Category: Sports

Two Toccoa teams fall in elimination bracket games in District 7 Little League play in northeast Georgia. First, the Toccoa 10-11 baseball All-Stars were knocked out of the District tournament after an 8-1 loss to Franklin in Lavonia on Monday. Miles Dodd pitched a complete game on just 69 pitches and allowed only a single run to Toccoa in picking […]

As football teams across Georgia enter the state-mandated dead week with no activity this week, Stephens County High School Head Football Coach Frank Barden said preparations for next season are going well. The Indians have worked since June 1 on weightlifting and conditioning. Barden said the month of June has gone very well. “The kids have done a great job […]

With a new high school athletic year just over a month away from starting, Stephens County High School is getting ready to move forward with some changes in the coaching ranks. Stephens County High School Athletic Director Frank Barden said that the changes have affected a number of different sports. Barden said that on the football side, it has resulted […]

Little League All-Star baseball and softball continues tonight across northeast Georgia. Toccoa teams are still alive in three of the four ongoing tournaments after two days of play over the weekend. In Danielsville, Toccoa’s 9-10 softball All-Stars play Franklin tonight at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Toccoa 9-10 softball lost to Habersham 6-0. However, the Toccoa 9-10 softball team came back in […]

A number of Toccoa Little League All-Star teams are scheduled to begin district play this weekend in locations around northeast Georgia. Those teams include 9-10 baseball, 10-11 baseball, 9-10 softball, and Little League softball. Three of Toccoa’s All-Star teams start play Saturday. The 10-11 baseball All-Stars from Toccoa will play Hart at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Lavonia. Meanwhile, both Toccoa’s […]

A golfer from Habersham County competes in the U.S. Open this past weekend. Clarkesville’s Lee McCoy was among those in the field at Chambers Bay this past weekend. McCoy missed the cut, which came on Friday after 36 holes of the 72-hole tournament. For the two rounds he played, McCoy shot a total of eight-over-par 148, shooting a 74 in […]

The Toccoa Rookie League baseball All-Stars make it all the way to the championship round in the Northeast Sectional All-Star tournament. Toccoa qualified for the sectional tournament by finishing second in the District tournament earlier this month. The Toccoa all-stars started the tournament with a loss to Franklin County, who had beaten them for the District 7 title. However, Toccoa […]

The first round of Little League baseball and softball tournaments is complete, with more district tournaments scheduled for later this month. Toccoa’s Rookie League baseball and softball All-Stars, along with the Toccoa Sandlot baseball 9 and under All-Stars participated in district tournament play in Hartwell last week. First in softball, the Toccoa All-Stars defeated Hart in their first game, before […]

The 2015 baseball season for Toccoa Falls College comes to a close in pool play action at last week’s NCCAA World Series in Mason, Ohio. TFC participated in its record seventh straight NCCAA World Series last Wednesday through Saturday. Seeded eighth in the ten-team tournament, TFC was grouped with defending national champions and top-seeded Fresno Pacific, fourth-seeded Palm Beach Atlantic, […]

The Toccoa Falls College baseball team will make its seventh straight NCCAA College World Series tournament appearance later this month. Monday, the school announced that the selection committee again chose the Screaming Eagles to attend the 2015 tournament in Mason, Ohio that begins Wednesday. TFC has made the NCCAA World Series every year since 2009. This year, the 26-21 Screaming […]