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Oak Ridge will travel to Science Hill for a Class AAA sectional on Saturday after losing to Farragut in the Region 2-AAA championship game at home on Thursday.
The Admirals beat the Wildcats 2-1 at the Pro2Serve Oak Ridge Soccer Complex at Oak Ridge High School.
Here are photos from the game by John Huotari of Oak Ridge Today. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge will travel to Science Hill for a Class AAA sectional on Saturday after losing to Farragut in the Region 2-AAA championship game at home on Thursday, May 18, 2017. Pictured above is junior midfielder Casey Nigh (12). (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was last updated at 11 a.m. May 19.
Oak Ridge will travel to Science Hill for a Class AAA sectional on Saturday after losing to Farragut in the Region 2-AAA championship game at home on Thursday.
The Admirals beat the Wildcats 2-1 at the Pro2Serve Oak Ridge Soccer Complex at Oak Ridge High School.
Science Hill, in Johnson City, was the the Region 1-AAA champion. The Hilltoppers beat Dobyns-Bennett of Kingsport 3-0 in the Region 1 championship on Thursday.
The winner of Saturday’s sectional game between Oak Ridge and Science Hill will advance to the state Class AAA soccer tournament. The season will be over for the loser. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation board members who were present with a big check at an grant awards ceremony at Oak Ridge High School on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (Photo courtesy ORPSEF)
In the final year of its “Making the Critical Difference” campaign, the Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation awarded more than $90,000 in grants to Oak Ridge teachers. The grants were awarded during a ceremony at Oak Ridge High School on Wednesday, April 26.
Shirley Raines, president emeritus of the University of Memphis, was the featured speaker. Her talk was titled “Dreamers, Thinkers, Doers.” During her talk, Raines exhibited great appreciation and provided inspiration for teachers, a press release said.
“She asked teachers to think of the person who moved them to pursue their dreams, to be innovative thinkers, and to share their success stories which result from their grant awards in order to encourage their peers,” the release said.
The April 26 ceremony was open to the public with demonstrations of some of the projects and technology funded by the Foundation on display.
The 2017 grant recipients were: [Read more…]
Oak Ridge High School freshman Edward Moran, left, bears down to win his last-round match against a senior from Maryland to clinch second place. (Submitted photo)
There were 1,585 high school category entrants among the 5,578 students from across the country competing in the 2017 USChess SuperNationals tournament, which was held May 12-14 at the Opryland Convention Center in Nashville. ORHS juniors Bronson Burdick, Andrew Chan, and Carson McGhee, as well as freshmen Justin Blanchard, Edward (“Bear”) Moran, Logan Ogle, and Mack Patrick were among them, joined by former world champion Garry Kasparov, who made the ceremonial first move.
The school’s top score was Bear Moran’s 6.5 of a possible 7 in the U800 category, which was a clear second overall behind only a junior from Florida who had the only perfect score of the 220 players in that division. The ORHS players overall had a winning percentage of more than 55 percentage against the top competition in the United States.
Each year, there are national competitions for elementary (K-6), junior high (K-9), and high school (K-12). Every four years, these championships are combined in one venue as “SuperNationals.” The organizers stated this was the largest chess tournament in history in terms of participants. [Read more…]
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Their last home meet, the Wildcat Relays, was last week, and the Oak Ridge track and field team is competing in the Section 1 AAA Championship at Hardin Valley Academy today (Saturday, May 13).
The top four finishers in the sectional events qualify for the state championship meet.
Oak Ridge qualified for the sectional in most events, including all relays, distance and sprint events, hurdles and throws, and girls’ high jump, long jump, pole vault, and triple jump, Oak Ridge Coach Allen Etheridge said.
The sectional includes Region 1 and Region 2, Etheridge said. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge senior forward Austin Vinyard (9), left, scored four goals and had one assist as the Wildcats advanced to the District 3-AAA soccer championship with a 6-0 win over Halls on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Oak Ridge senior forward Austin Vinyard scored four goals and had one assist as the Wildcats advanced to the District 3-AAA soccer championship with a 6-0 semifinal win over Halls on Wednesday.
Vinyard, who signed to play soccer at Maryville College on Thursday, said he also had four goals in a game last season, but his four goals and an assist on Wednesday may be a career high.
Oak Ridge, the number one seed, will play Central, the number two seed, in the District 3-AAA championship game, which starts at 7 p.m. today (Friday, May 12) at the Oak Ridge Soccer Complex at Oak Ridge High School.
The Wildcats were undefeated in the district during the regular season, and they beat the Bobcats 2-1 on Monday, April 24. Central’s only district loss during the regular season was to Oak Ridge, according to records posted on CoachT.com.
