| By MICHAEL BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com Saturday was a beautiful day for soccer, and over a thousand local soccer fans came out to witness the McIntosh Lady Chiefs and the Starr’s Mill Lady Panthers face off for the AAAAA state soccer championship. McIntosh won the game 1-0 with a goal in the second half for its fifth state championship in girls soccer. By MICHAEL BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com Losing a championship on penalty kicks may be more painful, but since that isn’t a possibility in the GHSA state soccer playoffs, Starr’s Mill’s 1-0 loss to Brookwood, with 30 seconds left in overtime, is what could be known as a “heart-obliterator.” By MICHAEL BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com Starr’s Mill was a busy place Friday as it was the setting for two baseball playoff games and a state soccer championship. Landmark Christian’s boys track team placed third in the Class A state track meet. The War Eagles finished with 46 points, four points of Jefferson, the winning team’s score. Sandy Creek placed 11th in the Class AAAA meet with 15 points. Landmark Christian School Headmaster Matt Skinner has announced the selection of Kevin Nix as the school’s new athletic director. Nix has been a math teacher and baseball coach at Landmark Christian for the past year. The gyms of schools in Fayetteville will be bursting with AAU basketball next weekend as over 20 teams from all over the southeast will come to town for the Fayette County basketball “Neighborhood Challenge,” hosted by the South Metro Mustangs AAU team. Peachtree City resident Paul Costick is the new director of operations at The Soccer Centre in Fayetteville. The Southern Crescent Lightning had been hot on the road but that ended Sunday when they fell 89-76 to the Kentucky Reach. Miles Head of Brooks was voted the 11/12 year old Baseball Player of the Year in Georgia for 2003 by the American Amateur Baseball Congress. | 