With back-to-back trips to Columbus, including a GHSA Class 5A Final Four berth last season, the Apalachee softball team has elevated its expectations over the last two years. And the Wildcats aren’t shying away from those entering this fall despite the graduation of one of the state’s best …
Apalachee High School senior Zane Smith signed Tuesday, May 25, to continue running track at Piedmont University. Smith had a solid senior season for the Wildcats and was part of the school's 4x800-meter relay team that finished third in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA championship meet and advanced…
Coming off the podium Saturday afternoon, May 15, after his second runner-up finish of the day at the GHSA Class 5A state track and field meet at Carrollton High School, Apalachee senior Tauheed Ferguson wasn’t 100-percent thrilled or satisfied. But he also wasn’t lacking in perspective, eit…
Apalachee head football coach Tony Lotti wanted to play a lot of players and, more importantly for him, assess several younger players in certain situations, during the Wildcats’ spring scrimmage Wednesday, May 12.
With all the disruption that 2020 brought and with COVID-19 still around, Apalachee head coach Tony Lotti was delighted just to get a full football calendar in 2021, and he was extra-jazzed last week when the Wildcats hit the field to start their two-week spring practice period after the pan…
The Apalachee track and field teams competed in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA championship meet Tuesday, April 27, at R. Harold Harrison Stadium on the campus of AHS. The AHS girls finished second overall, while the Wildcat boys finished fourth.
A pair of senior Apalachee boys’ track and field athletes won two individual titles apiece Tuesday, April 27, and the AHS girls’ team finished second overall in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA championship meet at R. Harold Harrison Stadium.
The Apalachee baseball team faced off with third-ranked Greenbrier on Tuesday, April 13, losing 5-1 in eight innings.
Ace pitcher Manning West had another impressive outing, but it wasn’t enough to lead Apalachee to an upset over Greenbrier on Tuesday, April 13.
The Apalachee boys' soccer team fell 2-1 at Clarke Central on Friday, April 2.
From scouting earlier this season, Apalachee boys’ soccer coach Chad Hooper knew Clarke Central was a particularly lethal offensive team off throw-ins and other set pieces, and the Wildcats made defending those attacks a heavy focus in practice leading up to the teams’ battle in Athens on Fr…
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Despite dominating Walnut Grove on the field, the Apalachee boys’ soccer team had a relatively small lead for the first 60 minutes of their home GHSA Region 8-AAAAA match against Walnut Grove on Tuesday, March 30.
Apalachee High School senior tight end Andrew Howe will continue his football-playing career at Point University next fall. Howe signed with the Skyhawks during a ceremony at the high school on Friday, March 19. He was a key part of the Wildcats' offense last fall and earned an honorable men…
The Apalachee girls’ track and field team topped 10 other schools in the point total Saturday, March 20, to win the third annual Dawg Dash at George Walton Academy, while the Wildcat boys finished third out of 10 teams.
Journey’s hit “Don’t stop believing” played over the PA system in the aftermath of Apalachee’s Saturday game with Jackson County.
Good baseball teams, particularly ones that are playing well, have a tendency to make other teams pay for their mistakes, and that was the case for a red-hot Jackson County squad against Apalachee on Monday, March 15.
The Apalachee baseball team continued a dominant week of play Monday, March 8, throttling Rockdale County 10-0 in five innings at home for its fifth straight victory.
Apalachee’s track and field teams dominated their home meet Thursday, March 4, outscoring five other teams with plenty of room to spare.
The Apalachee baseball team picked up a pair of road wins this week, both in come-from-behind fashion, to get its record back over .500.
The Apalachee boys’ track and field team edged out Loganville by one point (78-77) as the Wildcats took first place in their opening meet of the season at home Feb. 17.
The Apalachee basketball teams’ seasons came to an end Monday, Feb. 15, in the first round of the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA tournament, as the Wildcats boys lost 61-33 at Greenbrier and the Lady Wildcats dropped a 51-34 contest at Walnut Grove.
