The stakes grow every game played from here out, but the Pigeon Forge Tigers haven't let that slow them down one step as they claimed the Region 1 2A Championship on Saturday afternoon by defeating Unicoi County by a 4-1 margin. Freshman hurler and recently named Sevier County Sports Report Co-Newcomer of the Year Collier Helton showed why he earned that honor both on the mound and at the dish for the Tigers. "Collier came out from end to end; he was totally focused and pitc

I started this venture just over a month ago with a simple goal: to give our local high school athletes the coverage they deserve. With that, I came up with the idea of creating an All-County Team along with other individual awards. I am pleased to announce the inaugural SCSR All-County Team & year end superlative awards.

Death, taxes, and Darwin Garcia goals were the only things that were guaranteed on Thursday evening as the Sevier County Smoky Bears hosted the Jefferson County Patriots in the TSSAA AAA District 2 Tournament Championship inside the SCHS Soccer Complex. The Smoky Bears (15-2-2) would easily defeat the Patriots (9-5-2) by a score of 6-1, on the strength of a 4-goal performance from junior Darwin Garcia. "What an incredible performance, we knew someone had to step up for us tod

"We've got to practice this week and get better, we're not there yet." was the simple message from Pigeon Forge Tigers coach Mike Guinnfollowing his team's 3-2 district tournament championship game victory over Eagleton on Monday evening. "I wanted to host, I wanted to be home, we're pretty good here." Guinn responded when asked about his energy throughout the matchup with the Royals. Junior Leff Louttit started on the mound for the Tigers throwing four innings of shutout bas

The Smoky Bears celebrate the equalizer. On a Thursday evening with the #1 team in 2-A South Doyle invading the Sevier County Soccer Complex for a matchup, coach Tim Bohanan said "We knew it was going to be tough, we challenged them ahead of time, we've been working hard in practice, we're just really, really proud of them." The Cherokees however, drew first blood on a goal at the 8 minute mark of the first half, on a nice cross angle shot that found the back of the net for

Pigeon Forge Tigers Coach Mike Guinn discusses his teams 4-1 victory over Eagleton. Dalton Cole discusses his performance and what it means to get the start on Senior Night

On a night where the Pigeon Forge Tigers were to honor their senior players, they had only one thing on their minds: defending their home turf. Their goal was to defeat Eagleton, especially after the Royals handed them their first loss of the year just one night earlier." "We wanted to see how they would respond, we're not going to win every game. Eagleton's a good ball club and they got the best of us last night. We just told our guys, let's go play the way we like to play a

It was a warm Wednesday afternoon, but that didn't slow down the Pigeon Forge Tigers, who shutdown the Smoky Mountain Mustangs backed by a complete game shutout from sophomore starter Mycah Effler. "My cutter, cutter was definitely on today. Commanded the zone, hit my spots, it was a great day.", Effler said after his 83 pitch outing, where he only allowed 2 hits on the day, while striking out 6 Mustangs. Effler worked a quick first inning. He sat the Mustangs down in order w

In a game where a fast start can change the entire complexion of a game, the Gatlinburg Pittman Highlanders got off to a scorching hot start, but one inning doomed them and left them on the wrong side of the scoreboard, Tuesday evening at Fisher Field on the campus of Gatlinburg Pittman High School. "That's kind of been our downfall this season, is that one inning. We kind of get rolling and we struggle with getting through that one inning, where we put extra guys on and we g

It was a beautiful night for baseball at Don Doyle Field on the campus of Seymour High School. The Eagles faced off against the Austin-East Roadrunners and secured a 16-5 victory in a run-ruled, shortened 5-inning contest to extend their current winning streak to 7 games. "Really it just comes down to pitching, the two games we lost to Northview & Watertown we walked a lot of people. If you can get your pitchers just throwing strikes and letting your defense work and eliminat

Hear from Sevier County Smoky Bears Wyatt Kees, Jacob Greene, Hayden Parrish, & Zane Miller following today's contest again Unicoi.

Pigeon Forge entered the final day of the "Playing For A Cure" in-season tournament looking to remain undefeated and move to 10-0 on the young season. They would do just that, defeating Concord Christian 16-3 on Friday afternoon at Cliff Davis Field on the campus of Sevier County High School. The Tigers would take an early advantage as the second batter of the game Brody Watson would hit a solo homerun, his fifth consecutive game with a homerun to give the Tigers an early 1-0

The Smoky Bears entered the bottom of the 7th inning trailing 5-4, down to their final three outs to try and make something happen against the visiting Kingston Yellowjackets. Senior Jacob Greene made sure that the home Smoky Bear fans, were going to leave happy, delivering the game winning hit. "Kingston outplayed us, they should have probably won the game, but they didn't", remarked Sevier County coach Casey Taylor. Sevier County sent junior Landen Hurst to the mound, to s

The Gatlinburg Pittman Highlanders historic season, and bid for a TSSAA State Championship came to an end on Wednesday afternoon, after falling to the Westview Chargers in their "Elite Eight" matchup 61-45. "We fought, we could have probably executed the game plan a little better, but I'm extremely proud of how they continued to fight.", spoke GP coach Rashid Moore. The Highlanders came into Wednesday's contest riding a 13-game winning streak, which included wins in the dis

For the first time since 1973, the Gatlinburg Pittman Highlanders advanced to the TSSAA State Basketball Tournament, after they defeated Tellico Plains 63-60 to win the Sectional Championship. The Highlanders now look to make history after a 53-year absence from the state tournament. Coach Rashid Moore and the team enter their 'Elite 8' matchup against Westview with something to prove—to themselves and the competition. In addition to their impressive winning streak (13 games)

In what will go down as one of the best defensive performance runs in state tournament history, the Sevier County Bearettes claimed the 2026 TSSAA Class 4A State Championship after knocking off Cookeville 61-43 on Saturday afternoon in Murfreesboro, on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. Led by junior Kaliyah Burden who was named tournament MVP with 24 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 steals, the Bearettes stymied a veteran Cookeville team with team defense,

The Gatlinburg Pittman Lady Highlanders entered Friday afternoon's contest with the chance to advance to the TSSAA State Championship game against York Institute and a chance at revenge, however that was not to be after the Huntingdon Fillies knocked off the Lady Highlanders 65-42. Gatlinburg Pittman would get off to a hot start with a pair of three's from senior and AA Miss Basketball Maliyah Glasper, but early foul trouble and turnovers turned the tide and Huntingdon poured

Story & Photos by Montana Findley MURFREESBORO – Facing a 32-0 nationally-ranked Bradley Central team in the quarterfinal round of the Class 4A state tournament, you’d expect shocked expressions and elated celebrations from Sevier County after pulling off a 52-34 win. Bradley Central entered the state tournament having won 49 consecutive games, and were looking for a fourth consecutive state championship. However, coach Jonathan Shultz and the Bearettes were cool as could be