The Cass boys won the third place game at the Region 7-AAAAA Tournament Friday evening over Paulding County in Carrollton, 67-63. The Colonels actually trailed the Patriots 15-14 after one quarter, but Cass took control of the contest with a second quarter surge to lead 48-27 at halftime. Paulding County cut into the lead in the third quarter to trail by nine points, 57-48, with eight mintues to play. Cass managed to hold on in the fourth quarter for a 67-63 victory. Zaylan Chaney led four Cass players in double figures with 14 points. Braxton Benham, Jordan Ford, and C.J. Pipkin followed with 13 each. Jaquan Heard contributed eight. Alfred Washington scored five and Andrew Glaze added one point for the Colonels. Keon Sedgwick led the Patriots with a game-high 27 points. Caleb Jarrell scored 10 for Paulding County. Paulding County (16-12) will play in the GHSA Class AAAAA State Tournament next weekend as the No. 4-seed and will play at the region champion from Region 5-AAAAA. Cass (16-12) will enter the GHSA Class AAAAA State Tournament next weekend as the No. 3-seed and will play at the No. 2-seed from Region 5-AAAAA. LAKEVIEW-FORT OGLETHORPE 57, ADAIRSVILLE BOYS 46 The Adairsville boys lost their Region 6-AAA tournament semifinal game Friday night at North Murray High School, falling to No. 2-seed Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe 57-46. Jamichael Davis scored 19 points for LFO. Brent Bowman added 14 in the Warriors win. Savaun Henderson paced Adairsville in the scoring column with 20 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter. Malachi Gardner finished with nine. T.J. Printup and Jaxon Welchel scored six apiece for the Tigers. With their win, LFO (22-4) advances to play tournament host North Murray (21-5) in the boys championship Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Adairsville (12-15) clinched a Class AAA State Tournament berth with their win Thursday night over Murray County and will now play in the third place game Monday at 5:30 p.m. against Calhoun. The game was originally set for Saturday, but snow showers moving through the area postponed the conclusion of the tournament until Monday. Adairsville opponent in the third place game Monday will be Calhoun. The Yellow Jackets lost in Friday's other semifinal to North Murray, 70-67.

Youth and adult recreation basketball results from games played with the Cartersville Parks and Recreation Department and the Bartow County Parks and Recreation Department February 3-6. FEBRUARY 3 6U at Cartersville Primary School Gym MORRIS 8, BENSON 5 MORRIS: Trenton Hemphill 4; Jayden Murphy, Ayden Turner 2 each BENSON: Bryson Velez 3; Ben Sabaka 2 SITO 9, WITT 2 SITO: Bryce Rogers 7; Peyton Mays 2 WITT: Sammie Marie Adams 2 12U at J.H. Morgan Gym EZELL 58, McCARDLE 32 EZELL: Camren Adams 14; Reed Ezell 10; Kamdyn Woods 9 McCARDLE: Thomas Peters 19; Thomas Martin 6 BRUMLOW 46, BRIDGMAN 31 BRUMLOW: Cameron Hill 20; Cooper Brumlow 8 BRIDGMAN: Griffin Woodall 14 Adult Basketball at J.H. Morgan Gym THE BEARDS 62, KRACKERJAX 51 BEARDS: Greg Gore 19; Stephen Morgan 13; Blake Scoggins 11; Nathan Sanders 10 KRACKERJAX: Mike Ezell 17; Adam Chance 9 ’03 BOYS 56, PSA 53 BOYS: Sam Taylor 26; Bryan Owens 15 PSA: Devin Henderson 21; David Darnell 11 FEBRUARY 4 8U at J.H. Morgan Gym BULLOCK 16, DEAN 8 BULLOCK: Jae’ven Davenport 11; Mason Finley 5 DEAN: Jude Hamilton 4; Zakiyah Taylor, Carter Harris 2 12U at J.H. Morgan Gym MITCHAM 36, ADAMS 31 MITCHAM: Asa Mitcham 16; Noah Pogue 7; William Irish 6 ADAMS: Cooper Adams 10; Adam Reed, James Lee, Andrew Lutjens 4 each 17U Girls at Manning Mill MYSTICS 31, LIBERTY 25 MYSTICS: Taff Bradley 12; Kelsey Gleason 9 LIBERTY: Layne Callan 9; Lamaya Matthew 5 Adult Basketball at J.H. Morgan Gym GLENDA MITCHELL LAW 62, CARTERSVILLE FIRST BAPTIST 46 MITCHELL: Justin Mackey 20; Brock Hufstetler 14; Teigh Dooley 12 CFB: Tyler Will 13; Donlin Hinton 10; Craig Lindsay 8 LANETT PANTHERS 48, THE HAWKS 46 PANTHERS: Justin Reed 13; Gordon Gray 12; Kenny Pierson 10 HAWKS: Ben Bridges 11; Rhett Kirby 10 FEBRUARY 5 Adult Basketball at J.H. Morgan Gym SUMMER HILL ORANGE 111, CTC TALONS 76 ORANGE: Marc Pilcher 24; Jalen Westfield 13 TALONS: Jeremiah Lynn 28; Deem Padmore 18; Stephen Padmore 16 CTC ALUMNI 123, CTC TALONS 48 ALUMNI: Ryan Davis 36; Cade Archer 30; Jeremiah Alston 19; A.J. Mosby 18 TALONS: Deem Padmore, Jeremiah Lynn 14 each FEBRUARY 6 8U at Upper Aubrey Street Gym STEPP 16, PRESSLEY 7 STEPP: Hunter Campbell 6; Elias Carter 4; Joshua Howell, Camden Jones, Milania murphy 2 each PRESSLEY: Easton Raines 3; Walker Phillips, Tate McGill 2 each VAUGHN 19, MARROW 12 VAUGHN: Easton Stephens 9; Noah Leffew 8; Bowen Hardy 2 MARROW: Morgan St. Phillip, Kaydin Adams 4 each; Beckett Nichols, Blake Fortsie 2 each 10U at J.H. Morgan Gym SITO 23, BRIDGMAN 21 SITO: William Hewlett, Jayden Winston 6 each BRIDGMAN: Ayden Miles 12; Fisher Nelson 6 BURSON 32, HUNT 28 BURSON: Brayden King 22; Andy Holstein 6 HUNT: Price Startup 9; Aiden Turner 6 Adult Basketball at J.H. Morgan Gym KRACKERJAX 74, KAWHI ME A RIVER 59 KRACKERJAX: Mike Woodard 21; Mike Frazier 14 KMAR: Larry Frazier 19; Trez Harrell 18 THE HAWKS 59, ’03 BOYS 54 HAWKS: Paxton Russell, Ben Bridges 12 each; Georgie Russell 11; Rhett Kirby 10 BOYS: Bryan Owens 16; Blake Clay, Jozell Payne 12 Youth and adult recreation basketball results presented by Trophy Showroom. All information is provided by the Cartersville Parks and Recreation Department, the Bartow County Parks and Recreation Department, and the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association.

