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Friday, August 22, 2008
Tropical Storm postpones Bainbridge-Cairo game
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tropical Storm Fay has forced the postponement of Saturday’s football game between Cairo and Bainbridge in South Georgia.
‘’We’re sitting down here now with about 50 mph winds and power out in half of our town, and they say it’s going to continue through tomorrow night,” Cairo coach Tom Fallaw said Friday evening about an hour after the decision was made. “We can’t load up the buses with kids in that weather.”
Cairo is ranked No. 1 in Class AAA. Bainbridge is No. 8 in Class AAAA. The makeup game will be Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Bainbridge.
There are six other games schedule for Saturday, all in North Georgia, and all are on as scheduled.
They include the four Corky Kell Classic games in the Georgia Dome. East Hall is playing at Murray County, and North Cobb Christian is playing Mount Pisgah Christian at Allatoona High in Cobb County.
With the postponement, Bainbridge now must play two games in one week. The school’s game with Early County next week has been moved to Aug. 30 from Aug. 29 to give the players more time to recover.
