An announcement made on February 3, 2026 then an event held two days later sent shockwaves through Georgia politics. Billionaire businessman Rick Jackson released a statement that he intended to run for governor of Georgia on the Republican ticket. Then, on February 5, 2026, he held his first campaign event, announcing that he was putting up $50 million of his own estimated $3 billion fortune to fund his campaign. At that point, the campaign was well underway. The Republican primary was set and had been for some time. The most prominent names were Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Secretary of State…
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The CCA Patriots won their 18th and 19th games this season when they swept a doubleheader against the Covenant Academy Rams in Macon on Saturday. The Patriots needed just 10 total innings to dispatch the Rams, winning game one 17-4 and game two 12-2. The two teams played at historic Luther Williams Field in Macon. In game one, CCA scored in every inning and were up 11-0 before the Rams ever got on the board. They scored four in the bottom of the fifth. The Patriots came back with six in the top of the fifth to take a 17-4…
Back in the fall, the SGSC Hawks had a formidable pitching staff in place. The Hawks had an impressive fall campaign and looked poised to make a run at the GCAA championship when the spring season rolled around. Then came the injuries. SGSC lost its top three arms to season-ending injuries, leaving the pitching corps reeling and trying to find its way. You could see it in the results. The Hawks could score runs and put up some impressive offensive totals. But they had problems keeping their opponents off the scoreboard. The 2026 Hawks have played some of the highest…
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If the Lowndes High Vikings have a four-run lead late in the game, the odds are pretty good they’re going to win. The Vikings have a comfortable lead in the Region 1-6A rankings and, as of Monday, were the #2-ranked 6A team in the state. But someone forgot to tell the Coffee Trojans. Tuesday night at Charles Wilson Field, Coffee trailed Lowndes 8-4 after five innings. In the bottom of the sixth, the Trojans flipped the game on its head with a four-run inning that knotted the game at eight apiece. Ben Fussell singled in Eli Wood. Jimmy Timothy drove…
Hunter Klesko homered, drove in four, and scored three times while Conley McDaniel also homered, drove in three, and scored twice in the Coffee Trojans’ 16-5 win over the Crisp County Cougars Monday in Cordele. The Trojans got the final week of the regular season off to a good start, scoring in every inning but the fifth. Coffee amassed 11 hits while holding Crisp to just five. Eli Vickers earned the win with a three-inning outing. He allowed one unearned run on three hits while striking out two and walking three. Carter McMillan and Will Day also pitched for Coffee.…
When the CCA Patriots scored their first run of the game Monday against the Vidalia Heritage Academy Eagles at Patriot Field in Douglas, it looked like the beginning of another dominating performance by the Patriots. And while the Patriots did eventually win 9-0, it wasn’t the runaway game that the score may indicate. The bottom of the first wasn’t a pretty one to watch. An error, a hit by pitch, a base runner caught stealing, a wild pitch – there was enough sloppiness by both teams to go around. CCA eventually scored one run on the aforementioned wild pitch for…
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