The Cartersville girls and boys soccer teams defeated Dawson County Friday night to open the 2020 season while both Cass soccer teams fell at Dalton. Woodland started its tennis season with losses to North Paulding and several local high school swimmers advanced to the GHSA State Swim Meet finals on Saturday. SOCCER CARTERSVILLE BOYS 5, DAWSON COUNTY 2 The Cartersville boys opened the 2020 season Friday night with a 5-2 win at Dawson County. After falling behind 1-0, the Hurricanes stormed back with a pair of goals by Alex Rios and single goals by Joel Zazueta and Joan Vargas. Daniel Abeja had a pair of assists and Brady Craig added an assist. The Canes also added a goal in the waining minutes off a free kick. The Canes (1-0) play at Woodland next Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. CARTERSVILLE GIRLS 3, DAWSON COUNTY 1 Kalyn Donegan scored a pair of second half goals and Abbey Craig picked up the Lady Canes first goal of the regular season in a 3-1 win at Dawson County Friday night. Micah Vance assisted on the Craig goal in the 47th minute. Donegan’s first goal came ten minutes later off a corner kick by Kendyl Anderson and her second goal was off a throw in by Devondria Johnson in the game’s 62nd minute. “We dominated possession in the game,” said Cartersville coach Chad Murray. “We had possession about 80 percent of the game in the attacking third. Their (Dawson County) goal was on a defensive mistake and it put us behind 1-0 at halftime. We challenged the girls at the break to score four goals and we almost got it. We played smart and showed patience in the second half and it led to goals. We have some things to work on, but I’m very proud of the girls.” DALTON 8, CASS GIRLS 0 The host Lady Catamounts scored five goals in the first half and three more in the second half to defeat the Lady Colonels Friday night. The loss drops the Cass girls to 0-2. They will travel to Northwest Whitfield Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. DALTON 7, CASS BOYS 0 Dalton improved to 1-1 with their home shutout of Cass Friday night. The Colonels (1-1) travel to Northwest Whitfield Tuesday for a 7:45 p.m. kickoff. WOODLAND TENNIS TEAMS FALL IN SEASON OPENER The Woodland High School girls and boys tennis teams dropped season-opening matches Friday with North Paulding. Both teams fell by 4-1 final scores. The Woodland boys got a win from Bryce Van Order (6-1, 6-1) at Line 1 singles. The Line 2 doubles team of Abby Spaulding and Monterya Morrow picked up the Lady Cats only win. GHSA STATE SWIM MEET Several local swimmers qualified Friday for Saturday’s GHSA State Swim Meet finals at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. Adairsville’s Harper Powell earned a spot in the 50-yard free and 100-yard backstroke finals. In the preliminaries, Powell was 18th in the 50-yard free and 29th in the 100-yard backstroke. Cartersville’s Giulia Vidoli made the finals in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. Vidoli was 27th in the 200-yard freestyle during preliminaries and 21st in the 100-yard backstroke prelims. The Cartersville 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard relay also reached Saturday’s finals. The Lady Canes’ relay team consists of Grayson Breedlove, Rachel Long, Grace Siniard, and Giulia Vidoli.

