Sports
October 1, 2025 by Bill Howard, Correspondent
Any team heading into the postseason wants to enter that part of the season playing well and on a roll.
After its final regular-season match Monday night on the road at Oak Ridge High School, Farragut High School’s volleyball team can confidently say: mission accomplished.
The Lady Admirals swept the Lady Wildcats 3-0 in a non-district match. The set scores were 25-20, 25-13, and 25-16.
FHS coach Andre Alves was happy with his team’s recent play, including the “Rumble at the Rocky Top” in Gatlinburg over the weekend. The Lady Admirals made the semifinals out of 16 teams.
“Really pleased with how clean we’re playing,” Alves said. “We won the serving-pass battle I felt like. We’re making good decisions; we’re playing together.”
“They’re a good team but we didn’t play with any intensity,” ‘Cats’ coach Meghan Ellis said. “We didn’t communicate well; we made too many errors.”
The teams traded points throughout much of the first set. A 6-2 run late in the set gave FHS a 20-13 lead. Five in a row by OR made it 20-18, but Farragut then won five of the last seven points.
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Emotional win against an old rival
October 1, 2025 by Bill Howard, Correspondent
It was a football game fully worthy of an intense, decades-old rivalry.
The game had it all: quick-strike big plays, costly mistakes, stark momentum swings. When it was over, Farragut High School had clawed out a come-from-behind 25-21 win over Region 2-6A archrival Bearden High School to finally get in the win column (1-5 overall, 1-2 Region).
The Bulldogs (0-5, 0-3) remain in search of their first win.
“Obviously it’s a big win,” FHS coach Geoff Courtney said. “A lot of emotions, a lot of excitement. Almost a classic Farragut/Bearden game.”
“I’m proud of the way we fought,” said Brad Taylor, ‘Dogs’ coach. “Sometimes these kinds of games hurt more than when you get blown out.”
In the first quarter, it looked like Farragut might run away with the game. After an opening kick return to Bearden’s 30, the Admirals needed but two plays to make it 7-0. The score came on quarterback Corbin Hobson’s 17-yard TD throw to Anderson Glover 47 seconds into the game.
After forcing a punt, FHS then got a 47-yard field goal from Ryan McCue to make it 10-0 with 5:36 left in the first.
Another three-and-out by BHS put Farragut in business on their own 46. On the drive’s fourth play, Hobson again connected with Glover, this time from 27 yards to make it 16-0 with 2:04 still to play in the first.
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October 1, 2025 by Ken Lay, Correspondent
Hardin Valley – Hardin Valley Academy’s football has accomplished plenty during the first half of the 2025 season.
The Hawks recently won their first Region 2-6A game since 2020, when they toppled Bearden on Sept. 19, and they have already tripled their win total from last season.
But HVA had a tough outing Friday night as they came up on the short end of a 45-6 decision against state powerhouse Maryville in their consecutive home game.
The Rebels (5-1 overall, 4-0 in the region) wasted little time seizing control of the contest as they scored on six of their seven possessions in the first half and amassed 439 yards of total offense over the first 24 minutes.
The Hawks (3-3, 1-1) conversely mustered just 23 yards of total offense and one first down before halftime.
Maryville had six touchdowns in the first half on its way to opening a 42-0 lead at the break. Rebels’ quarterback Will Jones was 19-for-24 through the air. He totaled 288 passing yards and threw four touchdown passes.
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October 1, 2025 by Ken Lay, Correspondent
Bearden High School continued its dominance in one of Knox County’s most hotly contested girls soccer rivalries last week.
The Lady Bulldogs extended its winning streak over Farragut with a 4-1 victory Thursday night, Sept. 25 at the Farragut Soccer Stadium.
Bearden hasn’t lost to Farragut since Sept. 21, 2017. The Lady Bulldogs( (11-1-1 overall, 4-0-1 in District 4-AAA) has now won four consecutive matches since plating Knoxville West to a 0-0 draw on Sept. 12.
The tie represents the first blemish on Bearden’s district record in nearly a decade.
Last week’s match between the Lady Bulldogs and the Lady Admirals (5-5-1, 1-3-0) was a stalemate as it was locked in a 0-0 draw after the first 40 minutes.
But that all changed soon after the team’s took the field after halftime.
Bearden, which controlled the tempo and enjoyed a heavy possession advantage in the first half, had 11 early scoring chances and five of those shots landed on goal. The Lady Admirals mustered only two shots in the opening half. Both, however, landed on target.
The Lady Bulldogs put their first two shots of the second half into the back of the net as Tyler Roth tallied the first marker of the match when she scored just two minutes after halftime to give Bearden a 1-0 lead.
Roth scored her second goal of the match in the 45th minute, elating Bearden coach Ryan Radcliffe.
“I was very pleased with the way that we did in the second half,” Radcliffe said. “I thought the first half was chaotic, which you can expect in a game like that, but I thought in the second half we came out and had a better reaction to things and trusted ourselves as a team.”
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Alves challenged team, the team executed
October 1, 2025 by Bill Howard, Correspondent
It was a nice bounce-back last Tuesday night for Farragut High School’s volleyball team.
After losing 2-0 to Knoxville Catholic High School the night before, the Lady Admirals went again on the road to face District 4-3A foe Hardin Valley Academy.
The three-sets-to-one win over the Lady Hawks evened FHS’s district record to 3-3, 8-8 overall. FHS coach Andre Alves praised his girls’ growth from one night to the next.
“My challenge to them today was: every ball matters, every pass matters,” Alves said. “And they executed. So I couldn’t be more proud.”
“Farragut’s a really good team; they had a really good game plan,” HVA coach Eric Boden said. “We just couldn’t put the ball away.”
The Lady Hawks led 6-5 in the first set, but a 6-1 run by the Lady Admirals gave them an 11-7 lead. HVA cut it to 13-12, but FHS then won seven of eight points to lead 20-13. The teams then traded points as Farragut won it, 25-17.
Streaky scoring, so common in volleyball, was again quite evident in the second set. Down 8-5, Farragut won nine of 11 to lead 14-10. The Lady Hawks came right back with a 13-4 run to lead 23-18. It appeared the match would be tied at one set each.
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October 1, 2025 by Dan Harralson, Correspondent
Webb’s girls soccer team remains unbeaten during the 2025 regular season.
The Spartans defeated Hardin Valley Academy, 2-1, on Sept. 23 at home. Webb led, 2-0, at halftime after Simone Romain scored in the eighth minute and Mary Mac Emery scored in the 31st minute.
Webb also led Hardin Valley Academy in corner kicks, 2-0, during the first half.
Spartans’ head coach Elaine Roth discussed her team’s unbeaten start to the 2025 season.
“We battled through some early season injuries, and players were coming back into the rotation, so that certainly helps our depth,” Roth said. “I think the girls are gaining confidence at a time during the season where they need it.”
Emery is a junior and committed to Texas on Aug. 5.
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October 2, 2025 by Staff Report
KNOXVILLE, October 1, 2025 – Webb School of Knoxville is proud to announce that Spartan alum Wes Roach, Webb Class of 2007, will be inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Friday, October 24, 2025, during halftime of the Webb vs. Chattanooga Christian varsity football game. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. The ceremony, held at David Meske Stadium, will be one of the highlights of Webb’s Spartan Alumni Weekend.
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