Area Sports
JV 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…
Read MoreJV Blue nips Vidalia 1-0
Jeff Davis Junior Varsity Blue defeated Vidalia 1-0 as two pitchers combined to throw a shutout. Jonathan Bohannon struck out Noah Hamilton to finish off the game. The pitching was strong on both sides. Jeff Davis pitchers struck out 12, while Vidalia pitchers sat down seven. One bright spot for Vidalia was a single by…
Read MoreJV Gold Tops Coffee 6-3
Jeff Davis Junior Varsity Gold put up five runs in the fourth inning in a 6-3 win over Coffee County. The offense in the inning was led by Reese Mullis, Andrew Hulett, Haydon King, Jude Worthington, and Treyton Webster, who each had RBIs in the inning. Andrew White led Jeff Davis to victory on the…
Read MoreBeach’s grand slam keys victory
Colby Beach’s grand slam home run in the sixth inning keyed the Jeff Davis Junior Varsity Gold team to a 10-4 victory over Bleckley County Monday in Cochran. With JD leading 6-4 going into the top of the sixth, Karter Galbreath, Andrew White and Reese Mullis were hit by pitches to load the bases with…
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