The Adairsville boys basketball team punched its ticket to the Class AAA state tournament next week by knocking off Region 6-AAA third-seeded Murray County Thursday night in the region quarterfinals, 73-61. The Tigers led wire-to-wire in the tournament game at North Murray High School, but the Indians narrowed Adairsville’s lead to three points in the final period before fading down the stretch. Adairsville jumped out to a 20-9 lead in the opening eight minutes, but Murray County made a run late in the second quarter to narrow the margin to 32-27 by halftime. The Tigers maintained a 52-41 lead through the third quarter and made enough free throws down the stretch to hold off Murray County for a 12-point win. The Tigers rebounded well on the defensive end in the second half and converted 21 of 31 from the charity stripe. Four Tigers — Savaun Henderson, Malachi Gardner, T.J. Printup, and Tucker Deams — combined to make 19 of 21 free throws in the half. Only five Adairsville players found their way into the scoring column, but all five reached double figures. Henderson led the way with 19 points. Deams and Jaxon Welchel scored 15 each. Printup chipped in 14 and Malachi Gardner finished with 10 points for the Tigers. Murray County led the Indians with 17 points. Carson Weaver and Cade Petty scored 12 each. Athan Hicks added 11. Murray County (18-7) may still qualify for the Class AAA state tournament as an at-large team, but the Indians will finish outside the region’s four automatic qualifiers. Sixth-seed Adairsville (12-14) advances to the region semifinals Friday at North Murray High School against second-seeded Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe at 5:30 p.m. The region finals and third place games will also be at North Murray Saturday. KELL 74, CASS BOYS 52 Two nights after earning a state tournament berth with a win over Villa Rica, the Cass boys lost Thursday night to Region 7-AAAAA top-seeded Kell Longhorns 74-52 at Carrollton High School. 4th-ranked Kell took control early, leading 19-4 after one quarter and 39-18 by halftime. Colonels’ head coach Sean Glaze said his squad played a “sloppy game” and committed 27 turnovers. Cass played the Longhorns even in the second half for the most part, but the damage had been down as Kell cruised to a 22-point decision. Eleven different Longhorns scored in their win paced by Jaywon Brown with 17 and Ty Clark with 10 points. Zay Jackson and Zaylan Chaney led Cass with 12 and 11 points, respectively. Jaquan Heard, C.J. Pipkin, and Jackson Hale contributed four points each. Jelani Hames and Andrew Glaze scored three apiece. Ethan McIntyre and Alfred Washington added two points each for the Colonels. Kell improved to 23-4 on the season and will play for the Region 7-AAAAA title Friday night at Carrollton against Hiram. Cass (15-12) will play for third place Friday at 5:30 in Carrollton against Paulding County.

After reaching the Region 5AAAA quarterfinals with a play-in game win over LaGrange Monday night, the Cartersville girls were stopped Wednesday evening by host and third-seeded Sandy Creek, 44-28. “We battled and competed,” said Lady Canes coach Cindy Moore, “but we struggled to score — especially in the first half.” Sandy Creek led 8-7 after one quarter and took a 22-11 lead to the locker room at halftime. The Lady Patriots extended their lead to 33-20 heading into the fourth quarter. Arielle Belinga led all scorers and Sandy Creek with 16 points. Daija Powell and Jania Hodges followed with 12 and nine points for the Patriots. Cartersville was led by Ariana Cochran with 11 points and eight rebounds. Miya Moore scored five. Kierra Milline and Cio Seigler had three points apiece. Naijah Evans, Campbell Rogers, and Sequoya McConnell added two points each. The Lady Canes season ends with an 11-15 record.

Former Woodland High School football standout, Kenny Baker, is the new defensive ends coach at Western Kentucky. The news was released by Elliott Pratt, the WKU beat writer for the Bowling Green Daily News. Baker was the defensive line coach at UT-Chattanooga last season. He replaces Jimmy Lindsey, who served as the Hilltoppers defensive ends coach the last three seasons before leaving for the same position at Illinois. Baker, a Cartersville, Ga., native, coached five seasons at Mercer before his one season with the Chattanooga Mocs. He worked one season at Berry College as co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach in 2013 and coached at Lakeside High School in Augusta, Ga., three seasons prior to that. He lettered three seasons on the defensive line at Gardner-Webb from 2005-08 during his college career.

