It was a relatively slow week in soccer, thus far, with not every team playing. Starr’s Mill’s boys (7-1-3), ranked second in AAAA, got a 4-0 win over Northside, Columbus on Tuesday night. Gray Phelps scored two goals and Chris Capati and Colin Mallon each had a goal and an assist. They will host Northgate at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The Lady Panthers (6-2-1), ranked fifth, will take on Northgate, ranked 10th, next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Peachtree City was well represented at the 2 HOT 4 ICE Roller Hockey Tournament at SGAA in Snellville.

For the very first time, Peachtree City had the 8U Warriors team enter a tournament. The team only had 2 practices together before this event. There was another first for the 8U players. It was also the first time they had ever played on a full rink.

The McIntosh Lady Chiefs are well on their way to another successful season boasting two tournament championships, two big wins over a local rival and a #1 regional ranking. The girls are undefeated in the region with a 13-0 record.

Several local schools participated in the annual Coaches’ Invitational meet at Georgia Tech last Saturday with a number of athletes getting top 10 finishes.

On Saturday, Feb. 24, someone got in an early day of fishing at Lake Horton.

Whitewater midfielder Brian Forero signed a letter of intent to attend and play soccer for Georgia State University.

Tiger Martial Arts sent a team to the U.T.A. National Martial Arts Open Championship at Shorter College on March 10. The team returned with eight first place finishes, five second place finishes and two third place finishes.

The 2007 9U Home Plate Chili Dogs played in the South Gwinnett Shootout on March 3-4 and went 4-0 winning the championship.

The Fayette County Home Plate RiverBandits won the USSSA Director’s Cup World Series Qualifier tournament in Lake City on Sunday, March 11.

The McIntosh boys and girls soccer teams got significant 1-0 region wins over their Whitewater counterparts tonight.

Three Tsunami volleyball teams traveled to Orlando for the President’s Day Tournament. The 16 Black, 17 Black, and 18 Black all took the tournament by storm with three solid first place finishes in the Power tournament.

Eleven members of the Fayette County Thrashers Wrestling team qualified for USA Wrestling Kids State meet by placing in the top three at the regional qualifiers.

Ryan Whitehead, a senior at Fayette County High School and the captain of the AFC Lightning 89 boys soccer team, has accepted a scholarship offer and signed a letter of intent to play soccer this fall at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.He is pictured along with his mother and father.

The 12U Fayette County Grizzlies went 9-1 during the regular season winning the league championship.

Area residents who were worried that the Tour de Georgia wouldn’t be running this year can rest easy, an announcement came out Wednesday afternoon stating that the race will go on as planned.

Starr’s Mill hosted yet another set of huge games with region implications last Friday when they faced Whitewater’s boys and girls.

The Whitewater Wildcats varsity baseball team (4-2) picked up two wins over the weekend, beating Dutchtown 11-9 on Friday and Warner Robins 12-8 on Saturday.

Starr’s Mill held the Chick-fil-A Panther Relays on Saturday and local athletes represented themselves and their teams very well. In the girls division, Starr’s Mill placed third, McIntosh placed eighth, Our Lady of Mercy placed 12th, Whitewater placed 15th and Landmark placed 18th.

Though they had led by as many as 20 points in the first half and had a 16 point lead early in the fourth quarter, the Landmark Christian School Lady War Eagles were not able to hang on for the win against the Hawkinsville Lady Red Devils in the Class A state basketball championship.

Whitewater's varsity boys and girls soccer teams traveled to Starr's Mill on Friday night and the results were mixed.

The Landmark Christian Lady War Eagles varsity basketball team has won 30 games this season. If they win one more they will be state champions.

The Starr's Mill Lady Panthers defeated Fayette County's Lady Tigers 11-0 on Tuesday night. Carlie Banks had four goals in the win, while Laura McCalla added three Katrina Frost added two and Olivia Serbun and Shannon Hall each had one. The boys game was much closer with Starr's Mill winning 3-0 and scoring all three goals in the second half. Colin Mallon scored the first goal, Chris Capati scored just over a minute later and Gray Phelps scored the third and final goal, off of a bicycle kick with just over 11 minutes left in the game.

Starr’s Mill hosted the biggest matches of the young soccer season last Friday night as they faced off against McIntosh’s varsity boys and girls. All four teams are ranked in the top 10 of Class AAAA.

Whitewater’s varsity baseball team split at “Bash at the Beach” this weekend, losing to Alexander 7-6 in eight innings but defeating Brunswick 6-2.

Fayette County High School hosted their sixth annual Athletic Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony last Saturday evening, welcoming five athletes into the hallowed halls and three former students as Distinguished Alumni honorees. This year’s class included Eric Addie, Keith Brownlee, Genie Leonard-Dzenis, Robert Lewis Jr. and Greg Woodward as athletic inductees and Mike Duke, Floy Farr and John “Doc” Lester as distinguished alumni.

Oh Do Kwan TaeKwonDo recently had 17 students win medals at the 2007 Regional Championship at Lilburn, Ga.

There were 13 gold medalists and four silver medalists. Gold medalists were Maximos Spears, Brandon Bonilla, Noah Smith-Lloyd, Edgar Maldonado, Asia Smith-Lloyd, Christian Richter, Rashard Brown, Mary Beth King, Jasmine Leavell, Christa Jones, Daniel Smith, Roland Thames and Roland Thames, III. Silver medalists were Makesha Yarbrough, Brady Smith, Amad Ragland and Jada Anderson.

The Landmark Christian Lady War Eagles (29-2) have made the semi-finals of the Class A basketball tournament. They defeated Hebron Christian 47-25 on Saturday and were led by 23 points from Christian Hunnicutt.

Fayette County's Lady Tigers basketball team fell to North Clayton 47-36 in the second round of the Class AAAA state playoffs.