Spring Fling 2024: TSSAA baseball, softball, soccer state tournament updates from Tuesday

The TSSAA Spring Fling — comprised of baseball, softball, boys soccer, track and field and tennis state tournaments — kick off Tuesday at spring facilities across Rutherford County and in Wilson County.

This marks the first of four days with more than 4,000 athletes expected to compete for TSSAA state championships to wrap up the 2023-24 Tennessee high school calendar year.

For Tuesday, the Division I Class A and AA track and field champions will be crowned at Dean A. Hayes Stadium. In tennis, Division I and II schools will be whittled down to finalists for the team tournaments.

In TSSAA baseball, softball and boys soccer, it's the opening day of state tournament play.

Follow along throughout Tuesday for updates from the top stories of the day.

Ravenwood knocks off Houston soccer

Noah Bjorkman scored two goals to give Ravenwood a 3-2 win over Houston. Ravenwood led 2-0 at halftime before the Mustangs tied it in the 74th minute. But Bjorkman answered a minute later for the win.

TSSAA baseball state tournament features 2 grand slams on Day 1

How is this for a start to the TSSAA baseball state tournament? Farragut and Loretto each hit grand slams in their respective openers.

Gavin Brewer smacked a grand slam for Farragut in an 11-5 win over Beech. Loretto's Clint Seymore hit a grand slam in a 7-0 win over White House Heritage.

Kailey Plumlee strikes out 15 in TSSAA softball opener

Tennessee softball commit Kailey Plumlee struck out 15 of the 23 batters she faced to lead Gordonsville to a 13-1 win over Halls in the TSSAA softball Class 1A state tournament.

Gordonsville is the defending Class 1A state champion.

Stewarts Creek upsets defending softball state champion Green Hill

If Green Hill is to repeat as TSSAA Class 4A state champions, it will have to do it by going through the losers bracket. Stewarts Creek defeated Green Hill 8-7 despite committing six errors.

Jadyn Brawley went 3-for-4 with four RBIs in the win. Stewarts Creek plays Knoxville Halls at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Green Hill faces Henry County at 10 a.m. Wednesday in an elimination game. Both games are at Starplex.

TSSAA tennis: Brentwood, Science Hill blitz into championships

Brentwood boys and Science Hill boys beat their TSSAA Class AA team tennis opponents 4-0 apiece to advance to the championships. Brentwood beat Cookeville and Science Hill blanked Collierville.

Summertown, Union City in TSSAA tennis girls team finals

Summertown and Union City each advanced in the TSSAA Class A girls tennis team championships. Summertown routed University School - JC 4-1. Union City disposed of Signal Mountain 4-2.

Collierville, Brentwood girls tennis roll into TSSAA championships

Collierville and Brentwood will play Wednesday in the TSSAA Class AA girls tennis team championship after both rolled to semifinal wins.

Brentwood swept Tennessee High 4-0. Collierville beat Cookeville 4-1. The two teams will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Adams Tennis Complex in the championship.

Liberty Creek track runners sweep 3,200 races

Sydney Tackett and Jaden Hillis swept the TSSAA Class A 3,200-meter run races for Liberty Creek, a second-year school from Sumner County. Tackett won the Class A girls 3,200 race in 12:04.16. Hillis won in 10:11.21.

Reece Beaty picking up Power 5 basketball offers, track titles

Reece Beaty has been a busy York Institute athlete. This past weekend she lit up the travel basketball circuit. She scored 33 points against Sports Academy Swish in a EYBL tournament game on Saturday. She scored 29 points against All Iowa Attack a day later.

That caught the attention of numerous colleges. Beaty, a 2025 point guard and former Clemson commit, was offered Penn State, Michigan, Iowa State, Wisconsin, Mississippi State, Missouri and Arkansas.

"It's been kind of crazy," Beaty said. "The first (offer) was Penn State. It was Sunday after the games got over. It was most of the day. It was kind of insane because I've never had that happen before, especially schools like that."

On Tuesday, she opened the Class A track and field state championships by winning the shot put with a throw of 38-feet-4 ¼. It was her third straight title in shot put. And her older sister Gabby Reese won the 2021 shot put title.

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