Heritage and Gordon Lee will be taking 10 wrestlers each to the GHSA Traditional Wrestling State Championships next weekend in Duluth after completing successful sectional tournaments Saturday.

Glen Hicks learned that even after 35 years of coaching there still are lessons to be learned. When Hicks looked at his Dade County basketball team this past summer, he saw a team that, due to graduation losses that included star point guard Travis Core and center Andrew Reid, needed some tweaks.

DALTON, Ga. — The game will not go down as an artistic beauty, but Dalton's 56-49 basketball win over LaFayette on Tuesday may have been the prettiest thing Mike Duffie has seen all season.

TRION, Ga. -- Justin Brown may be working his first week as a head football coach, but he wants the folks in Trion to know that, as far as his football soul goes, he's very old school.

Gilmer County's Bobcats won the day, but Heritage may have a leg up on the big prize after the conclusion of an eventful Area 7-AAA traditional wrestling tournament Saturday at Allatoona High School.

The recipe was ripe for disaster at LaFayette High School. The Ramblers were hosting Walker County rival Ridgeland on Senior Night with a top-two region finish on the line. It was enough to make LaFayette coach Tommy Swanson a little irritable during the day.

Try as he might, Mike Duffie cannot hide the frustration. The Dalton High School boys’ basketball coach has been around the game long enough to know when something isn’t right, and what’s happened to Tristen Harrell has Duffie a bit on edge.

Georgia's second wrestling postseason begins today, and the challenges facing the area's best possibilities for team championships are eerily similar.

Less than two months ago Reed Allen was celebrating with his Calhoun High School football teammates in the Georgia Dome, teenagers in the prime of their lives cutting loose after winning a state championship.

A little rest did the Darlington Lady Tigers a lot of good. Off for a week from competition, the second-ranked Class A basketball team in Georgia used renewed energy to stymie what had been a hot-shooting Gordon Lee squad in a 54-38 win.

Mike Duffie calls Tristen Harrell the most underrated player in Georgia. After the week the senior wing has had, that's all about to change.

Summer league and high school softball coaches often have differing opinions on players, but there is a consensus on the Chattanooga area's latest Southeastern Conference recruit.

If ever there was going to be a rebuilding season for the Gordon Lee High School girls' basketball team, surely this was it.

Gordon Lee wrestling coach Brent Raby was still searching for answers Sunday as to why his team lost the GHSA Class A duals championship Saturday night in Macon.

Northwest Georgia was shut out for the second consecutive year in the championship round of the GHSA wrestling duals tournament Saturday, though one case remains a mystery to many.

Northwest Georgia's three participants in the GHSA Wrestling Dual State Championship each made it to the semifinals Friday in Macon.

Before his Heritage High School wrestlers headed Thursday for Macon in advance of today's start of the GHSA Duals Championships, coach Kenny Hill had a simple message for a team getting its first taste of being the chasee instead of the chaser.

The Georgia High School Association, in an attempt to keep its membership intact, voted during a meeting Tuesday morning in Macon to split Class A public and private schools in every sport for the postseason playoffs.

The proposed Georgia Public School Association did not make any major moves during a called meeting Monday in Macon, according to advisory committee member and Gordon Lee associate athletic director Greg Ellis.

Saturday proved to be a benchmark day in the brief history of the Heritage High School wrestling program, but not before the Generals had to overcome some early adversity.

If Randy Watson was hoping his basketball team could continue to toil in relative obscurity a little longer, Tuesday's 38-point win over a one-loss Chattooga team took care of that.

Two area Georgia high school wrestling teams with extremely high hopes face tough postseason tests right off the bat in their area duals tournaments today.

TRENTON, Ga. — Playing their first home game since November, the Dade County Lady Wolverines put on a show for the home fans Tuesday. With junior guard Erika Woodfin erupting for nine 3-pointers and 30 points, Dade routed Region 7B-AA rival Chattooga 67-29 and improved to 12-0, 4-0 in league play.

