The fifth annual Fayette County Youth Fishing Rodeo took place on Saturday, May 20 at the Luther Glass Park in Peachtree City.

Cycle Specialty, a motorsports dealer in Fayetteville serving the Atlanta area since 1971, is hosting a public open house on Saturday, June 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The 2005-2006 school year was another banner year for Landmark Christian School athletics. Many Landmark athletic teams, players, and coaches received local, region, and state recognition throughout the year. Here is a round up of those awards. Landmark athletes come from Fayette, Coweta, Douglas, and South Fulton Counties.

Thursday Thunder is a 10-week summer racing series at Atlanta Motor Speedway, starting on June 1 and running through August 3. But it’s about so much more than racing.

Starr’s Mill High School doesn’t have a rodeo team. In fact, few high schools in the Atlanta area do, but there are students like Starr’s Mill’s Bo Huddleston, that wish to compete in rodeo events, while representing their schools.

When the 2006-2007 school year begins, there will be some new faces on the sidelines at the local high schools and some of these faces will be familiar to those who follow high school athletics in the county.

New road signs are being seen around Fayette, including signs that are thrilling the cycling community. These Share the Road signs remind drivers of motor vehicles and cyclists alike that there is room for both.

The Peachtree City Runing Club will present the 2006 Summer Track Series at the Peachtree City Track and Riley Field, adjacent to Peachtree City Elementary School on Wisdom Road, Tuesday nights this summer.

The dream matchup between Starr's Mill and Parkview in the Elite Eight was dashed yesterday when Parkview lost to Kell, but the Starr's Mill Panthers won't be in the state quarterfinals either. The Tift County Blue Devils scored three runs in the seventh inning to defeat Starr's Mill 6-4 on Thursday afternoon.

The Starr’s Mill Panthers varsity baseball team was one strike away from a sweep of Tift County. Instead, the Blue Devils hit a two run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of the second game on Wednesday to take a 4-3 win and force a game three at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The coaches have voted and the all region soccer teams for 4-AAAAA have been announced. The boys and girls teams from East Coweta, Fayette County, Starr’s Mill and Newnan are well represented.

Cate Rosa, a graduating senior at Starr’s Mill, recently signed a scholarship to attend Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus and will be playing softball for the Lady Canes.

McIntosh High School’s baseball teams recently held their end of the year awards ceremony.
The McIntosh Varsity Baseball Awards, presented by Coach Toby Black and Asst. Coach Tom Rosa were:

AFC Lightning Soccer Club announces the college coaches that will attend and run sessions at its annual Player Development Camp to be held at McCurry Park North in Fayetteville: Grant Serafy, Head Women’s Coach Mercer University, Patrick Baker, Head Women’s Coach University of Georgia, Dominic Martelli, Head Women’s Coach Georgia State University, Mike Reubesch, Head Men’s Coach, Emory University, and Mark Berson, Head Men’s Coach, University of South Carolina.

• Planterra Ridge held the 24th Yamaha Georgia Senior Open this past Monday and Tuesday and several local golfers did well.

The Starr's Mill Panthers varsity baseball team was one strike away from a sweep of Tift County. Instead, the Blue Devils hit a two run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of the second game on Wednesday to take a 4-3 win and force a game three at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The Starr’s Mill High School Lady Panthers varsity soccer team wanted to win a state championship very badly. It was at the top of their list of three goals that the team set out to achieve this year, in front of beating their county rival, the McIntosh Lady Chiefs, and winning another region title. After satisfying their first two goals, Starr’s Mill set out to bring home a state crown, their third overall and their first since 2000. They did this in magnificent fashion. They scored 19 goals and allowed only one in the first two rounds of the playoffs, defeating Camden County 9-0 and Colquitt County 10-1.

Two of the four high school baseball teams from Fayette County have advanced to the sweet 16 in their respective classifications of the state baseball tournaments.

Class A state meet

Our Lady of Mercy placed second in the meet, while Landmark Christian placed sixth. Scoring points for their teams were:

Recently, the Tsunami Volleyball Club teamed up with Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities to host the Special Olympics Volleyball Invitational.

• Presbyterian College senior Shannon Vining (Fayetteville, Ga.) has been named to the 2006 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association NCAA Division II All-South Atlantic Region second team announced today.

The Southern Crescent Aquatic Team salutes the following swimmers for achieving “AAA” time standards (top 5% in the nation in their age group) for the 2005-2006 swimming season: Jack Beall, Ari Berg, Bailey Cartwright, Lauren Cartwright, Alexa Cocker, Noah Copeland, Katelyn Davis, Josh Day, MacKenzie Garrot, Keaton Hannon, Alex Harmon, Katie Haycraft, Billy Jamerson, Thomas Lucak, David Menchinger, Alex Menke, Zach Payne, Nicole Roddenbery, Lauren Scott, and Vincent Tortora. For more information about the Southern Crescent Aquatic Team call 678-521-9450 or visit www.scatswimming.org.

Starr's Mill's Lady Panthers (17-2-1) avenged their first loss of the season by defeating Harrison in the AAAAA state soccer championship on Saturday night.

Beating a team three times in one season is a tough task and the McIntosh Lady Chiefs were not up to the challenge on Saturday afternoon. The girls soccer team hosted Woodward Academy and a win would have given the school its third state title in as many years. McIntosh dominated play for the first 20 minutes of the first half but Woodward began to control play in the midfield and scored to give themselves a 1-0 lead at the half.

The state baseball playoffs started on Friday for most teams, although Northgate swept Westside Macon on Thursday; 9-1 and 12-2.

Landmark senior Stoney Hill has signed a four year scholarship to play basketball for Anderson College in South Carolina.

Ippon Judo, Jujitsu and Karate, located in Tyrone Ga., did it again.

Ippon held their seventh semi-annual Ippon Open on April 29 and placed third out of 25 teams. Leading the way was eighth grader Derek Wojcik. He went 10-2 on the day taking a gold in the 13-14 division, a silver in 15-16 and another silver in the 15-16 med. division.

State championships will be on the line for the Starr's Mill Lady Panthers (16-2-1) and McIntosh Lady Chiefs (15-5-2) on Saturday. Both teams advanced to the title game in their respective classifications with wins over ranked opponents on Thursday night.

Though they are in different classifications, for at least a few more months, the Starr’s Mill and McIntosh girls tennis teams, will both be playing for a chance to win state titles at Stone Mountain this weekend.