Sports

By Walter Geiger
news@pikecountygeorgia.com

Pending appeals this week, the Georgia High School Association has completed its reclassification and region realignment process and Pike County will remain in Class AAA for 2020-21 but will move from Region 3-AAA to Region 2-AAA, taking most of its current region opponents with it.

“Pike County High School will compete in Region 2-AAA. This is the same classification that Pike County High School has competed in for the past three years and for the 2019-2020 school year,” said athletic director James Stanford. “Pike County High School has eight ‘out of zone’ students. The total 2020-2022 reclassification count for Pike County High School is 1,068 students, establishing PCHS as an AAA school. Classification as AAA for 2020-2022 has schools with counts below 1000 and above 1,200, meaning the eight ‘out of zone’ students did not impact reclassification for Pike County High School.” [Full story »] 

The Region 4-AAA cross country championship boys’ and girls’ teams from Pike County High School traveled to Carrollton to compete in the GHSA Class AAA Championship meet recently. [Full story »] 

Pike County’s hard-throwing Major League Baseball reliever Hunter Strickland is part of yet another World Series Championship team. Although he was unable to play for the Washington Nationals in the World Series games, he did pitch twice in the division series. [Full story »] 

The Pike County High School boys and girls cross country teams traveled to Dauset Trails to complete in the Region 4-AAA Championship meet recently. Both teams earned a perfect score and defended their title as Region Champs. [Full story »] 

The Pike County High School cross country team hosted their first home meet on the new course, Jacob’s Way, in memory of the late Jacob Woerner. Upson County’s team joined the PCHS runners in the inaugural meet for the course. Balloons were released in memory of Jacob who was an eighth grader at Pike County Middle School when he passed away. He loved sports and the outdoors and the new course on the school campus includes beautiful trails through the woods. [Full story »] 

By Camryn Brown

The Pike County Pirates took on the Rutland Hurricanes this past Friday. The Pirates offense drove down the field in the first quarter to score a touchdown with a successful extra point attempt. Later in the first, the Hurricanes scored two touchdowns with two 2 point conversions, making the score 16-7 after the first quarter. [Full story »] 

The Pike County Pirates football team took on the Peach County Trojans this past Friday. [Full story »] 

The cross country teams recently competed in a very large meet with about 25 teams in the competition. The boys field had more than 300 runners. Despite the tough competition, both the boys and girls teams finished second.  [Full story »] 

The Lady Pirates are now 13-8 on the season and 4-1 in region play. They travel to East Coweta on Tuesday and will host Kendrick and Lamar County on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Lady Pirates softball had a tough week on the diamond. The Pirates traveled to Griffin on Monday to face a tough Spalding squad. The game was a back and forth affair where the Pirates were three outs away twice from run-ruling the Jaguars, but the never say die team from Griffin forced the Pirates to hold their breath in the end. [Full story »] 

The Lamar County Trojans come to Zebulon Friday night for the ongoing Battle of Potato Creek football classic. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. [Full story »] 

Saturday was a day for some of the new stars of Notre Dame football to take center stage, including Pike County’s C’Bo Flemister. He and four other young players all recorded their first career touchdowns in a 66-14 thumping of New Mexico at Notre Dame Stadium. [Full story »] 

The Pirates shut down the Greenville Patriots during their Homecoming game and first home game of the season last Friday night. The Pirates offense took charge on their opening drive with senior Austin Bennett making his way through the Greenville defenders. Senior Jacob Reeves was able to score the first touchdown with the help of his blockers, seniors Nate Brown and Bennett. The extra point attempt was not successful. The Pirates defense was able to keep Greenville from scoring for the entire game. After the first quarter, the score was 6-0. [Full story »] 

The Pirates baseball team received their state championship rings during the Pirates football game Friday night. [Full story »] 

Pike County softball began last week with a home contest against Strong Rock. Strong Rock was able to take advantage of a tight strike zone and timely hitting to push across three runs in the top of the first inning, and the game looked as though it could be a tough one for the Pirates. The Pirates could not answer until the bottom of the second when they scored their first run of the game on three straight one out singles by Madi Neal, Camryn Brown and Maggie Nauck. The Pirates loaded the bases after a Kylee Housman single but were unable to push across another run. [Full story »]