Raptors shoot for another third place after losing to No. 4 team
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Ravenwood High School's wrestling team will have to wait another year to shoot for another state duals tournament title, but can still match last season's Class AAA third-place finish after splitting its first two matches. Brentwood Academy fell into the Division II losers bracket.

Updated 2:50 p.m.
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Four Brentwood Academy football players, a soccer player and a runner signed national letters-of-intent at a Wednesday school ceremony to compete collegiately next year. Linemen Woody Baron and Graham Shuler stuck to their original commitments to Virginia Tech and Stanford despite listening to other schools, while Al Thompson and Radir Anoor will play for in-state teams. 

Raptors end 5-game district skid; Lady Raptors fall; Bruins earn sweep
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Brentwood Academy's boys basketball team led by a point at halftime but missed an opportunity to move into a tie atop the region Tuesday. Ravenwood's boys ended a five-game skid, but the Lady Raptors dropped a district game. BA's girls team also lost, while Brentwood High's teams both won  Monday.

Brentwood resident Boyd makes her mark with district leaders
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Senior guard Emily Boyd, a Brentwood resident, is one of three Christ Presbyterian Academy girls  basketball players who reached the 1,000-point scoring mark within a two-week period.

Several Raptors, Eagles athletes expected to ink scholarship papers Wednesday
Updated 4:05 p.m. Tuesday
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Wide receiver Al Thompson thought he knew where he was playing college football back during his senior season in the fall at Brentwood Academy. But Thompson’s last-minute decision and late push by suitors illustrates just the crazy world of college football recruiting as national signing day approaches Wednesday. Teammate Radir Anoor made his decision Tuesday.

Ravenwood boys fall by only one point, but girls win on homecoming
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Brentwood Academy's boys and girls basketball teams both swept Battle Ground Academy, while Hillsboro handed both Brentwood High squads their first district loss on Friday night. Ravenwood split its double-header for homecoming against Centennial, with the girls winning but the boys falling by just a point.

CPA diver finishes runner-up, BHS duo makes big splash too
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Currey-Ingram Academy's Clarke Bynum won the Middle Tennessee Regional Dive Meet with a personal best of 386.65 on Friday at Centennial Sportsplex.

Ravenwood returns to next weekend's state tourney
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Ravenwood High School captured its third straight dual region championship, winning over district rival Independence in the final 36-18, and qualified for next weekend's state tournament.

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Ravenwood High School won the Battle of the Woods on the wrestling mat on Tuesday, winning the dual match with visiting Brentwood High 49-21. Raptors wrestlers Andrew Long (106), Tanner Reynolds (152) and Grant Jones (160) all won their matches by pin.

Big home games looming against MBA, BGA, Ensworth
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
The Brentwood Academy boys basketball team has won three in a row in the region and currently ranks second place in the standings heading into a crucial string of home games against MBA, BGA and Ensworth.

Montague's last-second shot ends valiant Raptors comeback
By ANDREW SKWARA
For Brentwood Home Page
Rivalry games don't get any better than this. At least not in Williamson County.
In front of a packed and increasingly loud gym – along with two raucous student sections – Jack Montague banked in a floater with 1.6 seconds to break a tie and lift visiting Brentwood to a dramatic 47-45 escape over arch rival Ravenwood on Friday night. It was the season's first meeting in the "Battle of the Woods."

Bruin committed to Yale, helps build 11-game win streak
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
When Jack Montague was about two years old, his father moved the furniture around in their Miami home to give him room to dribble a basketball. Now a senior point guard for Brentwood High, Montague has parlayed his basketball skill into a scholarship at Yale University and a stellar season  that has the Bruins on an 11-game win streak heading into Friday's Battle of the Woods at Ravenwood.

