Alexandria Dodson, who attends Battlefield Elementary in Fort Oglethorpe, won three medals, including two national championships, at the 10-year-old AAU West Coast Junior Olympic National Championships in Las Vegas, earlier this month.

It took two games and two extra innings to decide the championship of the 10U Division in the 2021 Rick Honeycutt World Series at the Fort Oglethorpe Recreation Association ballfields on Wednesday night.

The Chickamauga All-Stars and the Fort Oglethorpe Warriors will square off Wednesday night in the finals of the 10U division of the 2021 Rick Honeycutt World Series in Fort Oglethorpe.

UPDATE: Rain has washed out tonight's games in the Rick Honeycutt World Series at the Fort Oglethorpe Recreation Association ballfields. Monday's games will now be played on Tuesday, while championship games have been moved to Wednesday at the same times. 

The Heritage High School wrestling team recently made their annual late summer trip for team camp, this time in Boone, N.C., and enjoyed what head coach Mike Craft called "a very successful camp" at Appalachian State University.

The Fort Oglethorpe Recreation Association fields on historic Barnhardt Circle will play host to the annual Rick Honeycutt World Series, July 17-21.

It had been more than 20 years since Taylor Lewis had last played the LaFayette Golf Course.

One local youth baseball team will begin its quest for a Dizzy Dean North Georgia state title tonight, while another will start its journey toward a championship tomorrow.

The Summerville 8-year-olds claimed the championship of the 7 and 8-year-old Dizzy Dean District 1 baseball tournament with a 13-5 victory over the Chickamauga 8-year-olds in Chickamauga on Monday night.

The first time the Chickamauga Crushers and the Catoosa Elite met in the Dizzy Dean 6-year-old District 1 tournament this week resulted in the second-closest game in pool play with the Crushers holding off the Elite, 10-7, on Friday night.

Here are the scores of weekend pool play and the bracket play schedule for the 6-year-old tournament being held at the Fort Oglethorpe Recreation fields.

Trailing 7-1, Team Georgia combined for four runs in the seventh and eighth innings, but eventually came up two runs short as Team Tennessee scored a 7-5 victory in the 19th Stump Martin Memorial Tennessee-Georgia All-Star Baseball Classic at Ridgeland High School on Tuesday night.

The champion of the 11 and 12-year-old Dizzy Dean District 1 baseball tournament is scheduled to be decided tonight in Chickamauga as the Rock Spring 11's and the Dade County 11's will face off in the title game at 7 p.m. at the Chickamauga Recreation complex.

After a year's absence due to coronavirus concerns, the Stump Martin Memorial Tennessee-Georgia All-Star Baseball Classic will return to the field on Thursday, June 10 at Ridgeland High School.

It’s been quite a basketball journey for Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe senior Dee Calhoun.

The Heritage High School football team closed out their 2021 spring practice with a four-quarter scrimmage at Class AAAAAA Dalton Friday night at historic Harmon field.

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The Heritage Generals, who finished Monday's round at 310, could only manage a 318 on Tuesday in the final round of the Class AAAA boys' state championship at the University of Georgia course in Athens.

The Ringgold Lady Tigers had a big final round in the Girls' Class AAA state championship at Apple Mountain Golf Club in Clarkesville on Tuesday.

The last LaFayette High School golfer to win an individual state title was P.J. Shields, who tied for the championship back in 2009 when the state finals only consisted of 18 holes.

Ten games into the 2021 season, the Ringgold Tigers sat at .500 with a 5-5 record, albeit against a brutal non-region slate that featured games against some of the top teams the state had to offer.

One way or the other, Gabe Elmore's long quest for a state track championship was finally going to come to an end in Albany on Saturday as the Ringgold senior set up in the starting blocks, waiting for the gun to begin his final 110 hurdles race as a high school athlete.

Ringgold senior hurdler Gabe Elmore, the only athlete from either Catoosa or Walker County participating in the boys or girls' Class AAA meets, will have a chance to claim GHSA gold on Saturday after turning in the top qualifying time in the 110 hurdles final on Friday.

As expected, the Gordon Lee Lady Trojans - winners of the Class A Public School state track title the last time the event was held in 2019 - got out to a very strong start on the first day of the 2021 GHSA state championships in Albany on Thursday.

The second-ever trip to the state semifinals for the Heritage Lady Generals did not go the way the Navy-and-Red were hoping as top-ranked North Oconee continued its unbeaten season with a 9-0 victory in the Class AAAA Final Four Monday night in Bogart.

The 2021 season officially came to an end for the Heritage baseball team on Monday as the 10th-ranked Generals ran into a buzzsaw in Savannah as second-ranked Benedictine swept the Class AAAA best-of-three state quarterfinal series, 11-2 and 20-1.

Like the old saying says, there is no place like home and home is where the Ringgold Tigers will be on Saturday.

One of the most highly decorated athletes at Heritage High School, senior Allison Craft will be taking her talents and drive to Truett-McConnell University this fall to run cross country for the Bears.

After a delay of several days, the 2021 NGAC baseball tournament finals finally got underway on Friday night and it will take a third game to decide to a champion.

The Gordon Lee Lady Trojans will head to Albany next weekend with a chance to defend their Class A Public School state track championship after qualifying athletes in 13 different events at a state sectional meet at Banks County High School on Saturday.

Some timely hitting, some timely defense and more solid pitching paved the way for the second-ranked Ringgold Tigers to advance to the Class AAA Elite Eight on Wednesday with a sweep of a very tough Sandy Creek club, the No. 3 seed from Region 5.

For the first time since they played in the state semifinals in 2018, the Heritage Generals will play in the Class AAAA Elite Eight.

Regions 6-AAA and 7-AAAA recently announced their All-Region Teams for baseball and, as expected, several local players were honored.

Northwest Whitfield's girls punched their ticket to their first-ever soccer final four with a 4-0 victory over Thomas County Central on Tuesday.

The Heritage Lady Generals' historic run in the Class AAAA state tennis playoffs came to a end in the Final Four on Saturday with a 4-0 loss to state powerhouse North Oconee, the Region 8 champion.