The 2026 college football season is underway and several Coffee High alumni are playing on teams at every level from NAIA to the Division I ranks. Here is how they’ve done so far this season. Maurice Turner, a senior running back with the Tulane University Green Wave: Did not play due to an undisclosed injury in Tulane’s 42-19 loss to UTSA. Tyrese Woodgett, sophomore running back at Georgia Southern: The Eagles were idle last weekend. KJ Debruce, freshman running back, Savannah State: Tallied 10 yards on three carries in Savannah State’s 27-24 loss to Kentucky State. Jyarius Carter, sophomore linebacker…
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The CCA Lady Patriots remain unbeaten after defeating the St. Andrew’s Lions 20-0 and the First Preparatory Highlanders 12-7 in Savannah Tuesday afternoon. The game against First Preparatory came down to CCA’s last possession when, trailing 7-6, Arabelle Roberts threw a touchdown pass to Bristol Barrs to take a 12-7 lead late in the game. In game one, quarterback Klair Mercer was nine of 13 passing for 96 yards and three touchdowns. She threw a pair of touchdown passes to Barrs and another to Roberts. Barrs also caught two one-point conversion passes. Lily Waldron led the rushing attack with five…
The South Georgia State College Hawks are Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association champions for the second consecutive year. The Hawks defeated the Gordon State Highlanders 4-0 at SGSC’s home field Saturday afternoon. All of the scoring took place fairly early in the game. SGSC found the net for the first time at the 3:00 mark. By the 22:00 mark, the scoring was over and done with. Sienna Haffner (unassisted) scored the Hawks’ first goal. Five minutes later, Rose Bowman scored another unassisted goal. Allie Hemmings scored the Hawks’ next two goals, one 15:00 in (assisted by Katie Lantier) and the 22:00…
The CCA Patriots secured the #2 seed for the state playoffs in their regular season finale win against the Westwood Wildcats. CCA defeated Westwood 28-22 in Camilla after trailing 14-12 at halftime. The two teams matched touchdowns early in the game. The Wildcats got on the board first when Ben Ward broke a 50-yard touchdown run. The two-point attempt was no good. Westwood, however, had a 6-0 lead. The Patriots answered on their ensuing possession when Dalton Rogers scored on an eight-yard run. After an unsuccessful two-point conversion, the game was tied 6-6 midway through the first quarter. Rogers scored…
After trailing the Northside-Warner Robins Eagles 7-3 at halftime, the Coffee Trojans erupted for 34 second-half points to win a big region Homecoming match-up 37-7. Newcomer LJ Devine, a midseason transfer from Fitzgerald (where he led the Purple Hurricanes and the region in rushing) who played his first game for Coffee last week, entered Friday night with 914 rushing yards between the two schools. After a productive outing last week against Houston, Devine formally introduced himself to the Trojan Nation with three second-half touchdowns. Devine scored on runs of two yards, 10 yards, and 35 yards. Bobby Reynolds scored Coffee’s…
The CCA Lady Patriots swept the Georgia Christian Lady Generals in a gridiron doubleheader Thursday at Patriot Field. The Lady Patriots won game one 13-7 then took game two 22-9. CCA is 4-0 is on the season. The Lady Patriots book-ended game one with touchdowns, scoring one in the first quarter and one in the fourth. The CCA defense kept Georgia Christian off the board until the fourth quarter. The Generals tied the score at seven with 1:35 left in the game. The Lady Patriots answered with a game-winning one-yard touchdown run by quarterback Klair Mercer Mercer to take a…
The 2026 college football season is underway and several Coffee High alumni are playing on teams at every level from NAIA to the Division I ranks. Here is how they’ve done so far this season. Maurice Turner, a senior running back with the Tulane University Green Wave: 11 carries for 38 yards in Tulane’s 31-17 win over Memphis. Tyrese Woodgett, sophomore running back at Georgia Southern: Led Georgia Southern’s rushing attack in his first career start against Old Dominion in a game that was televised on ESPN2. Woodgett rushed for 77 yards on 16 carries with a long of 16…
The South Georgia State College Hawks finished the regular season undefeated in conference play with a 3-0 win over the Central Georgia Tech Titans last week in Douglas. The Hawks will face the Gordon State Highlanders for the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association conference championship Saturday afternoon on the SGSC campus. The Hawks carried a 1-0 lead into halftime then scored two more goals in the second half for the 3-0 win. Madeleine Forschler (unassisted) found the net at the 32:00 mark for the Hawks’ first goal. Holly MacLaurin (unassisted) gave SGSC a 2-0 lead early in the second half. Olivia…
Coffee County’s third football team competing this season took the field Monday night and won a doubleheader at home. The CCA Lady Patriots opened their second-ever flag football season with two games at Patriot Field, winning 12-0 over the St. Andrew’s Lions (Savannah) and 7-0 over the First Preparatory Christian Academy Highlanders. In game one, the Lady Patriots scored touchdowns in the first and second quarters to take a 12-0 advantage into halftime. That score held for the remainder of the game. Klair Mercer was 8-16 passing for 78 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions. Allie Veal led CCA…