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We recap last night's baseball finals and give you the final girls soccer rankings of the season. See below for those stories and our poll on the baseball finals matchups.


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FINAL GIRLS SOCCER RANKINGS

 

 

 

Class AAAAAA

 

1. Harrison

2. Grayson

3. Parkview

4. East Coweta

5. Brookwood

6. Peachtree Ridge

7. Walton

8. Centennial

9. Lassiter

10. Milton

 

Class AAAAA

 

1. McIntosh

2. Starr's Mill

3. Pope

4. Northgate

5. Northview

6. Heritage-Conyers

7. Loganville

8. North Paulding

9. Allatoona

10. North Atlanta

 

Class AAAA

 

1. Marist

2. Veterans

3. Columbus

4. Alexander

5. Spalding

6. River Ridge

7. Grady

8. Locust Grove

9. Chamblee

10. Cairo

 

Class AAA

 

1. St. Pius X

2. Blessed Trinity

3. Oconee County

4. Buford

5. Woodward Academy

6. Decatur

7. Dawson County

8. North Oconee

9. Pierce County

10. Pike County

 

Class AA

 

1. Greater Atlanta Christian

2. Lovett

3. Westminster

4. Wesleyan

5. Calhoun

6. St. Vincent's

7. Armuchee

8. East Laurens

9. Vidalia

10. Jordan

 

Class A

 

1. Pace Academy

2. First Presbyterian Day

3. Fellowship Christian

4. Holy Innocents'

5. Paideia

6. Hebron Christian

7. Atlanta International School

8. Calvary Day

9. Mt. Paran Christian

10. Providence Christian

 

 






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Wednesday, May 21, 2014




BASEBALL RECAP
By Stephen Black
Baseball finals set after Tuesday Game 3's

 

Class AAAAA 

 

No 1 Whitewater survived a dramatic 5-4 affair against Greenbrier Tuesday to advance to the state finals. The Wildcats clawed their way to a 5-0 lead in the third inning, but watched as Greenbrier

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scored the next four runs. Adam Sasser led off the seventh inning and drilled a pitch that appeared to tie the game, but Whitewater outfielder Jabari Richards climbed the fence to make a spectacular, lead-preserving catch. With a win, the Wolfpack would have made their third straight trip to the state finals.

 

Houston County will travel to Whitewater for the state finals Saturday. The Bears won Game 3 of their series tonight with a 7-4 triumph over Gainesville, as Blake Jackson drove in two runs with a clutch double in the sixth inning. The Georgia Tech-signee reached base in 12 of 15 plate appearances during the series.

Neither program has ever won a baseball state championship.

 

Class AAA

 

After getting shut out in Game 1 of their series with No. 2 Buford, the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes won the next two games of the series to advance back to the state finals. The defending champs won Game 3 Tuesday at Buford to keep alive their hopes of repeating.

 

The hosts jumped out to a 3-0 edge heading into the bottom of the second inning, but saw the Hurricanes score five runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 5-3 lead they would not relinquish. Cartersville will host Blessed Trinity in the finals Saturday.

 

 

Class AA

 

Region 6 has made a lot of noise in the playoffs by advancing all four teams into the quarterfinals. Benedictine, however, has made a living in this postseason of eliminating them. For the second series in a row, the Cadets hosted a Region 6 foe and sent it home packing. This time it was Wesleyan, which shut out Benedictine last night to force a Game 3, then gave up 19 runs Tuesday in the rubber game.

 

The Cadets banged out 19 hits, but saw the Wolves hit seven homers and score 15 runs in the final four innings. Wesleyan scored six in the bottom of the seventh to make the hosts sweat. Benedictine scored seven in the top of the inning to take a commanding 10-run lead.

 

Cadets coach Kevin Farmer reached the 300-win milestone with the victory. 

It is Benedictine's first trip to the state finals since 1961.

 

The Cadets will host Region 6 No. 4-seed GAC Saturday, which has been a bit of a Cinderella in this tournament. The Spartans got past region-rival Westminster Tuesday with a 1-0 victory . Despite not striking out any Wildcats, senior pitcher Ben Childers tossed a complete-game shutout behind some spectacular defense by GAC. Jackson O'Brien's RBI double in the fifth inning was the difference.

 

The Spartans have now won road series over No. 7 Westminster, No. 8 Berrien, Pepperell and No. 1 Jefferson for retiring head coach Cliff Shelton. GAC has won two state titles, but none since 1982. 

 


FINAL GIRLS SOCCER RANKINGS
By Ricky Dimon
Pace Academy makes epic climb to No. 1 

 

All six top-ranked teams reached their respective state championship games over the weekend and five of the six emerged victorious to capture titles and remain atop their classifications.

 

The only exception came in

Photo by Glenn Martin

Class A, where previously ninth-ranked Pace Academy's Cinderella story lasted to midnight and beyond. Pace's five-match trek through the bracket included upsets of Holy Innocents' and First Presbyterian Day, the latter by a 3-2 decision in the championship.

 

The favorites who prevailed in Class AA-Class AAAAAA were Greater Atlanta Christian, St. Pius X, Marist, McIntosh and Harrison. Aside from the champions and finalists, East Coweta made the biggest move with a run to the Class AAAAAA semifinals. An impressive showing in a 4-3 loss to eventual runner-up Grayson also helped East Coweta finish No. 4 in the rankings.



 

 

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