The Coffee Trojans are 2-0 this week after wins over Brantley (7-5) and Telfair (12-0). Maggie Brown struck out 19 on Tuesday against Brantley while Kanlee Douglas needed just 48 pitches and five innings to take care of Telfair County on Wednesday. Both games were played on the road. On Tuesday, both teams waited until relatively late to get on the board. Brantley jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the fourth. The Lady Trojans countered with four in the sixth. Brantley scored one in the bottom of the inning. Coffee answered with three in the seventh on a home…
Author: Robert Preston
When law enforcement officers from three different Jeff Davis County agencies attempted to arrest Dalton Sears, 30, of Hazlehurst, at a Hazlehurst Dollar General store on a probation violation on August 7, 2025, Sears allegedly told the officers – a trooper from the Georgia State Patrol, deputies from the Jeff Davis County Sheriff’s Office, and officers from the Hazlehurst Police Department – that he wasn’t going to jail. According to incident reports obtained via open records requests, Sears stated that he was going to commit suicide by cutting his throat or he would die via suicide by cop. Sears was…
The Coffee Trojans are 1-2 on the season after a 20-14 defeat at the hands of the Columbia County (Lake City, Fla.) Tigers Friday night in Lake City. The Tigers jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter after Lake City’s Kameron Millis returned an interception 41 yards for a touchdown (6:51) and Jerome Horne scored on a one-yard run (2:50). Early in the second quarter, Coffee’s KJ Debruce scored on a two-yard run. Chris Hernandez’s point-after cut the Tigers’ lead in half with 10:13 remaining in the second quarter. Neither team scored the remainder of the half…
The Coffee Lady Trojans split a doubleheader against the Houston County Bears Thursday afternoon on the road. Coffee is now 7-4 on the season and 3-3 in region play. Pitcher Maggie Brown has already had several solid performances this year. On Thursday, she did it both in the circle and at the plate in game one . She threw a three-hit complete game shutout against Houston, striking out five with no walks. Brown also drove in the game’s only run when she singled to right in the fourth inning, scoring Allie Pridgen. Coffee won 1-0. In game two, the Lady…
About the time the CCA football team was taking the field 112 miles away in Albany, the CCA Lady Patriots were finishing off the Trinity Christian Academy Crusaders in Dublin. The Lady Patriots won a 16-12 slugfest to improve to 8-3 this season. CCA tallied 17 hits and overcame seven errors to hold off the Crusaders. The Lady Patriots scored half of their runs in the first inning, scoring eight runs on six hits. Abrah Harris drove in two with a triple, Gracie Giddens drove one on a double, and Mattie Lewis kept things going with an RBI triple. Arabelle…
The CCA Patriots and the Sherwood Christian Academy (Albany) Eagles were in a dogfight for over three quarters at Sherwood’s stadium in the shadows of the Albany airport. Then the two-time defending state champion Eagles flexed their muscle and scored 26 unanswered points in the fourth quarter enroute to a 46-13 win. The Eagles scored the first two touchdowns and were up 14-0 until late in the second quarter. After the Patriots recovered a Sherwood fumble, running back Tyson Crosby broke a 75-yard touchdown to cut the Eagles’ advantage in half. Ethan Duran’s point-after was good and with just under…
The Coffee Lady Trojans are 6-3 overall and 2-2 in region play after defeating the Houston County Bears 5-2 at Faircloth Field Tuesday afternoon. Pitcher Maggie Brown led the Lady Trojans with another complete game, striking out 11 and walking three. She gave up two runs (one earned) on six hits. Brown was also 2-3 at the plate. The Lady Trojans put the game away early with a four-run second inning. Jocelyn Fender (RBI single), Karlee Thomas (RBI double), and Ella Winters (two-RBI triple) were responsible for the rally. In the fourth, Coffee added an insurance run when Thomas drove…
The CCA Lady Patriots defeated the Vidalia Heritage Academy Eagles 15-0 in three innings Monday afternoon in Vidalia to improve to 7-3 on the season. Peighton Harper threw a three-inning perfect game and Mattie Lewis homered for the second time this season. She also drove in four. CCA scored two in the first, 10 in the second, and three in the third. Brilynn Waldron and Gracie Giddens each had three hits. Lewis, Harper, Cadence Cravey, and Klair Mercer had two hits each. Giddens, Waldron, Cravey, Emma Gourley, Arrabelle Roberts, and Lily Waldron scored twice. Harper needed just 39 pitches to…
A Coffee County man captured a rare sight over the weekend – a black racer eating another snake. Manuel Saavedra heard a commotion in some bushes on property he owns and walked over to investigate. It was there that he saw the two snakes struggling. Manuel submitted the photo in order to identify the two snakes he had seen – which are a black racer (the eater) and a hognose snake (the eatee; I know this isn’t a word but I like it in this context). Black racers are common in Coffee County and throughout South Georgia. They are one…
“I’m proud of our fight. It’s tough to come out and play in a mud pit like that. That’s a team that beat us 68-3 last year. We lost 8-12. That’s improvement as a program but it wasn’t a better team that beat us. It was a team that executed better in tough situations. We’ve got a lot we can learn and a lot we be proud of and can grow on,” said CCA Patriots head football coach Jed Marsh following the Patriots 12-8 loss to the Georgia Christian Generals Friday night in Douglas. On a night when so many…