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2 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Here are the first- and second-round matchups for the GHSA boys lacrosse playoffs.
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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Here are the matchups for the first round of the GHSA baseball playoffs. Play begins Wednesday night with games in classes 6A, 5A, 4A and A Division II. In each of the five rounds, teams will meet in a best-of-three series, with a doubleheader on the first day and an if-necessary game on the second.
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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Here are the matchups for the first round of the GHSA boys soccer playoffs. Play begins Wednesday night with games in classes 6A, 5A, 4A and A Division II.
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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Here are the matchups and scores from the first round of the GHSA boys tennis tournament. Play began last week with a limited schedule, and all matches are expected to be completed by Thursday.
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3 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Junior Maggie Jenkins hit a three-run homer with one out in the top of the seventh inning to lead Richmond Hill to an 8-6 victory over West Laurens in the championship game of the GHSA all-classification slow-pitch softball tournament Thursday at the Twin Creeks Softball Complex in Woodstock. This was the Wildcats’ first championship in a sport that has fallen to just 22 teams in Georgia, putting its future in jeopardy.
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4 weeks ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Sixteen teams will compete for a state title in the all-classification, double-elimination GHSA slow-pitch softball championship tournament Wednesday and Thursday at the Twin Creeks Softball Complex in Woodstock. Four first-round games at 11 a.m. Wednesday will kick off the event, which will conclude with the championship game Thursday evening. Here is the schedule for the tournament. It will be updated as games are completed.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
The spring playoff season, the busiest time on the GHSA athletic calendar each academic year, gets under way this week when playoffs begin in one sport and a team champion will be crowned in another. Esports will get things started Monday with playoffs that will determine the teams that will compete for championships at the end of the next week. In slow-pitch softball, a champion will emerge from the 16-team, double-elimination state tournament that will be played this week in Woodstock.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Holy Innocents’ Hailee Swain and Caleb Wilson were in the starting lineups Tuesday night at the McDonald’s All-American Games, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s all-classification players of the year came away with one victory and one loss at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.Swain, a 5-foot-11 point guard committed to Stanford, led the East girls team with 13 points in a 104-82 loss. The East fell behind 18-0 at the start, trailed 31-14 after the first quarter, and never recovered.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
GIRLS PLAYER OF THE YEARHoly Innocents’ girls basketball coach Nichole Dixon still has the video of Hailee Swain, then a fifth-grader, struggling to make a layup during one of her first workouts with the program seven years ago. Dixon kept it, she said, because she felt like she was watching something special. “I remember one day in the gym with her vividly,” Dixon said. “She was working on driving and shooting a left-handed layup and couldn’t make the layup.
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1 month ago | 
ajc.com | Chip Saye
Holy Innocents’ Hailee Swain and Caleb Wilson, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s girls and boys all-classification basketball state players of the year, will be Georgia’s representatives in the McDonald’s All-American Games, to be played Tuesday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.This will be the 12th time since the inaugural McDonald’s girls game in 2002 that a school has had a boys and girls representative in the same year.
