Jeff Hart

The North Hall girls tennis team took a 5-0 win over Gilmer Monday in a match that was much closer than final score.

The Johnson girls tennis team took a 4-1 win over Forsyth Central Monday.

North Hall, Lled by Ty McCormack, finished eighth in the Georgia Challenge at Mill Creek High School Saturday.

Joe Johnson scored 26 points and the Atlanta Hawks had their best shooting game of the season but still had to hold off Detroit's late comeback to beat the Pistons 112-99 on Saturday night.

Georgia Tech took the difficult, windy route, but coach Paul Hewitt has his talent-laden team where many felt it should be: the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

After watching eight seniors lead his Lady Wolves to their first-ever girls basketball state title last season, Buford coach Gene Durden was hoping this year’s team would get a chance to make its own mark.

Thomasville used a 24-8 third quarter to blow open a close game at halftime en route to a 69-43 win over Jefferson Thursday in the Class AA boys state semifinals at the Macon Centreplex.

With the loss of eight seniors from last year’s remarkable 32-1, Class AA state championship team, even upbeat and positive-minded Buford girls coach Gene Durden was uncertain what to expect from his Lady Wolves this season.

The Johnson boys golf team shot a school-record 147 on nine holes Tuesday en route to its third straight Hall County Championship title at Royal Lakes Golf and Country Club.

While the Jefferson girls basketball team has enjoyed tremendous postseason success this past decade, winning one state title and playing for another, amazingly enough the Jefferson boys -- who have posted 18 or more wins in 10 of the past 11 years -- have not made the trek to the Final Four in Macon since 1983.