Jefferson girls' basketball coach Greg Brown wanted his team to face some early-season tests, and it passed one right out of the gate.
Jackson County is scheduled to bump up from Class AAA to Class AAAA in the latest reclassification cycle, but the school will now seek to play up even further.
When Commerce’s Sam Roach scored his third touchdown of the second half with 16 seconds left during Friday night’s game vs. George Walton, the Tigers were an extra point away from erasing a 21-0 deficit.
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Aaron Schuck has only been with the Jackson County girls’ basketball team for a few months, but the new coach’s attitude and energy has seemingly been infectious.
Most all of last year’s Jefferson girls’ basketball roster returns this season. But the biggest difference between this year and last year? This group won’t sneak up on anyone.
New East Jackson boys' coach Jarvis Smith has been on the job for nearly six months, and he’s gone about instilling a defense-first brand of basketball.
The East Jackson girls’ basketball team has goals, but new coach Cherrelle Pullen wanted her players to be reminded of them daily.
Jefferson boys’ basketball coach Kevin Morris didn’t want his team to forget about last season’s first-round state tournament loss to Westminster and came up with a creative way to ensure that wouldn’t happen.
The Commerce Tigers are coming off a 31-point win over Riverside Military Academy, and now the regular-season finale is in their sights.
The Commerce swimming season got started with multiple top finishers at the Nov. 2 Habersham Central Rocking Raider Meet.
The Commerce competition cheer Tigers had a week off to prepare for last Saturday's (Nov. 2) competition at Dawson County.
As Jackson County wrestling coach Jason Powers puts it, his Panthers have to get off that “fourth train.”
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Jefferson completed the cross country season with two of the better showings in Class AAA at the state meet in Carrollton Saturday (Nov. 2).
A pair of rivals share some common ground entering the season finale against one another.
The Commerce wrestling program has been one of the more dominating programs in the state.
Penn State 42 Minnesota 21
The Jefferson High School boys’ and girls’ swimming teams finished second in the combined standings at the Habersham Central Invitational Saturday (Nov. 2) to open the season.
The East Jackson swim season opened Nov. 2 at the Habersham Central Rocking Raider Meet.
The Jackson County girls’ cross country team had hoped for a top-10 finish at state and finished just outside of that with an 11th-place showing at state Saturday in Carrollton. Coach Brittley Blount was ecstatic nevertheless.
East Jackson’s cross country program closed its season with a 15th-place finish in Class AAA from its girls’ team and a 17th-place showing from its boys’ squad Saturday at the state meet in Carrolton.
Tallying a season-high total of 80.5 points, the East Jackson competitive cheerleading team finished first out of five Class AAA teams in a competition at Winder-Barrow Saturday (Nov. 2).
The Jackson County swimming program opened with a combined ninth-place finish out of 15 teams at the Habersham Central Invitational Saturday (Nov. 2).
The Georgia High School Association’s (GHSA) proposed reclassification for 2020-22 will move Jefferson up to Class AAAA with Jackson County joining them.
CARROLLTON — Commerce’s cross country team has been on the placers’ podium many times in Carrollton. But the view might have seemed a little bit different Saturday.
The Commerce Tigers' offense is showing that it's a well-oiled machine through nine games of the 2019 season, and game No. 9 Friday night (Nov. 1) at Riverside Military Academy may have been the best production yet.
In a game that wasn’t decided until the final minutes, East Jackson lost a shootout to Morgan County 45-31 at home Friday (Nov. 1).
The Jefferson football team hopes to make a deep run in the state playoffs but had to tend to business in its own zip code first.
ATLANTA — The Jackson County volleyball team faced a task too great to overcome in the semifinals, but its place in school history is firmly set.
Baylor 49 West Virginia 17
East Jackson enters its game with Morgan County this week with a newly-minted 1,000-yard rusher.
Colby Clark is a quarterback, but he’s putting up numbers any star running back would envy.
The Commerce football team got back to its winning ways after taking down Towns County last Friday (Oct. 25) 56-16.
The Commerce High School cross country program is flexing its muscle just at the right time.
Jackson County football coach Rich McWhorter doesn't mince words when discussing the challenge his team faces against Jefferson.
Kortney Kurtz has stepped down as East Jackson's head volleyball coach.
The East Jackson basketball programs will host Eagle Madness Thursday, Oct. 31, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the East Jackson Comprehensive High School gym.
Up 6-4 in the top of the fifth inning Saturday (Oct. 26) in Columbus, the Commerce Tigers were six outs away from a date with Gordon Lee in the Class A Public state title game.
The Commerce football team bounced back from a loss to Hebron Christian with a 56-15 home victory over Towns County last Friday (Oct. 25).
Jackson County volleyball coach Jeff White had praised his team earlier in the week for its restrained reaction to advancing to the Elite Eight. But he had no problem with the unbridled celebration his team enjoyed Saturday.
Franklin County intercepted a pass and drove for a fourth-quarter touchdown to beat Jackson County 23-16 Friday at Panther Stadium.
Hart County's Malachi Thomas scored four touchdowns and J'Len Lackey added three scores as the Bulldogs beat East Jackson 49-0 Friday in Hartwell.
MONROE — The public address announcer at Monroe Area High School issued a “Hurricane warning” prior to kickoff. But Jefferson was able to downgrade the Purple Hurricanes by night’s end in winning a region title.
The Jefferson basketball program will host an alumni game Friday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. at The Arena at Jefferson High School.
Jefferson's season ended where it expects it to end each year — Columbus. But, unlike last year, the Dragons were unable to reach the final day of the state quarterfinal tournament.
Jefferson will play for the region championship Friday night, though it might feel as if this is the third-straight week the 8-AAA title has hung in the balance for the Dragons.
The Commerce Cheer Tigers had what head coach Beverly Sailers described as an "off week" during the team's competitive competition at South Forsyth (Oct. 19).
A team that might have been overlooked in the region entering the year turned out to be one of 8-AAA's best.
The East Jackson boys’ and girls’ cross country teams qualified for the state meet Thursday (Oct. 24), with both continuing long streaks in doing so.
Jefferson didn’t go into the Region 8-AAA boys’ cross country meet as the perceived front runners. But don’t tell the Dragons that.
The starting signal at the region cross country meet at Franklin County was literally a blast from a cannon. Katherine Law proceeded to run like she was shot out of one.
Another Friday night in Commerce means another test for the Commerce Tigers football team.
Jefferson’s “all gas, no brakes” approach to the postseason has the team fueling up the bus for a familiar destination — Columbus.
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Hart County may have suffered a surprising loss to Monroe Area last week, but the Bulldogs’ roster is as well-stocked as anyone’s.
This isn’t the first time Jackson County will see the wing-T offense this year, but it is the first time it will see this type of wing-T speed.
To say the Commerce softball team is excited to make its trip to Columbus for the Elite Eight, and possibly a run for the Class A Public state title, may be an understatement.
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