Middle School Fall Athletic Highlights

3/10/2022

by Editorial Staff

How did our Middle School and younger teams fare in sports so far this year?

Grades 5–6 Football

• Undefeated regular season and earned the #1 seed heading into the playoffs

• Led by a veteran group of sixth graders Ethan Starling, Clyde Vaughan, Brooks Bearden, Johnny Corn, Emerson Keith, and Isaiah Hasselbeck. Gage Bullock, Thomas McGugin, Kendall Rucker, and Griffin Hooper are fifth graders who significantly contributed.

Grades 7–8 Football

• Led by eighth graders Blake Surratt, Bishop Starling, Caleb Ingram, Isaiah Batten, Nelson Butler, Akeem Batey, Justin Hopkins, Rico Edwards, Cameron Obee, Hobs Atwood, Lee Atwood, William Gerken, and Eli Wilt

Girls’ Cross Country

• Runner-Up as a team in the AA HVAC Finals

• Maggie Baker: HVAC Champion, All HVAC Honors

• Emily McWilliams: All HVAC Honors

• Top six runners: Maggie Baker, Zoey Rushing, Emily McWilliams, Julia Grace Linn, Hollis Jacobs, and Eleanor Denbo

Boys’ Cross Country

• Runner-Up as a team in the A HVAC Finals

• Top seven: Sebastian Eveland, David Choma, Mateo Scala, Tully Johnson, Charlie Sewell, Connor Krause, and Anders Damp

• Sebastian Eveland: All HVAC Honors, Finished 4th individually in the HVAC Finals

Boys’ Soccer

• Varsity standouts: Rhys Dyer, Stefano Boschi Asbun, Eli Wilt, Captain Cameron Herring

• JV standouts: Bishop Starling, Captain Foster James, and Captain Lee Atwood led their team to a winning season.

• The Grade 6 Team made it to semi-finals of the Junior HVAC tournament

Girls’ Soccer

• Season record of 6-2-2

• Eighth grader Charlotte Garza led the team in scoring with 16 goals and 3 assists

• Seventh grader Elle Hutcheson led the team in helpers with 9 assists to go along with 3 goals of her own

• Goalies Jordan Scott and Gabi Bullock each made 18 saves on the season while combining for 6 shutouts

• Eighth graders Coco McGeehee and Lilly Sites led the way for the defense

Boys’ Tennis

• MS Boys’ Varsity Tennis: 2nd in the HVAC Tournament (actually tied, but lost in tie-break criteria)

• #1 Singles player Edward Coppeans won the HVAC tournament

• #2 singles player Mason Brunson won his flight in the HVAC tournament

• #3 singles Jack Tompkins, #1 doubles Jack Sites/Harrison Hampton, and #2 doubles Jet O’Rear/Grant Kinnett all finished runner-up in their flights in the HVAC tournament.

Girls’ Tennis

• Overall record of 7-2 state wide

• Finished 2nd in the HVAC tournament

• #1 singles player Avery Franklin won the HVAC tournament

•#2 singles player MollyKate Orr finished 2nd in the HVAC tournament

•#3 singles player Evelyn Barrett finished 3rd in the HVAC tournament

•#1 doubles team of Elsa Staelin/Ella Blankenship finished 2nd in the HVAC Tournament

•#2 doubles team of Caroline Sifford/Katherine Fones finished 2nd in their flight in the HVAC Tournament

Volleyball

• Finished with a winning overall season record

• Earned a spot in the upper HVAC Bracket

• Led by eighth graders Cate Barfield, Gabi Bullock, Evie Denbo, Paige Fogaros, Charlotte Garza, Mary Nell Pettigrew, Jordan Scott, and Lilly Sites

Wrestling

• Eighth grade leaders were Akeem Batey (4th place HVAC 145 lbs), Thatcher Borden (2nd place HVAC 135 lbs), William Gerken, and Henry Tuberfield

• Seventh graders were Drew Bass, Daniel McGugin, and Tanner Tapp (3rd place HVAC 180 lbs)

• Sixth grade wrestlers were Thornton Deleot (2nd place HVAC 80 lbs) and Dash Priestley

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