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Bears, Cherokees Roll Into 5AAA Finals Season Comes To A Close For Hurricanes, Blue Raiders Saturday, May 8, 2021 - by James Beach The McMinn County Cherokees incorporated a little bit of the Bradley Bears playbook and now the Bears will need to utilize a part of the Cherokee scheme as both teams took care of business on Saturday to close out best-of-3 5AAA semifinals season extenders.   Third-seeded McMinn dropped second-seeded Cleveland, 11-3, and top seed Bradley was 5-1 better than seventh-seed East Hamilton as both winners advanced into Monday night’s 7 p.m. champi...

Bears, Cherokees Win 5AAA Semis Openers Record Shutouts Over Hurricanes, Blue Raiders Friday, May 7, 2021 - by James Beach An ace and an ace-in-the-hole did their jobs Friday night and because of it, the Bradley Bears and McMinn County Cherokees find themselves on the brink of a region berth.   Bradley’s ace Cooper Casteel and McMinn’s closer-turned-starter Ollie Akens both twirled two-hit masterpieces as the Bears shutout East Hamilton, 2-0, and the Cherokees blanked Cleveland, 5-0, in the opener of best-of-3 District 5AAA semifinal bouts at Ooltewah’s AC Bud Ball Field last nig...

Syerra Rogers Slugs Game-Winning Two-Run Homer East Hamilton Wins District 5-AAA Regular Season With Comeback 2-1 Victory Monday, May 3, 2021 - by John Hunt The third time was the charm for the East Hamilton softball team. Facing the Soddy Daisy Lady Trojans for the third time this spring, the first win for the Lady Canes couldn’t have come at a better time as it gave them the top seed for the upcoming District 5-AAA tournament, which will be at Cleveland. Soddy Daisy’s Taylor Lloyd and East Hamilton’s Syerra Rogers locked up in an amazing pitcher’s dual and it’s a tough bre...

Bear Bashing: Bradley Rips Ooltewah, 12-1 Clutch Hits Carry Bears As Owls Fall Flat In Clutch Monday, April 19, 2021 - by James Beach The scoreboard at AC Bud Ball Field on the Ooltewah campus indicated it was 11 runs which separated the host Owls from the Bradley Bears at the end of Monday night, but the truth of the matter is it was so much more.   Bradley feasted on clutch situations, loading the bases in three separate innings to produce crooked numbers in the run column each occasion, while Ooltewah walked away empty-handed twice with the bases juiced in what turned out to be a 12...

Chamber Celebrates Youth Leadership Graduation Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Youth Leadership Class of 2020-21 graduates. Not pictured, Kelsey Carman. Nine area seniors representing Bradley Central, Cleveland and Walker Valley high schools graduated from the 19th Youth Leadership class of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce in a ceremony at Peerless Road Church. “This is an outstanding group of young men and women that I am confident will be successful in the future, and are the promising future leaders of our community, our state and our country,” Sherry Crye, Youth Leadership coor...