Blackman Rugby turns struggles to success
Jayen Patel, Reporter
March 13, 2020
The Blackman Blaze Rugby team is coming off a successful fall season and is looking forward to an amazing spring season. The fall season, known as sevens season, was a historic run for the Blaze. Led by coach Lawernce Joyce and captain Daniel Bergeron, Blackman made it all the way to the O...
Sports shorts: March 2nd-6th
Christian Skelton, Reporter
March 6, 2020
Upcoming Events Baseball starts on March 9th vs Oakland at home Softball starts on March 9th vs Stewarts Creek at home First Track Meet is March 12th at Oakland First regular season boys' soccer game is March 10th at Centennial Girls’ Basketball The Lady Blaze won t...
Blackman boys’ basketball is on the road to the state tournament
Christian Skelton, Reporter
March 4, 2020
The Blackman Blaze came into the 2020 District 7-AAA Basketball Tournament at Stewarts Creek High School as favorites to win it. With a record of 20-3, the Blaze had momentum heading into the tournament. Because of Blackman being the top seed, they did not have to play until the semifinals. In that semifin...
Blaze sports shorts: February 24-29
Megan Roth, Reporter
February 24, 2020
Wrestling: Blackman’s wrestling team did very well at the state tournament. Brooks Sacharczyk won the state championship wrestling title at 182 lbs. The blaze had other strong placements including a 2nd place finish, three 3rd place finishes, and two 4th place finishes. Basketball: Tour...
Bowling season recap
Christian Skelton, Reporter
February 21, 2020
The Blackman Blaze bowling team had a historic season. In Jesse Messick’s first year as head coach the Blaze won District 7-AAA and were the runners up in Region 4 and made it to the state tournament. Throughout the regular season, Blackman went 14-4. In their wins, Blackman was dominant by an average of o...
Blaze sports shorts: February 10-14
Christian Skelton, Reporter
February 14, 2020
Upcoming Events Boys and Girls Basketball at home vs Oakland February 14th at 6:00pm Wrestling Individual Regionals at Oakland High School February 14-15 times TBD Boys Basketball Blackman earned a 67-33 win over Stewarts Creek on February 4th, a 74-34 win at Rockvale on Febr...
Blackman boys’ basketball tied for first in district
Christian Skelton, Reporter
January 30, 2020
The Blackman boys' basketball team won 14 out of their first 17 games, giving them a current record of 14-3. Additionally, the Blaze started district play 7-1, only losing to Oakland. Before the start of district play, the Blaze played in three holiday tournaments against some of the best high school competitio...
Blaze on the green
Megan Roth, Editor-in-Chief
January 10, 2020
This year the Blackman High golf team made big swings. The Blaze and Lady Blaze went 7-1, capping off their season with almost all wins. Coach, Barry Wortman, says “Our team has high character kids who have good work ethic.” The golf team’s extensive work ethic lead them to be able t...
Blackman football reaches quarterfinals in state playoffs
Christian Skelton, Reporter
December 18, 2019
The TSSAA class 6A football playoffs ended on Saturday with state power Maryville winning their 17th state championship defeating Ravenwood by a score of 42-21 in Cookeville. The playoffs were mainly chalk in 2019 with many usual suspects making it to the final rounds. Therefore, it was no surprise...
Q&A with basketball coach Barry Wortman
Christian Skelton, Reporter
December 10, 2019
Just a few days before the Blackman Blaze boys' basketball team opened the season at the Hometown Leaders N2 Hoops Invitational in Huntsville, Alabama, head coach Barry Wortman sat down with us to discuss the upcoming season. The Blaze come into the year with an experienced team that has a ...
Megan Roth: Blackman’s legacy runner
Christian Skelton, Reporter
November 19, 2019
Blackman High School cross country senior runner Megan Roth recently competed at the TSSAA state meet. It was held at Steeplechase in Warner Parks in Nashville. Roth and the Blaze had already run there once this year. As for the state meet, Roth finished 33rd in the 5k with a time of 20:03 against many nationally ranked runners. In this race she broke several Blackman records and finished with t...
