Jeff Hart

Julio Avila scored two goals and had one assist in leading the East Hall boys soccer team to a 7-0 whitwashing of Jackson County Tuesday.

Johnson shut out Chestatee 3-0 Tuesday in girls soccer action.

The East Hall girls soccer team fell to 0-2 on the season after falling 5-0 to Jackson County.

Flowery Branch lost to John's Creek 4-1 Tuesday in girls tennis action.

The Chestatee boys tennis team opened its Region 8A-AAA season with a 3-2 win over rival North Hall Tuesday.

The Lakeview Academy girls will be the No. 3 seed from Region 8-A after taking a 34-29 win over Athens Academy Saturday night in the consolation game of the region tournament.

North Hall and Walnut Grove demonstrated throughout the regular season that they were the two best teams in Region 8-AAA. And they didn

Things came full circle for Kristi House Saturday night. The North Hall girls basketball coach watched as her Lady Trojans dispatched arch-rival Chestatee 42-29 in the finals of the Region 8-AAA tournament to win their first region title of any kind since 1991.

Nick Lankford will go for his second state title in wrestling Saturday after working his way through the Class AAAA 132-pound weight class Friday night at the Gwinnett Center.

Dawson County pulled off the biggest upset so far in the Region 8-AA boys basketabll tournament with a 71-59 win over Class AA ninth-ranked East Hall Friday night in the semifinals at Hart County High School.