CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — Unlike a year ago, the Gordon Lee High School baseball team had very little adversity through the first two rounds of the GHSA Class A Division I playoffs.
That all changed Thursday for the Trojans.
The reigning state champions had to rally from a two-run deficit in the sixth inning before rallying to defeat visiting Fitzgerald 5-4 in the opener of their best-of-three quarterfinal series. Game two of the doubleheader wasn’t nearly as dramatic as the top-ranked Trojans won 4-0 to advance to the semifinals.
Gordon Lee (34-2) will be home again for next week’s best-of-three series against fourth-seeded Worth County — the same school that eliminated the Trojans in the quarterfinals of the football playoffs on the way to a state championship last fall.
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