Author: Robert Preston

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…

The Coffee Lady Trojans split a doubleheader with the Veterans Warhawks Thursday afternoon at Faircloth Field in Douglas. Veterans took game one 6-3 then Coffee bounced back in the nightcap with a 9-1 win via five-inning run rule. In game one, the Warhawks were up 5-0 after 2 1/2 innings before the Lady Trojans got on the board. Ella Edge hit a two-out double to left that scored Karlee Thomas from first. Veterans scored again in the fourth to take a 6-1 lead. Coffee scored two more in the bottom of the seventh when Edge drove in Jocelyn Fender on…

The CCA Lady Patriots easily dispatched the Fullington Academy Lady Patriots in a doubleheader Thursday afternoon in Douglas, winning game one 9-1 in six innings and game two 18-0 in three innings. Gracie Giddens was a perfect 6-6 with four runs and five RBI. She also pitched game two, throwing a complete game shutout that took just 36 pitches to finish. In game one, the Lady Patriots trailed 1-0 after 1 ½ innings. That changed for good in the bottom of the second when they scored two. CCA went on to plate three in the fourth, two in the fifth,…