Scott Barkley / CanesAthletics.com Left to right: Reese Hertel, Addie Feuerbach, Mia Miller, Anna Joe Culverhouse, Ginny Hackney | Photo: CanesAthletics.com All five Lady Canes’ golfers shot their best rounds of the year for a fourth-place finish at sectionals on Monday, May 4, punching the team’s ticket to the state championships on May 18-19. The tournament was held at the Georgia National Golf Club in McDonough. The 4A girls state championship rounds are at Crosswinds Gol

May 4, 2026 The Cartersville boys’ soccer team lost 5-0 on Friday at Walnut Grove and was eliminated from the GHSA Class 4A state tournament. The host Warriors led 2-0 at the intermission and finished off the contest with three second-half goals. Walnut Grove (17-3) advanced to the state quarterfinals on Tuesday against Clarkston. The Canes’ season ended with an 11-8 record.

May 4, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com L-R: Anthony Seigler, Ansley Hight, Luke Miller (23), and Sawyer Wilson Cartersville High product Anthony Seigler had a strong week of performances as the Worcester Red Sox faced the Rochester Red Wings last week in the MiLB Triple-A International League. Meanwhile, at the college level, former Hurricanes Sawyer Wilson and Luke Miller stepped up for the Columbus State Cougars in the Peach Belt Conference baseball tournament, a

May 3, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com A large group of local high school track and field athletes advanced to the Georgia High School Association State Championship Meets over the weekend at two separate State Sectional qualifiers. Athletes from Cartersville, Woodland, and Cass competed at the Class 4A Sectional B at North Oconee High School, while Adairsville had qualifiers at the Class 3A Sectional B at Jefferson High School. The Top 8 in each event advanced to

May 2, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Georgia Highlands College softball team concluded regular-season play on Friday and Saturday with a successful three-game sweep of the visiting Andrew College Tigers. The Chargers won both games of a doubleheader on Friday, 13-5 and 11-3, then finished the sweep with a 10-2 victory on Saturday at Carol Brown Field. Emily Ferro (3 IP, 5R, 3ER, 3H, 2BB, 4K) and Athens Hudson (2 IP, 0R, 2H, 2K) shared the pitching duties in t

Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com In conjunction with WBHF and Bartow Sports Zone, Elite Stone Supply presents the ELITE ATHLETES OF THE MONTH. Each month, local high schools select an Elite Athlete of the Month from their varsity programs and share the information about their honoree through Bartow Sports Zone and on 100.3 FM and AM 1450, WBHF in Cartersville. Adler Chance is the April 2026 Elite Athlete of the Month representing Woodland High School. The daughter of

April 30, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Georgia Highlands College baseball team wrapped up regular season play on Thursday at Gordon State College with an 18-8 win in Barnesville. The Chargers received home runs from Aidan Larkin, Wyatt Gatlin, and Ian Fullerton, and finished with twelve hits, but were aided by 19 walks issued by Gordon State pitchers. GHC led 8-3 after three innings, and the host Highlanders narrowed the margin to 9-6 through five, before a

April 30, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Adairsville Tigers had their 2026 baseball playoff run come to an end Thursday after being swept in a second-round doubleheader at Pickens. A.J. Rice pitched a complete game, one-hitter to shut out the Tigers in Game 1, 8-0. Everett Grubbs delivered a complete game in Game 2, blanking Adairsville 4-0 on three hits. He struck out six. In the opener, Pickens broke open a scoreless game with seven runs in the bottom of the

April 30, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Cole Crawford blasted a pair of homers and drove in all three runs, lifting the Canes to a 3-2 series-clinching win over Ware County. PHOTO: RANDY PARKER / THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Cole Crawford hit a two-out, walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday evening to lift the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes to a 3-2 win and a second-round state playoff series victory over visiting Ware County. It was Crawford’s

April 30, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Nolan Elrod tossed a complete-game, three-hit shutout Wednesday night, sending the Purple Hurricanes to a deciding third game in their series with Ware County. PHOTO: Russell Andrews, Sports Furnace Photography. The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes split their best-of-three home Sweet Sixteen series against Ware County on Wednesday night at Richard Bell Field. Ware County took the first game 19-6, but the Canes tied the seri