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The Marist Lady War Eagles from Atlanta captured the 2023 Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic championship Saturday night with a 43-31 win over Jackson Southside of Tennessee. The Eagles, led by tournament most valuable offensive player Kate Harpring, was up by a single point at 17-16 at intermission, but [...]

Bartlett’s Lady Panthers from West Tennessee won the third place game in the Ladies Classic, turning back Webb School of Knoxville 78-54. The Panthers led by a slender 13-12 margin after a quarter, but went to work in the second with a 25-9 run that lifted them to a [...]

George Rogers Clark of Kentucky won fifth place in the tournament, cruising to an 81-40 win over Cocke County. Leading 35-18 at halftime, the Cardinals put the game away with a 28-14 scoring blitz in the third quarter. Ciara Byars netted 15 points with five steals, Teigh Yeast had [...]

The Bearden Lady Bulldogs settled for a sixth place finish in the Ladies Classic, breezing past North Greene 70-28. The Lady Huskies played five games in five days of the tournament. Natayla Hodge pumped in 24 points to lead the Bulldogs who shot to a 19-6 first quarter lead [...]

Greeneville’s Lady Devils downed South Greene 70-46 in the second of two loser’s bracket finals. The Devils went up 16-8 after one quarter and had the Rebels down 29-16 at intermission. Abby Adkins led the way with 26 points and nine rebounds to lead the winners. Kyla Jobe added [...]

Upperman’s Lady Bees got off to a good start and knocked off Oak Ridge 50-35 in one of the two loser’s bracket finals Saturday. After getting knocked off in the first round by Cocke County, Upperman recovered to get some wins in the loser’s bracket, culminating it with the [...]

Marist has become one of the rare non-Tennessee teams to make the finals of the Ladies Classic after knocking off Bartlett in a 57-54 thriller in the final semifinal Friday. Marist, from Atlanta, will take on Jackson Southside Saturday at 5 p.m. for the championship. The Eagles of Marist [...]

The Lady Hawks from Jackson Southside earned a berth in the Ladies Classic championship game on Saturday after defeating the Spartans from Knox Webb in the first semifinal game of the evening. Points were precious in this one with two teams playing at a rapid pace but neither able [...]

North Greene’s Lady Huskies have won three games in the Ladies Classic for the first time ever, thanks to a 45-42 win over Daniel Boone Friday night. The Lady Huskies took advantage of a poor shooting night by the Blazers (14-55 for 25 percent) and held off a late [...]

With University of Tennessee Coach Kellie Harper looking on, Bearden’s Natalya Hodge scored a tournament best 36 points and led the Lady Bulldogs to a 71-61 win over Steward School of Virginia Friday evening. Hodge, along with teammate Kendall Anne Murphy who scored 22, supplied Bearden’s offense accounting for [...]

George Rogers Clark of Kentucky came out firing on all cylinders Friday and won with relative ease 72-50 over the Irish of Knox Catholic. Playing with great intensity, the Cardinals raced out to a 19-9 first period lead and never let off the gas at all in the second [...]

Cocke County got back on the winning track Friday afternoon, moving past Mercy Academy of Louisville, Ky., 64-57. The game was back-and-forth most of the way until the winning Lady Red gained the upper hand with an 11-2 run over a two minute stretch late in the game to [...]

The Chuckey-Doak Lady Knights came within an eyelash of pulling off one of their biggest victories in a number of years, but gritty county rival South Greene battled back from a deficit of as much as 17 points to take a 65-62 win Friday. South Greene stormed back as [...]

Morristown West made a game which seemed out of reach in the third quarter interesting down the stretch, but the Greeneville Lady Devils held on for a 60-51 win over the Lady Trojans Friday morning. Greeneville held a 23-point advantage at 50-27 late in the third quarter, and was [...]

Elizabethton’s Lady Cyclones started off Day 4 of the Ladies Classic by taking a 67-27 win over West Greene in the opener. The Cyclones held the Buffs scoreless in the first quarter in going up 21-0 and it was 35-7 at intermission. Michelle Shields led the winners with 17 [...]

The showdown between Marist and George Rogers Clark, two teams loaded with talented college prospects as underclassmen, was everything it was projected to be as Marist of Atlanta slipped past the Cardinals from Kentucky in a 47-43 thriller in the day’s final quarterfinal game. Marist came from behind in [...]

Webb School of Knoxville breezed past their third straight opponent in the Ladies Classic, cruising past Mercy Academy of Kentucky 68-37 to advance to Friday night’s semifinal round where they will take on Jackson Southside. The Spartans started hot and never quit. They were up 20-4 at the first [...]

