The Greeneville Greene Devils baseball team boarded a bus bound for Smyrna on Monday looking to repeat as Class 3A state champion.
The Devils have gone 7-0 in the postseason, winning every game by at least two runs and shutting out three teams. They enter the state tournament with a 24-12 record.
Greeneville swept a best-of-3 sectional doubleheader against Union County 8-0 and 8-1 on Thursday at Pioneer Park to punch its return ticket to the state tourney. The Devils will open the tournament against Signal Mountain at 6:30 p.m. central Tuesday at Smyrna High School.
Signal Mountain defeated Upperman 3-1 and 8-7 in its best-of-3 sectional. Greeneville defeated Upperman 1-0 in last year’s state tournament championship game.
SOCCER
Greeneville’s soccer team left Greeneville High on Monday for its 13th straight state tournament. The Devils (12-9-1) will open the Class 2A state tourney against the Alcoa Tornadoes (10-11-1) at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Richard Siegel Soccer Complex in Murfreesboro.
Greeneville has given up just one goal in its past three matches, including a 1-0 sectional win over Austin-East on Saturday.
Alcoa lost 4-0 to South-Doyle in the Region 3-2A championship before knocking off Franklin County 4-3 in the sectionals.
Greeneville lost 4-3 on penalty kicks to Valor Prep in last year’s state championship.
TRACK & FIELD
Athletes from Greeneville, South Greene, Chuckey-Doak and West Greene will converge on Middle Tennessee State University’s Dean Hayes Stadium in Murfreesboro for the Class A/2A state meet on Tuesday.
Six individuals and three relay teams from Greeneville will compete. Zaydyn Anderson is in four events – the 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump and triple jump. Darien Humphries will be in the 110 hurdles and triple jump, Trey Bailey will run in the 1600, and Issac Gibson will run in the 800.
Jacob Moore will compete in pole vault, and Jacey Goodwin will compete in high jump.
The boys 4x100 and 4x800 relay teams will also compete, as will the girls 4x800.
From South Greene, Ava Clark will be running in the 100 hurdles and Natalie Freise will be in the 300 hurdles. Alexis Gabbard will compete in high jump, Natalie Foshie will compete in discus, Nolan Weems will compete in pole vault and Heath Norton will compete in shot put.
Three South Greene girls relay teams – Mackenzie Niston, Clark, Gabbard and Abby Hoxie in the 4x200, Hoxie, Freise, Foshie and Emma Cutshall in the 4x400, and Samantha Birdwell, Cutshall, Clark and Freise in the 4x800 – will compete.
Chuckey-Doak’s state competitors are Carmella Smock in the 1600 and 3200, Niome Merrill in pole vault, Isaiah Treadway in long jump and Brasen Murvin in discus.
West Greene’s Abbey Cox will be making her fourth straight state trip, competing in discus and shot put.\
TENNIS
South Greene’s Ryleigh Gregg and Macey Waddell will compete in the Class A girls doubles state tournament. Gregg and Waddell will face Union City’s Molly Kizer and Shelby Bondurant in the first round at 9 a.m. central Thursday at the Adams Tennis Complex in Murfreesboro.
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