Tuesday’s Thoughts

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In a terrific rematch of the first round the AA state playoffs, we saw a classic last night with Gatlinburg Pittman traveling to McMinn Central. We had Alcoa vs Bearden. We had a lot of good basketball! 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