Hampton celebrates second basketball state title
Published 2:30 pm Monday, March 20, 2023
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders The 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Champions Hampton Bulldogs wave to the Bulldog Nation as their bus arrives back to the school Sunday afternoon.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders The Hampton Cheerleaders celebrate their return home after cheering on the Bulldogs to the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Championship Sunday afternoon.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders This flag, along with dozens of signs and banners, greeted the TSSAA Class 1A State Champions Hampton Bulldogs along their route from the Carter County line to the front door of the High School.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders This flag, along with dozens of signs and banners, greeted the TSSAA Class 1A State Champions Hampton Bulldogs along their route from the Carter County line to the front door of the High School.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Just a few of the hundreds of happy Bulldog fans who braved temperatures in the low 30s and even colder wind chills, waiting along the route to welcome home the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Champions Hampton Bulldogs.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Busses carrying home the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Champions Hampton Bulldogs, along with their large escort, make the final turn home into the parking lot of Hampton High School late Sunday afternoon.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Cadon Buckles (right), the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Championship Tournament MVP, and teammate Hayden Campbell (center) lead their team off the bus and into the front entrance of Hampton High School Sunday afternoon for their homecoming after winning the TSSAA Class 1A State Tournament Saturday evening in Murfreesboro.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Carl Robertson, a member of the 1960 State Champion Bulldogs team, shows off his varsity letterman jacket just before the 2023 team made its entrance into the VanHuss-White Gymnasium Sunday afternoon.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Cadon Buckles, the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Championship Tournament MVP, carrying the Gold Ball, leads his team into VanHuss-White Gymnasium for the final time late Sunday afternoon to the thunderous applause of families, friends and hundreds of excited fans to celebrate their newest TSSAA Class 1A State Championship.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Amy Banner, Hampton’s yearbook sponsor, welcomes the team and everyone inside the VanHuss-White Gymnasium to celebrate the Bulldogs being the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Champions.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Three members of the 1960 “Little Mountain Men” State Championship team (from L-R) Carl Robertson, Jerry White and Pastor Bobby Stout, greet and share some of their experiences and happiness as the Bulldogs brought home a “Gold Ball” on the same date 63 years after they won Hampton’s first state basketball title.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Amy Banner asks Cadon Buckles, the 2023 TSSAA Class 1A State Tournament MVP, to present the “Gold Ball” to the Bulldog Nation. Buckles and his team won the school's second TSSAA Class 1A State Championship 63 years to the day after Hampton’s first title in 1960.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Hampton Bulldog Head Coach Ned Smith, with his team behind him, tells the Hampton faithful how proud he is of his team and how they didn’t fold under the pressure of the State Tournament to bring home the “Gold Ball” for the first time in 63 years.
Star Photo/Larry N. Souders The Hampton Cheerleaders lead the Bulldog Nation in one final cheer of “Are you proud to be a Bulldog, YES WE ARE!” at the end of the pep rally.
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