By Mike Hutchens, UC Schools Communications Director
Union City, Tenn.–The Region 7A basketball tournament is finally set.
All eight quarterfinal games — four girls’ contests and four boys’ — will be played Saturday at the higher seed.
The Union City girls (13-11) will host Madison Academic (10-11) at 4 p.m., while the Tornado boys (19-7) will be at home to play Peabody (15-14) at 7 p.m.
All first-round girls’ games in the tourney will be played at 4, with every boys’ contest to start at 7.
Each is an elimination game, with the victors moving on to the tourney semifinals. The girls’ semis are on tap for Monday night at 7 p.m., again at the higher seed from teams’ finish in their respective district tournaments.
The boys’ semifinals are set for Tuesday night under the same circumstances, with the championships set for Wednesday (girls) and Thursday for the boys.
Advance tickets for UC’s two Saturday games will be on sale Friday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. for $7 each. The gymnasium will be cleared and cleaned between the Tornadoes’ two games, per TSSAA coronavirus protocols. Fans wishing to attend both games must purchase a ticket for each.
Around 350 tickets for Union City fans will be made available. Peabody will be allotted 100 tickets.
No tickets will be available at the door.
Gates will open at 3 p.m. for the girls’ game and 6 o’clock for the boys’ matchup.
Completed brackets are attached.