David Clary

Mar 11, 2025 | dnj.com | David Clary

David ClarySpecial to The Oak RidgerEDITOR'S NOTE: The Oak Ridge High School Lady Wildcats will play the Bartlett High Lady Panthers in the Class 4A State Girls Basketball Tournament at 5 p.m. (EDT) Thursday, March 13, at Middle Tennessee State University's Murphy Center in Murfreesboro. The Oak Ridge High School Lady Wildcats basketball team will play in their 25th state basketball tournament on Thursday in search of their fourth state championship in program history.

Nov 15, 2024 | oakridger.com | David Clary

On this date in Wildcat history, Nov. 15, 1957: The Oak Ridge Wildcats traveled to Chattanooga to take on the Purple Pounders of Chattanooga Central in the final scheduled game of the 1957 season. This was not a playoff game and it ended up not being the final game of that season. More on that later. In 1957, the TSSAA didn’t have playoffs and, in fact, they wouldn’t begin until the 1969 season.

Nov 8, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | David Clary

On this date in Wildcat Football History, Nov. 8, 1946. The Wildcats took on the Lenoir City Panthers in the eighth game of the Oak Ridge team's third full season of existence. Oak Ridge as a city was in transition with many of the Manhattan Project families moving back to where they came from and the resulting drop in the Oak Ridge High School population. This was evident on the field, for after two solid war years in 1944 and 1945, when Oak Ridge went 7-1 and 7-3, things weren’t as rosy in 1946.

Oct 25, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | David Clary

Writer Thomas Wolfe's famous quote, “You can’t go home again” roughly applies to Friday night's Oak Ridge football game with the Lenoir City Panthers, but one man in attendance on Friday hopes to blow that theory out of the water. There isn’t bad blood between these two teams that have a relatively short series between them. There are no fights or playoff history between the Wildcats and the Panthers. The Wildcats lead this series 8-3-1 since the first meeting in 1944.

Oct 11, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | David Clary

On this date in Wildcat football history, we go back to Oct. 11, 1991. This game would give high school fans a sneak preview of the greatest high school game I personally have ever witnessed. It was the state semi-finals game between Oak Ridge and the Central Bobcats that would take place a few weeks later. Like that semi-final game, this regular season game was played at Dan Y. Boring Field at Central High School in Knoxville.