8:44 (7:44CT): It's a beautiful gameday in the Nashville area today. The Cloudland Highlanders start their quest for a gold ball in the round of eight in the Murphy Center today. We have you covered with all kinds of information from the TSSAA state championships. All four 1-A games are today starting at 11:00ET and 1-AA will have two of their games this afternoon. It looks to be a great day and we hope you keep checking with us all day.
Live Stats and Live Radio broadcast are available on www.tssaa.org for today's game.
9:00ET: The TSSAA is also hearing a proposal from Chattanoga Christian School to make the state tournament just four teams instead of the current eight and having the boys and girls tournament at the same times. For information on this can be found at The Daily News-Journal at http://dnj.com/article/20090317/SPORTS08/90317016/1006/SPORTS.
9:15ET: Looking around the 'net and have found an awesome story about today's game by Trey Williams of the Johnson City Press. http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=SPORTS&ID=67711 .
10:45ET: We are live in the Murphy Center for the 1-A contests now. Humboldt and Manassas are on the court warming up. We will bring you updates as allowed. Just another reminder that a live radio feed of these games are on www.tssaa.org.
11:15ET: The first quarter is over in this game, and it was exactly what everyone expected. Manassas leads 14-12 in a evenly matched affair.
12:00ET: Humboldt pushed out to a 12 point lead before Manassas has came back and took a one point lead with 2:27 remaining. Some quick facts on the 'Landers and Tennessee Temple. This will be CHS' fifth apperance in the state championships with the last time coming in 2007. The 'Landers are looking to grab their first win today as they are 0-4. Temple has made eight appereances and has captured three state championships with the last one being in 2007. They are 12-5.
12:22ET: We are coming closer to the wire as Manassas leads 58-57 with 1:13 remaining. We will have a brief recap up as soon as it is over. Up next is Grace Christian vs. Grace Baptist.
12:30ET: What a big time shot! Humboldt drained a 3-pointer with 15.2 seconds left, but it left plenty of time for Manassas to drain a major 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds left to survive and advance.
1:04ET: Chattanooga Grace leds by 23-22 at the end of the first quarter. It has been just like our first one as neither team could get an advantage on the other.
1:20: Halftime and Chattanooga Graces leads 42 to 36. The Rams of Knoxville have knocked down nine 3-pointers so far. It is almost game time for the 'Landers as they are set to tip off at 1:30CT (2:30 ET).
1:46: Chatt Grace leads 50-42 at the end of the third quarter.
1:56: Grace Christian of Knoxville has begun to pull the starters as they trailed by 20 with 2:41 remaining in the contest. Chattanooga Grace will move on with the victory as they have a 70-48 lead at the moment. They will meet Manassas on Friday at the 10:00am CT slot. Up next: the 'Landers look to capture their first win in MTSU's Murphy Center,aka the "Glass House" against the Crusaders of Tennessee Temple. We will have you covered with updates as we can.
3:00: It's halftime as the 'Landers trail by six points 31-25. Logan Morgan has nine for the 'Landers and Matthew Potter has eight. Cloudland is still in game. We will update as soon as possible ater the contest.
4:37: The 'Landers made a comeback late, but they could not overcome a 20 point Temple lead as they fell 64-50. The 'Landers never gave up in the contest. We will have more on this contest later, and also a full recap in the Journal next week. As I type this, the Summertown Eagles lead Clarksville Academy by one with 1:00 left in the first half.
4:48: The official box score from the Cloudland game has just been posted below:
Cloudland vs Temple
3/18/09 1:30 PM at Murfreesboro, TN (Murphy Center)
At Murfreesboro, TN (Murphy Center)
TEMPLE 64, CLOUDLAND 50
CLOUDLAND (20-11)
Morgan, Logan 5-19 3-7 16; Potter, Matthew 5-11 3-4 15; Clawson, Lucas 4-5
1-3 9; Chambers, Tyler 2-6 0-0 5; Clark, Dillon 1-5 0-0 2; Johnson, Randall
1-6 0-0 2; Presnell, Sha 0-2 1-2 1; Bullwinkle, Cody 0-0 0-0 0; Stevens,
Kevin 0-0 0-0 0; Hyden, Michael 0-1 0-0 0; Starnes, Mikey 0-0 0-0 0; Farmer,
B.J. 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 18-55 8-17 50.
TEMPLE (27-5)
Sexton, Jeremy 6-14 6-10 19; Kemp, James 5-10 3-5 15; Johnson, Jarrod 5-5
1-10 11; Andrews, Brandon 3-7 0-0 8; Reaves, Josh 2-3 2-5 6; Pendergrass,
Nathan 1-1 1-3 3; Peterson, Dexter 1-3 0-0 2; Montgomery, Ben 0-0 0-0 0;
Rudolph, Ezekiel 0-0 0-0 0; Armour, Jamaal 0-0 0-0 0; Robinson, Jacqueze 0-0
0-0 0. Totals 23-43 13-33 64.
Cloudland..................... 10 15 6 19 - 50
Temple........................ 14 17 17 16 - 64
3-point goals--Cloudland 6-22 (Morgan, Logan 3-9; Potter, Matthew 2-4;
Chambers, Tyler 1-5; Johnson, Randall 0-3; Hyden, Michael 0-1), Temple 5-16
(Andrews, Brandon 2-4; Kemp, James 2-7; Sexton, Jeremy 1-5).
Fouled out--Cloudland-Potter, Matthew; Clawson, Lucas; Presnell, Sha, Temple-None.
Rebounds--Cloudland 33 (Clawson, Lucas 8), Temple 38 (Sexton, Jeremy 11).
Assists--Cloudland 11 (Johnson, Randall 6), Temple 8 (Sexton, Jeremy 3).
Total fouls--Cloudland 26, Temple 14.
Technical fouls--Cloudland-None,Temple-None.
5:05: Summertown leads 35 to 25 with 1:24 remaining in the third quarter.
5:15 Summertown leads 43 to 34 with 5:27 in the contest.
5:33: Oh how momentum can swing. The Cougars of Clarksville Academy made a run to pull within three. The Cougars have the ball with 9.3 seconds left.
5:35: Clarksville couldn't score as they fall 53-50 in the contest. They will face Tennessee Temple on Friday. That wraps up the 1-A portion of the day. We have the first 2-A matchup with Bolivar and Livingston Academy.