The Cartersville boys had their 2019-20 season come to a close Wednesday night with a Region 5AAAA quarterfinal loss to Troup County, 73-59. The game was played at LaGrange High School. Fourth-seeded Troup grabbed a 19-12 lead after the opening eight minutes Wednesday evening and the Tigers extended their lead to 41-25 by halftime. Troup maintained that lead at 58-42 by the end of the third quarter. K.J. Tucker led the Tigers with a 20-point effort. Isaiah Cox followed with 12 points for Troup. Cartersville, the tournament's fifth-seed, was led by Micah Tart and Marko Dudley with 12 points each. Amarai Orr tossed in eight points. Kyler Johnson and Robert Novak chipped in four. Brynen Wilkins scored three and Marquail Coaxum added two for the Hurricanes. Troup (12-11) advances to the region tournament semifinals Friday at Sandy Creek against the top-seeded hosts. The Canes season ends with an 8-13 mark.

Georgia Highlands baseball swept a doubleheader Wednesday at LakePoint by defeating the Tennessee Wesleyan JV 9-0 and 11-1. Pitchers Jacob Ryan (5 IP, 0R, 1H, 1BB, 10K), Hunter Moody (1 IP, 0R, 1H, 1K), and Mason List (1 IP, 0R, 1H, 3K) combined for the first game shutout. Max Kops doubled twice for the Chargers and drove in one run. David Smith also had two hits, including a triple, with one RBI. Gavin Harmon drove in a pair of runs. In the second win, GHC pitchers Chase Townsend (3 IP, 1ER, 3H, 2BB, 4K), Griffin Brown (1 IP, 0R, 1BB, 3K), and Ryan Smithson (1 IP, 0R, 0BB, 2K) limited Tennessee Wesleyan to only three hits and a single earned run. Trace Twardoski hit a first inning grand slam to set the tone for the Chargers. He finished with a pair of hits and five RBI. Kops had a pair of hits and a two-run home run and Mickey Maguire drove in a run with a pair of doubles. Colton Dalton hit a solo home run in the first inning for the only Tennessee Wesleyan run of the day. Georgia Highlands (5-0) will host a three-game series with Volunteer State CC Friday and Saturday at LakePoint. Friday’s doubleheader will start at 2 p.m. Game 3 is set for 1 p.m. Saturday.

With Woodland's release Wednesday, all four local high schools have now released their 2020 high school football schedules. The schools have also released their pre-season scrimmage dates. Woodland will travel to Model for a pre-season scrimmage on August 7. Adairsville will square off with Coosa on August 14 but the site has yet to be determined by the two schools. Cass will host Pepperell in a scrimmage on August 14 and Cartersville will travel to Dalton to scrimmage the Catamounts -- also on August 14. The 10-game regular season schedules will begin for all four local programs on August 21. Adairsville will have a pair of non-region regular season games while Cartersville, Cass, and Woodland will each play five regular season games before they begin region action. Adairsville's region slate begins September 11 when the Tigers host Murray County. Cartersville, Cass, and Woodland will each play in the same region and their league games will be played during the five Fridays in October.

The Cass boys soccer team opened the 2020 season Tuesday night at home with an impressive 2-1 win over preseason, Class AAAA state-ranked Southeast Whitfield. The Colonels' Alex Cabanas and Magno Moreno scored the two Cass goals, but according to the Cass coaches, it was the team's discipline without the ball that was a deciding factor in the game. Cass (1-0) plays at Dalton Friday night.

The Cass girls soccer team opened the 2020 regular season Tuesday night at home but came up short in a 4-3 non-region loss to Southeast Whitfield. Junior Michelle Escobar scored a pair of goals while classmate Leidi Toribio scored the other Lady Colonels' goal and added an assist. Fellow juniors Meli Reyes and Victoria Torres contributed one assist each. Cass (0-1) will look to bounce back Friday when the Lady Colonels travel to Dalton.

The Adairsville Tigers won a second round matchup at the Region 6-AAA Tournament at North Murray High School Tuesday night, defeating Coahulla Creek 57-34. T.J. Printup led Adairsville with 16 points. Tucker Deams followed with 10 and Savaun Henderson scored nine. William Longmire and Jaxon Welchel chipped in with six points each. Malachi Gardner posted five. Hayden Poarch scored four and Courtney Slocum added one point for the Tigers. Adairsville led 18-9 after the opening eight minutes and held a 33-17 advantage at halftime. The Tigers maintained a 43-27 lead through three quarters as they advanced with a 23-point win. Coahulla Creek, led by Barrett Barbre’s nine points, finished its season with a 9-16 record. Adairsville (11-14) advances to a quarterfinal round game against Murray County Thursday at 5:30 p.m. back at North Murray High School.