Category: Sports

Ben Cleveland’s sharp single to right field scored Josh Slate from second base with the g0-ahead run in the sixth inning and Kain Hewitt, Tristan Powell and Slate combined on a five-hit shutout as the Stephens County Indians opened the 2014 baseball season with a 2-0 win over the Habersham Central Raiders Wednesday. Hewitt struck out seven over 4 2/3 […]

The Stephens County Lady Indians defeated Walnut Grove 41-37 Tuesday in the third-place game of the Region 8-AAAA girls’ basketball tournament Tuesday at Lanier High School. The win gives the Lady Indians the third seed out of Region 8-AAAA for the upcoming state girls’ AAAA basketball tournament. Stephens County will play the second seed out of Region 6-AAAA this weekend […]

The Stephens County Lady Indian basketball team will play for third place in the Region 8-AAAA girls’ basketball tournament later today. Monday, the Lady Indians fell to Chestatee 36-29 in a region semi-final game at Lanier High School. With the win, Chestatee’s girls will advance to the region championship game tonight at Lanier against Eastside, who defeated Walnut Grove in […]

The Stephens County Indian boys’ basketball season comes to a close. Stephens County lost in the boys Region 8-AAAA quarterfinals to Johnson on Saturday 77-44. Stephens County trailed by six after one quarter and by 11 at the half. But in the third quarter, Johnson outscored the Indians 28-4 to put the game out of reach. Ty Cockfield led Johnson […]

Region 8-AAAA has pushed back continuation of its basketball tournament until Saturday. After first scheduling games for today, the region has now announced that the tournament will resume Saturday at Lanier High School. Saturday, Lanier will host all four boys’ quarterfinal games beginning at 1 p.m. The Stephens County Indian boys are scheduled to play Johnson in a quarterfinal game. […]

The Stephens County Lady Indians are in to the state tournament and the Region 8-AAAA semi-finals. The fourth-seeded Lady Indians defeated fifth-seeded Lanier in Monday’s quarterfinal 54-36 at Lanier High School. Stephens County’s girls will now play Chestatee in the semi-finals. Chestatee is the top seed and defeated Monroe Area 53-27, in a report on accessnorthga.com. In other scores from […]

The Region 8-AAAA basketball tournament is scheduled to get underway today at LanierHigh   School with quarterfinal action. Stephens County’s Lady Indians will play today at 3 p.m. in a quarterfinal game against Lanier. Meanwhile, the Indian boys will play Johnson in a quarterfinal game.  The boys’ game is scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. AM 630 WNEG and wnegradio.com will […]

Another cold shooting quarter cost the Stephens County Lady Indian basketball team a victory Thursday night. Leading by seven at the half, Stephens County scored just four points in the third quarter and lost 41-34 to the Lady War Eagles of Chestatee. Lexie Cash had 14 points for the Lady Indians and Nikelsha Owens added eight points. The loss left […]

Stephens County athletes sign on the dotted line to play sports at the next level. Four Stephens County High School athletes were recognized at an area Signing Day ceremony at the Orchard in Habersham County on Wednesday. First, Carlan Howard signed to play softball at Brenau University. Howard said she felt Brenau offered her a lot of great opportunities on […]

The Toccoa Falls College men’s basketball team picks up three big wins in recent days. The Eagles first beat Johnson University of Florida last Friday 75-60.  Derek Westfall had 18 points and Jon Sauls added 15 points for TFC. Then on Saturday, the Eagles beat Clearwater Christian College 87-78.  Cameron Williams led Toccoa Falls with 24 points and 12 rebounds.  […]