SPORTS Section
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High school sports cancellations Winder-Barrow baseball, tennis and track events have been cancelled today due to the rain. The Diamond Doggs game against Clarke Central scheduled for 5:30 p.m. has been moved to Thursday at the same time. |
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Doggs back to winning Winder-Barrow bounced back from its first loss of the season as junior lefthander Taylor Keinat hurled a four-hit 4-0 shutout at Rockdale County Tuesday evening at the Charles W. Maddox Complex. 
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Diamond Cats defeat Cedar Shoals 8-0 After upsetting rival Winder-Barrow Monday night, Apalachee Head Coach Mike Cavey was worried his team would come out flat at Region 8-AAAA opponent Cedar Shoals Tuesday. |
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Wildcats calm Hurricanes By the second half of the Apalachee soccer games Tuesday night, both the boys and girls teams had pulled the starting goalkeeper.
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WB soccer teams defeat Rockdale The Winder-Barrow boys and girls soccer teams each won their second region game Tuesday night at Rockdale County. |
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AHS weightlifters head to state Apalachee will be sending 12 of its football players to the State Weightlifting Meet March 20 in Perry.
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AHS boys tennis wins 3-2 on Monday At Bishop Park in Athens the Apalachee boys won their second straight Region 8-AAAA match with a 3-2 victory over Cedar Shoals on Monday. |
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Winder-Barrow boys and girls tennis falls to MCHS The Winder-Barrow girls tennis team (4-1 Subregion 8-AAAA North, 5-1 overall) lost for the first time, 4-1 Tuesday, against Madison County at the YMCA.
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AHS boys JV tennis team wins two straight matches The Apalachee boy’s junior varsity tennis team won 3-2 Saturday vs. Lumpkin County at North Georgia College, for their first win of the season. |
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WB boys golf wins opener Cole Bentley hits an approach shot Tuesday in Winder-Barrow’s season opening match against Clarke Central Tuesday at Jennings Mill Country Club. Bentley finished with a 48, while teammate Justin Donaldson added a 44 to lead the Doggs over the Glads 195-198.
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Upset at Apalachee It had to come down to the final batter. For the second straight game the Diamond Cats were three outs away from closing a region win when things got interesting. And this wasn’t just any region win on the line; this was undefeated county rival Winder-Barrow, the No. 2-ranked team in class AAAA, who Apalachee hadn’t defeated since 2005. Last Tuesday the opponent was Clarke Central, who scored the tying run with two outs in ...
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State Basketball Tournament wrap-up Anyone looking for a new champion in Class AAAA basketball this season will have to wait another year because both the Southwest DeKalb girls and Miller Grove boys repeated as state champions this past weekend at the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth. |
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Diamond Cats upset Winder-Barrow 8-6 Apalachee handed Winder-Barrow its first loss of the season Monday with an 8-6 Wildcat win.
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Apalachee golf previews Apalachee boys and girls golf coach Kevin Morris only needs his team to be a few strokes better this season to have a chance at making history.
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Winder-Barrow golf previews The Winder-Barrow boys and girls golf teams were ready to begin competing on Thursday at Cherokee Run golf course against Rockdale. |
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Doggs center part of first Junior All-Star Game For the first time, the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association’s North-South All-Star Basketball Showcase will include juniors. |
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11U Bulldogs win tournament The 11U Elite Bulldogs, a travel team based out of Barrow County, have won their first tournament of the 2010 baseball season.
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Barrow’s diamond rivalry Winder-Barrow and Apalachee got a jump on the rest of Region 8-AAAA earlier this week when they moved Wednesday’s region openers to Tuesday in anticipation of the oncoming rain, and both the Bulldoggs and Wildcats were able to play their respective games with Habersham Central and Clarke Central.
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Winder-Barrow, Apalachee baseball games postponed Winder-Barrow's game scheduled for tonight against Rockdale at home has been postponed due to the rain, and has been moved to next Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. |
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High school sports cancellations The Apalachee vs. Winder-Barrow tennis match scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed. The Match has already been postponed once before, and it will have to be made up at a later date. |
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Wildcats out-dueled in 9 innings With two outs in the top of the seventh the Diamond Cats were one out away from a win. One misplayed fly ball later Apalachee was staring at a new ball game. “We handed them that one,” said AHS Head Coach Mike Cavey. “If we could have caught a fly ball it’s over.” Instead of a Wildcats shutout, Region 8-AAAA opponent Clarke Central defeated the hosts 2-1 in nine innings Tuesday night, scoring runs in ...
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Doggs crush Raiders The Winder-Barrow bats didn’t miss a beat in their first Region 8-AAAA game of the season Tuesday night at Habersham. |
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Hill to play in North-South game Winder-Barrow basketball star Mimi Hill will play for the North in the Georgia North vs. South All Star game held in two weekends at Savannah State University. |
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WBHS opens track and field season Marie Lyle, Amanda Cope, Jake Hester and Rozzie Johnson were event winners Tuesday night at W. Clair Harris Stadium as both Winder-Barrow track teams opened their seasons by placing third in five-team meets.
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Seven Cats finish first at Monroe track meet The Apalachee track and field team returned from Monroe Tuesday night with seven first-place finishes.
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Winder-Barrow soccer defeats Loganville Tuesday The Winder-Barrow boys soccer team had been building to this moment for some time, but it wasn’t until Tuesday night that they finally broke through. |
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Heritage defeats Apalachee soccer teams Apalachee was not treated very well by their hosts Tuesday night. The Heritage girls defeated the Lady Cats 5-0, while the boys slipped past the Wildcats 3-2. Apalachee’s Guy Hunt tallied both of the Cats’ goals, including a second with just three minutes remaining to get within striking distance. Though the Wildcats pressed in the final minutes, they could not squeeze an equalizer out of the Patriots. “We should have beat them tonight,” said Wildcats ... |
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Net Doggs are victorious The Winder-Barrow girls tennis team won 5-0 Tuesday at East Jackson. Their record is now 5-0. “It feels pretty good to win 5-0 and be 5-0,” said Head Coach Heather Lundy. None of the singles or doubles players even took their match to three sets, and all had one game finish 6-0. Sunshyne Moua won at No. 1 singles, Anna Schmidt at No. 2 singles, Kaitlynn Gordon at No. 3 singles, Quinn Edgar and Jessie ... |
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Diamond Cats defeat Johnson, fall at MVHS Monday Apalachee’s baseball team had a three-game winning streak snapped Monday evening when the Wildcats literally booted away a 7-3 decision to Mountain View, a brand-new high school supposedly located in Lawrenceville. |
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Region 8-AAAA basketball teams knocked out of state tourney Region 8-AAAA will not be further represented in the state Class AAAA basketball tournaments since Rockdale County’s boys and Madison County’s and Loganville’s girls were all eliminated this past week. |
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WBHS and AHS baseball games moved to tonight Winder-Barrow and Apalachee's baseball games scheduled for tomorrow have been moved to tonight, due to expected rainfall the rest of the week. |
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