May 8, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Georgia Highlands College softball pitcher Emily Ferro went the distance in the circle Friday afternoon as the Chargers defeated Georgia Military College 4-1 and earned a spot in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s championship round on Saturday. Ferro, a sophomore and Villa Rica product, scattered four hits and two walks to keep the Bulldogs off balance. She struck out five. The Chargers scored in the top of the fir

May 7, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Georgia Highlands pitcher Emily Ferro tossed a seven-inning, complete-game shutout Thursday night at Carol Brown Field in Cartersville to defeat Gordon State 5-0 in the Chargers’ first game of the GCAA Championship Tournament. Ferro scattered six hits and three walks and kept the Highlanders off the scoreboard. She struck out four. GHC scored three runs in the bottom of the second to take an early lead and added two insurance

May 6, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Georgia Highlands Chargers couldn't hold onto an early lead against South Georgia State in a GCAA second-round game in Tifton on Wednesday afternoon, but bounced back in an elimination game against Gordon State to reach the conference championship round on Thursday. South Georgia State beat Georgia Highlands 9-5, and the Chargers defeated Gordon State for a second time in the tournament, 12-2. Georgia Highlands led South G

May 6, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Georgia Highlands College baseball team won its first game of the 2026 Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association conference tournament on Tuesday in Tifton. The Chargers defeated Gordon State 5-3. GHC scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning on just one hit. The inning also included two walks, a hit batter, a sacrifice fly, and a passed ball, making the score 2-0. In the fourth inning, Caden Marcos homered to give t

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