BY JESSE SMITHEY The bookends to Dylan Loy's high school baseball career left plenty to be desired. All the chapters in between, though ... legendary. The 6-foot-1 left-hander is now about to embark on his journey into college baseball, as … [Read more...]
HISTORY MADE: Sweetwater Wildcats oust Pigeon Forge with 8-6 sectional series clinching victory Thursday night
BY DAVE LINK SWEETWATER — Cars jammed the parking lot. Fans stood in rows around packed bleachers at Sweetwater’s baseball field. History was made Thursday night when the Sweetwater baseball team earned the program’s first-ever trip to the … [Read more...]
KOC Postseason Tracker (05.12.23): Karns wins District softball, Vols signee Dylan Loy pitches perfect game, Oak Ridge baseball stuns HVA
BY JESSE SMITHEY A perfect game by a Tennessee signee. An upset by some Oak Ridge Wildcats. And a championship headed to Karns. Plenty happened on Friday night. Let's get you caught up. … [Read more...]
Vols Baseball signee Dylan Loy off to mind-blowing start in his senior season
BY JESSE SMITHEY Hard to dream up a better beginning to a senior season than Dylan Loy’s start. The Pigeon Forge left-hander has long been deemed one of the state’s best hurlers for a couple years now. But the Vols signee seems to have found … [Read more...]
5STAR PHOTOS: Pigeon Forge Tigers at Sevier County Smoky Bears baseball – Friday, March 24, 2023
SEVIERVILLE — What a night of baseball it was in Sevierville on Friday night, as Pigeon Forge and Sevierville battled it out in a pitchers duel of Division I arms. Dylan Loy, a left-handed senior and Tennessee signee, threw a complete game and … [Read more...]
What You May Have Missed This Summer of 2022, part I (June 1 through dead period)
BY JESSE SMITHEY To those who think the high school athletics game just shuts down after Spring Fling in late May, you're wrong. Much has happened since June 1 through the end of the TSSAA Dead Period. From recruiting to coach changes and … [Read more...]
2022 All-5Star Preps Baseball Teams
2022 All-5STAR PREPS Baseball Teams OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Lukas Buckner, Farragut PITCHER OF THE YEAR - Dylan Loy, Pigeon Forge FIRST TEAM INFIELDERS Lukas Buckner, Farragut, sophomore The 5Star Preps Offensive Player of the … [Read more...]
2022 All-5Star Preps Baseball Pitcher of the Year – Dylan Loy, Pigeon Forge
BY DAVE LINK Dylan Loy has some unfinished business to take care of when Pigeon Forge’s 2023 baseball season rolls around. Two straight runner-up finishes in the Class AA state tournament didn’t sit well with the Tigers’ left-handed pitcher and … [Read more...]
Watertown denies Pigeon Forge, 10-3, in Class 2A State Baseball Championship
BY J.D. Vaughn MURFREESBORO — Dylan Loy wasn’t ready to think about his senior year just yet. The TBCA Mr. Baseball finalist and University of Tennessee commit will have one more chance at a state championship. But one of his top role models — … [Read more...]
Pigeon Forge Baseball to play for Class 2A state championship; Powell, Coalfield, Catholic bow out on Friday
BY JESSE SMITHEY MURFREESBORO — They're the past two Class 2A Mr. Baseball winners for a reason, and Dylan Loy and Riley Franklin proved that once again on Friday afternoon. Loy, a junior at Pigeon Forge and the 2021 Mr. Baseball winner, went 2 … [Read more...]