Hiring from within seems to be a popular trend among local high school football programs. Lithonia has elevated Marcus Jelks from interim head coach to a permanent position, while Collins Hill promoted assistant Kevin Reach to its top job.

For the first time in history, every Georgia state basketball champion is from metro Atlanta. The 10 champions weren't that surprising, though.

MACON - After accepting the state championship trophy, the Columbia boys ran to the stands to celebrate with the schools girls team.

MACON - The game was still an hour from tip-off, and already the Columbia Lady Eagles were dealing with adversity.

MACON - Fans who came to the Class A state championship between Whitefield Academy and Wesleyan expecting pretty basketball could be forgiven if they asked for their money back at halftime after two quarters of bruising, foul-riddled, tight-shooting basketball.

MACON -- For the second consecutive year, the Buford girls knocked off an undefeated team for the Class AA state championship.

At the end of Saturdays Class A final, the chant from the Wesleyan supporters who made their familiar mid-March journey to Macon spoke volumes about the dominance of the Wolves program: Sec-ond, three-peat.

A year ago, when Milton was the Class AAAAA runner-up and its three best players were sophomores, coach David Boyd said his team would be loaded for bear in 2010.

LaGrange remained unbeaten behind a strong performance from forward Jamius Gunsby and beat North Hall 60-49 Friday in a Class AAA boys semifinal at the Macon Coliseum The South Florida football signee scored 17 points, including a dunk midway through the fourth quarter that ignited an 8-0 run and put the game away.

Norcross coach Angie Hembree told the fans in the student section after Friday nights Class AAAAA girls championship game that anybody in her class was going to get an A.