Saturday, October 6, 2012
The high school community starts celebrating its 25th year with a brunch at Aspen's.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Festivities begin on Sunday for the Pope High School Foundation's 25th anniversary celebrations all in the coming week. Several restaurants will be holding special dinners each night, leading up to Friday's Greyhound Nation Celebration and Silent Auction at Keegan's Irish Pub. Portions of meal sales will be donated to the Pope High School Foundation. On Friday, the signature event of the week, a casual block party, will take place at the Keegan's Irish Pub, located at the Shallowford Corners Shopping Center, 4401 Shallowford Road, from 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Music, food, fun, and silent and live auctions will be included in the event, for which advance tickets must be purchased. They are $35 a person and the deadline for ordering is …
Friday, July 13, 2012
After being drafted in June, Duane Underwood is reporting for rookie-league duty in Arizona.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Duane Underwood turns 18 next week. The former Pope High School baseball star got an early start on the celebration by signing a professional contract with the Chicago Cubs, who recently made him the 67th pick in the Major League Baseball draft. Terms of the agreement were not announced; Underwood will report to the Cubs' rookie team in Mesa, Ariz. Underwood, a right-handed pitcher, was 6-1 with a 2.36 ERA with the Greyhounds as a senior, striking out 75 in 50-1/3 innings. He had signed a scholarship offer last fall to play baseball at the University of Georgia. Two of his rookie teammates with the Cubs are the sons of famous athletes: Shawon Dunston, Jr., whose father Shawon Sr. was a star shortstop with the Cubs, and Trevor Gretzky. …
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Right-handed pitcher Duane Underwood, a UGA signee, was taken Tuesday in the second round of the Major League Baseball draft.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Pope High School baseball standout Duane Underwood was drafted Tuesday by the Chicago Cubs. Underwood, a right-handed pitcher rated among the Top 100 prospects in the Major League Baseball draft, was selected with the No. 67 pick in the second round. The biggest decision for Underwood is which uniform to suit up for next. Underwood is part of the University of Georgia's recruiting class that is No. 2 nationally and includes Appling County's Byron Buxton, who was the second pick overall in the draft by the Minnesota Twins. Buxton may spurn the Bulldogs to turn professional right away, given the signing bonus that usually comes with being such a high selection. Underwood, who is 6-feet-2, 185 pounds, guided Pope to state quarterfinal …
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Both Northeast Cobb schools finished in the Top 10 in the Georgia Athletic Directors Assocation standings.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
High school athletic programs in East Cobb and Northeast Cobb were once again among the best in the state of Georgia. Two schools came close, but couldn't quite finish on top, as the prep sports season ended this weekend with Georgia High School Association baseball playoffs. For the second year in a row, the Walton High School and Pope High School programs finished second in Class AAAAA and Class AAAA, respectively, for the Georgia Athletic Directors Association's Directors Cup honors. Lassiter High School was fourth in Class AAAAA and Kell High School came in ninth in Class AAAA. Walton, which reached the state football championship game and won state titles in volleyball, girls cross country and girls rack and field, collected 1189.5 …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Trojans fall in overtime after a big rally, and the Greyhounds are unable to recover from an early deficit.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Lassiter and Pope came close but lost their championship boys lacrosse games Saturday. Lassiter came back from four goals behind in the third quarter and a two-goal deficit in the final five minutes to force overtime. But Evans Lockwood scored in sudden-death overtime to give Milton the Georgia High School Association AAAAA title, 10-9. Garrett Shank scored four goals for Lassiter, including one with 55 seconds left in regulation to tie the game at 9 after Milton took a 9-7 lead with five minutes left. He also scored the Trojans’ eighth goal. Lassiter trailed 6-3 at halftime and 7-3 early in the third quarter but charged back to tie the score at 7 in front of a frenzied home crowd at The Frank. It was the second loss to Milton this year …
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Lassiter plays at home and Pope on the road in the quest for GHSA titles.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Georgia High School Association playoffs come down to this for Northeast Cobb: two games tonight, one at home, one on the road, with two lacrosse championships on the line. Lassiter plays for the AAAAA boys title at home at 6 p.m. against Milton. Pope plays for the A-AAAA boys title on the road at 7 p.m. against Lambert. And then the official GHSA sports season is over for our local high schools. Tickets are $7 at both games. If you go to The Frank, Lassiter is calling on fans to wear white to create a stadium white-out. The Lassiter-Milton game also will be streamed live at ghsa.tv. Lassiter, Area 2's No. 1 seed, reached the championship game with three home wins: Northview, 12-4; East Coweta, 14-1; and Alpharetta, 14-4. Milton, Area …
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Friday, May 18, 2012
A teenage girl was approached by a suspicious male in a van near Pope High School this week.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Cobb Police Department's Precinct 4 has issued an alert to parents after a suspicious male approached a female student waiting for a school bus near Pope High School on Tuesday. Police said a teenage female was waiting for a bus by herself at Cherbourg Way and Portland Court, located just off Hembree Road, about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. A while male driving a blue van pulled up to the bus stop, police said, and asked the student if she wanted a ride to school. The girl turned down the offer, then the man asked her if she wanted to make money and if she lived in the neighborhood, according to police. The man drove away when other students arrived at the bus stop, police said. The male was described as white and in his mid forties. He had …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Kell, Pope, Lassiter and Sprayberry are among 14 Cobb County high schools whose ceremonies you can see anywhere.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
You can watch your favorite Northeast Cobb high school students graduate next week even if you can't get a ticket. The Cobb County School District is providing free live streaming of 14 schools' graduation ceremonies, including: Allatoona and McEachern are the only Cobb high schools whose graduations are not being streamed live because they're holding the ceremonies in their football stadiums, the school district said in announcing the program this week. The full graduation schedule and the links to watch the streaming ceremonies are on the school district's graduation information page.
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But the Greyhound baseball team is knocked out by Loganville, 12-2.
Pope's boys lacrosse team is one win from a Georgia High School Association A-AAAA championship after beating Decatur 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 Lambert in Forsyth County on Saturday for the Georgia title. 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. Things didn't go as well for the Greyhound baseball team, …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Trojans will host Milton in the AAAAA championship; meanwhile, Pope's baseball and lacrosse teams play today to stay alive in the GHSA playoffs.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Lassiter will host the Georgia High School Association AAAAA boys lacrosse championship game Saturday after crushing Alpharetta, 14-4, at The Frank on Tuesday night. The Trojans fell behind 2-0 but bounced back to score seven consecutive goals on the way to leading 5-2 after the first quarter and 7-3 at halftime, Lassiter Athletics reported on Twitter. Lassiter, the top seed from Area 2, added to the lead 37 seconds into the second half and shut out Alpharetta, Area 3’s No. 1 seed, in the third quarter for a 10-3 lead going into the fourth. Because Milton, the No. 2 seed from Area 3, beat Etowah, 12-3, in the other semifinal, the championship will be at Lassiter on Saturday. In rolling through the first three rounds of the GHSA playoffs, …
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Gaylord Ove
8:58 am on Saturday, July 14, 2012
Hopefully he progresses quickly!! more ›