Calhoun

CALHOUN, Ga. -- Sometimes in sports the feel-good stories just don't work out. For six innings Wednesday, Corey Greeson was on the brink of the kind of story that becomes legend in small towns.

CALHOUN, Ga. — As his team walked to the dugout following a doubleheader split in its GHSA Class AA quarterfinal baseball series, Calhoun coach Chip Henderson resisted the urge to say, "Told you so," to his somewhat frustrated players.

CALHOUN, Ga. — Chip Henderson couldn't recall the last time -- or any time -- one of his Calhoun High School baseball teams pounded out 13 hits and none of them went for extra bases. That's just what the Yellow Jackets did Wednesday in game one of their GHSA Class AA second-round series against Cook County, rolling to a 10-0 five-inning win in workmanlike style.

Two of Tennessee's top high school softball programs will meet in a possible state-tournament preview Sunday when Murfreesboro Riverdale visits Soddy-Daisy at 2 p.m.

The 2005 Calhoun team is widely considered to have had the best defense in school history.

Although they stand only 6-foot tall and weigh 225 and 250 pounds, seniors Gus Roberts and Caden Parker are big parts of the first line of defense for the Calhoun Yellow Jackets.

The Calhoun Yellow Jackets will attempt to end northwestern Georgia’s 36-year high school football championship drought when they face the Buford Wolves on Friday.

Calhoun High School senior running back Dustin Christian has committed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Some of the top college coaches will be in Calhoun tonight when the Carver running back will take on the Yellow Jackets in playoff action.

J.T. Palmer didn’t take the criticism personally. Instead, the Calhoun High School senior receiver used it as motivation.

Dade County took its best swing — or at least its best team — against Calhoun in years.

The challenges get quite a bit tougher for northwest Georgia softball teams in today’s second round of the GHSA state tournament. After going a perfect 7-for-7 in advancing past the first round, six of the seven teams face ranked squads in the round that will determine the Elite Eight fields in Columbus.

When things get tough in practice or he finds himself tired during a game, Alex Kirby’s mind quickly takes him back to the Georgia Dome last December.

If the Calhoun Yellow Jackets had hoped to get into the 2010 football season under the radar in Georgia’s Class AA, Friday night’s decisive 35-0 win over Pepperell changed those plans.