Jeff Hart

The road to the Region 8-3 title has always figured to go through Jefferson. On Thursday, Cherokee Bluff put itself in position to take the first swing at the Dragons.

Fifth-ranked Georgia (5-1, 3-1 SEC), whose only three losses over the past four seasons have all been to Alabama, plays in Austin for the first time since 1958 on Saturday night.

Sid Maxwell and Dawson County are used to being in the playoffs. His first eight Tigers teams all advanced to the postseason. Chestatee, on the other hand.

You can’t get any more dominating than this. After Wednesday’s first round action, northeast Georgia area volleyball teams went a collective 15-1 in the first round Georgia High School Association playoffs.

The 2024 Georgia High School Association softball playoffs get started on Wednesday with 15 northeast Georgia area teams looking to play their way to Columbus and a shot at a state title.

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, senior defensive lineman Nazir Stackhouse and junior running back Cash Jones discussed the upcoming showdown with Texas with the media on Tuesday evening.

For three seasons from 2018 to 2021, Tommy Jones (Cherokee Bluff) and Ben Hall (Flowery Branch) coached just 3 1/2 miles apart. However, their playing and coaching journeys have been even more closely entwined than that.

With the start of the 2024 state volleyball playoffs on Tuesday, 16 northeast Georgia area teams will get under way looking to make a run to state titles.

Carson Beck passed for a career-high 459 yards and three touchdowns and No. 5 Georgia withstood Mississippi State's second-half comeback bid for a 41-31 win Saturday.

Jamal Haynes ran for 170 yards and two touchdowns, including a go-ahead 68-yard score in the final minute, as Georgia Tech stunned North Carolina 41-34 on Saturday at Kenan Stadium.