Jeff Hart

Grant Haley ran 41 yards for a touchdown to lead Lovett to the Georgia Class AA football championship with a 14-7 victory over Lamar County on Saturday at the Georgia Dome.

Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox went to the extremes at point guard Saturday with starter Charles Mann nursing a sore knee.

Stephanie Huffman and Jaymee Carnes registered 19 points apiece to lead four Lady Nighthawks in double figures in the North Georgia women's 80-65 Peach Belt Conference victory over Armstrong Atlantic State on Saturday in Memorial Hall.

The University of North Georgia men's basketball team rallied back from an early hole 17-point hole but would ultimately come up short in an 84-79 Peach Belt Conference loss to visiting Armstrong Atlantic State University on Saturday in Memorial Hall.

The Piedmont College women's basketball team completed a two-game season sweep of Southern Athletic Association power Birmingham Southern College Saturday earning an 87-70 win on the road.

Ryan Harrow scored 33 points to lead George State to a 79-73 victory over Old Dominion Saturday.

Lorenzo Smothers caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Justin Eckert in the fourth quarter, and Marion County won the Georgia Class A Public School football championship with a 12-3 victory over Charlton County on Saturday.

In the end, it was just too much power, too much speed, too much old-fashioned Buford football.

In 2007, second-year head coach Bob Sphire guided North Gwinnett practically out of nowhere to its first-ever state championship game. Six years later, Sphire and the Bulldogs are headed back to the title game. As far as Sphire is concerned, 2007 might as well have happened in an alternate universe.

The Buford boys basketball team knew East Hall was coming to town Tuesday to set the tone for what figures to be a war for the Region 7-AAA boys title. Instead, the Wolves made a statement of their own.