The Apalachee baseball team was among a handful of local senior-heavy spring sports teams last year that saw their season cut short by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but the graduation of 10 players hasn’t left the roster depleted by any means.
Both the Apalachee boys’ and girls’ basketball teams will face tall tasks Monday, Feb. 15, in the opening round of the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA tournament if they want to keep their seasons alive. But both squads’ coaches believe they are playing some of their best basketball on the season with a…
After losing 11 seniors and seven starters from last year’s team that stood in first place in its region standings when the season was scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apalachee boys’ soccer coach Chad Hooper expects that his team will be feeling its way through things early on in t…
The loss of the remaining half of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic was a big blow in more ways than for the Apalachee girls’ soccer team.
After enduring a 13-game losing streak, the Apalachee boys’ basketball team has finally found its way back to winning side of the scoreboard.
It’s been two months since Apalachee’s boys’ basketball team recorded its last win, when the Wildcats held off North Springs 63-57 in their season opener on Nov. 20.
Three Apalachee football players were first-team selections, and several other Wildcats also garnered recognition on the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA all-region team announced Thursday, Dec. 17.
A team-wide coronavirus-related quarantine has sidelined Apalachee's girls' basketball team, a week after the entire boys' team had to enter a 10-day quarantine due to a player testing positive.
The Apalachee and Winder-Barrow wrestling teams are in similar shape in the early going of the 2020-21 season.
The Apalachee varsity boys’ basketball team is on pause after a player tested positive for COVID-19 last week and the rest of the Wildcats and their coaching staff went into a precautionary quarantine. The layoff has caused the team to postpone two region games and cancel a pair of other con…
Senior Isaiah Nelson-Ododa posted a double-double with 25 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks as the Winder-Barrow boys' basketball team routed Alpharetta 77-53 on Monday, Nov. 23, in the semifinals of the Jackson EMC Tipoff Classic at Jefferson High School.
Apalachee’s Tony Lotti is as competitive as any other head high school football coach around. And, as he put it bluntly last weekend following a last-minute loss at Jackson County in the Wildcats’ season finale Friday, Nov. 20, “I hate to lose.”
Isaiah Maxey's 10-yard touchdown pass to Jaden Cofer with 22 seconds left led Jackson County to a come-from-behind 21-17 victory over Apalachee on Friday, Nov. 20, in both teams' season finale in Jefferson.
While the GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA standings might appear a little muddied at the moment entering the final week of regular-season play, the picture is actually quite clear for Winder-Barrow this week. Win and most likely qualify for the state playoffs; lose and almost certainly be eliminated.
The way third-year Apalachee boys’ basketball head coach Ty Rowland sees it, if any team could have benefitted from a traditional full summer and preseason program, it would have been the 2020-21 Wildcats.
The win-loss record didn’t tell the whole story of the growth Apalachee girls’ basketball coach Derrick Allen saw from his team last winter in his first season with the program, and he’ll be counting on that same type of development this year from a Wildcat squat that is even younger after l…
Apalachee had been able to avoid any major, costly mistakes — and thus picked up much-needed victories — in its previous two outings, and Wildcats coach Tony Lotti had said earlier in the week his team would need to do the same to have a chance in Friday night’s critical GHSA Region 8-AAAAA …
The Apalachee High School softball team held a college signing ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 11, for its three seniors that helped the Wildcats have a historic season this fall with a 28-8 record and GHSA Class 5A Final Four appearance in Columbus. Pitcher Emily Hodnett signed with Georgia State,…
The Apalachee football team appears to be starting to click at the ideal time and finds itself right in the thick of the state playoff picture with just two weeks to play in the regular season. And with a win in their upcoming likely home finale Friday, Nov. 13, against Loganville, the Wildc…
Apalachee kept its playoff aspirations intact Friday, Nov. 6, picking up a huge 19-7 win at Walnut Grove and moving into a four-way for fourth place in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA standings.
