of the year — Bradley Dean and Sarah Thompson — for Class 2 teams, and Wise Central (T.J. McAmis), Union (Kory Bostic) and Abingdon (Jimmy Brown) boast the coaches of the year.
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How about those Bucs! #ETSUTough @ETSUFootball
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Chiefs show #fightfor5 in rout of Sullivan Central (with photos by Bobby Vaughn)
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Tennessee native Justin Pressley is coming home from Chicago to become the new football coach at @vhsfalconslive
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"Outstanding play by James Mitchell." (Well ... of course.)
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yessir ‼️ @j_mitch82 #HardHatMentality 👷🏽‍♂️
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Mac McClung of @bluedevilslive sweeps 2A West Region, All-Conference 40 player of year awards (with list of teams)
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Gate City's road to the #VHSL Class 2 boys 🏀 title was littered with shattered records, and the player who broke them — @bluedevilslive 's Mac McClung — earned top honors in Region 2D and the Mountain 7 (with complete teams)
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Survey says ... Former @unionbearslive star James Mitchell was voted the top receiver to come out of Southwest Virginia, heading a list that also includes Carroll Dale, Aaron Fuller, Mike Owens, Austin Fuller and Dakota Stanley.
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Rising Gate City @bluedevilslive senior Sarah Thompson announced Sunday that she's verbally committed to attend and play basketball at East Tennessee State in the 2021-22 season.
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Gate City native Mac McClung might have single-handedly restored the shine on an NBA All-Star slam dunk contest that has been widely panned in recent years.
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A labor of love: More and more Southwest Virginia high schools are adding internet sports radio play-by-play broadcasts, giving fans a fresh way to connect with their favorite teams.
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Mac McClung did something that no Gate City athlete had ever done, and something that no basketball player from the region had done in decades, making his ascent into the NBA the Times News' top sports story from Southwest Virginia for 2021.
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KCS has announced appointment of Megan Devine as head coach for the @dbtribelive girls’ volleyball program at D-B
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📸📸 PHOTO GALLERY: The @dbtribelive 🏈 team welcomed Greeneville to The Fred on Friday night and got a firsthand look at why the Greene Devils are the defending #TSSAA 4A champions
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Headed to the #VHSL Class 2 Final Four!
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Congratulations to the Daniel Boone Little League softball team for its tremendous run to the #LLWS . The girls from Gray fell 9-2 in the championship bracket quarterfinal round Monday.
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Player of the year Sarah Thompson heads up the 2019-20 Times News All-Southwest Virginia girls 🏀 team, which also features Peyton Carter, Kaylee Yates, Jayda Smith, Anna Whited and Lakin Burke. Kelly Houseright of @bluedevilslive is the coach of the year.
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#VHSL coup: @bluedevilslive boys dethrone two-time defending state champion Radford — ending the Bobcats' 37-game winning streak — to advance to the Class 2 Final Four
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Jaycie Jenkins played just a couple of games in what most consider her best sport. Despite missing most of the softball season because of the pandemic, the Daniel Boone senior was the easy choice for the 2019-20 Times News Female Athlete of the Year.
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The games went on Friday night, not because of some rock-headed idea that football must be played at all costs. They went on mainly because our student-athletes need a sense of belonging more than any generation before them.
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Several familiar names — John Fulkerson, Makale Foreman, Patrick Good, Courtney Whitson, Macie Culbertson, Emily Schubert and Shy Tuelle from NET and James Mitchell, Mac McClung, Zac Ervin and Luke Lawson from SW Va. — are making noise outside our region.
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Dobyns-Bennett used a nearly flawless overtime period to defeat Bearden 69-60 on Saturday in the TSSAA Class 4A title game for the Tribe's first boys basketball state championship since 1945.
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ICYMI: Tight end @j_mitch82 James Mitchell, the former @unionbearslive star from Big Stone Gap, will forgo his recognizable No. 82 and don Frank Beamer’s No. 25 when the No. 25-ranked #Hokies welcome Pittsburgh for Saturday's #ACC matchup.
