Backing into the playofffs has never been Heath Kennedy’s style. And it certainly wasn’t going to be how his Flowery Branch high baseball team approached the final two weeks of the regular season. So when the Falcons suffered a blowout loss to neighboring foe Buford in the first of a two-game Region 8-5A series April 10, the first-year coach gave his flock the ol fashioned “come to Jesus” ultimatum.
High school baseball: Flowery Branch locks up No. 3 playoff seed with 13-0 rout of Cedar Shoals