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Friday Frenzy Live: Playoff Round 2 in East Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The season finale of Friday Frenzy Live will bring you live whip-around coverage of the second round of the high school football playoffs in East Tennessee. 6 Sports reporter Sam Rothman and 6 News anchor Stan Smith will anchor the live playoff coverage featuring some of East Tennessee’s top teams starting at […]
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Leaving it All on the Course: A Final, Desperate Kick that Sealed the Championship
As the cross country season came down to the final stretch of reaching sectionals, the runners wondered if this meet would be their last. Gordon Center faced at Darlington High School on the 10th of October. On a early morning, the athletes woke up at 6:00 a.m. to head to...
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Floyd County College and Career Academy students visit Coosa Steel
Students from the Floyd County College and Career Academy visited Coosa Steel on Thursday to see what working in a steel manufacturing facility might look like as they consider careers after graduation. The students were given a tour by plant manager Chance Highfield, a Model High School graduate who has been with the company for 18 years. Coosa Steel is a full-line steel service center on Darlington Drive. Started in 1972 by the Saville family, it sells bulk steel, the way a lumber yard sells wood products, and manufactures a full line of steel products used by almost every industry. “Right now, our biggest business is manufacturing and selling steel racks, mostly for the tire business,” Highfield said. “So if you need a mobile and collapsible rack, you’re going to want to talk to Coosa Steel.” During the tour, Highfield led students through the various buildings on the property, explaining what the machines do and what individual employees were working on. The company offers robotic plasma cutting, tube laser cutting, steel plate processing up to 6 inches thick, cold-cut steel sawing and precision structural steel punching, among other technologies. Several of the students studying computer-aided design at the academy expressed
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Wolves flag football ends regular season with third straight split
A Rome High flag football regular season that began with 15 straight victories ended with a bit of a stagger, three losses in the final five games that included three straight splits in area competition in the Georgia High School Association’s Division 4. The ending had Wolves head coach Jared Hughes wondering if the losses would cost Rome a chance to host the first two rounds of the state playoffs as a top-eight seed Nov. 18 when the brackets are released this weekend. He said this after Rome lost the first game of Wednesday’s tripleheader at Barron Stadium to River Ridge 21-13. In a bit of a shocker, though, Allatoona, with a sub-.500 record, upended River Ridge in the second game Wednesday. That outcome, however, didn’t change River Ridge’s spot at second place in the Area 6 standings behind leader Pope High, 8-0 in the area and 17-1 overall. River Ridge dropped to 6-2, 12-4 overall. Rome High, back on Oct. 29, hosted a monumental day of flag football at Barron Stadium against area foes Pope and Sequoyah, and it started with the Wolves topping Sequoyah 19-7 for win No. 15 in a row against no losses. Pope, however, not
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Local High School Football Teams Take the Field for the State Playoffs [AUDIO]
It’s time for area high school football teams to take the field for the ’26 state playoffs!. WLAQ 1410 AM/96.9 FM will provide coverage of the Darlington Tigers today as they hit the road to take on Mt. Bethel Christian Academy in the first round of the GHSA’s Private State Football Championship.
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Darlington outlasts Mt. Bethel in first-round playoff game
MARIETTA — In the grand scheme of the season, very few would have expected Mt. Bethel Christian to be in a position to host a state playoff game in 2026. But despite a 6-4 season in their first year of region play, the 16th-seeded Eagles were unable to defend home turf, falling 42-38 to No. 17 Darlington and its option-heavy offense Friday in the first round of the Class AA-AAAA Private state tournament at Arrow Field. “It’s almost impossible to prepare for a triple-option in a week, but we did the best we could, and I think our guys went all-out,” Mt. Bethel coach Damon Dawson said. “We were neck and neck as far as our (playoff) ratings, and that’s what the score reflects. In the end, there were some plays that went their way, some fourth downs we didn’t stop, and here we are.” Mt. Bethel (6-5) had no answer defensively for Darlington (6-5) as the Tigers averaged 8.9 yards per carry on 46 attempts. But in the end, one could point to Darlington’s special teams blocking an Mt. Bethel extra point and breaking up a pair of 2-point conversions as the difference-maker. “It’s playoff football in Georgia, so
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Whitefield Academy welcoms in Mount Pisgah to open postseason
Whitefield Academy won its fifth consecutive game with last week's 56-44 come-from-behind Region 5AA victory over Trinity Christian and in the process captured its second region championship in the last four years. The reward for the hard work is an opportunity to host Mount Pisgah Christian on Friday in the first round of the Class AA-AAAA Private state playoffs. This is Whitefield's 10th straight trip to the postseason, and it enters the matchup averaging 43.2 points per game while holding opponents to 22.4. The Wolfpack have scored 42-or more points in each of their last five games and kept opponents from scoring 20-or-more points in three of their last four games. Led by Landon Ryan (96-of-150, 1,579 yds., 20 TDs), Amos Robinson (189 car., 1,206 yds., 18 TDs), Ian Kelly (44 rec., 702 yds., 12 TDs) and West Virgina commit Luke Linder (tight end), Whitefield believes that it has momentum entering the playoffs and is looking for it to continue. "Ever since our non-region schedule, the kids have really bought in to what we've been teaching them," Whitefield coach Robert Walsh said. "They've learned a lot. And early on when we were down in games and had to battle back,