Jeff Hart

East Hall used a 7-0 run to start the game and then cruised to a 90-73 win over Dade County on the road Saturday in the first round of the Class AAA state playoffs.

Lakeview Academy was hoping its schedule of playing top-ranked teams would pay off come playoff time. Unfortunately for the Lions, No. 10 Aquinas was too much to overcome Saturday in the opening round of the Class A boys state tournament.

For more than two decades, the Atlanta Braves relied on their rotation to become a contender. From Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux and John Smoltz, all the way to Tim Hudson and Tommy Hanson, starting pitching has been the team's one constant.

Freshman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 18 points, Gerald Robinson Jr. added 15 and Georgia snapped No. 12 Florida's three-game winning streak with a 76-62 victory Saturday.

Hartley Carter scored three goals while Liza Carpenter and Elizabeth Fischer each scored once to lead the Gainesville girls soccer team to a 5-0 shutout of Stephens County Friday night in Region 8B-AAA action at City Park Stadium.

Flowery Branch and Johnson played to a 1-1 tie Friday night in boys soccer action.

Lakeview Academy gave Class A No. 3-ranked Aquinas all it could handle Friday night in boys soccer action.

The Lakeview Academy girls soccer team lost 4-0 to Aquinas friday night at home.

Rabun County was outscored 12-0 by Calhoun in overtime as the Lady Wildcats lost a 63-51 heartbreaker to the Lady Yellow Jackets Friday night in the first round of the Class AA playoffs.

The Flowery Branch girls could not hold on to an early first quarter lead and then faded in the fourth quarter in a 62-45 loss to Rome in the first round of the Class AAAA basketball playoffs Friday night.