Area Sports
Jackets split with Wayne and TCC
Jeff Davis High’s baseball team split two games on a chilly, windy day in Thomasville Saturday, falling 7-6 to Wayne County and defeating Thomas County Central 4-1 in a battle of three teams of Yellow Jackets. For the two games, 4th ranked Class 2A Jeff Davis out hit their two opponents — 10th ranked Class…
Read MoreJDMS Blue splits pair
Jeff Davis Middle School’s Blue Team split two games last week, rolling over Dodge County 14-0 and falling to Pierce County 8-4. The Young Jackets banged out eight hits against Dodge and Zack Hulett and Peyton Jones combined for a one-hitter on the mound. Jacob Laney had a single, a double and two RBI to…
Read MoreHulett wins state
For somebody who had not wrestled in three years, Hayden Hulett turned out to be pretty good at it. The John Milledge Academy senior won the school’s first wrestling state championship since 2021 over the weekend, earning the crown as top 190-pound wrestler in the Georgia Independent Athletic Association (GIAA). And he did it by…
Read MoreJV Gold defeats Bleckley
Jeff Davis Junior Varsity Gold improved to 3-0 last Wednesday with a 7-3 win over Bleckley County in Hazlehurst. JD spotted the Royals to a 2-0 first inning lead and then chipped away at the lead to take a 7-2 advantage before Bleckley got a run in the final inning to account for the final…
Read MoreJV Gold falls to Coffee
Jeff Davis High’s Jayvee Gold baseball team suffered its first loss of the season Monday in Douglas as they fell 13-3 in five innings to Coffee County. The Jackets got all of their runs in the second inning as pinch runner Jonathan Bohannon scored on a passed ball and Mason Ragland scored on a Dawson…
Read MoreJDMS Gold defeats Wheeler
Scorekeepers were kept busy during a high-scoring contest Thursday between Jeff Davis Middle School Gold and Wheeler County with Jeff Davis prevailing 14-10. Jeff Davis got on the board in the first inning. Kallan Medders doubled on a 2-2 count, scoring one run. Gold put up eight runs in the fifth with a lead off…
Read MoreSoccer boys lose two
Jeff Davis boys soccer lost a pair of matches to Toombs County, 5-1, and Appling County, 1-0, to fall to 1-3 for the season. Toombs scored early in the first half. They sent a ground cross into the net and quickly followed up with two more goals. Going into the second half, morale seemed low…
Read MoreLady Jackets continue to roll
Jeff Davis Tennis started last week off by hosting the Brantley County Herons. The Lady Jackets played a close match and pulled out a 3-2 win. Aleah Parker and Presley Cox played second doubles for the Lady Jackets pulling a 6-3, 6-2 win. They played incredibly smart and placed balls really well. The guys were…
Read MoreBaseball opens with 13-1 win
Jeff Davis High’s baseball season got off to a strong start last Tuesday as the Yellow Jackets rolled to a 13-1 win over Bleckley County in Cochran. The Yellow Jackets blew the game open with a 7-run fourth inning, ballooning a 3-0 lead to a 10-0 advantage. Colby Beach’s lead-off single got the fourth inning…
Read MoreJDMS Gold splits two
Jeff Davis Middle School’s Gold Team split its first two games, defeating Wheeler County 11-8 and falling 17-0 in three innings to West Laurens Middle School. In the win over Wheeler, David Calderon was 2-for-3, Owen King was 2-for-3 with an RBI and three stolen bases, Bentley McLendon had a single and two RBI, Weston…
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