Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Pope and Walton baseball teams are playing at home Monday afternoon in the semifinals.
Despite leading for a good portion of the match, the Lassiter girls lacrosse team couldn't hold on against the dynasty that is Milton in Saturday's Georgia High School Association Class AAAAAA finals. Milton came away with a 10-7 win for its third consecutive championship and eighth title since 2005, but the Lady Trojans felt like they had done all they could. “They almost pulled it out,” Lassiter coach Faith Harmeyer told The Marietta Daily Journal, referring to her players. “I would have liked to have had this one for the seniors, but we’ll get it.” The Lassiter girls were hoping to add to the East Cobb contingent of spring sports state champions. Thus far, the Walton girls tennis team and the boys and girls tennis teams at The Walker …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
But the season came to an end for the Pope boys soccer team Thursday.
The Pope Greyhounds needed to get to the middle innings to punch their ticket to the state baseball semifinals. The Walton Raiders got a leadoff homerun in the first inning. Both East Cobb teams won decisive third games Thursday in the Georgia High School Association state tournaments, and will be staying at home as the playoffs continue. Pope trailed Evans 2-0 before responding in the fifth inning enroute to a 12-2 win. The Greyhounds will play host to Starr's Mill in a Class AAAAA semifinal series that begins with a doubleheader on Monday. Walton, which downed Tift County 5-2 in Class AAAAAA, will face Roswell Monday at Raider Valley. The Monday game times for both Pope and Walton have not been announced. Pope is aiming for the finals …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Lady Trojans will face Milton for the state title; Pope and Walton baseball play quarterfinal rubber matches today.
The lacrosse battle of East Cobb lived up to the billing Tuesday. The Lassiter girls led Walton 10-5 at halftime, then hung on in the final minutes of the match to claim a 13-11 win over Walton in the semifinals of the Georgia High School Association Class 6A tournament. Lassiter which lost big to Walton earlier in the season, faces top-ranked Milton on Saturday in the finals. More from The Marietta Daily Journal. The Walton and Pope baseball teams were playing at home Tuesday in quarterfinals doubleheaders, and both earned splits, forcing decisive games today. Walton defeated Tift County 8-0 in its opener in Class 6A but lost 2-1 on a walkoff sacrifice fly. Today's third game, also at Walton, starts at 4 p.m. In Class 5A, Pope also won …
NCAA Division II lacrosse players Ned Kaish and Clinton Sorrel will offer a summer lacrosse camp in June and July at Dickerson Middle School in Marietta.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Greyhounds and Raiders will be playing host to quarterfinal doubleheaders on Tuesday.
After some dramatic comebacks last week, the Walton baseball team stays at home in the Georgia High School Association tournament quarterfinals today seeking a less eventful way to stay on a roll. The Raiders play host to Tift County in a Class AAAAAA doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. The second game is slated to start at 7 p.m. If a third game is needed in the series, it would take place on Wednesday, also at Walton. The Pope Greyhounds also had to pull out their second round series in Class AAAAA on Friday against Winder-Barrow, setting up today's quarterfinal series against Evans at Pope. The first pitch in the first game is at 4:30 p.m., with the nightcap starting at 7:30 p.m. A third game also would be played Wednesday at Pope. More on…
Monday, May 13, 2013
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ suffered a skull fracture during a game last week when a line drive hit him in the head. Tell us if you think Major League Baseball or any other leagues should implement helmets for pitchers.
"I don't remember seeing [the ball]. Just immediate loud ringing in my ear. Just pressure on my ear, and I was on the ground. That was kind of it.” That, according to an Associated Press report, was how Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ described the line drive that hit him in the head during his team’s May 7 game against Tampa Bay. The impact left him with a skull fracture and a knee that was tweaked as he fell to the ground. Happ’s injury has brought attention to other pitchers who have sustained similar injuries in the past. Major league pitcher Bryce Florie was struck in the right eye by a line drive more than a decade ago. According to Paul Newberry of the Associated Press, Florie would pitch only seven more games after that …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
She was among several Cobb athletes who excelled in Albany over the weekend.
