Sports

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 »] 

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 »]