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Pope Whips Decatur in Lacrosse Semis
But the Greyhound baseball team is knocked out by Loganville, 12-2.
boys lacrosse team is one win from a Georgia High School Association A-AAAA championship after beating on the road Wednesday night.
The Greyhounds scored in the first seven seconds of the game and never trailed on the way to an 11-6 victory.
Pope (16-3-1) will play at in Forsyth County on Saturday for the Georgia title.
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Pope played ball-control offense Wednesday at Decatur and reeled off the final seven goals of the first half to take an 8-1 lead at intermission. The Bulldogs got off few shots.
Decatur scored first in the second half, but Pope netted a goal less than a minute later and added two more in the quarter to lead 11-2 entering the fourth period.
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Loganville Eliminates Pope Baseball
Things didn't go as well for the Greyhound baseball team, which suffered a season-ending loss at , 12-2, in Game 3 of their GHSA AAAA playoff series.
The game ended after six innings when Loganville's Brandon Pergantis hit a grand slam to give the Red Devils a 10-run lead, Score Atlanta reported.
Pope finished the year 25-9.
"Congratulations to the 2012 Greyhounds on another outstanding season that took us all the way to the Elite 8!" reads a message on the Pope baseball website.
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