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Houston County 31, Brookwood 24
The season got off to quite the start for Houston County, with Jordan Smith returning the season-opening kickoff 95 yards. Ryan Maxwell’s 35-yard pass to MJ Mathis gave the Bears a 14-7 lead early in the second quarter, Brookwood tying it just before halftime. Maxwell was 10 of 13 for 116 yards in the first half of his Houston County debut. Houston County’s next two touchdowns were answer by Brookwood, and it was tied at 24 with 8:35 left. Defensive standout Jase Jordan had 19 tackles, and enough energy to get open down the right side and take in Maxwell’s 17-yard pass for the game-winner with 7 seconds left.

Our game winning touchdown! https://t.co/HpnPr3eR9e pic.twitter.com/PjzDD0cJfK
— Corky Kell + Dave Hunter Classic (@CorkyKell) August 16, 2025

Johnson County 27, East Laurens 21
Weather pushed the game to Saturday night.

Eagle’s Landing 20, Northside 14
The Eagles scored two straight touchdowns – a TD pass from Wyatt Henson to J.D. Garman and to Braylon Price- in the third quarter after giving up a pick-6 to lead led 14-0. But Eagle’s Landing got within 2 late in the third quarter and took the lead with 4:30 left in the game. Northside drove late, but a run up the middle on fourth and 2 at the 28 with less than a minute left was stopped. The loss spoiled a day of celebration with Northside honoring legendary head coach Conrad Nix, retiring No. 1 in his honors, with dozens and dozens of Eagle football alumni on hand.

(Photos below by Karen Dimsdale Swofford and Jennifer Coleman Jackson)

Piedmont 20, Thomas Jefferson 12
Weather pushed the game to Saturday afternoon

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Camden County 10, Westfield 9; Westfield 5, Citizens Christian 0, 5 inn.
Big Camden County outscored Westfield 2-1 in the sixth to win it, aided by 4 Westfield errors. Madeline Katz, Addison Happell, Savannah Scarisbrick each had 2 hits for the GIAA Hornets, who led 8-5 after 3. Camilla Bloodworth sat down 11 hitters in a second-game 5-inning no-hitter. L Hair drove in 2 for the Hornets.

Crawford County 3, Crisp County 0
The Eagles played small ball and took advantage of 3 Crisp County errors. Makenzie O’Neal had 2 of the Eagles’ 6 hits, and struck out 5 in 4 innings..

ECI 8, Peach County 5; Clinch County 12, Peach County 8, 5 inn.
Peach County pulled with 1 with 3 in the third, but ECI pulled away with 4 in the sixth, the Trojans turned in a whopping 8-error game. Only 2 of ECI’s runs were earned. Clinch County took a 9-2 lead after 2 in the nightcap.

FPD 4, Centennial 0; FPD 8, Taylor County 0
Gracyn Fuller whiffed 14 on a one-hitter in six innings to lead the Vikings in the opener. Mallie Moughon and Emma Morgan each had 2 hits for the Vikings Lyric Jones driving in 2 runs. Fuller drove in 4 runs and belted a pair of homers in the nightcap, turning in another stellar pitching performance with 12 strikeouts and another one-hitter, in 5 innings. She had 2 of FPD’s 5 hits.

Houston County 5, Ola 2; Houston County 6, Colquitt County 5, 12 inn.
Lily Brzezicki had 2 hits to lead the bears in the opener. Kamille Evans and Allie Hutto combined on the mount, surviving 7 walks. Armani Frazier singled in Alanah McKenzie with the winning run in the second game. It was 1-1 after 7 innings, Colquitt County scoring 2 in the top of the 10th only for Kendall Carswell to tie it with a double in the bottom half. They traded runs in the 11th. Brzezicki was on second in the bottom of the 12th and moved up on a sacrifice bunt onwhich McKenzie reached. Two outs later, Brzezicki came in on Felicity Curtis’ single, Frazier following up with the game-winning hit three pitches later.

Jones County 17, Crawford County 2, 5 inn.; Jones County 5, Dodge County 1
Jones County ended it early with 7 runs in the fifth, outhitting the Eagles 15-6 and taking advantage of 10 walks. Myah Briscoe and Raylee Harris each had 2 hits. Cate Downey was efficient in the circle in the nightcap, the Greyhounds getting 2 hits from Brisco, Kadi Sargent.

Liberty County 12, Northside 3; Northside 9, Liberty County 1
The Eagle pulled away with 3 in the third and 4 in the fourth, winning despite 5 errors, 1 more than Liberty County in the nightcap. A Washington had 3 hits, with 2-hit games from Madi Burch, Kadence Cooley, and Alyssa Hoffmeister.

Tattnall 4, Harris County 2; Tattnall 1, Strong Rock 1
The Trojans scored 3 in the bottom of the sixth to get the win, getting two-out RBI hits from Abigayle Baugh and Bryton Tarver, and a groundout RBI from Callie Still.

Taylor County 6, Camden County 0
Victoria Cooper struck out seven and walked 5 in the 1-hit shutout Summer Searcy and Emily Hobbs each had 2 hits for the Vikings.

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Atlanta 10, Cleveland 1

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Colorado 3, Atlanta 1

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Alumni Update

Perry’s Davion Ross playing with the Titans
The former Panther was 100 miles or so from home on Friday night when the Titans visited Atlanta.

Around/About Central Georgia

Henley maintains at BMW

The BMW Championship’s suspense has dropped a good bit, mainly if anybody can chase down Robert MacIntrye.

The race is more for a top-5 finish, and Russell Henley is part of that competition, 10 players three shots apart after the top three.

Henley’s second straight 68 has him tied for 11th, with a 5-under 205, three back of a pair tied for fourth at 8 under.

MacIntyre is up four shots on Scottie Scheffler, who is two ahead of Ludvig Aberg, who is two ahead of that big group starting at 8 under.

It wasn’t necessarily a smooth round for Henley.

Henley was rolling along, with four birdies on the front nine. He almost erased that with three bogeys in four holes on the back nine, saving that portion of the day with a birdie on 15.

On two of the bogeys, he went from the intermediate off the tee to a rough. On the third, he two-putted a par 3.

He tees off at 12:29 p.m. on Sunday, with Corey Conners.

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