Going into Wednesday’s playoff game at ABAC in Tifton, the Georgia Highlands Chargers had a 5-2 record against the South Georgia State College Hawks. It looked like it was going to be 6-2 until two things happened. Hayden Gmerek and the seventh inning. The #2-seed Hawks defeated the #1-seed Chargers 9-5 in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. The win sent the Hawks to the championship game and dropped the Chargers into the loser’s bracket. Highlands would come back and defeat the Gordon State Highlanders to punch their own ticket to the title game but they’ve got to beat SGSC…
Author: Robert Preston
The CCA baseball team rallied around its seniors on Monday night, defeating the Deerfield-Windsor Knights 13-3 in six innings on Senior Night. The Knights are the #2-ranked team in GIAA Class 3A. Starter Thomas Gentry had a strong outing in what is likely his last appearance on the mound before the playoffs begin. He threw a complete game two-hitter, giving up three runs (all earned), striking out 10 and walking one. He was also responsible for a pretty good portion of the Patriot offense, going 3-3 with a double and three RBI. The two teams were fairly quiet for the…
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The Coffee Trojans have won four playoff games this postseason. Starter Gavin McElroy has been the winning pitcher in three of them. Friday night, McElroy made it a hat trick in game one of the Trojans’ Sweet 16 matchup against the South Paulding Spartans, throwing a five-hit complete game enroute to a 7-2 win. Coffee followed with a 4-3 win in game two to advance to the Elite Eight. The threat of bad weather cast a specter over the scheduled doubleheader. Though the two teams were able to get the games in, they had to be moved from Charles Wilson…
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“Every night, we try to do these songs a little better than we did them the night before. It keeps me going. I want these songs to sound just like they do on the record,” says country music legend Gene Watson, who will be in Douglas Saturday night playing at the Martin Centre. Watson, 82, is a true pioneer in the country music industry. His career began in 1962 and he has been active ever since. Throughout his career, Watson has stayed true to the traditional country sound. His smooth and powerful baritone voice conveys emotion and authenticity, two qualities…
Friday night, Coffee starter Gavin McElroy turned in a stat line you’re not going to see very often – if at all. The Trojans stormed into Canton and dominated the Creekview Grizzlies in the first round of the state playoffs, winning game one 20-2 in three innings and game two 10-0 in five innings. And McElroy was the winning pitcher in both games. In game one, the Trojans scored five in the first, nine in the second, and six in the third. Creekview, meanwhile, managed just two runs in the first. McElroy threw two of game one’s three innings. His…
CCA Patriot pitchers had a pretty good go of it this week. There was Blake Bryant’s previously-covered 18-strikeout performance on Tuesday against the Robert Toombs Christian Academy Crusaders. Then, on Thursday, Thomas Gentry, who started game one of a doubleheader against Robert Toombs at Patriot Field in Douglas, and reliever Sam Ables had impressive outings in their own right. Gentry and Ables combined for a five-inning no hitter as the Patriots took game one 10-0. Gentry also led the CCA offense, going 2-4 with a game-ending home run, a triple, three RBI, and a run scored. The Patriots were up…
The South Georgia State College Hawks got home runs from Jesse Brown (2), Steven Tavares-Batista, and Tanner Langley as well as a solid pitching performance from starter Luke Smith in the Hawks’ 14-4 win over the Gordon State College Highlanders in Douglas on Thursday. The Hawks have been on the wrong end on a lot of high scoring games this year. Thursday, they pulled off a big conference win and they did so in dominating fashion – winning via run rule in eight innings. The Hawks scored at least one run in every inning. Brown hit solo home runs in…
There are 21 outs in a seven inning baseball game. Tuesday against the Robert Toombs Christian Academy Crusaders, CCA starter Blake Bryant recorded 18 of those outs via strikeout. Bryant threw a three-hit, 97-pitch complete game shutout to lead the Patriots to their 20th win of the season. CCA won 5-0 and now sits at 20-1 overall with two more region games remaining – a 4 p.m. doubleheader at home this afternoon against Robert Toombs again. The Patriots scored two in the third, two in the sixth, and one in the seventh. Gray McLean (2-4, double, two runs), Skyler Woods…