Sports

By Meredith Hutcheson
The Dodge County High School tennis team travelled to East Laurens High School on Tuesday, February 1st. The girls dominated their opponents pulling out wins in every match. First singles Meredith Hutcheson, second singles Mary Beth Dopson and third singles Jessie Thomas won their matches 6-0, 6-0. First doubles Madelyn Pruitt and Abby Christian Manning and second doubles Abbey Manning and Ellie Jones won their matches 6-0, 6-1. The boys also defeated East Laurens. First singles Brock Woodard won a close match against a tough opponent with a score of 6-4, 7-5. Second singles Nathan Newman won his match 6-4, 6-3. Third singles Christian Grauberger dominated his opponent with a score of 6-0, 6-0. First doubles John Barclay Jessup and Crosse Bearden won their matches 6-1, 7-5. [Full Story »] 

By Meredith Hutcheson
The Dodge County High School tennis team traveled to Peach County on Thursday, February 16. The teams completed their match from the previous week that had to be rescheduled due to inclement weather and played another match to keep them on schedule. [Full Story »] 

By Chris Sabia
The Indian soccer teams played their first home game of the season against the Central Macon Chargers on Friday, February 17. “We knew they were quick and aggressive,” explained coach Meghan McCranie, “so the Lady Indians put in extra time to develop a solid plan and defeat the Central team 2-1.”
Jaida Ashley produced the only goal of the first half and keeper Jacey Dowdy, named player of the game, fended off 11 shots in the first and four more in the second. Mason Law assisted Macy Rogers to score just 30 seconds into the second half. The ladies shot a total of 27 times in their victory. [Full Story »] 

On Wednesday, February 8, Dodge County High School (DCHS) senior Theron Cooper signed a letter of intent to play football at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Cooper signed as an offensive lineman and is expected to play offensive tackle for the Hoyas. [Full Story »] 

By Meredith Hutcheson
The Dodge County High School tennis team kicked off their season on Tuesday, February 7 with a match against Peach County. The match was postponed due to inclement weather and will be completed on Thursday, February 16. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County High School Squaws basketball team won one and lost one game in the Region 3AA tournament last week. The Squaws ended up as Region 3AA Runner-ups. The Squaws entered the tournament at 12-0 and the number one seed. Dodge defeated the 4th seeded Dublin Lady Irish, for the third time this season, in the semifinals on Friday, February 10 by a score of 70-59. The win advanced the Squaws to the Region Championship game on Saturday, February 11 against the third seeded Bleckley County Lady Royals who had defeated the second seeded Washington County Lady Hawks in the semifinals on Friday. This was also the third time facing Bleckley County this season and the Squaws came up short by a score of 54-61 and ended up as region runner-ups. [Full Story »] 

By Chris Sabia
The Indians soccer teams played their season opener non-region game at Jeff Davis High School in Hazlehurst this past Friday. [Full Story »] 

The Dodge County High School Wrestling team traveled to Lyons on Saturday, February 4, to compete in the 2AA Sectional Tournament at Toombs High School. This is the Individual Sectional Tournament and essentially the first rounds of state competition. The Indians qualified five wrestlers for this event. The top four finishers in each weight class will move on the state tournament. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County High School Indian basketball team finished their regular season with one win and two losses last week. The Indians fell, 57-67 to the Southwest Macon on the road on Tuesday, January 31 and rebounded at home with a win over Northeast Macon, 78-66 on Friday, February 3 and then fell short to Dublin, 59-65 on Saturday, February 4. [Full Story »] 

The Dodge County High School Wrestling team traveled to East Laurens High School on Friday, January 27th to compete in the Individual Area Tournament. As a wrestler you must finish in the top four at area to qualify for the next step toward state, sectionals. The Indians entered the tournament with several seeded wrestlers. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County High School Indians basketball team had three games on the schedule last week as they hosted Washington County on Tuesday, January 24 in a region game and then hit the road over the weekend for two non-region silvery games against Telfair County on Friday, January 27 and Hawkinsville on Saturday, January 28. The Indians are now 11-8 and 4-5 in the region after two losses and one win this week. The Indians lost, 49-71 to Washington County and 54-61 to Hawkinsville and defeated Telfair County, 69-61. [Full Story »] 

The Dodge County Middle School and the Dodge County High School teams won first on Saturday at the National Archery in Schools Program Regional Tournament. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County High School basketball teams each won three games last week. The second ranked Squaws improved their record to 17-2 overall and 8-0 in Region 3AA with wins over Southwest Macon, East Laurens and West Laurens. The Squaws defeated region foe Southwest Macon at home Tuesday, January 17 by score of 60-38 and region foe East Laurens, 70-53 on the road Friday, January 20 and defeated non-region foe West Laurens, 70-60 in Eastman on Saturday, January 21. [Full Story »] 

By Chad W. Smith
The Dodge County High School basketball teams had two Region 3AA games on the road last week. The 2nd ranked Squaws improved their record to 14-2 overall 6-0 in Region 3AA with dominant wins over two ranked teams Washington County, 58-37 and Dublin, 67-41. The Indians didn’t fair as well as they lost both games. They lost 51-86 to Washington County and 53-66 to highly ranked Dublin. The Indians are now 7-6 overall and 2-4 in Region 3AA. [Full Story »]