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.
Bear Bashing: Bradley Rips Ooltewah, 12-1
Clutch Hits Carry Bears As Owls Fall Flat In Clutch Monday, April 19, 2021 - by James Beach
The scoreboard at AC Bud Ball Field on the Ooltewah campus indicated it was 11 runs which separated the host Owls from the Bradley Bears at the end of Monday night, but the truth of the matter is it was so much more.
Bradley feasted on clutch situations, loading the bases in three separate innings to produce crooked numbers in the run column each occasion, while Ooltewah walked away empty-handed twice with the bases juiced in what turned out to be a 12-1 run-ruled victory for the Bears.
Bradley Beats Hixson In New Balance Classic
Bears Win Three Straight, Including 7-2 Over Wildcats In Final Saturday Game Saturday, April 17, 2021 - by John Hunt
Bradley s Taylor Duggan (16) is safe at second as the ball gets past Hixson shortstop Manny Velazquez (1). The Bears defeated the Wildcats, 7-2. - photo by Dennis Norwood
The Hixson Wildcats played on pretty-much even terms with the Bradley Bears for most of their game at Hixson’s John Plumlee Stadium, but that was before the Bears batted around in the seventh inning to score four insurance runs in a 7-2 victory.
It was a good weekend for the Bears as they competed with a number of teams in the New Balance Chattanooga Classic hosted by East Hamilton.
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Frank Foils Bradley As Cherokees Get Sweep
McMinn Wins Another One-Run Game Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - by James Beach
CLEVELAND, Tenn. – While it seems there may be tension and drama all around these days pretty much every time the McMinn Cherokees take the field, Tribe baseball skipper Mike Ray barely even breaks a sweat anymore. He might as well be coaching from his sofa, such is his comfort level.
The Cherokees got caught up in another one-run District 5AAA battle outing last night and once again did enough right things to claim a 3-2 thriller against host Bradley Central. In fact, it was the second straight series sweep for the Cherokees after opening the year with splits in their first two series and they find themselves entrenched atop the league standings at 6-2. And get this: of the eight league games, five of them have been one-run affairs.