The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes football team cruised to an easy 41-7 win over Ridgeland on Friday night to advance to the quarterfinals of the Class 4A state playoffs. After turning the ball over on downs, Cartersville’s Devonte Ross recovered a fumble on Ridgeland’s ensuing drive. 49 yards later, Marcus Gary dove into the end zone [read more...]
It was an inauspicious start for the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes, who found themselves down early in the second quarter to Stephens County 7-0, but Cartersville scored 34 unanswered points to win its opening-round matchup and advance to the round of 16. Sloppy play mixed with sloppy atmospheric conditions no doubt played a part with both [read more...]
Paulding County opened the game up with a 99-yard kickoff returned for a touchdown. Cass responded with a Malik Grimes 69 yard touchdown run to make the score 7-7 with 2:30 remaining in the first quarter. Paulding County added a field goal before halftime to make the score 10-7. The third quarter was a punt [read more...]
Woodland got on the board with a Ronny Ramirez 31 yard field goal. Kell answered quickly with a long drive culminating in a 1-yard touchdown to make it 7-3 with 8 minutes remaining in the first quarter. Kell added to that lead with a 58-yard touchdown pass 14-3 2:38 left in the first quarter. Kell [read more...]
Cartersville wasted no time jumping in front of Troup on Friday night running back Marcus Gary went 77 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. One minute later the Cartersville defense got on the board with an Amari Orr interception returned for a touchdown to make the score 14-0 with 10:44 left [read more...]
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The Adairsville Tigers will have to wait until the end of the season, but it appears that they’re playoff hopes were dashed on Friday night with a 31-10 loss to the Ringgold Tigers. Ringgold gave Adairsville several chances to stay in the game, but the Tigers were unable to capitalize. Ringgold missed a 23-yard field [read more...]
The Woodland Wildcats were unable to overcome some early turnovers on Friday night and fell to East Paulding 17-7. The Wildcats had little trouble moving the ball against the East Paulding defense in the first half, but several first-half turnovers kept Woodland from gaining any footing. East Paulding grabbed an early 10-0 lead with 11:26 [read more...]
The Adairsville Tigers kept their slim playoff hopes alive on Friday night with a 34-6 win over Murray County. Mason Boswell, Landon Ayers and Malichi Gardner led the team to the victory. Boswell scored on a 6-yard run with just under seven minutes left in the first quarter. The Tigers built up a 20-0 lead [read more...]
The Cass Colonels fell to the Kell Longhorns 56-3 on Friday night. Cass kicked a field goal by Kaleb Speights to grab an early 3-0 lead and trailed just 7-3 at the end of the first quarter. The final three quarters belonged to the Longhorns, who outscored the Colonels 49-0 through the remainder of the [read more...]
