FRIDAY NIGHT SCOREBOARD: Feb. 13, 2026

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The GIAA’s region 2-AA tournament wrapped up with a Trinity win and loss in Sandersville, where next week’s GHSA 2-High A championship hunt is now headed after Washington County’s girls clinched the top seed in the bracket outright with a win, and East Laurens loss across town in Macon, that helped put the midstate’s final load of regular-season hay in the barn Friday night.

Full coverage will follow early next week in print and here at courierheraldtoday.com/sports, where you can stay up to date on next week’s local postseason action in The Courier Herald’s Region Tournament Central, but for now, here’s a glance at how things in each of those games played out…

DRIVING HOME THE ~~DAGGER~~ JAGGER: Jagger George knocks down a floating 12-footer in the short corner, after getting the ball via handoff screen from Jude Evans, to finish converting a Windsor technical foul into the four-point swing that got the Crusaders’ lead up to 12 with only a few minutes to go in the fourth quarter of their win to claim third place/CLAY REYNOLDS

2-AA Consolation: Trinity boys 56, Windsor 43

A strong finish to the third quarter, and start to the fourth, worked out a 29-18 second-half advantage as the Crusaders secured a valuable and likely playoff-clinching win, although word of their postseason fate will come when GIAA brackets are released on Monday. Jagger George led Trinity with 23. Will Foskey and Kolbi Grooms added 14 points each.

BRENTWOOD, BACK-TO-BACK: Brentwood’s Bailey Barron (5) and Cadence English (34) bring the region 2-AA championship trophy back to their teammates from the postgame presentation, via Eagle AD Adam Lord (foreground), after defeating Trinity soundly to secure it for a second year in a row/CLAY REYNOLDS

2-AA Championship: Brentwood 60, Trinity 45

Cadence English went off for 27 points as the Lady Eagles took round 3 of the rivals’ regular-season series with the much sharper shooting night on their home court. Trinity was held to a single 3-pointer by Chloe Rozier in the fourth quarter, and left a ton of make-able baskets, plus eight out of its 14 free throws, on the table. Defense, and a massive step up in the middle quarters by Brinley Vinson to score 23, helped the Lady Crusaders claw back from what was a 14-point deficit early in the first quarter. They’d work it back to three in the first few minutes of the third quarter, but never hit the run they needed to to surge in front. Brentwood slowly built its lead back to the final margin with 19 points in the fourth period.

BATTLE OF THE B’s: Trinity’s Brinley Vinson (21) goes up for a third-quarter basket against Brentwood center Bailey Barron (5). Their matchup over four quarters was a focal point of Friday’s region title game, in which the Lady Eagles had few answers for Vinson’s play in the post, though the Lady Crusaders had just as much of an issue on the other end keeping Barron off the glass/CLAY REYNOLDS

Northeast Macon 61, East Laurens girls 59

The Lady Falcons were down to only eight players, and out a couple of starters, after receiving news from the GHSA of suspensions for five players involved in the altercation that broke out at the end of their home win over Central Tuesday night. Despite the shorthanded squad, they were right in it most of the way, and up by two at the half before a 20-9 third quarter by Northeast flipped the game on its head. East never truly got back in it, as deficits of 4-5 lingered until a free-throw putback by Deanna Lowther with a few seconds to go cut the final number to two. Though the question was made moot by a 49-34 WACO win at ACE, Friday’s loss ended any long shot that remained of the Lady Falcons taking sole possession of first and hosting the region tournament. They will still advance directly to the semifinals as the No. 2 team when the final two rounds are held next week in Sandersville.

East Laurens boys 91, Northeast Macon 51

After a run to build up a 10-point lead by the half, the Falcons broke free with 29 against Northeast’s 15 in the third, and cruised to a third victory in a row to keep alive their shot at also reaching into the 2-High A boys’ top two. Dodge County helped them out by dropping a 41-40 heartbreaker to Bleckley Friday that will re-establish a tie between the teams for second behind ironclad No. 1 Southwest Macon.

Central Macon 42, Dublin girls 34

Friday’s unpleasant third quarter turned a one-point Lady Irish lead at the half into a gap of 12 that, given the low-scoring nature of the whole night, was going to be too wide to bridge in the final eight minutes. Though Dublin’s fortunes improved on the offensive end, the closest it would be able to get in the chase was the final eight points.

Central 55, Dublin boys 48

Two key free throw misses by the Chargers left a crack in the door as Dublin trailed three with a few seconds to go. Chris Dixon went the length to drain a 3-point rattler on the run as time expired, tying the game at 46 and forcing overtime. But the Irish would be blanked after answering an early Central bucket with a QuanTavis Lovett tip-back, and the home team scored the last seven of the extra period to pull out the win.