coachjohnson

go eagles!

That's why they play the game.  Nothing is guaranteed.  I stand corrected; hard work, fundamentals done correctly in practice, and many of the other things Coach Dustin Sullivan is doing, will guarantee

a great effort from his team.

GO EAGLES!

Maybe next year UC. Is that CROW good?. Keep recruiting, keep recruiting, keep recruiting. Can't wait to here what CRYBABY LAMAR has to say.

Well, did you hear?  The thousands of parents that didn't have a daughter playing in the state tournament stole all

the crow.  Coach Lamar has managed to make it to another state semi-final.  Good job Coach Lamar

VB 49 - 48 with 24.1 seconds to go.

Wow,  51-51 overtime

Right on, finish umm off!

VB 49 - 48 with 24.1 seconds to go.

Pulling for VB tonight to beat that no good, low down, cheating private team.

Van Buren up 44-42 in the 4th quarter.  Go Eagles

You're living in a dream world. None of McMinn's juniors or seniors could start for Central

How did McMinn County do with Soddy Daisy tonight?

Anyone have a score?

Walker Valley by 50, I think the score was 73-23

Could be the top 2 teams in the state.

What's the score??

 

Signal has a volleyball player who signed with FL in her JR. year. They want her down there in Jan. Is this your average player? NO! She's 6'++ and can touch 11'4" on vertical leap. We had a quarterback who left in Dec. a couple of years ago and is a back-up role at KY.

 

These are not your usual athletes. Encourage your sons and daughters to represent their HS's.

 

What a joke! Where in the world does a person get off making a statement like this???

11'4" - Give me a break. The top of a girl's volleyball net is 7'4 and 1/4"

I guess she will jumping over the net soon.

28th ANNUAL CHOO CHOO CLASSIC

OOLTEWAH HIGH

RED BANK HIGH AND MIDDLE

AUGUST 29-30, 2014

 

 

FRIDAY POOLS AT OOTEWAH: FIND YOUR TEAM NUMBER TO FIND YOUR SCHEDULE

 

POOL A POOL B POOL C POOL D

1.OOLTEAH 5.SCIENCE HILL 9.CHATT.CENRAL 13.SODDY DAISY

2.LIV. ACAD 6.FARRAGUT 10.TN HIGH 14.BRADLEY

3.HARDIN VAL 7.WALKER V 11.ELIZABETH 15.SULL. EAST

4.GRACE BAPT 8.EAST HAMIL 12.CLEVELAND 16.GRACE CHRIST

 

Pool winners will start play at 10:00 Saturday morning at the

Ooltewah gym on court 1.

Pool winners: Ooltewah, Farragut, Cleveland, and Soddy Daisy

All the second place teams will be on court 2 at Ooltewah.

The 3rd and 4th place teams will be on courts 3 and 4 at Ooltewah.

I saw them early, but didn't see them in the last groupings.

I wish all the teams would post there scores.

After looking a little more, I found that there were 10 teams in the

GOLD and 10 teams in the SILVER. Anderson County didn't make it to

either. I got a good look at Farragut and Webb. Both looked strong.

Was Anderson County not in this tournament?

I saw them early, but didn't see them in the last groupings.

I wish all the teams would post there scores.

The Silver Bracket final was between Soddy Daisy and Walker Valley.

Walker topped Hume Fogg 2-1 and Soddy Daisy beat Morristown West

2-0 in the semi-finals.

Walker Valley won the Silver 2-1 over Soddy Daisy.

Soddy Daisy went 3-0 Friday night with wins over Karns (25-10 & 25-16),

over Alcoa (21-25, 25-19, and 15-7), and Webb (25-22 and 25-19).

The intensity level in the Webb match was super.

Soddy Daisy opened Saturday pool play with Centenniel, dropping a

heartbreaker 19-25, 25-19, and 13-15. Soddy Daisy beat Heritage 25-17

25-16. Farragut beat the Lady Trojans 25-16 and 26-24.

Soddy Daisy dropped to the Silver Bracket with the loss and went on

to beat Dobyns Bennett 25-22 and 25-20 before beating Morristown West.

Soddy Daisy is now 7-4 for the season.

Middle of the 3rd: Soddy Daisy 4 and Dickson 1.

The Coach T website shows Soddy Daisy playing

in the State Sectionals for 13 straight years

and winning most of those games. Lots of State

Championships and several runner-up trophies.

The competition in public AAA has been great.

With well over 100 public schools competing in

the AAA level, Soddy Daisy softball has to rank

as one of the top programs. I could be wrong,

but I think the top private school league has

only 16 teams. With only 15 other teams to

beat, winning the state should be a lot easier

and making the state tournament should be nearly

automatic for the bigger private schools.

Dickson comes back and wins 6-4.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day.

Middle of the 3rd: Soddy Daisy 4 and Dickson 1.

The Coach T website shows Soddy Daisy playing

in the State Sectionals for 13 straight years

and winning most of those games. Lots of State

Championships and several runner-up trophies.

The competition in public AAA has been great.

With well over 100 public schools competing in

the AAA level, Soddy Daisy softball has to rank

as one of the top programs. I could be wrong,

but I think the top private school league has

only 16 teams. With only 15 other teams to

beat, winning the state should be a lot easier

and making the state tournament should be nearly

automatic for the bigger private schools.

Does anyone know if Cookeville vs Soddy was played tonight or rained out? I've not seen a score nor anything about it being rescheduled. Thanks in advance.

Soddy Daisy was up 6-4 in the seventh. Too much rain. Cookeville was batting.

Game will be resumed tomorrow. "Long way to travel for 2/3 of an inning."