Senior point guard leads Ravenwood into Battle of the Woods 
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Ravenwood senior Devin Robinson shared a lot of responsibility last season, but this year he’s carrying a bigger load for the Raptors basketball team. When RHS plays host to cross-town rival Brentwood in the season’s first Battle of the Woods on Friday night, Robinson’s role as point guard for the Raptors is a key matchup in the game against the Bruins’ Jack Montague

Brentwood Home Page staff reports
Brentwood High School head football coach Ron Crawford announced to his team on Tuesday that he was headed to Cleveland, Tenn., to take over the Blue Raiders team. We asked for readers to share their thoughts and are posting some of them today. Click here to see our full story from Wednesday.

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Registration for the Brentwood YMCA youth spring soccer league is open to city residents through Sunday, Jan. 15, for ages U-7. It will then open to all from Jan. 16 to Jan. 22. All children in the U-4 through U-6 divisions can register any time until Jan. 22.

Lady Bruins also unbeaten atop district; Raptors teams both lose at Franklin
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The Brentwood High boys team reeled off its 11th straight win Tuesday night, and both the Bruins and Lady Bruins squads remained the only teams undefeated in District 11-AAA action. The BHS victories set the stage for Friday’s first Battle of the Woods double-header this basketball season.

Coach Ron Crawford addresses his team after its Nov. 5 win over Independence.

'Gut-wrenching' decision announced Tuesday
By SUSAN LEATHERS
Brentwood Home Page staff reports
The distinctive husky voice, forever marred by years of coaching, will no longer be heard on the sidelines of Brentwood High's James C. Parker Stadium. On Tuesday, longtime Brentwood High School football coach Ron Crawford resigned as the school's head football coach. He is heading to Cleveland High School where he will lead the Blue Raiders, a 5A program.

Tate Janasek

Meet Ravenwood's Tate Janasek
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Sometimes Ravenwood senior hockey player Tate Janasek continues to play after the whistle. Sure, the Raptors’ assistant captain is aggressive on the ice, but that’s not the reason. Janasek is 100% deaf since birth and sometimes doesn’t hear the ref, although he carries on conversations like most anybody with the help of cochlear implants, lip-reading and years of speech therapy. 

Brentwood places fifth, Ravenwood sixth 
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Brentwood High senior Nicholas Coffey was named co-outstanding wrestler and won his 195-pound weight class at the G.P. West / Bruins Invitational over the weekend.

RHS boys fall out of first, girls win in OT; BA teams split with JPII
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The Bruins boys basketball team won its 10th straight and is the only District 11-AAA team unbeaten, capping a sweep by the Brentwood High squads at rival Franklin on Friday night. The Ravenwood boys dropped their first loss in the district, but the Lady Raptors won a squeaker at Independence. Brentwood Academy teams also split their double-header.

Eagles win tourney; Bruins, Raptors headed to G.P. West/Bruins Invite
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Brentwood, Ravenwood and Brentwood Academy wrestling teams are heading into the stretch run, and all are making progress in several ways as big competitions loom ahead including the G.P. West / Bruins Invitational at BHS this weekend.

BA boys beat MBA; Raptors 2-0 in district; BHS, RHS, BA girls all win
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Brentwood High School's boys basketball team rolled up its ninth consecutive victory, rallying to outlast host Hillsboro 47-39 in District 11-AAA action Tuesday night.

Action a result of Hillsboro game
Brentwood Home Page staff reports
Ravenwood faces a fine from the TSSAA for basketball players allegedly coming onto the court during a shoving incident in Friday's home game against Hillsboro, but the school plans to file an appeal.

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Brentwood High School swimmer Robby Graves signed a national letter-of-intent this week to compete with the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he received an appointment for next year.

BA lineman wins Doc Blanchard Award at Army national all-star game
Brentwood Academy senior lineman Graham Shuler, a Stanford University recruit, was in San Antonio last week for Saturday’s Army All-American Bowl with the nation's best football players. On Friday night before the game, he was presented the 2012 Doc Blanchard Award. He emailed a postcard to Brentwood Home Page along the way. Click Read More for his final postcard wrapping up his experience. 

