Three West Laurens products are making some postseason noise as part of a red-hot Georgia College baseball team that's won nine straight games on its way to the NCAA Super Regionals this weekend.
As she looks forward to graduation next weekend, and playing softball at South Carolina's Columbia College this fall, East Laurens senior Madison Cheek will also be looking back on a storied multi-sport career in high school that featured numerous accomplishments on the softball and soccer fields, plus some history as the school's first-ever female athlete to play varsity football.
The April signings of striker Madison Johnson and defender Anna Bethea made the region champion East Laurens girls soccer team 4-for-4 on college commitments for members of its 2024 senior class.
For a second-straight year, Trinity's boys soccer team was left with an unpleasant taste after coming up just short of Westminster Christian in the GIAA state finals.
Trinity's girls soccer team came up empty Wednesday night in the first of this week's two rematches between the Crusaders and Westminster, of Watkinsville, from last year's AA state title games. The Trinity boys will get their second shot at the Lions come Saturday, when they take the field at Stratford in the GIAA state title match.
More than 30 athletes from Dublin, East Laurens and West Laurens advanced to compete in this weekend's GHSA state track and field championships with top finishes at sectional meets in East Dublin and Milledgeville last Saturday.
A stormy Saturday competing at the GHSA bass fishing state championship tournament on Clarks Hill Lake couldn't have gone better for West Laurens' J.T. Brooks and Ryan Soles, who brought in a monster catch and finished first to give the Raiders a state title in their program's first year.
Despite a dominant 9-0 shutout of Gatewood in the GIAA semifinals Tuesday night, Trinity Christian's top-seeded boys soccer team knows it will need a stronger performance in order to defeat either of two teams it could face in Saturday's state championship match.
A top catch by two West Laurens anglers helped the team win the GHSA state bass fishing championship last Saturday.
