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Final: Powell 2-1 Oak Ridge. Powell will host HVA, Oak Ridge travels to Maryville.

Yes, home team hosts their game so Oak ridge hosts Karns, Powell hosts Halls. Top remaining seed hosts the championship game. 

Powell 6-0 Alcoa (Home)

Powell 1-3 Greenville (Away)

Powell 2-1 Bearden (Away)

Central, AC, Clinton and Gibbs are all gone from District 3-AAA. Just a 5 team district now with: Campbell Co., Halls, Karns, Oak Ridge and Powell. Just my two cents but after watching HVA play and playing them in the preseason I think they are miles improved from last years 5 or so win team. Should be a good race in that district. Central is now AA and in a district with Catholic and does have a lot of players to replace from last season.

Pretty sure Tom Gorman took over the girls program, and would guess he is doing the boys as well.

3 hours ago, MoonDogRex said:

If you buy the notion that two-a-days can easily lead to over-training, the boys' season is just fine with plenty of time to prepare. First practice date is February 12, and first official game is March 12. At 4 full weeks of preseason, that's 20 weekdays (not including possible Saturdays) at 2 hours per day for 40 hours of preparation before the season begins. Now, if you are relying on winter sports athletes to join up with the team then, yes, this can be a problem. 

 

But the girls can start July 23, 2018 and can play their first contest on August 13. That is "only" 3 weeks of preseason before the first official game.

The issue is not the training, the issue is the logistics for programs to set your roster and order equipment. If you can't set your team until Feb 12th and you have 4 weeks to get sizing, orders, screen printing, not to mention fees from parents who don't have $$ to just hand over then it becomes more of an issue. This has pushed some programs to hold tryouts in the summer, which is an option but doesn't work for those with club commitments or schools that have high transfer rates.

As far as practice, and training I have no issues. But at least let us have tryouts in January (just one day or a few day window like football does with spring training) so we have time to order equipment an work out budgets with set numbers. Not all programs have the financial support to make things happen quickly so that extra month would be appreciated.

No restrictions in summer other than the Dead period. (although most clubs are still going through July so that affects numbers) so most programs start their preseason in June, break during the dead period and then camp in July with the season starting in August. Much easier to start the season as a girls program than the boys as being in school brings with it added commitments and restrictions from TSSAA. Boys can't even have tryouts until the first official day of practice in February unless they choose to do it during the summer window.

Hope this helps.

Wait wait wait is this the u15, u16 or u17 All Star Team...just trying to schedule them in our Knox All Stars, Nooga All Stars and Midstate All Stars tournament. (We didn't invite the Tri cities All Star Team because they were trying to claim Green Co. too  

Houston is exceptional and I'm happy those girls come together to represent their community and their school. At the Bearden Tourney they were the "best in show" for sure.

Here are the results and brackets for Region 1 and 2 moving toward sectionals.

8 hours ago, MountainVol said:

Looks like Bearden and Farragut from the east.  Maryville has a decent chance and Powell has improved, but it will be tough, especially for the lady Panthers, to take down the top teams.  Bearden went through their district and district tournament unscored upon.  Those numbers are hard to ignore.

I agree that's impressive. We also went unscored upon in the district tournament and outscored our district opponents 42-3. But I understand until we make the next step we will still be looked at a bit differently than others.

Farragut 2-0 Maryville

Powell 6-0 Oak Ridge

Farragut vs Oak Ridge

Powell vs Maryville

They play the runner-up from 4-AAA so most likely  the loser of Farragut vs HVA/Maryville. Farragut is the 1 seed, with Maryville the 2 hosting the winner of HVA vs Lenoir city.

Thanks, early mistakes and two subs are not conducive to beating good teams. If we can get two starters back that's we didn't have all weekend it would help immensely, but everyone deals with that at some point. Just glad we could show well for the Knox area and our district. The girls played extremely hard and have some confidence moving forward.

The games I know are:

Clarksville 4-3 HVA

Houston over Hendersonville (don't recall the score)

Bearden 4-0 Bartlett

Springboro (OH) 4-0 Farragut

Maryville 2-1 Arlington

Update: 

Scores after two days at Bearden Invitational. 

Thought I'd drop this here for those looking to catch one of the many good matches this weekend. Good luck to all...cheers

29 minutes ago, MountainVol said:

Ya think?!!!

I thought I was playing along, guess I don't understand how posting works. Carry on

1 hour ago, MountainVol said:

Important news!!!!

Powell is no longer scheduled to play ND.  A Powell rep was overheard saying, "For the safety of our girls and the sake of our fans, we thought it best to avoid any situation where a maniacal supporter of another team might end up flicking boogers at our people."

The Boggerites are now playing;

Catholic

Collierville

Oak Ridge

Unfortunately, those opponents may also vote to avoid the wrath of the booger flippers too.

I can assure you this is fake news.

Good luck to ND this weekend, just making the state tournament is the dream for some programs so they have every right to have pride and passion in their accomplishments. 

JV was 0-0, V 3-0