The Norcross Blue Devils girls basketball team is trying to defend its back-to-back Class AAAAA titles, and Angie Hembree’s squad began the Region 7-AAAAA tournament with a boost from Diamond DeShields. The star junior injured the wrist (her non-shooting hand) in the Blue Devils win against North Gwinnett January 17, but Coach Hembree told Score at the time she expected DeShields, “to be back in time for the playoffs.” DeShields contributed 10 points to help Norcross qualify for the playoffs with a win over Mountain View. The Blue Devils will face either Mill Creek or Collins Hill in the next round. ...
Score was alerted to the possibility of Warren County’s basketball team pulling out of the Region 7-A basketball tournament should the Screaming Devils have to face Hancock Central, and yesterday that very event happened. The boys basketball forfeited rather than face Hancock Central, thus ending Warren County’s season. The reason for the forfeit was safety according to Warren County Schools Superintendent Carole Jean Carey in the Augusta Chronicle. The two schools brawled following an October 14 football game. The Warren County girls would potentially also forfeit should the team face Hancock Central in the region semifinals, though that would mean the team would have already qualified for the state championship tournament. ...
Congratulations go out to McEachern girls coach Phyllis Arthur for her nomination in the Naismith Award contest. Arthur is up for national girls high school basketball coach of the year. The Indians, undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the Score poll, is up to No. 2 nationally in the ESPN Rise poll. ...
Finally, yesterday I said that the just-retired Rodney Walker (West Rome 1984) and Chip Walker (Sandy Creek 2009, 2010) were the only father-son combination to win state titles in the state of Georgia; however Hal Lamb’s 2011 Class AA crown this year gave the Lamb family a father-son title grab with Ray Lamb also snagging one with Commerce in 1981.
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