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Landon Knack of @ETSU_Baseball is hoping a short spring was good enough to launch a long professional baseball career
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🏆 Willa Rogers became Dobyns-Bennett's first female state champion in singles in 43 years on Friday at the TSSAA Large Schools tennis championships in Murfreesboro.
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Mac McClung scored 26 points in 35:45 minutes on the court and Georgetown beat Syracuse 89-79 on Saturday afternoon after a rash of transfers plunged the program into scandal and depleted the roster. #Collegebasketball
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The @dbtribelive 🏈 team had a weapon at QB. When 🏀 season arrived, the Indians used Zane Whitson in a different way. Together it was two very successful seasons, and Whitson’s impact helped him become the 2019-20 Times News Male Athlete of the Year.
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Sarah Thompson and Kelly Houseright of @bluedevilslive named the Virginia High School Coaches Association girls basketball Class 2 all-state player and coach of the year on Sunday.
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Jackson McDavid struck out 11 batters and @dbtribelive eked out a 2-1 win over Big 7 rival @booneblazerlive on Monday in a mutual ⚾ season opener (with @F15Todd 📸📸)
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BEST OF SW VIRGINIA: The football sections of the VHSL, ACC and UVA record books could be confused with memory books for Thomas Jones, voted by fans as the best running back in far Southwest Virginia high school history.
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🏈 ICYMI: @chiefslive senior quarterback Collin Trent hasn’t suited up for action on the football field in more than a year, and he’s itching to get back out there — especially inside Big Red Valley.
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🏀 Gate City becomes first public high school in U.S. to have back-to-back-to-back 2,000-point scorers. Bradley Dean crossed the mark Wednesday to become third player to hit the mark and put @bluedevilslive in some pretty elite company
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Mac McClung: “I’m not really worried what other people think, good or bad. I’m just staying the course. My goal is to make an impact in the NBA, and I’m just going to keep working until that happens.”
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Boone meets world: Girls from Gray open their quest to win a championship Wednesday night in the Little League Softball World Series
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Union's Bradley Bunch and Zack Moore and Gate City's Sarah Thompson and Kelly Houseright doubled up, heading both the All-Region 2D and All-Mountain 7 🏀 teams. — 📋 with complete list of 2D and Mountain 7 boys and girls, Region 1D girls teams
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Virginia Tech star tight end James Mitchell is making the jump to the NFL.
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It’s Championship game day for @eastsidevalive @centralvalive and @bluedevilslive ! Who’s feeling #SWVAStrong ? Show us those school colors!
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Kingsport native and @bluedevilslive graduate Tanner Alley is the new assistant coach for the @LMURailsplitter women’s basketball team, the university announced this week.
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🏀 @bluedevilslive senior @zacervin23 garners player of the year honors on @tnsportslive All-Southwest Virginia team; @pdamron23 from @eastsidevalive named coach of the year
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Sasha Neglia will be the first @dbtribelive runner ever to compete in the Nike Cross Nationals after her runner-up finish Saturday in the Southeast Regionals
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Junior Sarah Thompson had 24 points and six steals, and the @bluedevilslive girls 🏀 team advanced to the state championship game for the first time since 2014 with a hard-fought 59-52 victory over @unionbearslive on Tuesday. — with @roddyaddington1 📸📸
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Five seniors will be honored before the @ETSU_MBB game against Western Carolina on Saturday at Freedom Hall. If things go the way the Bucs hope, there will be an even bigger celebration afterward.
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🥎 @UVAWiseCavs junior third baseman and former @eastsidevalive standout Kaylee Jones has been named the 2020 Virginia Sports Information Directors College Division Softball player of the year
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J. Richard Carroll, who spent nearly five decades as an educator in the Bloomingdale community and was a devotee of @snhsraiderslive athletics, died Saturday
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“I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to lead this program.” — Travis Mains, who led the @booneblazerlive girls 🏀 team to a 30-5 record and a state quarterfinal appearance last season, steps down
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PREP ROUNDUP: Ellie Francis hit a 3-pointer with 3.2 seconds left to lift @dbtribelive to a 43-40 victory over @patriotslive on Tuesday night ... plus the @schscougarslive girls and @snhsraiderslive boys earned season-opening wins.
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