Winder-Barrow’s hopes of a second straight Elite Eight berth and third in five seasons came to an end Thursday, May 6, as Allatoona swept the Bulldoggs in the second round of the GHSA Class 6A playoffs.
The Winder-Barrow baseball team swept South Paulding in a doubleheader Thursday, April 29, in the first round of the GHSA Class 6A playoffs.
In baseball, one play can change the trajectory of a game and even an entire postseason series. Thanks to its star player, Winder-Barrow was on the pleasant end of one of those shifts Thursday, April 29, in Game 1 of its GHSA Class 6A first-round home playoff series against South Paulding.
Several Winder-Barrow track and field athletes notched top-four finishes Friday and Monday, April 23 and 26, in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA championship meet at Habersham Central to qualify for next month’s state sectionals in Rome.
Winder-Barrow’s baseball team once again has navigated a difficult schedule this spring en route to yet another 20-plus-win season, the latest successful run for a strongly consistent program under head coach Brian Smith.
Winder-Barrow’s boys’ soccer team stood toe-to-toe with defending state champion Dalton for a half Friday, April 23, in the first round of the GHSA Class 6A playoffs, but the undefeated Catamounts asserted their dominance in the second half.
Hampered by injuries that sidelined him for most of the early part of his high school career, Wyatt Fricks wasn’t sure whether he wanted to continue playing basketball and pursuing a chance to compete at the collegiate level. But in the end, his passion for the game won out over that uncerta…
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Top-ranked Buford scored seven times in the bottom of the second inning Wednesday, April 14, and never looked back, defeating Winder-Barrow 10-0 in five innings to claim the GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA championship and denying the Bulldoggs a fourth-straight region title.
With his team down 5-0 midway through the first game of a pivotal region series against top-ranked Buford on Monday, April 12, Winder-Barrow coach Brian Smith turned around to remind his players that there two more meetings remaining between the sides this week and that the goal was to “get …
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A celebration of life service for former head Winder-Barrow High School football coach Phil Jones will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at W. Clair Harris Stadium.
Even when things have gotten dicey for the red-hot Winder-Barrow baseball team in games this season, Bulldoggs coach Brian Smith has been confident his team would right the ship quickly.
The Winder-Barrow boys’ track and field team bested six other schools in the point totals Tuesday, March 23, to win their meet at North Oconee High School.
Scenes from Winder-Barrow's GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA match against Dacula at W. Clair Harris Stadium on Tuesday, March 23. The Bulldoggs outscored the Falcons 4-2 in a penalty-kick shootout to win the match 3-2.
Winder-Barrow girls' soccer vs. Dacula on Tuesday, March 23, at W. Clair Harris Stadium. Dacula won the GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA match 2-0.
The Winder-Barrow baseball team had to sweat it out a little more at home Tuesday, March 23, against Lanier. But the Bulldoggs’ bats came to life late, as they rallied twice for a 9-5 victory over the Longhorns to win their ninth straight game and remain unbeaten in GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA play.
In its recent rough stretch of three straight losses, the Winder-Barrow boys’ soccer team had dropped its last two matches due to penalty kicks — the first a 1-0 regulation loss at Habersham Central on March 9, where the only goal of the night came on a penalty kick by the Raiders, and the s…
Sophomore Emorrie Foskey’s wins in the shot put and discus helped fuel a second-place team finish for the Winder-Barrow boys’ track and field team Saturday, March 20, in the Loch Johnson Invitational at Cedar Shoals High School.
Winder-Barrow senior football player Timothy Presley made his recent commitment to Berry College official March 17, signing with the Vikings during a ceremony at WBHS. Presley, who will join the Division III program in the fall, was a multi-year starter at outside linebacker for the Bulldogg…
After transferring over from Mountain View, Wyatt Fricks was a difference-maker for the Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team this winter, leading the Bulldoggs to one of their most successful seasons in years.
The Winder-Barrow baseball team asserted its dominance early Monday, March 15, outscoring Central Gwinnett 34-0 in the span of eight innings and steamrolling its way to a GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA doubleheader sweep of the Black Knights in Lawrenceville.
Winder-Barrow senior linebacker Chandler Maxwell signed Wednesday, March 10, to continue his football playing career at Georgia Military College. Maxwell, who played and started for two seasons for the Bulldoggs after transferring from Bethlehem Christian Academy, was an all-GHSA Region 8-AA…
As has been the case in recent years, Winder-Barrow baseball coach Brian Smith knows that his team will need plenty of pitching depth to get through the grind of its GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA schedule, which has now grown from 15 games to 18 with an additional team in the mix.
The Winder-Barrow tennis teams breezed through Central Gwinnett on the road Thursday, March 4, with a pair of 5-0 victories in their GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA opener.
NORCROSS — Sitting in a spot where it had not been in two decades, the Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team looked primed to go even further, as the Bulldoggs held an 11-point lead almost midway through the third quarter of their GHSA Class 6A second-round playoff game at Centennial on Friday…
DOUGLASVILLE — The Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team wasn’t quite sure how long it had been since its last state-tournament victory.
Daniel Saucedo and Chance Barron both scored twice, and Jason Lopez and Antony Lopez added goals, as Winder-Barrow cruised to a 6-0 region victory over Buford at home Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Coaches: James Barksdale, Jordan Najafi, Parker Elrod.
The Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team emerged from the grind of a rigorous Region 8-AAAAAA schedule as the fourth-place team in the region, and the Bulldoggs have a higher degree of confidence than a typical fourth seed might as they enter the state playoffs.
