Sports

BASEBALL: Former Dragon enjoying successful season in Majors

Wednesday, July 12. 2017
Jefferson alum Chris Beck is enjoying the best season of his three-year Major League career. The 6-3, 225-pound Chicago White Sox right hander owns a 1-0 record and 3.79 ERA in a career-high 33 appearances. He’s thrown 35.2 innings this season and recorded 27 strikeouts. This is by far the most mound time Beck has seen since making his Major ... [Full Story »] 

BOYS' BASKETBALL: East Jackson takes to the road again

Wednesday, July 5. 2017
The East Jackson boys’ basketball program continues to be one of the most well-traveled programs around locally. The Eagles again took part in three summer camps in three different states for the second straight year and will again make pilgrimages to Duke and the University of North Carolina this fall. A team flight for a tournament in ... [Full Story »] 

Betz steps down as JCCHS boys’ soccer coach

Wednesday, July 5. 2017
The Jackson County boys’ soccer team will lose one of the faces of its program. Bob Betz, whose tenure as an assistant and head coach spanned a combined 13 seasons, has resigned to take a technology job with the Bryan County School System. Betz, who worked in Jackson County’s technology department, coached the Panthers to an 18-16 record ... [Full Story »] 

Lindsey leaving for Gainesville AD job

Thursday, June 29. 2017
After a four-year stint as athletic director and a eight-year run at the school overall, Adam Lindsey is leaving Jackson County Comprehensive High School to take the athletic director’s job at Gainesville High School. Lindsey, who was named the Class AAA Athletic Director of the Year in March, had served as Jackson County’s athletic ... [Full Story »] 

BASKETBALL: Team ‘coming together’ says new JCCHS hoops coach

Thursday, June 29. 2017
If there’s a major benefit to the summer scrimmage schedule, perhaps it’s watching players emerge within the frame work of a team. At least that’s the way new Jackson County girls’ basketball coach Monty McClure sees it. McClure, who came from Winder-Barrow where he was a boys’ assistant, used the month of June to establish some ... [Full Story »] 

BASKETBALL: New coach puts summer schedule to good use

Thursday, June 29. 2017
To everyone else, they’re simply scrimmages. But for coaches entering a new job — like Jefferson’s Kevin Morris — summer basketball games provide a valuable outlet for coaches and players alike to adjust to one another. “I don’t know if it’s better for me or for them,” Morris said. “They’re going to see what they’re going ... [Full Story »] 

FOOTBALL: Jefferson finishes as runner-up at St. Pius X 7-on-7 event

Thursday, June 29. 2017
While the third time wasn’t the charm for Jefferson, the Dragons were again among the final two teams standing in a 7-on-7 tournament. Jefferson went 6-2 and finished second in Friday’s George B. Maloof Tournament hosted by St. Pius X, marking the team’s third runner-up showing in the summer 7-on-7 circuit. “I thought we competed very, ... [Full Story »] 

FOOTBALL: Receiving targets emerging for JCCHS in offseason

Wednesday, June 14. 2017
Jackson County quarterbacks have enjoyed a greater variety of receiving targets to throw to during the pass-and-catch heavy off-season of high school football. Coach Brandon Worley pointed to a number of receivers — Braxton Johnson, Micah Swift, Tyler Wester, Seth Caylor, Malik Hobson, Rayshun Dorsey and Kyle Langston — as being bright ... [Full Story »] 

Navas hired as Jefferson athletic director

Wednesday, June 7. 2017
A familiar face will return to run Jefferson’s athletic program. The Jefferson Board of Education on Tuesday approved Bill Navas as Jefferson High School’s next athletic director. Navas coached the Jefferson football team from 2002-2008, guiding the Dragons to a 49-30-1 record and seven state playoff appearances — including three trips to ... [Full Story »] 

FOOTBALL: Eagles look to ramp up passing game in 7-on-7s

Tuesday, June 6. 2017
For a football team looking to put the ball in the air more than it did last year, the chance to throw the ball against opposing defenses this summer couldn’t arrive at a more opportune time. East Jackson, under new coach Scott Wilkins, will compete at a 7-on-7 event at Athens Christian later this month (June 29) and are scheduled for an ... [Full Story »] 
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