After its first six games of the season were filled mostly with frustration, Apalachee finally had a chance to smile Friday, Oct. 30, as the Wildcats dominated from start to finish and routed Johnson 45-0 in Gainesville to earn their first victory of the season.
Despite neither team qualifying for the state meet, Apalachee cross country coach Jennifer Fancher came away from last week’s GHSA Region 8-AAAAA championship meet in Helen optimistic about the program’s future and proud of the runners for battling against some tough obstacles.
The Apalachee softball team came to the GHSA Class 5A Final Four tournament in Columbus determined both to make amends for an 0-2 showing in last year’s Class 6A Elite Eight and to capture the program’s first-ever state title.
The first six games of the season were filled mostly with frustration for Apalachee, but on Friday, Oct. 30, the Wildcats dominated from start to finish and had a chance to smile.
At 0-6, it would be an understatement to say things haven’t gone the way Apalachee would have liked to this point in the season.
Strong pitching and timely hitting has been the recipe for success all season long for the Apalachee softball team. And it worked like a charm again Tuesday, Oct. 27, in a pair of 1-0 victories over Northgate High School in the GHSA Class 5A quarterfinal series in Newnan.
Despite the strides his team made throughout the year, Apalachee volleyball coach Joey Alfonso knew it would take something special to make it out of the state quarterfinal round.
The Apalachee volleyball team is going to the Elite Eight in its classification for the first time since 2013.
Apalachee sophomore catcher Sam Woody had the tall task of replacing the graduated Madyson Coe, who had not just been a mainstay at the top of the Wildcats’ lineup and behind the plate for the last few years, but also a key team leader.
Apalachee volleyball coach Joey Alfonso didn’t have to remind his team, during the timeout huddle, of the position the Wildcats had been in three straight years in the state playoffs: holding a commanding 2-0 lead in either the first or second round before losing three straight sets to fall …
A regular-season and region schedule that fully tested them and a favorable draw in the bracket were out well for the Apalachee softball team Monday, Oct. 19.
The Apalachee volleyball team’s bid for a third consecutive region championship came up short Saturday, Oct. 17, as the Wildcats fell 3-1 to top-seeded Greenbrier in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAA tournament championship match in Evans.
After three straight games of little production on the scoreboard, Apalachee’s offense turned in a strong performance Friday, Oct. 16, but it wasn’t enough to overcome an even bigger night from an explosive Greenbrier team.
Walnut Grove got a pair of runs in the top of the fourth inning on a two-base error and made those runs stick Thursday, Oct. 15, as the Warriors defeated Apalachee 2-0 in both teams’ regular-season finale.
As Winder-Barrow coach Ed Dudley put it, the 24-hour window of “pouting” after a heartbreaking loss has come and gone, and the Bulldoggs have their eyes firmly set on doing something that no other team in GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA has been able to do over the last four-plus seasons: beat Dacula.
The Apalachee volleyball team has clinched another state playoff berth, and while the road wasn’t quite as smooth as the past two seasons when the Wildcats won a combined 97 matches and back-to-back region titles, head coach Joey Alfonso hopes his team has another strong run in them in the c…
The Winder-Barrow softball team is spending this week getting in what first-year head coach Jordan Najafi said is some much-needed practice time as the Bulldoggs make their final preparations for the first round of the GHSA Class 6A playoffs next week.
The Winder-Barrow boys and Apalachee girls’ cross country teams won the team titles while WBHS sophomore Matilee Rogers was the girls’ individual winner Monday, Oct. 12, in the “Best of Barrow” meet at Apalachee High School.
Apalachee’s bid to upset Eastside on the road Thursday night, Oct. 8, got off to a promising start with a defensive touchdown in the first minute of the game. But the Wildcats’ offense was kept in check throughout the night, and the early momentum gave way to the Sincere Johnson show as the …
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