H.S Notebook: Tattnall baseball, pair pick up honors; AD moves at Dooly County and Baldwin

By Michael A. Lough

The Sports Report

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          Luke Laskey was of huge impact in Tattnall's state championship baseball season, and a national honor has come with that.

          Laskey earned Maxpreps small-school first-team All-America honors, and he was joined by former teammate and current pro Logan Kendall Simmons on the first team.

          Benedictine's Garrison Gunby, Lovet's Ben O'Meara, and Gordon Lee's Dylan Minghini also made the first or second team.

          Maxpreps also ranked Tattnall as the No. 2 small-school team in the nation, after Center Moriches of New York.

          Small schools are those under 1,000 in enrollment.

          Cartersville, North Oconee, Loganville, Heritage, Blessed Trinity, Brookwood, Grayson, Pope, Jefferson, and Parkview also had teams and/or players honored by Maxpreps.

          Laskey also picked up second-team All-American honors recently by Collegiate Baseball magazine. He was 13-1 with a sub-1.21 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 81.1 innings.

          There were six Georgians on the first team and six on the second team, with four overall from Loganville.

          Laskey was also named the Georgia Dugout Preview Class A Private player of the year last month.

          Former Tattnall standout and current employee of the Philadelphia Phillies Logan Simmons was named recently to the USA Today All-Georgia first team.

Dooly County's Hughes heads to Crisp County

          The summer camp circuit awaits, and the first high school football practice is in less than two months.

          And Dooly County is looking for a head football coach with the recent move of head coach and athletics director Jimmy Hughes to Crisp County.

          Hughes was approved in early June by the Crisp County Board of Education.

          Hughes spent eight seasons at Dooly County and his only losing season was the final one, 5-7. The Bobcats were 3-2 in Region 4-A/B play and won a game in the playoffs.

          That was Dooly County's first losing season 2008.

          Hughes went 6-24 in three seasons at Monticello before moving to Dooly County in 2010.

Baldwin promotes Ricks to AD

          Dexter Ricks will be a busy man when school starts.

          The Baldwin track and cross country coach added the title and duties of athletics director last month, as approved by the Baldwin County Board of Education. He was also on the football staff last season.

          The West Laurens grad succeeds Henry Hankerson, who resigned in the spring after an arrest connected to animal cruelty charges at his home near Vidalia. Hankerson had been in the position for less than two years.

          Ricks will continue to coach cross country and boys track.

          Baldwin entered the summer looking for a baseball coach and girls soccer coach.