Athletes in 10 events who represented Cobb, Douglas and Paulding schools brought back first-place medals from the Georgia High School Association girls state track and field championships in Albany. Two teams also peformed well in the event, which ran from Thursday through Saturday, as Kell High School finished second in the Class 5A meet and Marietta was third in Class 6A. Kell's Kendell Williams closed out her illustrious career with three titles, winning the 5A high jump, long jump and 100-meter hurdles. She earned 11 crowns in her high school career, and on Friday broke her own state record in the long jump. Marietta's Jenessa Jackson won the Class 6A shot put and was second in the discus throw, while an all-Cobb trio swept the 100-…
The Pope boys advanced in soccer but the Walton, Pope and Lassiter boys were defeated in lacrosse.
The Walton High School girls tennis team is back in the winners circle. After having their state record streak of nine consecutive Georgia High School Association state championships broken last season, the Lady Raiders reclaimed the title Saturday in the Class 6A finals. They downed Peachtree Ridge 3-2 at the Clayton International Park in Jonesboro to finish the season with an 18-0. As the MDJ reports this morning, No. 3 singles player Johanna Keeline clinched the title for Walton in her match after Peachtree Ridge won the other singles matches. Walton won both doubles matches. The Walker School doubled its pleasure in the Class 1A private school finals, winning the boys title 3-1 over First Presbyterian and the girls title 3-2 over Mt…
Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Pope baseball team advanced to the quarterfinals; the Pope and Lassiter girls soccer teams and Pope boys lacrosse teams were eliminated.
East Cobb is guaranteed a spot in the Georgia High School Association Class AAAAAA girls lacrosse championships. That's because Walton and Lassiter easily won their quarterfinal matches on Friday, setting up an East Cobb showdown Tuesday in the semifinals at Walton. Walton routed Alpharetta 12-2 as Erin McBride scored five goals. Lassiter's Johnna Fusco scored three times and have five assists as the Lady Trojans throttled Centennial 18-2. More from The Marietta Daily Journal. Also advancing in state playoff action on Friday was the Pope baseball team, which defeated Winder-Barrow 6-5 in the second round of the Class 5A tournament. As the MDJ reported, the Greyhounds rallied in the eighth inning for the walkoff win in the rubber match…
Spring practice and regular season dates for Kell, Lassiter, Pope, Sprayberry, The Walker School, Walton and Wheeler.
KELL HIGH SCHOOL LONGHORNS 2012 Record: 9-2; 4-0 in Region 7-AAAAAA Subregion B; defeated Southwest DeKalb 19-14 in 1st round of GHSA playoffs, lost to Gainesville 61-42 in the 2nd round Head Coach: Derek Cook LASSITER HIGH SCHOOL TROJANS 2012 Record: 10-1; 7-0 Region 5-AAAAAA; lost to Brookwood 24-21 in 1st round of GHSA playoffs Head Coach: Jep Irwin POPE HIGH SCHOOL GREYHOUNDS 2012 Record: 7-4; 3-1 Region 7-AAAAA Subregion B; lost to Stephenson 31-11 in 1st round of GHSA playoffs Head Coach: Matt Kemper SPRAYBERRY HIGH SCHOOL YELLOW JACKETS 2012 Record: 3-7; 202 in Region 5-AAAAA Subregion B Head Coach: Billy Shackelford THE WALKER SCHOOL WOLVERINES 2012 Record: 11-1; 5-0 Region 6-A Division B Private; defeated Athens …
Julie Lester
1:41 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
So let's just ban the game all together as well as any other sport or activity that could potentially cause injury or accident! Good grief what a ridiculous thing to require and regulate more and more of our lives! If a player choses to do so let them but players of sports are more than aware of potential injury and assume that risk when they choose to participate. The business of sports has … more ›