Jeff Hart

Buford’s Stuart Chester said you need three things to have ultimate success in the playoffs.

Tess Kemp issued the challenge. The Cherokee Bluff baseball faithful answered the call.

Only two northeast Georgia area teams are left standing as the 2024 Georgia High School Association baseball playoffs continue on Monday.

Kyle Larson came around Chris Buescher on the final lap and banged doors with him all the way to the finish line Sunday, where he was declared the winner of the Cup Series race by officials at Kansas Speedway in the closest finish in NASCAR history.

The Lakeview Academy girls soccer team advanced to its first-ever Final Four in any classification on Friday, beating Holy Spirit Prep tonight in a slugfest, 7-5, in the GIAA Class 3A playoffs.

Daniel Trujillo may be one of the smaller Johnson players, but he has been looming large for the Knights in the 2024 playoffs.

Georgia native RJ Godfrey, a two-time first-team All-State player at North Gwinnett High School in 2021 and 2022, has signed a letter-of-intent to join the Georgia Bulldogs next season. Godfrey will be a junior after playing two seasons at Clemson.

The Johnson boys will continue their quest for a third consecutive state title and fourth in the last six seasons on Friday night.

It was not how No. 3 Cherokee Bluff hoped its season would end.

For Buford, Jefferson, Cherokee Bluff, and Towns County, Thursday’s semifinal showdowns in the Georgia High School Association girls soccer playoffs will be nothing new. Dawson County, meanwhile, is crashing the Final Four party for the first time as a program.