Thursday, February 9, 2012

A New 3-point Queen

There is a new three-point queen in the state of Georgia and her name is Gabby Arencibia. In Towns County’s 74-39 win over Commerce, Arencibia canned seven three-pointers en route to 25 points. The seven baskets pushed her career total to 295, which set a new state record for career long distance. ...

While McEachern has received most of the attention in Cobb County this season, the Marietta girls basketball team is putting together a strong campaign and recently clinched the No. 1 seed in the Region 5-5A tournament. The Lady Blue Devils are 21-3 and 11-0 in region play thanks to a 66-64 win over Woodstock Tuesday. Marietta has a core four that get it done. Trana Hopkins (21 points against Woodstock), Courtney Sprague (20 points), Jasmine McSwain and Kehera Wilson are a group that make Marietta, ranked No. 6 in this week’s Score Atlanta poll, a dangerous team come playoff time. ...

Jesse Hicks is expected to be named the new head coach at Central Macon today after spending the last two seasons at Dougherty. He would replace interim head coach Brent Thornton. Hicks is the former Baldwin High School head coach who racked up 70 wins in eight seasons at Baldwin. He went just 3-17 in his two seasons at Dougherty. ...

Heads or tails. In some extreme cases, the simply flip of a coin determines important tiebreakers in the state of Georgia, and a coin flip gave Dade County the top seed in the Region 7-AA North girls tournament. Sonoraville, which defeated Calhoun on Tuesday to force the tie, earned the No. 2 seed while Calhoun is left with the No. 3 seed. The top three finishers at this weekend’s subregion tournament advance to next week’s 7-AA Region tournament in Dalton, according to prepcentralonline.com.

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