Sports Coverage

For the first time in 30 years, the Lumpkin County High School Girls Varsity Basketball team claimed a Region Tournament Championship with its win over Gilmer County on Feb. 16.

The LCHS Wrestling team competed in the GHSA Wrestling State Championship Tournaments last week, coming away with three wrestlers finishing in the top three in their respective weight classes.

Senior leader Dylan Bodney is excited for one last ride with his friends this season as the 2021 Boys Soccer season gets underway. The team is led by 10 seniors and is looking to get back to the playoffs.

It takes time to craft the perfect gift, but it took the UNG men’s soccer team only 90 minutes to produce the perfect present for their head coach Patrice Parris on his birthday Saturday, a win.

After 20 innings of baseball, day slowly turned to night and UNG head coach Tom Cantrell, who’s coached over 1,000 games for UNG over 19 seasons, was—for once—tired of watching baseball.

Losing the most dominant runner in the history of the UNG Cross Country program may seem like a huge hurdle to some, but coach Tom Williams isn’t too worried.

For the first time this month, the No. 1 ranked Nighthawks found themselves trailing on Friday. After tying the game in the sixth inning, UNG slid into the lead when Hobby Gregory stole home in the top-half of the final inning.

After posting the best regular season record in the Peach Belt Conference last year, the UNG women’s soccer team comes back into 2018 with some new wrinkles and a reignited hunger to push far beyond what many would call a successful season in 2017.

Bottom of the ninth with two outs and the game on the line. It’s the situation kids dream of as they play baseball in the backyard, but when Conner Corbitt stepped up to the plate as the last chance for UNG on Sunday, this time, he wasn’t dreaming.

Special things happen when stars align, and when stars line up against one another on the gridiron, it often decides the outcome of the game.

Led by a senior class that has made the state playoffs in every season of their high school careers, the Eastside baseball team calmly took care of business in front of its home crowd on Friday night.

When the Newton softball team stepped off of the bus at South Forsyth High School Tuesday night, it had hopes of becoming first team in program history to advance into the second round of the playoffs.