While the stars were doing their jobs, it was the understudies who turned the tide for Buford Thursday night against Cartersville in the quarterfinals of the Class AAA state basketball playoffs.
Buford got by Cartersville in wild game while Jefferson gave defending Class AA state champion Greater Atlanta Christian a fight for one half in Thursday's quarterfinal action in the state basketball playoffs.
If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, the defensive picture that the Buford girls painted Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Class AAA playoffs against Woodward Academy was a genuine masterpiece to coach Gene Durden.
And then there was just one... Buford was the only area girls team left standing after a tough night in the quarterfinal round of the girls state basketball playoffs.
In a spring training game that ended with both teams leaving the field and neither side sure who won, the Detroit Tigers were later awarded a 6-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves in a rain-shortened exhibition Wednesday.
Garrick Sherman scored 21 points and Eric Atkins added 17, including a key 3-pointer, to lead Notre Dame to a 65-62 victory over Georgia Tech on Wednesday night.
It takes a team to win championships and the Buford boys showed just what kind of team they can be Tuesday night against Blessed Trinity in the second round of the Class AAA playoffs.
Catcher Evan Gattis and the Atlanta Braves have agreed to a one-year contract that will pay him at a rate of $520,250 in the major leagues this season and $291,311 in the minors.
