Jeff Hart

Zach English allowed four hits and struck out 12 in 6 1/3 innings to lead West Hall to a 4-3 win over Fannin County on Wednesday.

The North Georgia baseball team earned a 7-5, extra-inning road win over the University of West Georgia Wednesday evening as the two squads combined for 18 hits and nine errors at Cole Field.

The North Georgia men's and women's tennis squads claimed identical 8-1 victories over Carson-Newman College Wednesday.

The sixth-ranked North Georgia softball team completed its final road doubleheader of the regular-season by splitting a Peach Belt Conference twinbill with Flagler College Wednesday.

The Atlanta Braves didn't wait long to show off their new power game. Home runs by Freddie Freeman, Dan Uggla and newcomer Justin Upton led the Braves to a season-opening 7-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night. The teams, off on Tuesday, will resume the series on Wednesday night.

Atlanta Braves left-hander Jonny Venters will be shut down for a month after receiving a platelet-rich plasma injection in his sprained pitching elbow.

The 32nd-ranked North Georgia men's tennis team captured a 7-2 Peach Belt Conference victory over 26th-ranked Young Harris Tuesday while the 34th-ranked Young Harris women defeated the Saint women by an identical 7-2 score at the North Georgia Tennis Complex.

The Gainesville boys golf team kept its amazing 2013 streak alive Tuesday.

It was the kind of game Chandler Newton had been looking for all season.

Freddie Freeman drove in three runs with three hits, including the first of three Atlanta home runs Monday night, and the Braves beat Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia Phillies 7-5 on opening day.