Sports

The Pike County Wrestling team finished sixth in the state this past weekend at the GHSA Traditional Wrestling Tournament in Macon. The team took a record 10 wrestlers to the state competition this year. The wrestlers who earned their way to state included Jessica Bell, Brandon Holloway, Gage Lee, Luke Woerner, Matt Hale, Dawson Guest, Cole Woerner, John Lovett, Mason Gilham and Logan Sage. [Full story »] 

Pike County High School hosted the sectional wrestling tournament this past weekend. The team hosted the boys AAA sectional A and the girls sectional 6 which was a combined single A and AAA girls tournament. Both tournaments were qualifying event for the state meet which is hosted at the Macon Coliseum this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [Full story »] 

The Pike County Middle School wrestling team dominated the league tournament recently, earning their second consecutive league championship title. The PCMS Pirates outscored their opponents by a score of 348 to only 81 as they battled four different counties. The Pirates beat Henderson 88 to 9, Monroe 104 to 12, Lamar 94 to 18 and Upson 62 to 42. [Full story »] 

The Lady Pirates basketball team continues to play hard as their season record moved to 9-8 and their region record to 5-4. [Full story »] 

Just over halfway through their season, the Pike County High School girls basketball team is doing well with several region wins and an overall record of 9-6 and a region record of 5-2. [Full story »] 

The Pirates wrestling team competed this past weekend in the Area Dual Championships. The team finished second in the Area, losing a close match to Stone Mountain in the finals. [Full story »] 

CrossPointe Christian Academy’s Silver Elite competition cheer team made history for the school by being the first cheer team to win a national title … actually two national titles. [Full story »] 

The Pike County Middle School wrestling team started out their season strong with 10 first place finishers out of 19 weight classes during their most recent tournament. [Full story »] 

The Pirates wrestling team started its season strong. The varsity placed sixth in a difficult North Hall Tournament to kick the season off. Logan Sage placed fifth. Brandon Holloway, Cole Woerner, and Mason Gilham all placed second. John Lovett placed first.

The team finished above AAA rivals Lumpkin and North Hall. The team started its Varsity Dual season at McIntosh with a perfect 3-0 finish, defeating Fayette 78-0, Luella 60-16 and McIntosh 60-16.  [Full story »] 

Pike County’s Gerald Hines earned USA South Conference Football Athlete of the Week honors in the final week of weekly awards handed out by the conference as a Brevard College football student-athlete. Hines was selected as the USA South Offensive Rookie of the Week.  [Full story »] 

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 »]