Jeff Hart

On the most anticipated day of the year for most high school players, National Signing Day once again showed the depth of northeast Georgia sports and elicited plenty of emotions from athletes around the area.

Jeff Teague scored 26 points, Al Horford added 21 and the Atlanta Hawks got back to winning after their first loss in more than a month, pulling away from the Washington Wizards for a 105-96 victory Wednesday night.

Quinn Cook scored all 17 of his points in the second half, and Duke beat Georgia Tech 72-66 on Wednesday night to give Mike Krzyzewski his Atlantic Coast Conference-record 423rd league victory.

The North Georgia men's basketball team never gave up in Wednesday evening's Spirit Night game against rival-Young Harris and nearly pulled off an improbable come back but just ran out of time, falling 88-83.

The North Georgia women's basketball team used a solid second half effort to take down Young Harris, 59-56, Wednesday evening at Memorial Hall.

In another down-to-the-wire finish, the Piedmont College men's basketball team earned a hard-fought victory 79-77 against the LaGrange Panthers on the road Wednesday night.

The Piedmont College women's basketball team fell victim to the buzzer beater earlier tonight as LaGrange College hit a shot with time expiring to hand Piedmont a 57-56 loss in USA South action.

The Gainesville girls rolled to a big win, and the boys conmpleted the sweep of Apalachee with a thrilling buzzer-beater by freshman Xavier Bledson...

Class AAAA No. 2-ranked Johnson kept its unbeaten streak alive with a tough 54-46, double-overtime win over Stephens County Friday night.

Class AAA No. 1 Dawson County held Fannin County to single-digit scoring in every quarter en route to a 65-26 victory in Region 7-AAA action.