The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (3-0) defeated the Allatoona Buccaneers (0-3) on Friday night by a score of 28-20. However, this was not a back-and-forth game as the score might indicate. Allatoona stifled the Cartersville ground game in the first half, which led the Canes being shutout for the game’s first 24 minutes. Allatoona, meanwhile, took [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (2-0) defeated the Jonesboro Cardinals 38-16 on Friday night. A lone field goal by Jesus Gutierrez was the difference in the first 12 minutes in the game, but the second quarter would reap big rewards for the Cartersville offense. Cartersville recovered a muffed punt deep in Jonesboro territory. It was able [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (1-0) defeated the Cherokee Warriors (0-1) 35-0. The Canes scored in the first when Paul Gamble connected with Collin Fletcher midway through the first quarter. Jaylen Scott caught another Gamble pass in the second quarter to extend the Cartersville lead to 14-0. Malachi Jeffries scored two first-half touchdowns for Cartersville, while [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes defeated the Lithonia Bulldogs on Friday night 51-0 during the first round of the GHSA Class-5A state playoffs. Cartersville’s defense stole the show in the first half. On Lithonia’s opening drive, Myles Forristall recovered a fumble and ran it into the end zone for an early 7-0 Canes lead. But the [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes won on the road to Ware County Friday night, extending their season to the semi-finals. If you want to relive the game, we have isolated the audio so you can listen to this exciting and historic game. We have separated the audio into the first half and second half of play. [read more...]
It's time for a Wednesday edition of Bartow's Morning News, broadcasting the very best in local news, weather, traffic and sports on your award-winning community radio station. We have two guest segments today. At 7:40AM, Cindy Williams, CEO of the Cartersville-Bartow Chamber, will join us in studios to talk about this month's upcoming Chamber activities, including next week's Quarterly Luncheon with [read more...]
It's time for a Tuesday edition of Bartow's Morning News, broadcasting the very best in local news, weather, traffic and sports on your award-winning community radio station. At 7:40AM, we will welcome to our studios Parnick Jennings along with Head Coach of the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes, Joey King, and Dr. Howard Hinesley, Superintendent of the Cartersville City [read more...]
It's time for a Tuesday edition of Bartow's Morning News, broadcasting the very best in local news, weather, traffic and sports on your award-winning community radio station. We have three guest segments scheduled for today. At 7:40AM, James Stephens, City Manager for the City of Euharlee, will be in studios to talk about their upcoming Food Truck Friday in Frankie [read more...]
It's time for a Wednesday edition of Bartow's Morning News, broadcasting the very best in local news, weather, traffic and sports on your award-winning community radio station. We have three guest segments today. At 7:40AM, Parnick Jennings will join us in studios to talk about tomorrow's National Day of Prayer. Then, at 7:54AM, Coach Stuart Chester, head coach of the [read more...]
Good morning! It's time for a Friday edition of Bartow’s Morning News, bringing you the best in news, weather, traffic and sports on your award-winning community radio station. We have two guest segments today. At 7:40AM, we will be joined by Coach Stuart Chester, head coach of the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes baseball team, to talk about tonight's opening round of state-wide [read more...]
