Category: Sports

A collegiate swimmer from northeast Georgia will go for the gold in Brazil this month. Emmanuel College men’s swimming freshmen Alex Sobers from Bridgetown, Barbados will represent his home country of Barbados in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. The incoming freshmen will compete in the men’s 400 meter freestyle during the Rio games, which start tonight with the Opening Ceremonies […]

Final summer preparations are underway before Fall football practice gets started at Stephens County High School. Indians’ Head Football Coach Frank Barden said that the team has done a great job with its summer workouts for the past several weeks. “Our kids have done a good job getting in the weight room and getting in the conditioning program,” said Barden. […]

A busy night of racing is on tap tonight at Lavonia Speedway. Tonight, the United Sprint Car Series makes a stop in Lavonia. USCS Founder and President Pete Walton said that the series has been to Lavonia many times and it is always a great night. This year, they are visiting as part of the series’ 20th anniversary season and […]

Hart County takes the District 7 Little League 11-12 All-Star baseball title. On Thursday in Hartwell, Hart defeated Franklin by a score of 13-5 to take the district double-elimination tournament. That will move Hart County into the state Little League tournament.

Franklin and Hart will play a winner-take-all game tonight for the District 7 Little League 11-12 All-Star baseball championship. Wednesday in Hartwell, Franklin edged out Hart in a 5-4 game to give Hart its first loss in the double-elimination tournament. That sets up a final game for the district crown tonight in Hartwell. Whoever wins will move on to the […]

Franklin County scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning on the way to defeating the Toccoa Little League 11-12 baseball All-Stars 13-3 in an elimination game Tuesday in Hartwell. Franklin’s Eli Tyler led all hitters with a home run, double, and six RBIs. Carson Worley, Rob Fulbright, and Colter Cash each had two hits in the loss […]

It was a Hart County sweep Monday night in Little League District 7 play in Hartwell. In the 11-12 Little League baseball winner’s bracket game, Toccoa jumped out to a 4-0 lead behind a first inning, two-run home run by Carson Worley. Then, Hart County came storming back with five runs in the bottom of the second to take a […]

Both Toccoa’s 11-12 and Junior League Baseball All-Stars are in action later today in District 7 tournament play. Over the weekend, both teams started their respective tournaments in Hartwell. In 11-12 Little League baseball, Toccoa defeated Habersham 12-2 on Saturday to advance in the winner’s bracket to face Hart tonight at 6 p.m. in Hartwell. Moving to Junior League baseball, […]

Toccoa Little League teams are set to return to action in district tournament play this weekend. The 11-12 Little League baseball and Junior League baseball tournaments start on Saturday in Hartwell and both Toccoa teams will be in action. At 11 a.m. on Saturday, the Toccoa Junior League baseball All-Stars will play Franklin in the opening game of that tournament. […]