CHULA - Tiftarea Academy played a pair of close basketball games Friday night, but unfortunately, both fell at the hands of visiting Westwood. The Lady Panthers dropped a 57-49 score while the Panthers were downed 53-46.

THOMASTON —The Georgia Independent School Association has divvied its players into All-Star rosters and it is going to be Panther versus Panther in Americus today.

TIFTON — Irwin County will be virtually abandoned Saturday morning. Ocilla will be empty. Mystic, Irwinville, Waterloo, Osierfield and Wray will stand empty.

TIFTON — The Tift County Duals have come and gone and the local team fared well yet again in competition.

TIFTON - Tift County's Blue Devils and Lady Devils saw the home court for the first time in 2019-20's regular season Tuesday night. Longtime rival Coffee was the guest of honor and the results saw both schools earn a bit of happiness. The Lady Devils won a 73-57 track meet while the boys fel…

TIFTON — Tift County merited a Player of the Year and four first team selections in the Region 1-AAAAAAA awards recently announced.

OCILLA - The countdown began with a minute left Friday. Sixty seconds to Atlanta. Twenty seconds to Atlanta. Players squirted the contents of their water bottles in the air. Then the bottles went airborne.

TIFTON — The Tift Duals return Saturday morning as Tift County’s big regular season tournament for the 2019-20 season. Ten teams from nine schools will be in action at TCHS. The first matches are set to begin at 9 a.m.

TIFTON — Tonight’s Irwin County-Clinch County football game is not for the state Class A public school championship, but in the eyes of the thousands who will be in attendance, it may as well be.

TIFTON — The Tift County Duals return this Saturday to the local high school. Ten teams are set to wrestle, even if Tift head coach Shawn Watson is not 100% sure of who the 10th team will be.

TIFTON — Youth football championships were crowned as the Thanksgiving Bowl and the Georgia Recreation and Park Association finals were held at E.B. Hamilton Park.

Tiftarea Academy won a pair of games at the Terrell Academy Tip-Off Tournament last Monday and Tuesday. Monday, the Lady Panthers won over Glenwood (Ala.), 42-37. Tuesday, the victory was by 64-45 over Crisp Academy. Tiftarea came back from 10 points down after a quarter to win the Crisp gam…

TIFTON — If Tift County basketball fans have been suffering withdrawals because of a lack of basketball games, they will be in luck shortly.

MILLEDGEVILLE —The 2019 high school football season came to an end for Tiftarea Academy Friday in the GISA Class AAA semifinals. John Milledge won to advance to the finals, 42-14.

MILLEDGEVILLE - The 2019 high school football season came to an end for Tiftarea Academy Friday in the GISA Class AAA semifinals. John Milledge won to advance to the finals, 42-14.

TIFTON — The state Class A public school playoffs have hit the quarterfinals round and if Irwin County wants to make it to the semifinals, it will have to win its 11th consecutive game tonight.

TIFTON — “Whatever it takes, however we can,” said Tiftarea Academy head football coach Erik Soliday. That sums up the Tiftarea experience for the last few weeks.

TIFTON — As football segues into basketball, former Tift County standouts are showing their skills on the court.

TIFTON — Tift County’s homeschool basketball team is lighting up the nets again. CHESS Academy — Christian Home Education and Social Society — has started off the season in fine form, with wins over Georgia Christian and Appling Christian Academy

TIFTON — While most people in America will be thinking of turkeys and parades this week, the Tiftarea Academy Lady Panthers will be playing basketball. The squad will be at Terrell Academy starting Monday for two days of action.

NEWNAN — The Heritage Hawks went into Friday night’s second-round GISA Class AAA playoff game against visiting Tiftarea riding a wave of confidence, and with good reason.

OCILLA - Irwin County advanced to the GHSA Class A public quarterfinals Friday, making quick work of visiting Chattahoochee County.

TIFTON — Turner County outlasted the rain and Macon County last week for a 31-12 win in the first round of the Class A public school state tournament.

TIFTON — Tift County takes to the road today with the Blue Devils playing their first basketball games that count towards their record.

TIFTON — The Irwin County Indians make their 2019 Class A state tournament debut tonight. They host Chattahoochee County at 7:30 p.m.

TIFTON — Tiftarea Academy is looking for two repeats, but not another tonight.

TIFTON — Tift County softball honored its high school teams Thursday night with a banquet at TCHS.

CHULA — Tiftarea Academy’s Josie Arant will be taking her golf talents north. She signed a scholarship with Nashville, Tenn.-based Belmont University Thursday in a ceremony held at the school.

CHULA - Tiftarea Academy basketball opened with a split Saturday afternoon, winning the opener from Echols County, but dropping the nightcap.

STATESBORO — Jayk Sailer kicked the Tiftarea Academy Panthers into the second round of the GISA Class AAA playoffs Friday night after Dylan Harbort’s heroic efforts gave them the opportunity.

TIFTON — The Turner County Rebels start the start playoffs tonight with the Macon County Bulldogs. The game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. in Ashburn.

TIFTON — Purple, rain. One combination is assured, the other likely tonight in Cochran when Fitzgerald takes on the Bleckley County Royals at 7:30 p.m. in the first round of the Class AA state playoffs.