Dalton
The latest Dalton coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Prep section.
More in Dalton, page 40
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Tennessee blanks Georgia in all-star baseball game
Team Tennessee improved to 12-1 in the annual Tennessee-Georgia baseball Classic, besting Georgia 4-0 Wednesday in the annual Stump on Sports contest.
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Nerves get the best of Chattanooga-area golfers in AJGA event
The hands were shaking and knees were knocking for several Chattanooga-area participants in the Ringgold Telephone Company Junior Classic on Tuesday.
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WindStone regulars Justin Hickman, Tyson Venable part of AJGA field there
Justin Hickman and Tyson Venable have played WindStone Golf Club at least 100 times between them, and maybe as many as 300, in their young lives.
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Tennessee-Georgia all-star series returns this week
Soccer: Friday at Finley Stadium, 1:30, 3:30
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Fannin’s Farmer going in Georgia coaches’ hall and other sports news
Longtime Fannin County basketball coach Johnny Farmer will lead off the 2014 inductees today in Dalton for the Georgia High School Coaches Hall of Fame. The other five going into the shrine housed at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center include Thomas "T" McFerrin, whose 37-year career in the state included the 1984 season and a 7-3 record at Southeast Whitfield, and Rodney Walker, whose football achievements included a stint at Gilmer County. The others going into the 14th class are Buck Godfrey, Lee Cower and Jimmy Hires. Hall of Fame festivities included a golf event Friday and a reception Friday night. The induction lunch starts at 11:30 a.m. Farmer played basketball and baseball at Fannin County and returned to the Blue Ridge school after playing four years of basketball for coach Cliff Ellis at Cumberland Junior College and South Alabama, and he coached girls' basketball from 1981 to 2006 and boys' basketball, including his two sons, from 2007 to 2011. His overall record was 577-239 with Class AA state championships in 1993 and 1999 and runner-up finishes in 1997 and 2004, the latter in AAA. "I'm just a little old country boy, and it hasn't really set in," said Farmer, who lives now in McCaysville. "I just wanted to coach basketball. I never figured on any great honors like this."
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Six coaches contend for coach of year honors
Winning a state championship was not a requirement to become a finalist for the Scrappy Moore Coach of the Year award. But it certainly didn't hurt.
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Scrappy Moore male Athlete of the Year finalists represent six sports
Four of the six finalists for this year's Scrappy Moore male Athlete of the Year award were multisport standouts, including one three-sport star. The finalists are Ringgold's Slade Dale, McCallie's C.J. Fritz, Baylor's Rafael Gaglianone, Dalton's Eder Mora, Gordon Lee's Jonathan Ragsdale and Meigs County's Levi Woods.
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Justin Hickman, Gordon Lee win Georgia golf titles
Gordon Lee golfer Justin Hickman can boast, for the rest of his life, that he won a golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.
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North Georgia high school golf programs build into state contenders
The LaFayette golf team has already established itself in the school record book. The Ramblers last won a region championship when most of this team was sporting diapers.
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Greater Chattanooga area schools mostly for full public-private split
The biggest issue facing high school sports in more than a decade is still months from being decided, but if the Chattanooga area is any indication there is a clear consensus on the public-school/private-school debate.
