Northview Academy vs Austin-East

Lady Cougars survive Austin-East comeback attempt, advance to district championship

BY BRIAN HAMILTON SEYMOUR – Northview Academy suffered a 60-53 loss to Austin-East back on February 10 and the Lady Cougars would have the opportunity to extract revenge in the district semifinals on Saturday night. Northview closed the first half with a 12-0 run and that proved to be just enough to hold off the pesky Lady Roadrunners in the end, as the Lady Cougars had to stave off a late comeback for a 52-48 win. “All season, we’ve said they are a really good basketball team and they’re going to be right there and they’re going to give themselves …

Fulton-Carter

Fulton advances to 12th straight district championship with win over Carter

BY BRIAN HAMILTON SEYMOUR – The last time Fulton played a season where it did not advance to the district championship game was the 2013-14 season, when the Falcons lost to Carter in the district semis. With the Hornets looking to do the same on Saturday night, Fulton would have none of it, disposing of Carter 75-56. It looked as if Fulton was going to win by 30-plus early in the fourth quarter, but some lapses in execution allowed Carter to make a couple runs and get the score to within 20 at the end of the game. “We were …

Cocke-Seymour

Cocke County uses 20-0 run to take down Lady Eagles and advance to district title

BY BRIAN HAMILTON SEYMOUR – Cocke County used an early 20-0 run to jump out on Seymour and never looked back, as the Lady Red defeated the Lady Eagles 56-20 en route to their third consecutive district title game. “Everybody is zero and zero right now,” Cocke County coach Boddie Bible said after the game. “Everybody wants to beat the number one seed coming and we’ve played here a couple of weeks ago and Seymour played us a good game. I challenged them to guard and we guarded phenomenally tonight. We fouled them a few too many times on jump …

Smoky Mountain Sports Boys Top 10 Rankings (2/15/26)

Bearden (30-1, 12-0 Class 4A District 4) Maryville (24-3, 6-0 Class 4A District 2) Alcoa (15-11, 8-0 Class 3A District 5) Fulton (18-8, 9-1 Class 3A District 3) Gatlinburg-Pittman (20-4, 8-0 Class 2A District 2) Sevier County (15-7, 4-2 Class 4A District 2) Lakeway Christian (20-9, 14-2 Division II East Region District 1) Seymour (18-7, 7-2 Class 3A District 3) Austin-East (15-11, 7-2 Class 3A District 3) Farragut (21-9, 9-3 Class 4A District 4)

Smoky Mountain Girls Basketball Top 10 Rankings (2/15/26)

Bearden (26-3, 12-0 Class 4A District 4) Cocke County (26-4, 10-0 Class 3A District 3) Gatlinburg-Pittman (23-3, 8-0 Class 2A District 2) Alcoa (20-7, 8-0 Class 3A District 5) Sevier County (18-5, 6-0 Class 4A District 2) The King’s Academy (23-8, 11-2 DII East Region District 1) Heritage (23-5, 6-2 Class 3A District 5) Northview Academy (20-5, 7-3 Class 3A District 3) Farragut (20-9, 10-2 Class 4A District 4) Morristown East (20-6, 6-2 Class 4A District 1)