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Region 1 still rules in Class AAAAAA
The Region 1 reign over Class AAAAAA continues for another year. Lee County became the third team from the region in four years to win the championship in the second-largest classification when it beat...
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National rankings: North Gwinnett, Rome finish as top Georgia teams
North Gwinnett players make their way onto the field before during a GHSA high school football AAAAAAA second round playoff game on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Ga....
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Boys, girls teams to watch as region play begins to heat up
The departures of Miller Grove and Southwest DeKalb to Class AAAAA before the start of the 2016-17 school year opened the door for some fresh faces on the basketball champions’ podium in the state’s...
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Top girls, boys players to watch this season
The University of Connecticut has reached into Georgia and signed one of the state’s premier girls basketball players for the second consecutive season. Last year, it was Mikayla Coombs, who was named...
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How the boys, girls teams stand as new year begins
With the holiday tournaments behind them and the school break complete, Class AAAAAA basketball teams have turned their attention this week to the heart of the schedule. No team, boys or girls, made it...
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Girls basketball rankings: Defending champs Buford, Laney start 2018 at No. 1
Two defending state champions are ranked No. 1 in their classifications in the first AJC girls basketball rankings of 2018. Class AA Laney, the champion in 2017, is the only undefeated top-ranked team...
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Gainesville boys team finally rolling after 3-6 start
The Gainesville boys basketball team, which went 28-2 last season and lost to eventual state champion Hughes by three points in the quarterfinals, finally has things rolling again. The Red Elephants...
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Lovett’s Brown bounces back from torn ACL to have standout senior season
Lovett’s Jenna Brown (54) and teammates listen to coach Liz Kennedy during a timeout in the Lions’ 53-25 victory Tuesday. Jenna Brown emerged from the visitors’ locker room Tuesday after Lovett’s game...
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First place at stake this weekend for Region 4 girls, Region 5 boys
Region 4 has made its claim as the toughest girls basketball region in Class AAAAAA with four teams – No. 1 Lovejoy, No. 6 Forest Park, No. 9 Tucker and No. 10 Stephenson – ranked in the top 10 and...
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Girls basketball rankings: Greenville is new No. 1 in Class A public
Greenville is the new No. 1 girls basketball team in the Class A public-school division after Telfair County, the previous No. 1, lost to Wilcox County on Saturday. Greenville, led by state...
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No. 1 Hughes boys, three ranked girls teams start week with a loss
It was a rough start to the week for ranked boys and girls Class AAAAAA basketball teams as four of the six that played on Monday came away with losses. All three top-10 girls teams that played – No. 2...
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Weekend preview: No. 8 Jonesboro boys headed for test at Peachtree Corners...
Jonesboro’s boys basketball team will be the Class AAAAAA representative at the Peachtree Corners Invitational when it takes on Ben Smith of North Carolina at 4 p.m. Saturday at Norcross High School....
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Girls basketball rankings: Shortened schedule produces few major changes
There were few major changes in the girls basketball rankings after a week in which a significant portion of the schedule, particularly in the northern part of the state, was wiped because of the icy...
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How teams stand heading down the home stretch
The fight for seeding in the boys and girls basketball region tournaments is nearing its conclusion, with the end of the regular season less than two weeks away. Class AAAAAA teams will be busy heading...
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Races tight in Regions 4, 5 and 8
There is a logjam at the top of both the boys and girls basketball standings in Region 8-AAAAAA, and how those races shake out will depend in large part on how Dacula’s teams fare this weekend when...
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Girls basketball rankings: Laney, Franklin County unbeaten heading into home...
Laney and Franklin County are the only remaining unbeaten girls basketball teams in the state heading into the final weekend of the regular season. Laney, the defending champion in Class AA, maintained...
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Teams that could surprise in the postseason
It’s not always the highly ranked or highly regarded teams that make the deepest postseason runs. Last year, for example, the Mays girls team won the Class AAAAAA basketball championship despite being...
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McEachern girls gearing up for run at fifth consecutive state title
McEachern coach Phyllis Arthur talks to her team during a timeout in their 62-29 victory over Kennesaw Mountain on Tuesday (Jan. 30, 2018). The McEachern girls basketball team appears to be hitting its...
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Pebblebrook boys beat Wheeler 75-64, clinch top seed in region tournament
Fourth-ranked Pebblebrook outscored No. 8 Wheeler 17-6 in the game’s final 4:50 Friday at the Cobb Civic Center, holding the Wildcats to one field goal in that stretch, for a 75-64 victory that...
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Girls basketball rankings: Class AAA’s GAC loses, but all eight No. 1 teams...
All eight No. 1-ranked girls basketball teams held on to their top spots after the final weekend of the regular season, despite Class AAA’s Greater Atlanta Christian suffering a 23-point loss on...
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