GEORGIA STATE SOCCER PLAYOFFSFIRST ROUNDTuesday, April 30Class AAAA GirlsSouth Atlanta at Heritage, 5:30Northwest Whitfield at Grady, 5:30Wednesday, May 1Class AAAA BoysSoutheast Whitfield at Chamblee, 4:30Stone Mountain at Dalton, 6:30Grady at Northwest Whitfield, 7:30Thursday, May 2Class AAA GirlsNorth Oconee at Ringgold, 6Class AA GirlsDade County at WestminsterFriday, May 3Class AA GirlsWesleyan at Calhoun, 5:30Class AAA BoysSonoraville at North Oconee, 5:30Coahulla Creek at Oconee County, 6Franklin County at North Murray, 7Class AAA GirlsEast Jackson at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, 6Class AA BoysLovett at Murray County, 6Wesleyan at Calhoun, 7:30
Northwest Whitfield High School senior Giovanni Aguero heads the ball while performing drills.TUNNEL HILL, Ga. – The Northwest Whitfield girls’ soccer team finally has cleared the hurdle of beating a red opponent. For the Lady Bruins’ season to continue, they’ll need at least one more such victory.
They qualified for the state playoffs for the first time in program history, and to do so they had to defeat local rivals Dalton and Southeast Whitfield, both of which have red in their school colors.
“I hope Grady isn’t red,” senior Paige Smyth said.
No such luck. The seventh-ranked Lady Gray Knights sport Gray and Cardinal as their school colors.