The Redan Raiders baseball team punched its ticket to its first state title game with a 3-2 win over Troop County in Game 3 of the Class AAAA state semifinals. The Raiders will take on the War Eagles of Mariston May27 in the state championship game. Marist advanced to the title game after sweeping Crisp [...]

Down by one with a minute left in the game, the Decatur High School lacrosse team fought to tie the score at six to send the game into overtime and keep its championship hopes alive. But Westminster Wildcats’ defense shut down Decatur and its championship goal. The Decatur Bulldogs lost 6-5 on May 14 to [...]

Five members of the Miller Grove High School girls’ basketball senior class signed scholarships on May 7 in front of family, friends and teammates. Shaquanda Durden, Katie Hunt, Tashi Thompson, Aniefiok Udofia and Klarissa Weaver—who led Miller Grove to its first state championship in 2012—signed with the colleges of their choice. Durden, a 5-foot-9 guard, [...]

  DeKalb County is continuing to bring home track and field state titles as Cedar Grove and Dunwoody girls, along with Marist, won a state championship at the 2013 GHSA State Track and Field Championship at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany on May 11. The wins by Cedar Grove and Dunwoody mark the seventh consecutive [...]

Junior Miles Fore led the hit parade for the Redan Raiders as they scored 24 runs on 24 hits in a Class AAAA quarterfinal sweep of the Locust Grove Wildcats at Locust Grove May 14. Fore went 4-6 at the plate with six RBIs and a triple in the two games to lead six different [...]

Cedar Grove High School alum Gerald Rivers has come full circle in a year. Last spring, the 6-foot-4, 249-pound defensive end was preparing for his senior season at the University of Mississippi when the most influential person in his life, his grandmother, passed away. The loss caused Rivers’ mind to stray away from school and [...]

Lakeside goalie Susjed Garcia dove to his left and got just a piece of Delvin Bickham’s penalty kick shot to push it wide of the goal and clinch the Lakeside Vikings’ 2-1 victory (4-2 in penalty kicks) over Heritage-Conyers. The May 7 win at Hallford Stadium propelled the Vikings (14-4-2) into the Class AAAAA state [...]