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Pace setters: Johnson, relay team make history for Stone Mountain

By the end of the boys’ high school state track championships on May 11, John Williams felt the same way he did 13 years ago. The Stone Mountain boys track coach had good reason to feel nostalgic. He watched his team finish sixth in the Class AAA m...

Southwest DeKalb athletes sign scholarships

Seven Southwest DeKalb athletes signed scholarships May 9 and 10 at ceremonies at the school. Three players signed on May 9 and four track athletes signed on May 10. In the May 9 signing ceremony, Sydnee Walton signed an acrobatics and tumbling schol...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

Nyonkouor Karlar of Tucker kicks the ball away from Dutchtown players during the Tigers' 1-0 win in the second round of the Class AAAA state tournament. Photo by Travis Hudgons
BASEBALL   Marist: The War Eagles are the only team in DeKalb County remaining in the state baseball playoffs. Marist defeated Mundy’s Mill in the second round by winning two straight games after losing the opener in the best-of-three series. Mari...

Man killed at drive-in, another killed by officer responding to crime

A man was shot and killed at a south DeKalb drive-in theater early Tuesday morning, May 15, and another was killed on Memorial Drive minutes later when he was hit by a DeKalb County Police officer responding to the crime, police said. According ...

Redan clears SWD hurdle to win girls’ track title

Redan’s girls track coaches waited patiently through the first two days of the Class AAAA state championship May 3-5 in Albany. Defending champion Southwest DeKalb built a lead through the field and distance events while the Raiders entered the fin...

On the right track: M.L. King hurdler has sights set on state title and beyond

Jordan Moore has the fastest time in the state in all classifications in the 110 meter hurdles. Photo by Robert Naddra
Jordan Moore might be on a different athletic path had he not yielded to his parents’ direction before he began high school. Moore was one of several promising sprinters on the Union Grove Middle School track team in Henry County as a seventh grade...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

GOLF   Class AAAA state championship: Marist won the team championship May 7 in Augusta by one stroke over Lakeside-Evans. Jack Larkin shot a 72 to lead the War Eagles, followed by John Quirk (75), Will Maggard (76), Mitchell Yates (77), Will Duma (...

Work in progress: Chamblee ace building on breakout season

It didn’t take long for Chamblee baseball coach Brian Ely to realize something was different this season. Patrick Gaulden, who had been used sparingly as a starter last year, beat Riverwood in the Bulldogs’ season opener. It was the first time in...

Late-season surge puts Marist in playoffs as top seed

With a week to go in the regular season, defending Class AAAA state champion Marist was facing the possibility of missing the state playoffs. The War Eagles were in fifth place in Region 6-AAAA and had three games against teams that had beaten them e...

Three county teams win region track championships

Two defending state champions were among three DeKalb County schools to win region track titles recently. Class AAAA defending girls’ state champion Southwest DeKalb won the Region 6-AAAA championship April 16-18 at Panthersville Stadium, and defen...