Look for the Mt. Pisgah boys basketball team to turn its season around in the next few games. The program’s all-time leading rebounder and scorer Kyle Sloter has missed seven games due to an ankle injury and with official visits, and the Patriots have lost five of the games. Sloter has dropped down into the post for his senior season and was recently named the MVP of the Carolina Day School Basketball Holiday Tournament. ...
Wrestling success clearly runs in the Rivera family. Kennesaw Mountain’s Justan Rivera was named the most outstanding wrestler at the recent Cobb County Invitational after the freshman won the 170-pound weight class. Rivera defeated Pope sophomore Joey Tabachino for the win. Rivera’s brother Jonatan was a two-time county champion and was the Cobb County Invitational’s most outstanding wrestler the last two years. Kennesaw Mountain finished fifth. ...
Chris Gaines of Kell High School was a force on the football field but he is starting to take to his new sport of wrestling. This is just Gaines’ second season on the wrestling mat, but that didn’t stop Gaines from winning the 195-pound title with a win over Wheeler’s Darian Richardson. ...
When is losing good? According to Evans boys basketball coach Kevin Kenny when those teams are a combined 33-4. In a story by Wayne Staats of the Augusta Chronicle, Kenny saw some benefits to falling recently to Jonesboro and Effingham County, both ranked in the latest Score Hoops poll. “Those are the type of teams you’re seeing in the state tournament if you’re fortunate to get there,” said Kenny in the article. Evans is challenging for one of the top seeds in its subregion as the playoffs approach.
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