

Tuesday's local soccer roundup: Lady Tigers, Lady Colonels, and Lady Canes each earn region wins
March 11, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Adairsville Lady Tigers shut out the Calhoun Lady Yellow Jackets 2-0 in a Region 7-AAA clash Tuesday night at Calhoun, improving to 2-0 in league play with a strong defensive performance. The teams battled to a scoreless deadlock at halftime, with both defenses holding firm in a tightly contested first 40 minutes. The breakthrough came early in the second half when Alexa Damer stepped up and calmly converted a penalty k
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Mar 11


Canes blank Colonels, 11-0
March 10, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com No. 7, Nate Russell, prepares to take the mound for the Purple Hurricanes. Cartersville Hurricanes’ pitchers Nate Russell and Collier Jordan combined for seven strikeouts Tuesday evening and limited the Cass Colonels to only two hits in an 11-0 shutout in six innings at the Cass Athletic Complex. Russell made the start and fanned six, yielding just one hit and five walks in the first five frames. Jordan allowed one hit and
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Mar 10


Cass tennis splits matches with Gordon Central and Adairsville
March 9, 2026 The Cass tennis teams split matches on Monday evening with Gordon Central, and the Adairsville teams split matches with the Colonels last Friday. CASS BOYS 5, GORDON CENTRAL 0 Monday, March 9, at Hamilton Crossing Park Singles Line 1 — Drake Brush won 6-2, 6-0 Line 2 — Acelin Mullinax won 6-1, 6-0 Line 3 — Graham Garland won by forfeit Doubles Line 1 — Kirtan Maisuria / Finn McDaniel won 6-0, 6-1 Line 2 — Merrick Catron / Nick Moser won by forfeit GORDON CENTRAL
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Mar 9


Athletes Beyond Bartow: Bunch earns All-Region gymnast honors at RIC
March 9, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Abigail Bunch set a school record score on the uneven bars and earned All-Region honors last weekend at the NCGA East Regionals. PHOTO: Rhode Island College Cass High product and Rhode Island College senior gymnast, Abigail Bunch, finished first on the uneven bars with a score of 9.775 this past weekend at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association East Regional in Providence, Rhode Island. She helped lead her team to a
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Mar 9


Chargers improve to 3-0 in conference play
March 8, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The GHC Chargers swept a home conference doubleheader with Andrew College on Saturday, defeating the Tigers 11-3 and 12-9. Jack Burns retired the final seven outs on the mound in Game 1 to pick up the pitching win in relief of starter Noah McMahon (4.1 IP, 3ER, 4H, 2BB, 6K) and Jackson Scali (0.1 IP, 0R, 1H, 1BB, 1K). Heath Whitlock (3 IP, 0R, 1H, 3K) faced the minimum over the final three innings to earn the pitching win in
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Mar 8


Woodland track and field teams finish runner-up at the Southeast Whitfield Invitational
March 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Woodland girls and boys track and field teams finished runner-up on Saturday at the 12-team Southeast High School Invitational in Dalton. Heritage-Catoosa won the girls’ title with 146 points. Woodland (97), Dalton (78), Cass (69), and Gordon Lee (61) rounded out the top five. Adairsville (35) placed ninth. Calhoun won the boys’ title with 133 points. Woodland (113.5), Heritage-Catoosa (96.5), Dalton (77), and Gordon Le
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Mar 7


Lady Canes' state tournament run ends with Final Four loss to Marist
March 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Kaytlin Arnold and the Lady Canes had their 2026 campaign come to an end on Saturday with a Final Four loss to Marist in Athens. The Cartersville Lady Canes' 2026 tournament run ended Saturday with a 77-41 Final Four loss to Marist at Akins Ford Arena in Athens. Naismith High School Girls National Player of the Year finalist Kate Harpring scored 37 points for the top-ranked War Eagles. The North Carolina signee added seven r
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Mar 7


Lady Canes' gymnasts secure state preliminary qualifying scores
March 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Cartersville High School Lady Canes gymnastics team showed continued growth and resilience at the Cherokee Invitational on Friday in Canton. Competing against several Class 5A and Class 6A programs—including Cherokee, River Ridge, Etowah, Woodstock, Roswell, Lassiter, North Atlanta, and Kell—the Lady Canes posted a solid team score of 95.900, good for sixth place overall in the competitive field. The team delivered stron
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Mar 7


Canes complete series sweep of Buccaneers
March 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes completed a three-game region series sweep at Allatoona on Saturday by winning both games of a doubleheader, 10-2 and 21-7. In Saturday’s first game, the Canes broke open a 1-1 game with four runs in the top of the fifth inning and sealed it with five additional runs in the seventh. In the second game, the host Buccaneers led 6-1 after two innings before Cartersville exploded for 20 runs ov
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Mar 7


Local baseball teams take it on the chin on Friday
March 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Local high school baseball teams dropped all five games played on Friday, while a scheduled doubleheader between Cartersville and Allatoona was postponed until Saturday. GAME 1: DALTON 9, CASS 3 GAME 2: DALTON 13, CASS 7 The visiting Dalton Catamounts swept a doubleheader at Cass on Friday night and completed a three-game series sweep of the Colonels. Dalton posted a six-run top of the second inning in the first game that
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Mar 7


