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Southwest girls, Dunwoody boys win county track titles

The Southwest DeKalb girls track team did not win a single running event at the DeKalb County Track and Field Championships that concluded March 26—and that was just fine with Panthers’ coach Antoinette Tyrell. “Our strategy was not to win anyt...

Waggoner hired to rebuild football tradition at Decatur

Brad Waggoner. Photo by Robert Naddra
Decatur High School athletic director Carter Wilson, who recently was looking for a new head football coach, found someone with a similar vision for the program. Brad Waggoner replaces Price Jones, who stepped down at the end of last season. Jones wa...

Upcoming county track meet features some of state's best

The 2012 DeKalb County Track and Field Championships set for Saturday and Monday at Panthersville Stadium will showcase some of the best athletes in the state and also the nation according to times reported on GA.milesplit.com Twenty-one athlete...

All-American fun: Rivals for four years, Parker and Goodwin now teammates on national stage

Tony Parker of Miller Grove, left, and William Goodwin of Southwest DeKalb will play in the national McDonald’s all-American game on March 28, to be televised on ESPN. Photo by Robert Naddra
For more than 30 minutes, they posed for photos with each other, and with family members, teammates, coaches, school principals and Van Jakes, a former NFL player who is a McDonald’s owner/operator in DeKalb County. They had done several interviews...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

BASEBALL   Southwest DeKalb: The Panthers won three games March 14-17 to even their record at 6-6. Kevin Wimbish had three hits and five RBIs, and was the winning pitcher in a 14-1 win over Mays. He struck out six and allowed three hits in five inni...

Family affair: Miller Grove’s girls join boys’ team as state champions

Minutes after Miller Grove won its first girls state basketball championship, there was a bonding moment a long time coming. As the players and coaches walked off the court March 9 at Gwinnett Arena and into a walkway leading to the locker room, they...

Columbia Boys and girls continue basketball dynasty with state titles

Nearly a two-hour drive from DeKalb County, the city of Macon has become a showcase for the county’s most prolific basketball dynasty. For the third year in a row, the Columbia High School boys’ team won the Class AAA state basketball championshi...

Miller Grove sweeps Class AAAA state basketball titles

Miller Grove High School accomplished something Friday that no other school in DeKalb County has done.  The Wolverines won a boys and girls state basketball championship in the same season. The girls won their first state title with a 46-39 win over...

Tucker football coach takes job at Lamar County

Tucker football coach Franklin Stephens. Photos by Travis Hudgons
Tucker coach Franklin Stephens has taken the head coaching job at Lamar County in Barnesville, south of Atlanta. Lamar County had its best season in school history last season at 12-1 and has qualified for the state playoffs three straight years. Ste...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

BOYS BASKETBALL (State playoffs)   Miller Grove: The Wolverines won two games to advance to the Class AAAA semifinals. Justin Colvin scored 16 points and Brandon Morris added 15 in a 60-51 win over Marist in the quarterfinals. The Wolverines routed ...

Nine DeKalb basketball teams advance to quarterfinals

by Mark Brock Three more teams in DeKalb County won on Wednesday night in the second round of the GHSA state basketball tournament. Nine teams will play this weekend in the quarterfinals in their respective classifications. The No. 9 Martin Luther Ki...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

The Stephenson boys, led by Derek Harper (3) with 29 points, defeated Coffee 73-62 in the first round of Class AAAAA state playoffs. Photo by Travis Hudgons
BOYS BASKETBALL   Seven boys basketball teams—M.L. King, Stephenson, Miller Grove, Southwest DeKalb, Marist, Columbia and Towers—won first-round games in the state tournaments Feb. 24-25. Second-round games were held Feb. 28-29.    Stephenson:...

Henry County football coach hired at Lakeside

Lakeside and Chamblee recently hired two new head football coaches. Former Henry County head coach Mike Rozier replaces interim coach Marcus Mitchell at Lakeside. Rozier spent 11 seasons at Henry County where he compiled a 51-67 record. However, he l...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

BOYS BASKETBALL   Miller Grove: Christian Houston scored 23 points in a 58-47 win over Marist in the 6-AAAA semifinals, then 23 again in a 67-63 win over Southwest DeKalb in the championship game. Against Southwest, Tony Parker added 14 points and 1...

15 county basketball teams qualify for state

A total 15 teams from schools in DeKalb County--eight girls' and seven boys' teams--have advanced to the semifinals of their region tournaments and have qualified for state basketball tournament in five classifications. Semifinals in regions 2-A...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

Raymond Robinson (4) of Chamblee swats away a shot by Tucker’s Josh Dawson in Chamblee’s 60-49 win on Feb. 10.
BOYS BASKETBALL   Miller Grove: The Wolverines defeated Marist 44-35 and Douglass 78-29 to end the regular season and earn a first round bye in the 6-AAAA tournament. Tony Parker had 22 points and 15 rebounds, while Brandon Morris added 10 points. A...

Four schools searching for football coaches

Four schools in DeKalb County are in the process of filling football coaching vacancies. Columbia’s Mario Allen was named head football coach at Rockdale County on Feb. 10 and Clinton Lawrence at Redan resigned a few weeks ago, according to Mark Br...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

Two of the state's top players, Tony Parker of Miller Grove, left photo, and William Goodwin of Southwest DeKalb each made their presence known with a slam dunk in the Wolverines' 59-53 win on Feb. 3. Photos by Travis Hudgons
BOYS BASKETBALL   Miller Grove: Tony Parker had 20 points and 20 rebounds in a 59-53 win over Southwest DeKalb on Feb. 3 as the Wolverines (13-6, 12-1 Region 6-AAAA, Division B) maintain a one-game lead over the Panthers in the sub-region. Justin Co...

Wrestling: Marist wins Area 6-AAAA meet, qualifies 11 for state with McNair

Marist won its second consecutive Area 6-AAAA wrestling championship on Feb. 4 and qualified 11 wrestlers for the upcoming Class AAAA sectional tournament. The War Eagles were the only team in DeKalb County to win an area title. McNair placed second ...

Lakeside sweeps county swim titles

Lakeside's winning 400-yard freestyle relay team of Alexis Letourneau, from left, Anna Ewing, Lizzy White and Erin Collins helped the Vikings win the girls' county team title. Photo by Robert Naddra
Erin Collins stood on the starting block and watched her team’s chances in the DeKalb County Swimming and Diving Championships slip away. Collins, the third leg of Lakeside’s 400-yard freestyle relay team, dove into the water in second place behi...

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