With only 4 weeks of football under our belt in the 2022 season, it seems like we have seen it all. From blowouts to double-overtime upsets, the 2022 North Carolina High School Athletic Association football season has given us all we could ask for. Since we’ve been able to get a grasp of what’s what […]
Read More »Smoky Mountain Conference Preseason Power Rankings, All-Conference Team, POY Awards, and More….
It’s about that time! We are only a handful of days away from seeing our favorite teams from the top conference in the state of North Carolina put toe to rubber and officially kick off the 2022 football season. This year is shaping up to be one of the most competitive season’s from top to […]
Read More »Andrews Football: 2022 Wildcats Season Preview and Prediction
The 2021 season was one for the record books for the little school outside of Valleytown. The Andrews Wildcats may not have finished the season the way they wanted, but they accomplished a lot more than their 7 and 4 record reflects-from the outside looking in. With program-defining wins over Mitchell and Murphy, the Red […]
Read More »Gutierrez Bids Farewell To Murphy High School, Says Moving Is Best Decision For His Kids
Photo from Murphy High School Athletics Murphy High School Athletic Director and Head Girls Basketball Coach, Ray Gutierrez, has announced that he will no longer be with the program next year. In an interview with TeamFYNSports, the decorated coach said that being at Murphy was his dream job and that Bulldog Country will always be […]
Read More »FYN Sports 2021-2022 SMC Baseball Awards
Photo courtesy of Joanna McMahan With another year of baseball in the books in the Smoky Mountain Conference, it’s time for the end of the year awards to be given out. As always, our FYN Sports awards are different from those given out by the Smoky Mountain Conference coaches. These awards are just our […]
Read More »Smoky Mountain Conference Athletes Bring Home 22 Gold Medals From Regional Track Meet
Connely Springs, NC- East Burke High School was the home for the 2022 Western North Carolina Track and Field Regional Championship Meet, and our local area teams were very impressive, to say the least. Smoky Mountain Conference athletes brought home a total of 22 gold medals from the Regional meet, and more than 30 SMC […]
Read More »CalPreps Releases NCHSAA 1A Football Rankings
CalPreps.com has posted their 2022-2023 computer rankings for NCHSAA 1A football. Looking at this list I would say they mostly got it right, but man there are some head-scratchers. CalPreps website says, “The most important thing to understand about how our computer power ratings system works is that it is 100% objective. The size of […]
Read More »NCHSAA Baseball and Softball Playoff Brackets Released
Photo courtesy of Jenea Murphy Taylor Below are the NCHSAA 2021-2022 playoff brackets for baseball and softball. BASEBALL BRACKET Murphy and Swain County were co-champions of the Smoky Mountain Conference, but Swain County won the coin toss and ended up with the #4 seed in the NCHSAA State Playoffs. Winning the coin toss was […]
Read More »Dogs Thump Jackets 15-5 In 6 Innings
Photo courtesy of BT Douthit Murphy, NC- The Bulldogs showed their offensive firepower in Tuesdays matchup against Hayesville, scoring 15 runs in just 6 innings and sending the Yellow Jackets home early. Briggs Cornwell allowed just 3 hits on the mound for the Dogs over 5.2 innings while striking out 8 Hayesville batters. Cole […]
Read More »SMC Standings & Leaders Through Week 4
We are now (give-or-take) 4 weeks into the NCHSAA high school baseball season and it’s time to take a look at how things are shaking out in the Smoky Mountain Conference. The weather has made it difficult for some teams in our area to get games in, but all teams have played at least 4 […]
Read More »Murphy, Andrews, Hiwassee Dam, TCEC and Franklin Compete In Bulldog Invitational #1
Photo courtesy of Dana Anderson (MHS Atheltics Facebook) Murphy, NC- Franklin, Hiwassee Dam and Andrews showed up to Murphy High School on Wednesday evening ready to show their stuff at the first Bulldog Invitational of the year. The Bulldogs were the host school, and both of their boys and girls teams beat out Hiwassee […]
Read More »Bulldogs Hammer Robbinsville Behind Temple’s 4 RBI Night
Photo courtesy of Dana Anderson (MHS Athletics Facebook) Robbinsville, NC- Offense has not been a problem for the Bulldogs this year, as they’ve plated an average of 7 runs through the first 6 games of this young season. The same rang true last night, as they traveled to Robbinsville and defeated the Black Knights […]
Read More »Dogs Fall To Swain, Move To 2-2 On The Year
Photo courtesy of BT Douthit Bryson City, NC- The Murphy Bulldogs traveled to Bryson City to take on the Swain County Maroon Devils in their first Smoky Mountain Conference matchup of their young season. A 3 runs sixth inning allowed Swain to take the victory, 4-3. Charlie Collins was on the mound for Swain […]
Read More »NCHSAA 1A Second Round Matchups Set
Photo courtesy of BT Douthit Smoky Mountain Conference- Our SMC teams faired pretty well in the opening round of the NCHSAA State Playoffs. On the boys side of things- Hayesville, Swain, and Robbinsville are moving on to round two, and on the girls side- Murphy, Robbinsville, Cherokee and Swain all advanced to the next […]
Read More »Maroon Devils Headed To SMC Championship Game Behind Hyatt’s Fourth Quarter Performance
Bryson City- Swain and Robbinsville took center-stage on Tuesday night for a Smoky Mountain Conference tournament semi-final matchup. Swain County’s Cooper Hyatt caught fire in the fourth quarter, and helped the Maroon Devils come away with a 66-61 victory. Donnavin Groenwald and Isaiah Collins led the Maroon Devils in scoring, dropping 15 a piece. Brock […]
Read More »Perfection! Murphy Middle School Boys complete undefeated season
PERFECTION! The Murphy Middle School Boys team capped off their undefeated season with a conference championship win over Cherokee. Folks around the Murphy area have had their eyes on this group of kids for quite sometime, watching them grow since they were a part of the first “PeeWee” division (first grade) the Murphy Rec […]
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