Lassiter has opened the 2015 season with victories over reigning region champions Hillgrove (4-AAAAAA) and Kell (7-AAAAA). That's a remarkable feat, but not as rare as one might think. Below are the 26 teams that have beaten defending Georgia region champions in their first two games. Two of them (2013 Coffee and 2014 Westminster) went on to beat a third straight defending region champion. Lassiter has one more defending region champion on its schedule. That would be Milton of 5-AAAAAA on Sept. 11.
2015 Lassiter
Hillgrove, Kell
2014 Milton
Alpharetta, Norcross
2014 Westminster
Lovett, Laney, Elbert County
2013 Coffee
Whitewater, Ware County, Burke County
2012 West Forsyth
Gainesville, Flowery Branch
2007 Baldwin
Washington Co., Jefferson Co.
2006 Douglass
Grady, Westlake
2004 North Gwinnett
South Gwinnett, Chattahoochee
2002 Dublin
Jones Co., Washington Co.
2002 Early County
Miller County, Cairo
1998 Early County
Thomasville, Miller County
1997 Darlington
Mount Zion, Lovett
1997 Heard County
Bremen, Bowdon
1996 Elbert County
Hart County, Wash.-Wilkes
1994 Washington-Wilkes
Lincoln County, Thomson
1985 Crisp County
Worth County, Dooly County
1984 Clarke Central
Fulton, Tift County
1983 Clarke Central
Griffin, Warner Robins
1982 Roswell
Buford, Collins
1980 Cairo
Americus, Mitchell County
1979 Camden County
Ware County, Charlton County
1974 Gordon
East Rome, Woodward Acad.
1969 Gainesville
St. Pius, Athens
1961 Washington-Wilkes
Lincolnton, Jenkins County
1958 Albany
Benedictine, Columbus
1955 Putnam County
Sparta, Hawkinsville
Sources: Loren Maxwell and GHSFHA
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