Report: GHSA fines Dougherty basketball, forces forfeits

The Georgia High School Association has fined Dougherty High School $750 due to residency issues involving a student-athlete, the Albany Herald reported Monday.

Dougherty also will have to forfeit 16 boys basketball games in which the player participated. Assistant Superintendent for Support Services Jack Willis told the paper the player’s family did not accurately fill out the transfer application, allegedly using a fake address and failing to acknowledge that the student would participate in athletics.

The Herald’s report did not name the student in question. Any game the student participated in prior to Jan. 13 will have to be forfeited.

“It’s a big blow for our program,” Dougherty High School athletic director Harley Calhoun told the Herald. “But we have to pick ourselves up and keep moving forward.”

Dougherty began the week at 9-12 and 4-8 in Region 1-AAAA.

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