Area Sports

PHOTOS BY GAVIN VICKERS Jeff Davis High’s softball team split a pair of non-region games last week, rolling by Class A, Div. II Telfair County 17-3 and falling to Class 5A Coffee 6-2. Playing in McRae-Helena last Tuesday, the Lady Jackets spotted the Lady Trojans to a 3-0 1st inning lead, tied the game 3-3…

Sophomore 3rd baseman Mattie Walsh had an outstanding week at the plate last week, going 9-for-15 in 4 games and boosting her batting average to a team-leading .485. Sophomore catcher Ava Bohannon is close behind with a .435 average, and 8 home runs and 28 RBI, both of which lead the team. The Lady Jackets…

The first quarter of Friday night’s Jeff Davis–Thomasville football game was like a horse race as the two teams raced up and down the field and left fans dizzy from the fast-paced action. Forty-two points were scored in the opening stanza that ended with the homestanding Bulldogs on top 28-14. In the end, the Yellow…

Last week got off to a great start for the Lady Jacket softball team with a big, 5-1 victory over region-leading Bacon County in Alma. But from there, Coach Brooke Taylor’s charges dropped four straight games, including both ends of a double-header against Bacon Thursday in Hazlehurst. Thursday’s losses, coupled with Saturday’s road defeats to…

Last September in Nahunta, Jeff Davis High lost to Brantley County in an upset 28-21. The Herons’ first three scores came on a kickoff return, a punt return and a return of a blocked punt. The loss was a huge disappointment for the Jackets. But in last Friday night’s rematch, there would be no upset.…

The first half of last Friday’s Jeff Davis High football victory over Brantley County ended with a celebration — the celebration of senior placekicker Fabian Valdelamar’s school record 52-yd. field goal that came as the first half came to an end. The kick barely made the distance as the football hit the crossbar and bounded…

The Jeff Davis High and Middle School cross country teams ran last Thursday at the 6th Annual Toombs Bulldog Invitational in Lyons, and Saturday at the 11th Annual Wingfoot XC Classic in Cartersville. Thirty-three teams competed in Lyons. Brandy Castro topped the JD middle school girls with a 5th place finish in the 2-mile run…

Jeff Davis High’s Lady Jacket softball team had few problems sweeping Fitzgerald last week in a 3-game region series, defeating the Lady Hurricanes 17-1, 10-0 and 11-3. In the series opener in Fitzgerald, the Lady Jackets needed only 3 innings to run-rule the Lady Hurricanes. JD had 13 hits, five for extra bases including Ava…