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Buford celebrates 9 college athletic signees
Buford honored nine seniors for signing with college athletic programs on Wednesday night. The group featured five fastpitch softball players — Brooklyn Atha to Mississippi State, Janie Goldin to Oklahoma State, Ella Pierce Hensley to Liberty (Va.), Olivia Nagel to Lander (S.C.) and Kennedy Townsend (Truett McConnell). The Wolves had a pair of lacrosse signees with Ethan Perez to Lander and Myer Stovall to High Point (N.C.). Olivia Harris (Florida track and field) and E’miah Fields (Kennesaw State basketball) also were part of the celebration.
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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,
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Like 2019, Buford's state football playoff path likely to feature run of road trips
There was no surprise about what was coming. Given the current state of the Georgia High School Association’s new PSR Power Rankings, the Buford football team was likely headed for worse seed than it deserved. A 10-0 record, 25 straight wins and last year’s state and national championships and top-three national rankings don’t help much with the PSR system, which dinged the Wolves for out-of-state wins over top programs Mallard Creek (N.C.) and Miami Central (Fla.) and for a region that sent only one other team to the playoffs (Collins Hill as the No. 31 seed out of 32 teams). That led to a No. 9 seed for Buford for the Class AAAAAAA state playoffs, which begin Friday with a home game against Marietta. Barring considerable upsets, that seed likely will put the Wolves on the road for the rest of the postseason. The second-round will be at No. 8 North Cobb unless No. 25 Archer can pull a first-round shocker, then a quarterfinal could await at No. 1 Valdosta. It isn’t the ideal scenario, but Buford has been there before — and won it all. Its 2019 team was upset by Clarke Central in Game 10, but still finished
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Buford Lands 300-Unit Luxury Complex as Atlanta Apartment Construction Slows
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / Wikimedia Commons. A 10-acre site at the northeast corner of Buford Drive and Laurel Crossing Parkway in Buford is now home to Autry at Tulip Grove, a 300-unit luxury apartment community that developer Thompson Thrift says it expects to welcome its first residents to in January 2027. The project is moving forward at a moment when apartment builders across metro Atlanta are doing the opposite, pulling back sharply as elevated vacancy and higher capital costs make new projects harder to pencil out.