Cartersville - If there was ever a way to get a Friday night football up and going, and the crowd into it, the Rockmart Yellow Jackets and the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes did just that. And whi...
Greater Rome prep football capsules
Teams: No. 7 Pepperell (1-0) at Cedartown (1-0) Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. Series History: Cedartown leads 11-10-1 Last Meeting: 12-9, Cedartown, Aug. 31, 2007 Players to watch: Pepperell: QB Jonathan Wa...
Perfect!: Hitchcock, Monroe flawless in victories
Rockmart’s Hannah Hitchcock and Calhoun’s Maddie Monroe both recorded perfect games Thursday. The difference was Hitchcock had to work a good bit longer for hers. Hitchcock fanned 13 batters over ...
Opening curtain rises with fanfare
The opening night of the high school football season essentially had it all. Friday’s slate featured a handful of thrillers, a couple of big upsets, some dominating defensive performances and an a...
Cedartown 'raids the Rock' 21-12
ROCKMART – The Cedartown Bulldogs are the Polk County champions. The Bulldogs used 271 yards rushing to help propel themselves to a 21-12 win over their archrival Rock-mart Yellow Jackets to bec...
Cedartown headed to Rockmart for The Battle of Polk County
It is the historical battle between the opposite sides of Polk County with no buffer zone in between and emotions run deep at every meeting. As far as continuous long-standing rivalries go in Grea...
Greater Rome Prep Football Capsules
Rome (10-2-1) at East Paulding (12-1) TIME : 7:30 p.m. OUTLOOK : This is a rematch of the 2006 second-round playoff game, when the Raiders downed Rome at Barron Stadium on their way to the Georg...
Twice as perfect: Wiggins, Monroe both toss perfect games
The weather was less than perfect for high school softball teams earlier this week, with the remnants of Hurricane Fay washing out the scheduled games. Perfection, however, prevailed Thursday afte...