Category: Sports

Ranajah Verdell scored 22 points and Breanna Taylor added 16, including three 3-pointers, to lead the Stephens County Lady Indians Basketball team to a 59-56 victory over Banks County in Homer Saturday evening. The Lady Indians led a back and forth 1st half 31-27 at halftime. The Lady Indians extended the lead to as much as 10 in the 2nd […]

The Georgia High School Association has released the proposed region alignments for the 2020-2022 athletic school seasons. As WNEG reported last week, Stephens County will be moving from the current AAAA classification to the AAA classification. In the proposed alignment from the GHSA, the Indians will be in the same region with long-time rivals Franklin and Hart Counties, along with […]

Toccoa’s Ben Cleveland, Georgia Bulldogs junior right guard, has earned a weekly Southeastern Conference honor. Cleveland has been named the SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week after the Bulldogs’ blanked Missouri, 27 to 0, in Athens Saturday night. This is Cleveland’s first honor of this kind, as he graded out at 86 percent and only allowed a single pressure on […]

The season comes to a close for the Stephens County Indian football team. Friday night, the Indians lost to St. Pius at home on Senior Night, 42-21. Stephens County Head Coach Wesley Tankersley said it is a tough way to end the season. “The kids played hard tonight,” said Tankersley. “Offensively, we played pretty well. Defensively, we’ve just got to […]

The Stephens County Indians will play their final regular season game tonight at home at The Reservation against region-foe, St. Pius, in high school football. A victory by the Indians combined with a Madison County loss to Oconee County would create a 3-way tie for third place in the region between Stephens County, St. Pius, and Madison County. The third […]

The Georgia High School Association has released the latest school enrollment numbers to place member schools into tentative classifications for the school years 2020-2022. According to the numbers released, Stephens County will move from the current AAAA classification to the AAA classification. Franklin County, Hart County, Habersham Central, Rabun County, and Banks County will remain at their current classification. The […]

Farm Bureau’s Player of the Game for this past week against Madison County is Kenny Colwell. Farm Bureau’s Player of the Game against Oconee County on October 18th was K.P. Hayes. Players are pictured with Serina Porter of Farm Bureau.                               K.P. Hayes       […]

Stephens County will wrap up the football regular season this coming week at home still looking for a region win. The Indians couldn’t hold on Friday night in Danielsville, giving up a touchdown with 21 seconds left to lose 35-33 to Madison County. Head Coach Wesley Tankersley said it’s a disappointing result for Stephens County. “I’m proud of the kids […]

The Stephens County Indians will travel down to Danielsville tonight to take on the Madison County Red Raiders in high school football. Kickoff will be at 7:30. This is an important region game–a win by either team will put them closer to a spot in the playoffs. The Indians enter the game with an overall record of 1 & 7 […]

The Stephens County Recreation Department will host the first round of the NGYFA rec. football playoffs this Saturday at Stephens County High School. The Association is made up of 24 counties, but Stephens County will be hosting the National League division which includes Habersham, Oconee County, North Oconee, Flowery Branch, West Hall, Cherokee Bluff, and Winder-Barrow. Stephens County Rec Department […]