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Jefferson locks up number one seed

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

Dragons defeat East Jackson 59-48 on senior night The Jefferson Dragons are now locked in as the number one seed for next week’s region tournament. A win Saturday against East Jackson capped off a successful week, and made the Dragons 6-0 in the subregion. Jefferson will wrap up their regular season on Friday with a trip to North Oconee to ... [Full Story »]

Eagles Travel To Banks County Friday Night

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

With the post-season on the horizon, the East Jackson Eagles defeated North Oconee and Rabun County last week before dropping a game to Jefferson. Now the Eagles look to wrap up their regular season on a high note, as they prepare to travel to Banks County to face the Leopards Friday night. The Leopards are third in the subregion, trailing ... [Full Story »]

Nine Mat Eagles Head To Sectionals On Friday

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

Nine East Jackson grapplers will be traveling to the sectionals next week after the Mat Eagles brought home a solid third-place finish in the area meet at Fannin County over the weekend. East Jackson scored 168.5 points, following winner Jefferson with 293 and second-place Banks County, which had 201.5. Luis Verduzco turned in a first place ... [Full Story »]

Eagles Cross Country Banquet Held

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

The East Jackson Eagles Cross Country team held its 2008 awards banquet February 5. Top Runner Awards went to Sherri Blalock, Kevin Kesler and Brandon Banks. Most Improved Awards went to Kassie Mull, Amanda Anderson, Skyler Cozzens, Terry Miller and Chris White. Andy Van Deventer was presented with the Luthi-Gillespie American Legion Post 93 ... [Full Story »]

BCHS sends 11 to face tough weekend at State Sectionals

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

Banks County High School’s grapplers wrapped up the regular season last week. With the regular season complete and the Mat Leopards sending 11 to the State Sectionals this weekend in Jefferson, Banks County has the potential to make quite an impact next week at the State Tournament. However, before the Leopard grapplers can prepare for Macon, ... [Full Story »]

Leopards hosts East Jackson Fri.

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

The Banks County High School basketball team has one game left. Friday night in Homer is going to be big for the Leopards, as they host the regular season closer against East Jackson. Once Banks gets through with East Jackson, the Leopards can turn their attention to the region tournament next week. With a 5-7 region record and currently on ... [Full Story »]

Lady Leopards wrap regular season on Friday

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

Banks County’s Lady Leopards are confident that the number three seed for the region tournament is in the bag. While Banks still has a chance for the second seed, assistant coach Andy Brown thinks the odds are the ladies will take third. What this means for this week is that the Lady Leopards need to get through the final regular season game ... [Full Story »]

Lady Tigers Down But Not Out

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

It is not over yet. That is the sentiment of the Commerce Lady Tigers, as the team prepares for the final game of the regular season against visiting Athens Christian. While the Lady Tigers hope to end the season on a high note, the odds don’t look good. Athens Christian defeated Commerce earlier in the season 40-14. But coach Eddie McCurley ... [Full Story »]

REGION TOURNEY: AHS pulls away from Habersham

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

The name of the game in postseason basketball play is win and advance. The Apalachee High School boys basketball team did just that Tuesday night. After a somewhat sluggish first half, the Wildcats moved into a higher gear in the final two quarters to eliminate visitng Habersham Central 49-33. AHS will face Heritage Saturday in the second round ... [Full Story »]

REGION TOURNEY: Hill paces Lady Doggs past AHS

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Wednesday, February 11. 2009

The Winder-Barrow High School Lady Bulldoggs stormed out of the starting gate Tuesday night against county rival Apalachee in the opening round of the Region 8-AAAA tournament and then held off a second half rally by the Lady Wildcats to advance. Coach Brenda Hill’s squad recorded a 61-47 victory to advance to Friday’s second round contest ... [Full Story »]

Entries from February 2009