High schools
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High school scoreboard: Feb. 8 The Riverside Military basketball team defeated Rabun County 67-63 Monday in Tiger to secure the top spot from Region 8A-AA in next week’s region tournament at North Oconee High. |
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Athlete of the Week: West Hall's Jarquise Young Jarquise Young heard loud and clear what his coach was saying before last Wednesday’s game against Flowery Branch. |
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Plenty on the line in final week of regular season The battle for basketball tournament seedings in Northeast Georgia is exactly what it is supposed to be with only four days left in the regular season schedule: Wide open. The final week of the regular season will go a long way to determining which teams earn a coveted No. 1 spot to their region tournament and which have to go in as a lower seed. 
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Davis: Dragons too good to be ignored The word virtual derives from the Latin word virtus, meaning strength and virtue. |
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Pickens girls top North Forsyth The Pickens girls basketball team pulled away late in Saturday's game against North Forsyth, eventually emerging with a 51-38 win. |
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Area wrestlers earn state tourament berths ELLIJAY — It’s rare that the Gilmer High wrestling program gets to say it made history. However, that is exactly what the tradition-rich Bobcats did this year during the Area 7-AAA traditional championships Saturday in Ellijay. |
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High school football schedules are out, and things look a little different The theme of the 2010 football season is change. |
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Saturday's high school scoreboard The East Hall girls basketball team led 31-14 at halftime and 55-19 after three en route to a 71-25 rout of Whitefield Academy on Saturday in Mableton. |
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West Hall closes out Johnson OAKWOOD — All season long, West Hall boys basketball coach Warren Sellers hasn’t been pleased with how his team closes out games.
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Friday's high school scoreboard Class AAA’s seventh-ranked Chestatee girls basketball team shut out sixth-ranked Pickens in the first quarter en route to a 35-29 win Friday night in Jasper. |
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Gilmer dominates first day of Area 7-AAA traditionals ELLIJAY — It’s just hard to compete with Gilmer when its wrestling program is clicking on all cylinders. |
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Buford girls remain No. 1 in latest sportswriters poll The Buford girls basketball team kept its top spot in Class AA in this week's Georgia Sportswriters Association poll. |
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Every wrestler for themself at 7-AAA tourney It’s time for Area 7-AAA’s wrestlers to get a little greedy and start looking out for No. 1: themselves.
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Johnson and Bailey on the clock |
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High school scoreboard: Feb. 3 West Hall junior point guard Jarquise Young hit six 3-pointers and finished the game with 35 points in a 65-60 win against Flowery Branch on Wednesday in Flowery Branch. |
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Sprague stayed the course with recruiting process With several of his teammates counting down the days to signing a Division-I football scholarship, Gainesville’s Thomas Sprague boarded a plane bound for Pittsburgh last Friday just trying to find his own piece of the pie.
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National Signing Day: Football not the only game in town as other sports' stars sign Football might grab the big headlines, but signing day isn’t just about the local gridiron greats. |
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National Signing Day: Local football standouts ready to take it to the next level From storied programs to upstarts to service academies, the college programs represented on National Signing Day ran the gamut. |
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Murphy: Outstanding players sometimes go unnoticed I’ve never claimed to know more about football than the guys that get paid to scout the talent, but I’d challenge anyone to question my ability to do simple math. The way colleges evaluate and critique high school football talent has really started to perplex me. |
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High school scoreboard: Feb. 2 The Johnson boys basketball team picked up a critical subregion win Tuesday by defeating East Hall 67-49 in Oakwood. |
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West Hall swept by West Forsyth The West Hall High boys basketball team lost to West Forsyth 51-49 on Tuesday in Cumming. |
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Buford, Chestatee girls both ranked The Buford High girls basketball team in ranked fourth in the state in Class AA in this week’s poll on prepcountry.com. |
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National Signing Day: Pair of players already early enrolled Somewhere within the crowd of 18,000 people, Connor Shaw eagerly awaited the buzzer that finalized the University of South Carolina’s 68-62 upset win over then No. 1 Kentucky on Jan. 26 at the Colonial Life Arena.
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West Hall holding a Pink Out West Hall High School is holding a “Pink Out” Friday when its basketball teams take on Johnson. |
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Coaching carousel leaves some recruits spinning Recruiting is an art form. Head coaches of colleges big and small understand the magnitude of the art; if they didn’t they wouldn’t be head coaches. College football has become as much about who a coach is bringing in as it is about who they’ve got playing for them right now. Thus, it’s important for coaches to have the ability to build relationships with young men. Take current Louisville verbal commit and Port ... |
