BY MICHAEL BOYLAN
Sports Editor

The Fayette County Tigers boys soccer team is headed to the final four for the third year in a row. The team traveled for five hours to Savannah to face Benedictine High School. Within the first 20 minutes of the game, Fayette County was up 3-0. The Tigers had one brief lapse on defense, allowing a goal before halftime, but they made the margin three goals again with about eight minutes left to play. Trevor Bowman had two goals for the Tigers as did David Dirring. Dirring's goals were unassisted corner kicks and Trevor Bowman's goals came off of throw-ins, assisted by Todd Edwards and Derek Walton.

The Tigers hosted Parkview last evening at 8 p.m., after the paper went to press. The stingy defense of Fayette County should slow Parkview down. Parkview's girls will come to face the Fayette County Lady Tigers tonight at 7:30 p.m. Both Fayette County and Parkview were in the final four last year. The Lady Tigers defeated Tift County 3-0 on Saturday.

Crystal Rene DeCotret scored the first goal by intercepting a ball being cleared by the defense and chipping it above the Tift keeper's head. The early goal by Fayette caused Tift to slow their game down and really wall their defense. Mandy Kovach broke throg the defense and scored off of an assist by Christine Wix. The final goal came in the second half when Mandy Kovach put a ball across the box and DeCotret blasted it into the net.

The Lady Tigers put all the pressure on Tift, who had not lost a game all season. They outshot the Lady Devils 43-1 and dominated them in every aspect of the game. The Lady Tiger defense has been strong all season but it seems that the offense is clicking more now in the postseason. A win tonight and the Lady Tigers could be in the championship game, possibly facing their rivals the Lady Chiefs.

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