The Georgia High School Association, whether it wants to admit it or not, has a problem, one Tennessee public school administrators are quite familiar with.

LaFAYETTE, Ga. -- Midway through the third period of the first round boys' game at the Comcast Christmas Tournament, the Ridgeland Panthers appeared well on their way to an early-season signature win.

It was a moment most people will quickly forget in the early stages of a basketball blowout, but it says a lot about the goals of the GPS team.

With a combined 14 freshmen and sophomores on their rosters, the Chattanooga Christian and Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe girls' basketball teams will be a bit unpredictable this season.

Susan Crownover knows what her GPS basketball team can do at full force. She found out Wednesday what the Bruisers can do in a worst-case scenario.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Robert Akins has seen a few uplifting moments in the past eight months, but none may have touched him any more than what the veteran Ringgold High School football coach and administrator witnessed last week.

Christmas came early for Greg Elkins, although it has caused the Ringgold High School boys' basketball coach a bit of what they call in his profession a "good problem."

As the emotions continued to build on the face of the veteran football coach, he took a deep breath and looked up into the home-side stands of the Georgia Dome. A smile swept across Hal Lamb’s face as he started to realize the impact of what he had just witnessed.

Once the shock of the final minute of regulation had started to subside, Hunter Knight got mad. There was no show of emotion on the Calhoun High School senior linebacker's face, but inside he was boiling.

The group of unheralded Yellow Jackets give their team a potent air attack in Friday's Georgia state title game against Buford.

The Georgia High School Association announced region alignments beginning with the 2012 school season Tuesday, and early reaction from schools in northwestern Georgia is very positive.

Tyler King says he enjoys a good challenge. The Calhoun High School senior center should have the time of his life Friday afternoon in the Georgia Dome.

Sometime today in the big conference room in the Calhoun High School football fieldhouse, coaches will sit down and watch video they're all too familiar with.

Appling County took a risk and paid for it dearly Friday night in the GHSA Class AA football semifinal at Calhoun.

If the public wants a rallying point for change within the Bowl Championship Series, it will have to look somewhere other than Stillwater, Okla.

If history is any indication, all the stars are lined up for the Calhoun Yellow Jackets to bring home their first state football championship in 59 years.

The past 12 months have been a whirlwind for Taylor Lamb. A year ago at this time he was finishing his sophomore season at Greer High School in Greenville, S.C., spending most of his time at receiver while being groomed as the program's next quarterback.

It may have been a little early for Christmas, but when Hunter Knight took the field at the Shamrock Bowl in the Georgia Class AA quarterfinals Friday night, his eyes lit up as if Santa had just delivered his most sought-after gift.

Reed Allen has heard all the criticism coming from different parts of the state. Calhoun has had it easy in recent years in the playoffs, hosting 14 consecutive non-championship games.

The Georgia High School Association rescinded a motion Tuesday that had allowed schools to not count special-needs students in their official enrollment figures. With adjusted numbers in hand, the association then assigned schools to classifications for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.

The prevailing feeling in Georgia Region 7-AAA is that basketball success this season will be determined by what's in the backcourt. It's a premise the Ringgold Tigers like.

High expectations can be both a blessing and a curse, especially when a team experiences real success for the first time.

The film room was no place for the weary this week at Calhoun, where the footage on the screen resembled something better suited for Halloween.

It's been less than two weeks since they lost their teammate, and though the pain is still very much prevalent within the wrestling room at Gordon Lee High School, there is a new resolve for the 27 athletes preparing for the coming season.

Of all the obstacles the Dalton Catamounts have faced during this most tumultuous of football seasons, none proved to be more difficult than finding a way to control Gainesville's young superstar Deshaun Watson.

Tre Beck may have lost most of his senior season to a leg injury, but the Dalton senior running back may have found a career.

RINGGOLD, Ga. — Orange was the popular color on the campus at Ringgold High School Wednesday. No, the school hasn't changed its colors, but on this day the bright orange of Clemson University was on display as Ringgold pitching ace Matthew Crownover signed his letter of intent to play collegiately for the Tigers.