Sullivan East Patriots

The Sullivan East girls basketball team hosted South Greene in a do-or-die game Monday night, but it was the Rebels that felt right at home.

The Sullivan East boys basketball team left Chuckey-Doak coach Sam Broyles with deep thoughts Saturday night.

Allan Aubrey knew his Patriots had a run in them.

The Sullivan East girls basketball program can get district tournament rings for the first time in 20 years, though District 1-AAA Most Valuable Player Jenna Hare would rather not put hers on her left pinky finger.

Sullivan East has a heck of a go-to guy in junior guard Dylan Bartley, but the Patriots are far from a one-trick pony.

Jenna Hare had 19 points as the Sullivan East Patriots closed out the regular season with a 47-43 girls basketball victory over the Unaka Rangers on Monday night.

Junior Hayley Grubb scored 15 of her 20 points in the first half and Sullivan East cleared its tallest remaining hurdle on the path to a Three Rivers Conference title with a 53-41 win at Elizabethton on Friday.

Braden Standbridge came off the bench to spark Sullivan East to a dominating Three Rivers Conference victory over Sullivan East on Tuesday at the Dyer Dome. 

Dylan Bartley scored 13 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter, but was quick to credit a teammate for his efforts in Sullivan East’s 65-59 Three Rivers Conference victory over Elizabethton on Friday night at the Dyer Dome.

Emma Aubrey torched the nets to the tune of nine 3-pointers and 29 points as the Sullivan East Patriots powered past the Eastside Spartans for an 83-30 girls basketball win on Tuesday night.

For prep basketball athletes in Northeast Tennessee, the weeks before the start of the 2020-21 season were full of anxiety due to the spread of COVID-19.

Sullivan Central High School had six football players earn All-TSSAA Region 1-4A honors, while Sullivan East had five make the list.

It has been nearly 20 months since Sullivan Central had lost a Three Rivers Conference girls basketball game.

Sullivan East Patriots girls basketball player Jenna Hare has made a smooth adjustment to the varsity level.

Dillon Faver spent most of Monday anxiously awaiting his official debut as the head boys basketball coach at Sullivan East High School, slowly watching the minutes and hours tick away until the 2020-21 season tipped off.

Kristi Walling had already professed to being adverse to germs.

The critics said it couldn’t be done.

University of Georgia golf coach Chris Haack admires the way sophomore Connor Creasy approaches the game.

It appeared early last month that a positive COVID-19 test on the Sullivan East football team had ended any hopes for the Patriots and Sullivan Central to play the final game in a rivalry that dates back to 1969.

The Sullivan East “Gunslinger” fired off his shots Friday at quarterback but the Greeneville Greene Devils had too much artillery.

Tennessee High will be joined as a 5A school in football by West Ridge, while Sullivan East will remain 4A on the gridiron, according to numbers released on Thursday by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.

Just refer to Ethan Bradford as “The Gunslinger.”

The top-ranked men’s cross country team at the University of Arkansas has been bolstered by the contributions of a talented transfer from Northeast Tennessee.

Dominic Cross is just a freshman, but hasn’t played like one since the opening game.