By:Justin Wallin
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Gordon Lee’s senior baseball signing class increased to three on Friday when second baseman Brandon Daggett signed scholarship papers with Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens.
Daggett emerged as a solid all-around player this season for the Trojans.
He batted .310 and drove in 25 runs while scoring 18 more. He had three doubles and went a [...]
By:Jessie Merciers
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The first Heritage spring football scrimmage will be remembered for a festive array of many colors. With the uniforms purchased by Heritage burning up in a fire at an athletic manufacture, Coach Tim James scrambled to borrow uniforms from every source imaginable.
Heritage Principal Ronnie Bradford said it would have been nice to see [...]
By:Jessie Merciers
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Mark your calendars now for the annual Tennessee-Georgia All-Star Series, sponsored by the Sportsman’s Warehouse.The All-Star series will match up graduates of the Class of 2008 in a dozen counties each in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia.
More than 300 athletes were invited to participate in the series last June and even more will be [...]
By:Justin Wallin
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Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe cross-county runner Coty Stephens is kicking up his heels about continuing his career with Covenant College.
Stephens is the fifth runner to earn a scholarship in the past four years at LFO.
He said he set his goals to reach the next level and never looked back.
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By:Jessie Merciers
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Even coaches sometimes don’t mind admitting to being wrong.
When his Gordon Lee Trojans won a wild first-round playoff series at Lakeview Academy last weekend, head coach Greg Payne said he “couldn’t be more proud of this team.”
That was until Thursday when his Trojans knocked out top-ranked Aquinas, 8-6, [...]
By:Justin Wallin
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Florida State’s Mickey Andrews Says ‘Best Ability is Dependability’
Florida State Associate head coach Mickey Andrews has been a part of greatness for much of his football career as a player and as a coach.
As a player, he played on National Championship teams in 1961 and 1964 under Paul “Bear” [...]
By:Jessie Merciers
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The Gordon Lee Trojans didn’t swing the bats as well today as they did this past Friday, but they swung them well enough to earn a split against top-ranked Aquinas in the second round of the Class A state playoffs in Augusta on Wednesday.
Aquinas (27-3) took game one 9-3, but the [...]
By:Justin Wallin
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For the first time in a long time, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe senior Natalie Collins will play for a basketball coach other than the Lady Warriors’ Wayne Weaver.
Collins’ career began on Weaver’s rec team, and Tuesday afternoon at LFO she signed papers to continue it next season at Motlow State Community College.
“I’ve coached Natalie since she [...]
