BUFORD — Next stop: Columbus. Buford clinched a ninth consecutive trip to the state softball quarterfinals on Wednesday night, winning a pair of mercy-ruled games over Morgan County, 11-0 (five innings) and 15-7 (six innings) in the second round of the Class AAA state playoffs. Buford will be joined in Columbus by seven other teams from the classification, where it will compete for a record seventh straight state championship.