Bears, Cherokees Roll Into 5AAA Finals Season Comes To A Close For Hurricanes, Blue Raiders Saturday, May 8, 2021 - by James Beach The McMinn County Cherokees incorporated a little bit of the Bradley Bears playbook and now the Bears will need to utilize a part of the Cherokee scheme as both teams took care of business on Saturday to close out best-of-3 5AAA semifinals season extenders.
Third-seeded McMinn dropped second-seeded Cleveland, 11-3, and top seed Bradley was 5-1 better than seventh-seed East Hamilton as both winners advanced into Monday night’s 7 p.m. championship tilt. The win also qualified each for a region berth with home and away sites the remaining debate. And a District championship trophy, of course.