The GHSA Soccer playoffs kicked off tonight with the girls in the 7A, 5A, 3A, A-Public and A-Private classifications. The remaining classifications will play out their first-round games on Thursday with the boys teams playing tomorrow and Friday. The lacrosse season also continues with a few teams getting in their last games before the postseason which begins on May 1st.
On the soccer pitch, Class AAAAAAA defending champs Parkview handed the Mill Creek Hawks a 5-1 loss to push the Panthers through to the sweet sixteen. At the eight-minute mark, sophomore Narissa Gaither crossed in a corner kick towards junior Nieva Gaither for the Panthers’ first goal of the match. Up by one, Parkview refused to let off the gas as junior Kendra Davis found the back of the net during the 14 and 15-minute marks to increase Parkview’s lead to 3. The Hawks managed to capitalize on a free-kick with a goal but would fail to put points on the board for the rest of the match. With almost five minutes remaining in the first half, Davis found Molly Hickman and crossed her the ball to set up the Panther’s fourth goal of the half. A hard strike from Narissa Gaither with 15 minutes left in the game gave the sophomore her second goal of the night and put the game away.
Parkview now advances into the second round where the Panthers will be matched up against Milton as they search for their tenth state title in school history.
Tuesday Spring Scores
Girls Soccer
Athens Academy 4, Calvary Day 0
Atlanta Classical Academy 9, Crawford County 0
Brookwood 2, Mountain View 1
Buford 10, Cross Keys 0
Calhoun 2, North Hall 0
Chamblee 5, Walnut Grove 1
Crisp County 6, Central-Macon 0
Dawson County 7, Sonoraville 0
Decatur 3, East Paulding 0
Eagles Landing Christian 5, Brookstone 0
East Coweta 5, North Paulding 1
First Presbyterian 6, Trinity Christian 0
Georgia Military 10, Dooly County 0
Greater Atlanta Christian 7, Coahulla Creek 0
Hillgrove 2, Newnan 0
Islands 9, Tattnall County 1
Jackson 4, Worth County 3
Jackson County 10, Stone Mountain 0
Jefferson 1, Pace Academy 0
Johnson-Gainesville 9, Clarkston 0
Lake Oconee Academy 1, Drew Charter 0
Lakeview Academy 5, Savannah Country Day 4
Locust Grove 5, Harris County 0
Loganville 3, Arabia Mountain 1
Lovett 8, Morgan County 0
Lumpkin County 4, Adairsville 1
Milton 1, Archer 0
North Gwinnett 1, Lakeside-DeKalb 0
Paideia 1, Walker 0
Parkview 5, Mill Creek 1
Pierce County 3, Windsor Forest 1
Pike County 14, Monroe 0
Pinecrest Academy 3, Whitefield Academy 1
Riverwood 4, Rome 3
Rockdale County 4, Forsyth Central 3
Roswell 5, Tift County 0
Savannah Arts 7, Liberty County 0
South Effingham 2, Fayette County 1
Southeast Bulloch 5, Long County 1
Starr's Mill 5, Ware County 0
Towns County 6, Bowdon 0
Treutlen 2, Echols County 0
Trion 3, Lincoln County 2
Veterans 7, Jones County 1
Walton 3, Lowndes 0
Warner Robins 2, Eagles Landing 1
Wesleyan 5, Mt. Pisgah Christian 0
West Forsyth 5, Grayson 1
Westminster 10, East Jackson 0
Whitewater 2, Statesboro 0
Boys Lacrosse
Alpharetta 19, Lakeside-DeKalb 2
Johns Creek 16, Marist 8
Lambert 10, Greater Atlanta Christian 1
Lassiter 19, Kennesaw Mountain 4
Lovett 8, Allatoona 7
McIntosh 13, Decatur 10
Mountain View 19, Dacula 1
Mt. de Sales 12, Stratford Academy 10
Newnan 15, Eagles Landing Christian 2
Roswell 20, Riverside Military 0
Walton 15, Mill Creek 14
Wesleyan 11, Holy Innocents' 5
Girls Lacrosse
Cambridge 16, Chattahoochee 15
Columbus 22, Fayette County 3
Denmark 17, North Springs 2
East Paulding 13, River Ridge 3
Holy Innocents' 18, Riverwood 4
Johns Creek 12, Centennial 10
Lakeside-Evans 12, Greenbrier 10
Lambert 18, Sequoyah 6
North Cobb 17, McEachern 3
North Gwinnett 11, Grayson 3
Pope 12, Northview 8
Starr's Mill 17, Hillgrove 13
Walker 13, Carrollton 8
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