Raptors win latest Battle of Woods, end 5-game skid against Bruins 
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Ravenwood rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the final 5 minutes to defeated rival and defending state champ Brentwood 3-2 in a GNASH hockey league Friday night. 

Lady Bruins also make it a double celebration against Independence                
By CARSON FANT
For Brentwood Home Page
The Brentwood High School Bruins dominated the second half against Independence Friday night, turning a six-point halftime lead into a 53-30 district-opening win. The Lady Bruins also triumphed, 54-48,

Updated Saturday, 12:30 p.m.
By ANDREW SKWARA
For Brentwood Home Page
It's only fitting that in a game this physical, a near-fight broke out at the end. With Ravenwood on the verge of wrapping up a hard-fought 40-33 win over visiting Hillsboro in the boys game Friday night, a shoving match broke out in front of the Ravenwood sideline in the final minute.

Past two Preds Cup champs to battle for top spot tonight
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
When the past two Predators Cup champions meet on the ice at A-Game Friday night, it’ll be for first place in the GNASH high school hockey league as well as a Battle of the Woods for city bragging rights. Brentwood High, last year’s Preds Cup tournament champ, and Ravenwood, the 2010 winner, are battling for supremacy in this second of three regular-season meetings between the two clubs. BHS has a five-game win streak in the series, but RHS has only lost once this season.

BHS, RHS open district play at home; BA visits region rival Ensworth

By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Brentwood High girls basketball coach Ron Seigenthaler breaks the season into thirds, and Ravenwood boys basketball coach calls it phases. But, whatever the lingo, a new “season” begins Friday night when BHS and RHS open district competition and Brentwood Academy teams start region play.

Raptors, Lady Bruins fall short in finals, but BA wins on buzzer-beater
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Point guard Jack Montague scored 28 points as Brentwood defeated defending Class AA state champion Liberty Tech 64-61 Friday night to capture the Above the Rim tournament championship. Ravenwood's boys and Brentwood's girls finished second in the Beech tournament, while Brentwood Academy girls won at the buzzer and RHS girls triumphed again. 

Updated 3:20 p.m. Friday with game times
Raptors, Lady Bruins make finals of Beech holiday tourney
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Brentwood High held Kentucky signee Alex Poythress to nine points to give Northeast its first loss, and Ravenwood won in overtime over Riverdale as both teams made Friday's boys finals of two different holiday tournaments. The BHS, RHS and Brentwood Academy girls teams were also winners Thursday night.

Father-son stories, pro athlete articles also among BHP readers' tops
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
From a father-son coaching together to sons playing against their dad’s schools, and from NFL players working out to an NBA player coaching during lockouts, BHP readers found favorites among some of our fun, heartwarming or intriguing sports features. 

The one story that seemed to touch BHP readers the most was Jodi Rall’s article that captured a shining moment when a Sunset Middle School football JV player in a wheelchair participated in a play against Woodland.

Jason Matthews

Eagles line coach Mathews will be guest at Army All-American game
By CAROL STUART
Brentwood Home Page
Former Tennessee Titans offensive lineman Jason Mathews had special people mentor him over the years, such as current Titans coach Mike Munchak, and Brentwood Academy senior Graham Shuler feels the same away about Mathews, his line coach at BA. Shuler, headed to Stanford University, has invited Mathews to watch him play in the Army All-American Bowl national high school all-star game  Jan. 7 in San Antonio.

Traugber's latest book may soon need update

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Brentwood author Bill Traughber will likely need to update his latest book earlier than he planned. In September, Vanderbilt Football, Tales of Commodore Gridiron History (The History Press, $20) reached local bookstores. On Saturday, Vanderbilt football team will make a little history by appearing in only its fifth bowl appearance in team history when it takes on Cincinnati in the Liberty Bowl.