Central advanced to the District 3-AAA championship with a 4-0 win over Powell on Wednesday. Oak Ridge and Central will both advance to the Region 2-AAA championship. [Read more…]
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In its last game, Oak Ridge finished the regular soccer season with a 4-3 loss in a close game against Farragut on Wednesday, May 3. Here are photos from that game.
The Wildcats play Halls in a District 3-AAA soccer tournament semifinal game at 7 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 10) at the Oak Ridge Soccer Complex at Oak Ridge High School. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge High School team members playing in the district tournament tennis semifinals at Tyson Park in Knoxville on Monday, May 8, 2017, are Archer Marlow (singles), Ethan and Andrew Brady (doubles), Audrey Chrisman and Jasleen Narula (doubles), and Jimin Lee (singles). (Photos courtesy ORHS Tennis)
Oak Ridge Wildcats will play in the district tournament tennis semifinals in Knoxville today (Monday, May 8).
The semifinals start at 4 p.m. at Tyson Park in Knoxville. That’s near the University of Tennessee and near the intersection of Cumberland Avenue and Alcoa Highway.
Oak Ridge High School team members playing today are Archer Marlow (singles), Ethan and Andrew Brady (doubles), Audrey Chrisman and Jasleen Narula (doubles), and Jimin Lee (singles).
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More information will be added as it becomes available.
Ed Wright, left, who was an assistant coach, was approved on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, as the head cross country coach at Oak Ridge High School. The former coach, Allen Etheridge, pictured at center, resigned in January after 13 years as cross country coach. Also pictured above is assistant coach Tom Sauer after the Class AAA boys’ cross country meet at Percy Warner Park in Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Ed Wright, who has been an assistant coach, was approved as head cross country coach at Oak Ridge High School on Wednesday.
Wright will replace Allen Etheridge, who resigned as cross country coach in January after 13 years as head coach and six state titles. Etheridge was an assistant cross country coach for five years before he became head coach.
Etheridge is also an English teacher at Oak Ridge High School, and he’s been head track and field coach since April 2015. [Read more…]
Oak Ridge’s Brent Robinson, who was then a junior midfielder, heads the soccer ball during a 3-1 loss to Dobyns-Bennett in a Class AAA sectional in Kingsport on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Now a senior, Robinson scored two goals in a 5-2 win at Campbell County on Monday, May 1, 2017. (File photo credit: Allen Greene/TriCitiesSports.com)
The Oak Ridge Wildcats boys’ soccer team finished first in District 3-AAA after beating Campbell County 5-2 on Monday. It was the last district game of the regular season.
The Wildcats will play at Maryville, a District 4-AAA team, at 7 p.m. today (Tuesday, May 2).
Because of a bad weather forecast for Thursday, the final regular-season home game against Farragut, also a District 4 team, has been moved to Wednesday. The Oak Ridge-Farragut game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Oak Ridge Soccer Complex at Oak Ridge High School. It will be Senior Night.
Oak Ridge Coach Jeff Trombly said senior Brent Robinson scored two goals against the Cougars on Monday. Seniors Masa Kato and Austin Vinyard had one each, and sophomore Cris Avila also scored. [Read more…]
The 2017 Oak Ridge High School softball team is pictured above. (Submitted photo)
The rescheduled Coach Marianne Johnson Appreciation Night is scheduled for this evening (Monday, May 1).
At last check around lunchtime today, the game was still on for this evening.
The before-game ceremonies with a Hospitality House representative and Coach Johnson are scheduled to start around 5:30 p.m.
The game against Concord Christian is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at 15 Wilberforce Road on the Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats’ softball field, Field “C.”
It’s the last regular-season game. [Read more…]
The Secret City Wildbots, Team 4265, were underdogs in the quarterfinals, but they survived to the semifinals where they lost to the number one seed in the First Robotics World Championship in Houston on Saturday, April 22, 2017. (Photo by Angi Agle)
From Wednesday to Saturday last week, the Master Builders (Team 3132) from Jefferson Middle School and the Secret City Wildbots (Team 4265) from Oak Ridge High School competed in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics World Festival in Houston, Texas.
“We are pleased to announce that both teams experienced success in the World Festival,” Oak Ridge Schools said in a press release.
The Jefferson Middle School FIRST LEGO League team, the Master Builders, received trophies for the top awards in the world for first place in robot performance and second place in programming during the FIRST Robotics World Festival in Houston, Texas from April 19-22, 2017. (Submitted photo)
The FIRST LEGO League team, The Master Builders from Jefferson Middle School, received trophies for the top awards in the world for first place in robot performance, and second place in programming. There were 108 teams present for FIRST LEGO League at the World Festival from all over the globe, the press release said. [Read more…]
