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Steve Shipley is @ Centennial H.S. and is doing great. He is certainly still young enough to be looked upon as a hot young coach. He did a great job @ Oak Ridge and D-B. He is an outstanding coach and an even better person.

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Dobyns-Bennett High School - Skip Brown

Thanks Stokomo, for getting this started. I remember your playing days well (I broadcast your games) and greatly appreciate you bringing your enthusiasm to this D-B team. The state tournamment is a great experience and a great achievement. I know I'm proud (hey, Stokomo, I'm proud of you, too). Roll Tribe Roll. How 'Bout Them Indians

The next first step is to beat a very good Bearden team tonight @ the Buck Van Huss Dome. Should bes, could bes, and would bes won't matter at all unless the Tribe is ready to play tonight. Nobody gets this far without talent and momentum, so Indians, don't take the Bulldogs lightly. Good luck Indians

I don't expect as much from other teams and their fans as I expect from ours (D-, so the old adage from Peter Marshall on Hollywood Squares of "turnabout is fair play" does not apply as far as I am concerned. They can talk all they want, we should stay above the muck and the mire of name calling and other classless behaviors, such as walking off the court without shaking hands, or making jestures to the crowd when you make a shot. C-Mo would jerk one of our players off the court if they acted like that and should...yea, that's old school but it's a good school.

I am really tired of all the threads from northeast TN. being mean and hateful. I am a D-B grad, former player, former broadcaster, parent of a D-B player, and parent of a Sevier player and I am VERY proud of this Indian team, but, it is despicable to downgrade other people (teams or schools) to attempt to upgrade yourself and that goes for fans everywhere. D-B and Science Hill have a great rivalry that goes back long before I was born. It is based on the respect earned on the playing field (or court) - to be successful in H.S. football in N.E TN you have to compare to D-B, in basketball it used to be a joint comparison to D-B & Science Hill, then the Hill took that for their own in the 90s. Now D-B wants back in, okay great, continue to compete. It makes for great basketball. I want D-B to win every time they play anything against anyone, the "Hill" fans do and should feel the same. Thats what being a fan is about. Talking "smack" isn't about being a fan. Cheer for your team, not against your opponent. All the kids whose season has completed, I salute you for your efforts and I am sorry it ended before you were ready for it to. I used to sign off every radio ballgame broadcast with a saying..."If you learn something when you lose, you'll end up a winner in the end"...I am real sorry that some of my fellow D-B supporters didn't learn enough when we lost to be better winners now. My son @ Sevier, a 13 year old, was booed this season by adult fans of another school when he was introduced before a game, not very classy and neither is badmouthing the opposition. Coach Poe and Coach Burns both did a great job this year. Coach Morgan has done a great job this year. Let's be excited for the opportunities given to the players by these coaches and the thrills that we had getting to watch the strategies and efforts in the games played. My 8th grade son got to finish his season with a Sectional Championship, he made all-tournament and his best friend Coty Sensabaugh got the MVP, but the lasting memory for me was watching my son hug Manny Reid from Science Hill, in mutual admiration and respect. Two very good players who get better because and when they play against one another...and they understand that, we adults should as well. I am proud of the season the Hilltoppers had, at the middle school level and on the "Hill". I am proud of Sevier's championship and am looking forward to the continued rivalry as these middle schoolers head to H.S. I am excited that the Indians get to play for a Regional Championship and Substate, and hopefully get to Murfreesboro and I want them to win the State Title, but if they don't do all these great things it's been the effort that means something, their achievements are due to their efforts. The D-B slogan of "loved, or hated, but never ignored", is true because of earned respect, effort and acheivement, not how well we "smack" (trash) talked. Indian fans, let's let our actions match the class shown by our coaches and players

1) Hoosiers 2) One on One 3) Fast Break All three movies talk about dreams (dreams of success), how they change, how you get there, how you can't make everyone happy, but you have try your best all the time. They show disappointment, heartbreak, betrayal, persistence, victory over adversity, and how people love to jump on that bandwagon of a winner. They illustrate how sometimes you win, sometimes you loose, but you have to dress out for all of them. Basketball is the tool to illustrate life in all three of these movies, all done with a different spin, and all done with the actors (& actresses) doing there own basketball court work. But, Hoosiers is by far the best.

Hey D-B fans, John Sevier Middle School won the TMSAA Sectional (the East Tennessee Middle School State Championship) Saturday with a one point overtime victory over the Science Hill 8th grade team. The Warriors beat Alcoa by 9, Sevierville by 26, and the Toppers by one. Sevier had four players make the all-state team - Logan Williamson, Xavier Skaggs, Josef Throp, and MVP Coty Sensabaugh. It was a great season for this team and a gutsy win over an equally outstanding S.H. team. Coach Morgan and Mrs. Coach Morgan were in the stands in Pigeon Forge to support the Warriors and C Mo gave the boys a post game talk. Another very classy move by this outstanding coach and supportive wife. Big congratulations to Sevier's Coach Marty Moore, who was a very positive leader for this team and did a great coaching job all season. Way to go Warriors! We look forward to you all becoming Indians. Roll Tribe!

