Jeff Hart

Flowery Branch played long ball Friday in a five-inning, 15-3 win over Salem in Region 8-AAAAA play.

East Hall used a six-run fourth inning en route to taking an 11-1 win over Banks County Friday in five innings.

Buford held West hall to just four hits in taking a 7-0 win in Region 7-AAA action Friday.

Quarterback Aaron Murray sees no reason why Georgia's offense can't surpass the big numbers it posted last year.

The sixth-ranked North Georgia softball team dropped both halves of a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader to fourth-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State on Friday at Haines and Carolyn Hill Stadium.

The North Georgia baseball team dropped a pair of games to North Carolina Pembroke Friday, 7-4 and 6-1 at Bob Stein Stadium.

The North Georgia women's tennis team did something Friday afternoon that they have never done before: beat Lander University. The Saint women claimed a 5-4 victory over the Bearcat women at the North Georgia Tennis Complex while the 32nd-ranked men's team fell 7-2 to the No. 7 Lander men.

For 54 minutes Gainesville held the lead. But a pair of crazy bounces in a 90 second span midway through the second half helped Flowery Branch rally for a 2-1 victory in a critical Region 8-AAAAA girls match Thursday at Falcons Field.

Rick Valentine recorded a hat trick to lead the Lakeview Academy boys to a 6-0 whitewash of George Walton Academy Thursday in Region 8-A soccer action.

Roman Arriaga had two goals and one assist to lead the Gainesville boys soccer team to a 5-0 win over Flowery Branch Thursday night.