Sevier County Smoky Bears rising senior TE Parker Newman committed to play his collegiate football for the Duke Blue Devils, he announced in a recent social media post, after committing to the Blue Devils during his official visit just over a week ago. "My fun fact is I'm committing to Duke right now." Newman said during his introductory time while on campus in Raleigh, leaving the room in an celebratory mood with screams and cheers heard throughout the facility. Many may be

"It means a whole lot, especially for me because as the new head coach, that's where all the pressure was, at least that I put on myself to get us there and let whatever magic of the state tournament will be there but as long as I could get us there I'd be happy." Gatlinburg Pittman soccer coach Jason Owens said after his Highlanders defeated CSAS 1-0 in Saturday's TSSAA Sectional Tournament that sent them to their 8th straight state tournament appearance. In a game where the

The Pigeon Forge Tigers (31-5) defeated the Kingston Yellowjackets (27-9) in game 2 of their best of 3 series 6-2, to secure the team's 9th Sectional Championship, and book their 10th State Tournament appearance in school history. "It's real special, that's the first group of seniors that wouldn't have made it to state in their four years at Pigeon Forge High School and I'm just so excited for them." Coach Guinn said following his team's win to secure their first trip to stat

If you were to write a “Hollywood” script for a baseball movie, it might go a lot like Wednesday evening's Sectional Series opener between Pigeon Forge (30-5) and the Kingston Yellowjackets (27-8). The game had it all, big moments to open the game, a team's number one pitcher struggling and being pulled early, a rain delay, and a huge come from behind victory from the home team led by an unlikely hero. “This reminded me of the old-time Pigeon Forge teams that wouldn't give in

The Sevier County Smoky Bears took another commanding step toward the TSSAA State Tournament on Tuesday night, dominating Tennessee High 4-0 in the Region 1 Semifinals to keep their postseason run alive. The Smoky Bears (16-2-2) broke the scoring open early against Tennessee High (12-7-1) as senior captain Freddy Castro found the top right corner of the goal at the 11 minute mark, following a rebound to give Sevier County the quick 1-0 lead. "It's big, any time you can score,

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