Jeff Hart

Rabun County and Riverside Military Academy each advanced wrestlers through to next week

Area 8-AAAAA had a modest day Saturday at the rugged Class AAAAA East Sectionals at Lanier High School.

Most teams losing their star player for the season and their second-best player for nine games would most-likely be playing out the string this time of year. Not so the North Hall girls.

The Class AAAA second-ranked Johnson boys basketball team completed its first-ever undefeated regular season with a 69-63 win over Monroe Area Friday night on the road in both teams' Region 8-AAAA finale.

North Forsyth avenged an earlier loss to cross-county rival South Forsyth Friday night with a 55-49 win in both teams' Region 6-AAAAAA season finale.

The Gwinnett Gladiators got their revenge on the Orlando Solar Bears Friday night in their second game of the three game series, winning 4-1.

On the most anticipated day of the year for most high school players, National Signing Day once again showed the depth of northeast Georgia sports and elicited plenty of emotions from athletes around the area.

Jeff Teague scored 26 points, Al Horford added 21 and the Atlanta Hawks got back to winning after their first loss in more than a month, pulling away from the Washington Wizards for a 105-96 victory Wednesday night.

Quinn Cook scored all 17 of his points in the second half, and Duke beat Georgia Tech 72-66 on Wednesday night to give Mike Krzyzewski his Atlantic Coast Conference-record 423rd league victory.

The North Georgia men's basketball team never gave up in Wednesday evening's Spirit Night game against rival-Young Harris and nearly pulled off an improbable come back but just ran out of time, falling 88-83.