The River Ridge girls will play for the Class AAAAAA state championship.
The Knights beat Langston Hughes 60-46 in Saturday night's semifinal at the University of West Georgia, bolstered by a lockdown performance on the defensive end and a 21-point game from Sophia Pearl.
The win set River Ridge (26-5) up a rematch with Lovejoy in Friday's state championship at the Macon Coliseum. The Wildcats are the reigning champions and knocked off both River Ridge and Sequoyah in the playoffs last season. The game will tip off Friday afternoon at 5:30 PM and will air statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting. GPB will provide television coverage for all state championship basketball games.
For the first time in more than 40 years, the Cherokee boys basketball team will be playing for a state championship.
The Warriors earned their first trip to the state finals since 1982 with a 63-60 overtime victory over Norcross in a Class AAAAAAA semifinal Saturday at the Georgia State Convocation Center.
Cherokee (25-6) will play Region 5AAAAAAA rival Wheeler next Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Macon Coliseum. The Warriors lost all three meetings with the Wildcats this season, including the region title game. It will be only the second state championship appearance for Cherokee, which lost to Campbell 68-67 in the 1982 Class AAAA title game. That team was led by the late Tony Ingle, the future coach at Kennesaw State and a Cherokee County Sports Hall of Famer. The Warriors will also try to become only the second boys GHSA state champion from Cherokee County, joining two-time champ Canton (1942, 1951).
A man was rescued by firefighters Saturday after he was buried in a collapsed trench, Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services reported.
Cherokee County firefighters responded to a person trapped in a trench at about 1:30 p.m. on Hilltop Lane, off Riverlake Drive near Woodstock Saturday, according to the fire department, where they found a man "buried up to his neck."
Firefighters called a trench rescue team from Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services for aid, and stabilized the area and removed dirt from around the man. First responders provided medical care and monitored the man while he was trapped until he could be removed. He was completely removed from the trench at about 3:45 p.m., according to the fire department. The man was treated and transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in stable condition.
According to the fire department, the man was working on waterproofing a residential basement at the time of the incident.
Police released the identification Monday of a Woodstock woman who was shot and killed Saturday at a home in Rome.
A Rome Police Department report states that police arrived at 3 Shadowbrook Drive Saturday evening at 10:52 p.m. and 21-year-old Ellis Geoffery Marrs exited the residence. He told police "he had just shot someone," the report stated and police detained him before calling for backup and entering the residence.
Once in the back yard, the responding officer stated a woman was attempting to perform life saving procedures on 51-year-old Iris Dail Edwards on the patio of the home. EMTs arrived on the scene and began to save Edwards. The responding officer found the firearm sitting on top of a grill with the magazine ejected. The officer then cleared a round from the gun and placed it in the trunk of their patrol vehicle. Edwards was pronounced dead on the scene by the Floyd County coroner’s office. Her body was transported to the GBI Crime Lab awaiting an autopsy.
Marrs was booked into the Floyd County Jail early Sunday. Marrs is charged with murder and as of early Monday he remained in the Floyd County Jail. Additional charges are pending the results of the continuing investigation.
It was the second fatal shooting in four weeks in Rome. On Feb. 4, an Aragon man was killed outside a Park Homes apartment on Reservoir Street off Turner McCall Boulevard.
Thomas Fountain will return to his Cherokee County roots to perform at the Canton Theatre at 7 p.m. on March 11.
Fountain’s performance in the Canton Theatre is arranged as a songwriter listening room to provide a more intimate listening experience for the audience. Each song’s history and origin will get a deep-dive explanation at its performance. He also plans on playing unreleased music that he’s written in recent months.
Fountain said that he enjoys smaller venues where he is able to personalize the audience experience more. His local sponsors will also have merchant booths set up at the theater during his concert. Since the start of his musical career, Fountain has toured 10 states with performers like Chris Stapleton and Charlie Daniels. His most recent single, “Window Pane,” was released on Sept. 24, 2021. His music video for “It Don’t Matter,” which was self-produced by Fountain and recorded in Cherokee County, was posted on YouTube on June 10, 2021.
The singer described his music as something that sounds and feels more like 90s country than the modern direction of the genre. Growing up on musical influences like Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks, Fountain said that this style has always found its way back into his own compositions. Reserved seating is sold out but general admission tickets are still available for purchase through eventbrite for $20, not including taxes and fees. A private pre-show meet and greet with Fountain can be added on for an additional $20. A gift bag raffle ticket can be purchased for $10 as well as a full-sized signed event poster for $15.
The Etowah boys' state title dreams came to an end Saturday night they it fell 56-53 to Alexander in a Class AAAAAA semifinal heartbreaker at the University of West Georgia. It was a tight game throughout, with Etowah (22-10) leading 10-7 after the first quarter. Alexander's size advantage was clear from the start, with 6-foot-8 forward Braedan Lue controlling the board. Lue scored the Cougars' first five points and finished the night with 18 points. Brandon Rechsteiner led Etowah with 15 points in his final high school game before heading to Virginia Tech. Dimitri Angelakos scored 13 points, followed by Aiden Weaver, who added 10 points. Alexander (27-5) will play Lee County for the state championship Friday at the Macon Coliseum.
Lue shined in crunch time. Down four points with under 2 minutes to go, he single-handedly took the lead for the Cougars, scoring through contact and converting the three-point to make the score 54-53 in their favor.
The Eagles were forced to foul, and after a few attempts to get into the bonus, Marvin McGhee IV broke free for a dunk. Out of a timeout, Rechsteiner got a near half-court shot up, but it rimmed out, and Etowah’s run was over.
It was an emotional ending for Dasinger and the Eagles, with the core of Rechsteiner, Etter, Clemmons, Kyle Tipper and others all seniors.
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