Fourth Quarter Dooms Canes In Championship
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes looked to avenge their loss in last year's playoffs against Blessed Trinity, but a devastating fourth quarter gave the Titans their second straight championship with a 23-9 win. On Cartersville's opening [read more...]
Cartersville Championship Game Information
Hello Canes Community, We hope this newsletter finds each of you doing well and excited about our Purple Hurricanes playing for the AAAA State Football Championship on Wednesday, December 12th at 4:30 p.m. at Mercedes-Benz [read more...]
Canes Win Thriller, Advance To ‘Ship
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes advanced to the Class 4-A Championship game for the third time in the past four years with a thrilling 17-14 win over Marist on Friday night at Weinman Stadium. Cartersville scored [read more...]
Cartersville Rallies, Blasts into Semis
After finding themselves down 13 points in the second quarter, the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes rallied to beat the Baldwin Braves 42-13 and advance to the semi-finals of the Class AAAA State Playoffs. The Braves fumbled [read more...]
High School Sports: Coin Toss for Homefield in Semi-Final Round of Playoffs Goes Canes’ Way
According to Cartersville Athletic Director, Darrell Demastus, the GHSA coin toss to determine homefield advantage in the semi-final round would have the Canes playing at Weinman Stadium. There is work to be done before the [read more...]
Canes Cruise to Quarter-Finals
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, [read more...]
Slow Start, Strong Finish For Canes
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 [read more...]
Cass Falls to Paulding County
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 [read more...]
Kell’s Offense Overpowers Woodland
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 [read more...]
Cartersville Downs Troup, Captures Region Title
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 [read more...]