Category: Sports

By Jessica Waters The Stephens County 4 H Rifle Team walked away from the State match this past weekend with the first place plaque in Telescopic Junior Division for the second year in a row, and brought home a number of individual awards from the competition. The rifle team is coached by Bruce Grant, Michael Mayo, and Stephanie Byrd. Junior […]

By Jessica Waters The seven members of the Stephens County 4-H Rifle Team will compete this weekend in the State match that will bring together rifle teams from all over the state to compete. The event is part of the Target Challenge Weekend that culminates the competitive seasons for archer, rifle and pistol teams. The event takes place at the […]

The Stephens County Indians track team scored a modern-day SCHS Region Meet points record with a total of 89.5 points at the Region Track Meet held at Hebron Christian Academy last week (April 24 & 26). The boys’ team finished 5th with a score of 89.5 points. The Girls finished 6th with a score of 41.5. Three Indians won Region […]

Stephens County High School has a new head wrestling coach. Brandon Rowland was introduced to the team on Thursday. He will take over the position from Cody Honeycutt who has been the Indians wrestling coach for the past 3 years. Rowland will be coming to Stephens County from Towns County where he has been a teacher and coach for 9 […]

Two Stephens County High School seniors held athletic signing ceremonies last week. Grady Sanders, son of Rachel and Clint Sanders, signed Wednesday with Piedmont University in Demorest for cross country and cycling. While at Stephens County High School, Grady participated in cross country, wrestling, and was a distant runner for the track team. Grady says the cycling program attracted him […]

The Franklin County Lions evened up their three-game series with the Stephens County Indians Wednesday evening by topping the Indians 7 to 4. The Lions scored a run without a hit in the top of the first inning. Then added two more runs in the second inning to take a 3 to 0 lead. Stephens County got on the board […]

The Stephens County High School Lady Indians tennis team lost a 3-hour heartbreaker Tuesday afternoon at Dawson County by a match score of 3 to 2 in the first round of the state playoffs. Stephens County fell behind 0-2 with losses at #1 singles and #2 doubles. But Nyleigh Hutto got the Lady Indians on the scoreboard with her win at […]

The Stephens County Indians had lost 9 of their last 10 Region-8 games. Franklin County had moved through the Region-8 season undefeated and already claimed the region title for the third straight season. Baseball…it’s why you play the game. The Stephens County Indians went on the road and defeated the Franklin County Lions 5-4 in 8 innings Tuesday night in […]

(Photo provided by Kase Jameson) A Stephens County High School track and field athlete will be taking his talents to Piedmont University in Demorest next year.  Sam Guest, son of George and Betty Guest, held a signing ceremony at the high school Thursday to announce his decision.  His main event is in the pole vault. Sam says since he lives close by […]

The Hart County Bulldogs swept a doubleheader over the Stephens County Indians on Thursday night in Hartwell to all but eliminate the Indians for state playoff contention. In game one, Paul Davis hit a three-run homerun in a 6 run 2nd inning and had 4 RBI’s to lead the Bulldogs to an 11-2 victory. Colby Fowler hit a solo homerun […]