The Winder-Barrow boys' basketball team nearly avenged its two regular-season losses to Buford on Saturday, Feb. 20, in the GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA tournament consolation game, but the Wolves escaped in a triple-overtime thriller.
Already thin on depth after entering the season without its leading scorer and rebounder from the previous winter due to an injury, the Winder-Barrow girls’ basketball team knew staying as healthy as possible would dictate how far it would go.
Head coach: Boys, Devin Allison; girls, BJ Worley.
Winder-Barrow High School senior midfielder and team captain Will Perry signed to continue his soccer-playing career at LaGrange College during a ceremony at the school Tuesday, Feb. 9. Pictured, from left to right, are front row: Ben Perry (older brother, former WBHS player/captain), Matt P…
The Winder-Barrow High School baseball program has established itself to the point where there is always going to be considerable talent on the roster year-to-year. But Bulldoggs coach Brian Smith says he tends to base his thoughts on his team’s chances for success each season on how hard th…
After missing the state playoffs in 2018 and 2019, the Winder-Barrow boys’ soccer team was sitting at 7-4 last spring and in solid position to break that postseason skid. But an initially-scheduled two-week hold following a 2-1 loss to rival Apalachee eventually turned into the cancellation …
Winder-Barrow High School alum and former Bulldoggs’ soccer player Cason Dowdy has taken the reins of the girls’ program and said he has found working with the Lady Bulldoggs so far to be “different in a positive way.”
The Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team squandered a double-digit lead to Dacula back in December in an 18-point region loss.
Jacob Merrifield, a two-way standout the last few years for the Winder-Barrow football team, put together another strong season as a senior in 2020 and has since graduated early and enrolled at Florida Atlantic, where he signed to play defensive end.
Kiona Lindsay and Keonna Hamler recorded 21 points apiece as the Winder-Barrow girls' basketball cruised past Shiloh 62-41 in a home GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA contest Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Phil Jones, the former Winder-Barrow High School head football coach who guided the Bulldoggs to one of their longest-sustained runs of success and led the team on a historic state semifinal run in 1993, died Saturday, Dec. 26. He was 74.
Winder-Barrow senior defensive end Jacob Merrifield headlined the Bulldoggs’ list of all-GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA selections, as he was voted the region’s defensive player of the year.
Jacob Merrifield knew going into his senior season that he was well on track to earn a college football scholarship at the FBS level.
A young Winder-Barrow girls’ basketball team with new starters at four different spots on the floor is still finding its way, but Bulldoggs coach Kimberly Garren came away her team’s hard-fought win over Central Gwinnett on Friday, Dec. 11, believing it was one to build off of with the sched…
After a couple of recent sluggish starts, Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball coach Travis McDaniel challenged his players to come out of the gate with more energy and intensity in their home game against Central Gwinnett on Friday, Dec. 11.
The Apalachee and Winder-Barrow wrestling teams are in similar shape in the early going of the 2020-21 season.
Winder-Barrow’s boys’ basketball team has used a balanced scoring attack and solid defense in getting off to one of its hottest starts in several years, and that formula paid off again Tuesday, Dec. 1, in its 2020-21 home-opener.
Winder-Barrow came into its GHSA Class 6A first-round playoff game Friday, Nov. 27, at Carrollton with an upset on its mind. But the 10th-ranked Trojans put an early damper on those hopes, as a rough start snowballed quickly for the Bulldoggs.
With the Georgia high school football season two weeks behind the point where it would normally be, Winder-Barrow finds itself in a position it hasn’t been in for more than 25 years: practicing on Thanksgiving week in preparation for a playoff game. In fact, you have to go back to the Bulldo…
Winder-Barrow got 26 points from junior Tim Loud, and the Bulldoggs defeated Hebron Christian Academy 70-65 Tuesday, Nov. 24, in the championship of the Jackson EMC Tipoff Classic at Jefferson High School.
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.
Winder-Barrow knew one of its tallest tasks coming into this season would be replacing Harlin Brown, who had been one of the top kicking specialists in north Georgia over the previous three years. And the Bulldoggs have indeed been a work in progress throughout the fall, trying out a handful…
FOOTBALL WEEK 12 PREVIEW: Playoffs on the line for Bulldoggs in regular-season finale against Lanier
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.
Second-ranked Buford scored 21 first-quarter points and had no trouble toppling Winder-Barrow 45-7 in a GHSA Region 8-AAAAAA game at Tom Riden Stadium on Friday, Nov. 13., snapping the Bulldoggs’ three-game win streak.
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…
The Winder-Barrow boys’ basketball team took a major step last winter in its first season under coach Travis McDaniel, winning 17 games and making it back to the state playoffs. Now, with plenty of returning talent on the roster, the Bulldoggs are entering the 2020-21 season with higher aspi…
Postseason basketball has become the norm for the Winder-Barrow girls’ basketball program, and the Bulldoggs are entering the 2020-21 campaign determined to and confident that they can reach the state playoffs for a sixth straight year — even as they’re dealing with a rash of preseason injur…
Winder-Barrow dominated on both sides of the ball Monday, Nov. 9, throttling Central Gwinnett 37-0 and earning its first shutout since 2016 at North Oconee.
Winder-Barrow’s Matilee Rogers capped off a strong sophomore season Friday, Nov. 6, placing 16th overall out of 202 runners in the GHSA Class 6A girls’ cross country championship meet at Carrollton High School. Meanwhile, the Bulldogg boys brought home an 11th-place finish.
Winder-Barrow got its three-game, nine-day stretch off to a resounding start Thursday, Nov. 5, scoring early and often and dismantling Salem 50-6 in a non-region contest at W. Clair Harris Stadium.
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.
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.
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