High School Sports

With just one more victory needed to lock up a second straight playoff appearance, Johnson football coach Blair Armstrong is leaving nothing to chance.

Roger Fannon's biggest problem these days is trying to keep a group of teenaged girls softball players grounded.

Not since the days of Bobby Gruhn, Chris Carpenter and Junebug Hester have the Gainesville Red Elephants been where they stand right now: Ranked No. 1 in the state.

Chestatee football coach Matt Fligg said its time things started going their way for a change.

Two granite tablets have been unveiled in Rome to honor the University of Georgia football player whose death threatened and then revived the sport.

The Riverside Military Academy football team closes out its regular season Friday night at home against Eagles Landing Academy looking to put a cap on its first winning season in more than a decade.

While Screven County's 22-game win streak ended last week, Gainesville extended its regular season win streak to 18 and completed its climb toward No. 1 in Class AAA.

There's no mistaking it now: the North Hall girls softball team is for real. Of course, coach Roger Fannon has known that all along.

The Georgia High School Association's state executive committee approved five appeals Tuesday and finalized region alignments for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 school years.

Here are the scores from this weekend's action around northeast Georgia and the state in prep football: