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DEL.ICIO.USTwo state volley champs on tap?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Don’t look now, but it could be that the county winds up with two state champions in volleyball. McIntosh and Starr’s Mill fill half the state semifinals bracket in Class AAAA (Starr’s Mill faces St. Pius, while McIntosh takes on Woodward Academy), and Sandy Creek, behind hitter Olmpia Haney, faces Westminster in AAA.
LOOKIN’ FOR HISTORY
If Fayette County beats McIntosh Friday, and says here they will, the Tigers will claim the Region 2-AAAA championship. According to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association, it will be their first ever, and it’s been a long wait for the county’s oldest school.
SEE-SAW EFFECT
Starr’s Mill has alternated losses and wins since football season began, but their end of the seesaw will stay up this week against Northgate, which has been shut out four times and has lost seven straight.
GAME OF THE WEEK
Whitewater at Woodward Academy — 7:30 p.m. Fri.
RECORDS: Whitewater 6-2, 5-1 Region 2-AAAA; Woodward Academy 4-5, 3-4.
COACHES: Whitewater, Amos McCreary (102-47); Woodward, Mark Miller (15-14)
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Whitewater — FB Collin Wooddy (Sr., 6-1.210), CB Chris Asbury (Sr., 5-9, 175), DE Thomas Richard (Jr., 6-1, 200).
LAST YEAR: Woodward won, 17-12.
LAST WEEK: Whitewater was off; Woodward lost to Starr’s Mill, 28-12.
THE SKINNY: The Wildcats have shaken off a 1-2 start and won five straight, during which time they’ve allowed just 34 points, and now appear headed for the second-place spot in 2-AAAA. Woodward is trying to avoid its second losing season in three years, but Whitewater’s defense likely will be the difference; only one team, Newnan in the season opener, has scored more than two touchdowns against the Wildcats.
PREDICTION: Whitewater, 31-9.
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