NEWPORT — Coming into Thursday night’s Region 2-AA championship game against Austin-East, there were a couple different factors at play for Cocke County’s boys soccer program.
One of them was the chance to make more program history, as CCHS beat Anderson County 5-2 in Tuesday’s regional semifinal to make its first-ever regional title game.
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