Northeast Tennessee is very well represented in the TMSAA Sectional semi-finals being played today in Pigeon Forge...on the boys side Colonial Heights (Area 1 #3 seed) plays Science Hill (Area 1 #2 seed) and John Sevier Middle from Kingsport (Area 1 #1 seed) plays Sevierville (Area 2 #1 seed). On the girls side, all three of Area 1's teams are in the final four - Greeneville, T.A. Dugger (Elizabethton), and Colonial Heights. Way to go Northeast Tennessee.

Northeast TN. has four very good players - Coty Sensabaugh & Josef Throp from John Sevier Middle in Kingsport and Emanuelle Reid & Omar Wattad from Science Hill Middle in Johnson City

I think you are correct on Omar's last name. I'd say he is about 6'1" or so. A really good player, needs to control his emotions (got a "T" last night), plays to the crowd a little more than he should. Emanuelle "Manny" Reid is the real deal. You probably are aware that his dad is Winfred Reid who was such a fine player @ ETSU. Winfred seems to be a fine man and proud father as well. Throp and Sensabaugh from Sevier are the real deal, too. I think Reid, Throp, Sensabaugh and a few others are going to play a little AAU together this spring and summer, so that should be fun. Reid, Throp, and Sensabaugh have outstanding skills well above their grade level, but all three need a bit more height to be able to compete effectively on the varsity high school level as freshmen. Omar has the size, but needs to work on his attitude and ballhandling.

Sevier also has another legacy on his way to D-B...Josef Throp; his older brother Walker Throp is a junior @ D-B, who plays football and basketball, but had reconstructive surgery on his knee after a torn ACL in the D-B vs. MBA football game. Sevier beat SH 57-48 in another great game between these two teams. Coty Sensabaugh had 14, Logan Williamson had 13 and Josef Throp had 12 for Sevier, Manny Reid had 18 for SH and Omar (don't know his last name) had 17. Those five kids do some amazing things for middle school age players. They are going to have some exciting contests for years to come. The respect level between the players is truly inspiring, they obviously enjoy competing with one another. Hugs of real admiration are exchanged every game between Throp and Reid and Sensabaugh and Reid. Manny, Omar, Micah, #22 and #52 are real fine players for SH (with a good solid, deep bench). Throp, Sensabaugh, Williamson, Blackwell, Lane, & Burton do a great job for Sevier (again with a solid, deep bench). Colonial Heights has a couple of good big kids on their 8th grade team and T.A. Dugger has some good players as well, but Reid, Throp, Sensabaugh, and Omar play at a different level and help to upgrade the level of their teammates and their teammates have responded all season for both teams. Coach Marty Moore @ Sevier and the SH 8th grade coach (I apologize for not knowing his name) have done a great job with these players and they will continue to grow under Coach Morgan and Coach Poe. Sevier, Science Hill, and Colonial Heights all advance to the TMSSA Sectional. The tradition of outstanding high school basketball in the Tri-Cities area will continue with these young men. Stay tuned.

Sevier Middle School and Science Hill havce played five (5) times with "the Hill" winning the first four. These two teams are very evenly matched (one win for SH was by one, with Sevier hitting a last second shot that was interestingly waved off due to a walk called on the person who threw the pass to set up the shot and Sevier lost the conference championship when their leading scorer was injured in the 2nd quarter, he had to get eight stitches in his chin, with Sevier up nine, he didn't return to the game. There is great respect between the players on the two teams. Sevier has two outstanding guards in Josef Throp and Coty Sensabaugh. Throp is an amazing ballhandler and passer, good scorer, and a very solid defender, too. Sensabaugh is a great slasher to the bucket, with a solid jumper and plays very good defense, he is Sevier's leading scorer. Sevier has other very good players in post player Logan Williamson, wing Brad Blackwell, post Wesley Lane, and wing Bo Burton. Manny Reid from Science Hill is a great player, a very good shooter, defender and ballhandler. "The Hill" has another player, Omar (I am sorry I don't know his last name) who is their tallest player, who has a solid post game offensively, but also can step out and hit threes with regularity. They have a good ballhandler in Micah (again don't know his last name) who has great range on his three pointer. Last night, Sevier had Sensabaugh with 14, Williamson with 13, Throp with 12...Reis had 18 and Omar had 17 for SH. These are two good teams who enjoy the competition with each other and respect each others abilities (a lot of hugs between the two teams after each game) and they are coachable. They are going to be fun to watch over the next few years. Stay tuned