In one of the most intense games to date in the tournament, Bartlett from West Tennessee held on for a 55-52 win over the Irish of Knox Catholic. Bartlett advances to the tourney semifinals on Friday and will play in the 9 p.m. nightcap. The two squads battled tooth-and-nail [...]

Cocke County had become the “Cinderella” story of the Ladies Classic after pulling off two wins the past couple of days that would be considered upsets by most observers, but the Lady Red were unable to pull off another one Thursday as Jackson Southside took a 48-36 hard-earned victory. [...]

Bearden was knocked into the loser’s bracket in the first round of the Classic, but they proved to the Hal Henard crowd Thursday that they are definitely one of the class teams in Tennessee after moving past Greeneville 70-35. After a relatively slow start, leading 20-14 after one quarter, [...]

In a game which saw a combined total of 57 free throws attempted (34 by North Greene and 23 by C-D), the Lady Huskies of North Greene knocked off county rival Chuckey-Doak 69-42. North Greene led by only 33-27 at halftime, but they salted the game away in the [...]

Steward School of Virginia had no trouble in taking a 58-38 victory over Morristown West at the Classic Thursday. The Spartans started strong with a 21-8 first quarter lead and held a commanding 46-16 advantage at intermission and had the game well in hand. Steward was led by Tori [...]

The Lady Blazers of Boone and South Greene’s Lady Rebs staged a competitive game from start to finish with Boone coming away a 76-67 winner. Boone led most of the way but could never put the game out of reach as South Greene kept battling back. It was 30-27 [...]

Mercy Academy of Louisville, Ky., held off Greeneville 53-49 in the night’s finale at Hal Henard Gym. The Jaguars got 17 points and five assists from Abby Reitzel, 14 points from Addyson Becker, and 10 points and five steals from Peyton Arnold. Greeneville answered with 16 points from Kyla [...]

Cocke County faced their second tough challenge in a row in the Ladies Classic and again came out on top, beating Steward School from Virginia 60-46 Wednesday. The Lady Red from Newport seemed in control the entire way, but it took a fourth quarter blitz for them to turn [...]

The Cardinals from George Rogers Clark out of Winchester, Ky., proved too much for the North Greene Lady Huskies to handle as they romped to a 71-25 win on Wednesday. The Kentucky squad came out clicking and moved to a 22-2 first quarter lead and never looked back as [...]

Bartlett’s Panthers won their second game of the tournament, running past Daniel Boone 57-39. Bartlett never trailed, starting with a 12-7 first quarter and a 27-14 advantage by intermission. Their lead grew during a 19-11 run in the third quarter and they were never threatened down the stretch. The [...]

The Hawks of Jackson Southside broke from a 50-50 tie with 1:16 left in the game to score the final five points and defeat the Morristown West Trojans 55-50 Wednesday. The Hawks (9-3)  led the vast majority of the game, but could not put away the Trojans who came [...]

Bearden is not the first team to arrive at the Ladies Classic with an unblemished record and leave town with at least one loss on their slate, and they turned into the latest victim as fellow Knoxville rival Webb School posted a 65-47 upset win Wednesday. The Lady Bulldogs [...]

Upperman and Elizabethton staged a 3-point shooting contest in Day 2’s first game Wednesday as the Lady Bees from Baxter captured a 63-54 win in a loser’s bracket game. The two teams threw up a total of 44 3-pointers in the game, with Upperman hitting 10 and Betsy 9. [...]

Talented Bartlett High from West Tennessee had no trouble in rolling past West Greene 66-16 in the day’s finale. Bartlett ran out to a 17-2 first quarter lead which pretty well set the stage for the rest of this game. Kay Kay Sheffield scored 16 points to lead the [...]

Oak Ridge had no answer for North Greene’s post presence, and the end result was another surprise in the opening round of the tourney as the Lady Huskies knocked off the Wildcats 52-45 Tuesday night. North Greene’s duo of Hannah Miller and Haley Bailey were so dominant in the [...]

Upperman, always one of the favorites when the Ladies Classic unfolds, was relegated to the loser’s bracket in their initial tournament game as Cocke County’s Lady Red pulled off a 45-41 win in a thriller. The Lady Bees, who lost for only the second time this year after 11 [...]

The Lady Spartans of Webb School in Knoxville controlled the second half and moved to a 65-47 win over the Elizabethton Lady Cyclones in the tournament’s opener Tuesday afternoon. Leading by a slender 28-25 margin at halftime, Webb began to pull away in the third quarter when they outscored [...]