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Tennis: Wildcats win district doubles, singles championships

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The Oak Ridge Wildcats brother duo of Ethan, right, and Andrew Brady, left, earned a District 3 doubles tennis championship with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Anderson County’s Sheev Patel and Carter Utley on Tuesday night, May 7, 2019. (Photo courtesy David Bowman)

The Oak Ridge Wildcats brother duo of Ethan and Andrew Brady earned a District 3 doubles tennis championship with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Anderson County’s Sheev Patel and Carter Utley on Tuesday night, Oak Ridge Coach David Bowman said.

Also, Lady Wildcat Paulina Urbanowicz was a finalist in the girl’s singles championship match, losing a two-hour, 45-minute thriller 3-6, 6-0, 6-7(3) to Matti Bray of Halls, Bowman said.

Plus, Oak Ridge fans at the tournament saw District 3 singles champion Andrew Lee top Clinton’s Cole Hedden 6-3, 6-3 in the boy’s final, Bowman said.

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Tennis: Freshman is undefeated

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Oak Ridge High School freshman Andrew Lee is undefeated in his first season playing tennis as a Wildcat. Lee is pictured above kneeling in the front row with his teammates before their match with Central High School this month. Pictured in the back row from left to right are Ben Bussell, Blaise Ochs, Mikolai Zolnierczuk, Levi Parish, Justin Blanchard, Anhaar Ajaz, Stuart Dorman, and Andrew Brady. (Photo courtesy David Bowman)

Oak Ridge High School freshman Andrew Lee is undefeated in his first season playing tennis as a Wildcat.

Lee, who is playing at number one singles and doubles, has won won 18 singles and doubles matches against Maryville, Hardin Valley, and seven District 3 tennis teams, Coach David Bowman said.

“His sportsmanship and record has established him as a leader on the courts, plus he is humble and a great teammate off the courts,” Bowman said. “ORHS looks forward to having him represent the Wildcats in East Tennessee’s TSSAA tournaments starting the second week of May at Tyson Park.”

The Oak Ridge tennis teams have one home match left this season to play. It’s at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, against Powell High School.

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Tennis: Oak Ridge played Maryville Thursday, has home matches this week

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Pictured left to right are Oak Ridge Wildcats Levi Parrish and Miko Jakowski meeting Maryville’s Blake Miles and Nathan Vaughn during team introductions for doubles matches on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (Photo courtesy David Bowman)

Pictured left to right are Oak Ridge Wildcats Levi Parish and Miko Jakowski meeting Maryville’s Blake Miles and Nathan Vaughn during team introductions for doubles matches on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (Photo courtesy David Bowman)

 

The Oak Ridge Wildcats tennis team played Maryville last Thursday.

At number one singles, Archer Marlow won against Maryville’s Matthew Gideon 8-5, and Wildcat Andrew Brady defeated number three Devon Jones 9-7.

Archer partnered with Stuart Dorman at number two Oak Ridge High School doubles to win 8-1 against Maryville’s Devon Jones and Nick Van Son.

For the Lady Wildcats, number one singles Jasleen Narula was narrowly defeated by Maryville‘s Rebecca Birdwell 9-8 (3).

A big win at number four doubles was had by Stephanie Romanoski and her partner Morgan Loggins 6-2 against Lady Rebels Faith Kirby and Brooklyn Kahn. [Read more…]

Oak Ridge teams excel at state chess team championships

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Oak Ridge High School Freshmen Chess Team in March 2018: Levi Parish, Adam Herron, Kenny Adams, and Dan Joy (Photo courtesy Esther Parish)

Oak Ridge High School Freshmen Chess Team: Levi Parish, Adam Herron, Kenny Adams, and Dan Joy (Photo courtesy Esther Parish)

 

Every year, the top four scholastic chess teams in each of the four grade divisions qualify to join teams from the other three regions to compete for the Tennessee Chess Association scholastic team championships, which were held March 24 at Tennessee Tech University.

Four Oak Ridge schools—Linden Elementary School, Robertsville Middle School, Jefferson Middle School, and Oak Ridge High School—qualified a total of six teams for this year’s event. That meant that about 1/10th of the players were Oak Ridge students (Oak Ridge has about 0.4 percent of the state’s population).

In the Primary (K-3) section, the Linden team of Ricardo Smith, William Hetrick, Quinn Richardson, and Kaylee Tress finished 11th overall.

In the Elementary (K-6) section, Jefferson (Brian Qu, Isaak Nussbaum, Gavin Koentop, and Toby Croft) finished fifth, while Robertsville (Leo Ehlers, Patrick Wurm, Daisy Kercher, Brandon Bonamarte, and Zachary Williamson) took 10th. [Read more…]

Oak Ridge students advance to state chess championship

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More than 100 students from 35 schools and home school groups in East Tennessee competed in the Tennessee Chess Association regional tournament at Oak Ridge High School on January 28.

Forty-two of the 115 participants represented schools in Oak Ridge: Jefferson Middle School, Linden Elementary School, Oak Ridge High School, Robertsville Middle School, St. Mary’s, Willow Brook Elementary School, and Woodland Elementary School. Those who qualified for the state tournament to be held February 18 at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville are: [Read more…]

Jefferson’s Master Builders St. Louis-bound as LEGO champions

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Members of Jefferson Middle School’s Master Builders are, from left, Amelia Thomson, Iliana Spence, Henry Scott, Jessica Mohr, and Thora Spence. Not pictured is Andrew Brady. (Submitted photo)

 

Jefferson Middle School’s Master Builders are bound for St. Louis in April after they won the Champions Award as the overall winner of the FIRST LEGO League Tournament held February 13 at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville.

By virtue of their victory, the Master Builders have qualified to travel to St. Louis in April representing East Tennessee in the FIRST LEGO League World Championships, a press release said.

The Master Builders are the second team from Jefferson during the past two years to win the Champions Award. The Atomic Eagles were Champions Award winners a year ago. [Read more…]