UTC will be offering a high school team camp this summer, July 25-27. All information can be found on their camp.

 

This summer's camp schedule also includes the following...

 

June 25- Libero Camp

June 26- Setter/Hitter Camp

June 27- Skill Specific Camp

July 23&24- Allskills/Advanced Camp

July 25-27- HS Team Camp

July 28- Little Mocs Camp

 How many local players are at UTC? Did UTC win only 5 games this past year?

 

All details can be found online at www.chattanoogavolleyballcamps.com or by contacting Adam Mclamb at adam-m-mclamb@utc.edu or by telephone 423-425-2227

I like the Soddy vs Rhea matchup next round. That is a great rivalry through the years.

I wouldn't call it a "rivalry," according to CoachT, Soddy Daisy has won

13 of 14 games over the last 8 years by a combined score of 98 to 13.

This averages out to 7 to 1 per game.

Soddy's only loss to Rhea was in '08 by 1 run in a non-district game.

Rhea has had some very good teams and are continuing to improve.

Good luck to both.

Check out todays BEST RECORDS.  Oakland is number 1 with a 22 wins and 7 losses.  Is this really better than Dekalb County's 21 -1 record? Maybe this should be listed as "MOST WINS".  I am not stressing over it.  I would just expect the terminology to be correct.

Good Gosh! AAA softball vs. AA, give me a break. Most of the good AAA teams would take apart the

top AA teams. Who you play decides the records.

LA 58-51 over Smith county. LA dominated from start to finish.

WOW! A 7 point game. "Domination" I don't think so. 103-37, that's domination.

I agree that Baylor and other private schools get some good athletes but there are still some great athletes in public schools. I don't think Greg was saying that Soddy didn't have a good team or that Baylor was a better team just that Soddy didn't hit the ball. I have to agree if a team doesn't hit the ball they are not a big threat!

GOOD GOSH! Volleyball 101 teaches most people that if you're 5'7" and there is a 6'0" blocker

across from you, you should do something other than swing hard. No matter how hard you hit it,

a taller blocker has the advantage. I've seen a lot of tall teams get beat by smaller teams

that can hit "smart" shots.

Choo Choo Tournament Update. Last I heard Ooltewah, Walker Valley, Cleveland, Bradley and Baylor were all in GOLD.

 

Any updates?

Elite 8 in the CHOO CHOO GOLD: 1)KNOX CATHOLIC (they topped Farragut earlier in the day - this was

their first win over Farragut in 6 years - they beat Father Ryan 2-1), 2) Ooltewah,

3)Soddy Daisy (they topped Cleveland 2-0),

4) Baylor (they topped Bradley in 3), 5) Farrigut (they topped East Hamilton in 3),

6) Blessed Trinity, 7) Bradley (they beat Walker Valley), 8)Sullivan South

 

FINAL FOUR: 1)BLESSED TRINITY, 2)SODDY DAISY (beat Catholic), 3)Ooltewah (beat Sullivan South in

3 - the second game went 34-32), 4)BAYLOR

27th Choo Choo Classic

 

Friday at East Ridge

 

4--East Ridge vs. Cleveland, East Hamilton vs. Notre Dame, Central vs. Grace Christian, Bradley Central vs. Hixson; 5--Cleveland vs. Silverdale Baptist Academy, Blessed Trinity vs. Grace Academy, Grace Christian vs. Ooltewah, Father Ryan vs. Sale Creek; 6--East Ridge vs. Silverdale, East Hamilton vs. Grace Academy, Central vs. Sullivan South, Bradley Central vs. Father Ryan; 7--Hixson vs. Sale Creek, Grace Academy vs. Notre Dame, Blessed Trinity vs. East Hamilton, Ooltewah vs. Sullivan South; 8--Bradley Central vs. Sale Creek, Central vs. Ooltewah, Blessed Trinity vs. Notre Dame, Grace Christian vs. Sullivan South; 9--Hixson vs. Father Ryan.

 

Friday at Red Bank

 

4--Red Bank vs. Warren County, Signal Mountain vs. Soddy-Daisy, Baylor vs. Walker Valley, Boyd-Buchanan vs. Chattanooga Christian; 5--Knoxville Catholic vs. Sullivan East, Coffee County vs. Science Hill, Livingston Academy vs. Walker Valley, Farragut vs. GPS; 6--Baylor vs. Elizabethton, Boyd-Buchanan vs. Farragut, Red Bank vs. Sullivan East, Science Hill vs. Soddy-Daisy; 7--Baylor vs. Livingston Academy, Chattanooga Christian vs. GPS, Knoxville Catholic vs. Warren County, Coffee County vs. Signal Mountain; 8--Red Bank vs. Knoxville Catholic, Science Hill vs. Signal Mountain, Elizabethton vs. Walker Valley, Boyd-Buchanan vs. GPS; 9--Sullivan East vs. Warren County, Coffee County vs. Soddy-Daisy, Elizabethton vs. Livingston Academy, Chattanooga Christian vs. Farragut.

I don't usually weigh in on matters. My husband does that for me, but I can't say that I belong in the same category with Catherine, Sherry, and Rita. And I can't say I hired Paul because he was never paid, but he did help me back in the 80's with my South Young teams when he was a UTK student. I do still love it after all these years. And don't forget Barbara Campbell...Brentwood...You've heard of them I trust. They're loaded with talent and hungry for the title.

Lorri Pointer Johnson has 588 high school wins. Coach Lorri

has taken South Young, Van Buren County, and Soddy Daisy to

State tournaments.

Interesting facts: Lorri and Sherry Hooks played volleyball

together at Carson Newman College. Lorri recorded 72 wins

while rebuilding the Carson Newman program in the mid 90's.