Author: Robert Preston

The Coffee Lady Trojans took care of the Lee County Lady Trojans Tuesday in Leesburg 10-2 in five innings behind the bat of Kanlee Douglas and another dominating pitching performance from Maggie Brown. Coffee is now 16-5 overall and 9-4 in region play with two more region games remaining. Coffee waited until a little late in the game to get things going and trailed Lee 2-1 after three innings. Then, in the fourth and fifth innings, the bats woke up and Coffee put the game away once and for all. In the fourth, Coffee did all of its damage with…

Last week, former Trojan and current Georgia Military College Bulldog Tyrese Woodgett had his breakout game. This time, it was West Georgia University linebacker Jyarius Carter’s turn. The true freshman has quietly been putting together a solid 2025 season. He’s played in every game and made the stat report with a few tackles each week. Saturday, however, he announced his presence to Wolves’ fans and future opponents alike. Against Eastern Kentucky, Carter recorded three solo tackles, two assisted tackles, a sack, and his first interception. It was his biggest game since week one’s win over Samford, in which Carter recorded…

The CCA Lady Patriots outscored Twiggs Academy (Thursday) and Vidalia Heritage Academy (Monday) by a combine score of 37-1. They defeated Twiggs Academy 17-1 on the road and Vidalia Heritage 20-0 at home. The Lady Patriots are now 15-3 on the season. On Thursday, CCA scored one in the first, six in the second and third, and four in the fourth. Twiggs Academy managed just one run in the bottom of the fourth and final inning. Brilynn Waldron scored four runs and drove in three. Cadence Cravey was 2-3 with three runs and two RBI. Emma Gourley went 2-4 with…

The Coffee Lady Trojans swept the Northside-Warner Robins Eagles in a doubleheader Thursday in Warner Robins. The Lady Trojans won game one 20-0 in three innings then took game two 11-0 in five innings. Kanlee Douglas started and went the distance in both games, throwing a total of 101 pitches over eight innings of work. In game one, Coffee scored four in the first, 13 in the second, and three more in the third. Allie Pridgen and Karlee Thomas doubled while Maggie Brown tripled. The two Ellas – Edge and Winters – along with Thomas homered as well. Winters, Edge,…

“This was a huge game for us. In our short history as a varsity program, this is the first time we went on the road against a good opponent with a winning record and found a way to win. It showed maturity because it was a back and forth game. We made mistakes. We gave up plays. But we battled back and won. I preached that to our players all week long. Good teams find a way to win and we did that,” said CCA Patriots head coach Jed Marsh following the Patriots’ 34-28 win over the Fullington Academy Trojans…

The Mainland High School (Daytona Beach, Fla.) Buccaneers defeated the Coffee Trojans 14-7 in Homecoming at Jardine Stadium Friday night. The Trojans took a 7-0 lead with 5:58 left in the second quarter when a long punt return by Tresean Smith helped set up a touchdown by KJ Debruce. Coffee carried that 7-0 advantage into halftime. In the second half, the Buccaneers scored 14 unanswered points. Late in the third quarter, Mainland quarterback Sebastian Johnson connected with Kadin Flores for a 22-yard touchdown. A minute into the fourth quarter, Johnson found Chris Butler for a 43-yard score. Mainland had three…

Tonight at the Wiregrass Arena in Nicholls, a significant concert event was supposed to take place. Headlined by award-winning and chart-topping country group Shenandoah, the lineup also featured Whosoever South, Douglas’s own Derrick Flowers, and Daniel Johnson. Yesterday, however, promoter Outback Entertainment posted a statement on its Facebook page that the concert had been cancelled and refunds on advance ticket sales would begin to be distributed “in 2-3 business days.” The event had been controversial from the time the concert was announced. Many people familiar with Outback Entertainment did not believe the event would ever take place and a number…

I started doing endurance sports in 1997, primarily just local running races. A few years later, in 2001, I added a few more activities to my list of those in which I participated – standalone swim and bike races as well as triathlons and duathlons. The events themselves were fun and challenging. As is usually the case, what made the activities much more enjoyable were the people I met along the way. I became friends with a number of people whose paths I would have never crossed. In many instances, I forged lifelong friendships with my fellow competitors. One of…

“We like to talk about conservative things. I’ve always been one of those. I’ve been a business-minded person that believed government ought to run more like a business. You’re never going to get it to run like a business but you can apply business principles to it to make it run better and more efficiently. I believe in lower taxes, less regulation, public safety, and I believe in an education system that gives people choices and teaches kids to think for themselves instead of forcing opinions on them. We should let them be independent thinkers,” said Burt Jones, Georgia Lieutenant…