Kenny Hawkins

Johnson City

Sports Director at WJHL-TV (Johnson City, TN)

Sports Director for @WJHL11 and @ABCTriCities

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Tusculum finishes off spring with annual Black and Orange scrimmage

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

Tusculum — The spring drills came to an end Thursday night for the Tusculum Pioneers football team under the leadership of Billy Taylor in his 2nd year as head coach. It was their annual spring football scrimmage between the orange and black, a lot to work on following the 1-9 season. Pioneers quarterback Richard Hunter runs the option and pitches to Jake Barbuto, who picks up a sizable gain before being brought down.
Thursday Preps: D-B and Hampton win in softball while D-B tops Greeneville on the pitch

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

(WJHL) — The district softball tournament will get underway soon, and on Thursday night, regular season champion Science Hill traveled to Kingsport to face Dobyns-Bennett, the defending state champions.
Pannell’s Walk-Off Homer Lifts No. 4 Tennessee Past Auburn, 4-2

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – With the game tied in the bottom of the seventh, Taylor Pannell crushed a two-run walk-off home run to center field, lifting No. 4 Tennessee to a 4-2 victory over Auburn on Thursday night at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. The Lady Vols (35-9, 10-6 SEC) rallied late to take the series opener, scoring all four of their runs in the final two innings. After five scoreless frames, Auburn (27-18, 4-15 SEC) broke through in the top of the sixth, plating a pair of runs to take a 2-0 lead.
Mercer hits three home runs in a 5-1 win over ETSU

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

MACON, Ga. (April 17, 2025) – The ETSU baseball team dropped its series opener at Mercer on Thursday night by a score of 5-1. Thursday’s loss moves ETSU’s record to 25-11 and 6-4 in SoCon play. Carter Fink, a Macon, Georgia native, turned in one of his best starts of the season. Fink threw the first seven innings against the Bears and allowed three runs on six hits to go with four strikeouts. Despite the quality start, Fink saw his record dip to 6-2. ETSU was limited to five hits in game one.
Crump and Taylor commit to ETSU basketball, while Bradford and Crawford depart

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

Johnson City, TN — It was a busy day for the ETSU Buccaneer basketball team, less than 24 hours after bringing on 6’8 forward Jordan McCullum from Murray State, the Bucs got two more Thursday. One of the Bucs’ division I transfers is Brian Taylor II, a 6-foot-4 junior guard from SIU-Edwardsville who played in 34 games for SIU-Edwardsville. The St. Louis native helped lead SIUE to the OVC championship last season and to the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Houston.
Kerryon Johnson joins ETSU Football’s Coaching Staff as Running Backs Coach

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 17, 2025) – ETSU Head Football Coach Will Healy announced the hiring of Kerryon Johnson as the team’s new Running Backs Coach on Thursday. Johnson joins ETSU after spending the past two seasons on staff at North Alabama. Johnson joined UNA’s coaching staff prior to the 2023 season. At first, he was the Director of Player Development for the Lions before moving to the role of Running Backs Coach for the 2024 campaign.
Prep Wednesday: Science Hill and Wise Central win big on the softball field

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

(WJHL) — Light schedule on the high school softball diamond, but a few teams still played, including conference champion Science Hill, which went on the road to face Sullivan East Wednesday night. This game was out of hand in a hurry, the Toppers scored so many points in the early inning, they took out the varsity and allowed players on the bench to play,y and they went on to win easily 22-3.
Daniel Boone boys and Science Hill girls claim the Big 10 conference trackand field meet

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

Kingsport, TN — The Big Ten track and field meet took place tonight in Kingsport, and in the boys’ 32-hundred, Trey Bailey won with a time of 9.59.84In the girls’ 4 x 400 relay, Dobyns-Bennett would outpace Science Hill with a time of 4.04.84 for the winOverall, on the boys’ side, Daniel Boone edged out Science Hill, while the Lady Toppers got past Doby’s Bennett for the title.
ETSU Bucs quarterback Baylor Hayes enters his name into the transfer portal

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

Johnson City, TN — The portal also took from the Bucs today when quarterback Baylor Hayes announced on social media he was entering the transfer portal. Hayes appeared in two games for the Bucs as a true freshman in 2024, made his debut on November 16 vs. Furman he became the first true freshman to start for the Bucs under center since 1993. Hayes was named the 6-A player of the year coming out of Brentwood High School.
Former Class A TSSAA Mr. Basketball winner commits to ETSU basketball

1 week ago | wjhl.com | Kenny Hawkins

(WJHL) — Since the transfer portal opened this morning, names have been flying in and out all day. Good news, the ETSU Buccaneer basketball team has benefited from the portal. 6’8 forward Jordan McCullum has announced on social media that he has committed to the Bucs after playing for one season with Murray State. McCullum, who was the Class 1-A Mr. Basketball winner out of Harriman, Tennessee, appeared in 5 games for the racers and scored 8 points in the opener against Bethel.