Expansion of the Long County Recreation Complex means this year's football and soccer teams will play on new fields, according to Long County Recreation Department Director Michelle Crowley.
After finishing the 2010 campaign 3-7, Bradwell's football team has started to prepare in earnest for the upcoming season.
Long County teen Nick Stock finished fourth overall in his division last weekend at the 2011 North American Strongman National Teenage Championship in Lancaster, Ohio.
Scott's All-Star AAU Basketball League teams competed in the league's first playoff series July 9 at the YMCA in Hinesville. The 13U All-Stars placed second. The 13U Savannah Cobras earned the first-place trophy.
I first met Arena Football League star Will Pettis in 2007, when the then-Dallas Desperados were in Atlanta to take on the Georgia Force. I heard that Pettis was a former Bradwell Institute football player and knew of his stellar career in the AFL.
Long County's Dustin McGowan finally made it back to the pitcher's mound. Getting his first start since 2008, Mcgowan started July 2 for the Class A Dunedin Blue Jays against the Daytona Cubs in Dunedin, Fla.. McGowan, 29, reportedly was scheduled to throw 35 pitches in his latest comeback attempt, according to minorleaguebaseball.com. He didn't quite go the distance, but managed to throw 33 pitches in 2/3 of an inning. He gave up three hits, ...
Former Bradwell Institute basketball standout DeLisha Milton-Jones still reigns supreme in the WNBA while playing for the Los Angeles Sparks.
The first day of school is just three weeks away and that means high school sports will be back in full swing starting with softball and immediately followed by Friday night football games.
Scott's All-Stars went 2-2 at the AAU National Tournament from June 30-July 4 in Hampton, Va.
Three members of the Team Hinesville weight lifting team got the opportunity to step on stage at the 2011 National School Age Weightlifting Championships on June 25 in Flowery Branch. All three finished ninth or better and helped their sister organization - Team Savannah - win the male 16- to 17-year-old division overall.
Liberty County YMCA Heat swimmers Sandra Scott and Jorge Melendez continue to dominate their sport, placing well at the Edwin Cuttino Memorial Long Course Meters Swim Meet on June 17-19 at the Chatham County Aquatic Center in Savannah.
Forty-one kids attended Scott's All-Stars' basketball camp June 27-30 at the Liberty County YMCA.
Liberty County resident Renee Hofkin placed second in the medium class and third in the masters category at her first bodybuilding competition June 25-26 at the 2011 Southern Isles Bodybuilding, Figure and Wheelchair Championships held in Savannah.
The Liberty County Recreation Department's Senior girls' All-Star softball team kept chipping away at their opponents at last weekend's Georgia Recreation and Parks Association Division B state title tournament in Vidalia.
Frank Long Elementary student Montre Johnson has been running track since he was 6. You might want to remember his name. Now 9, Johnson hopes to rake in the gold later this month when he competes in the AAU Junior Olympics in New Orleans. Johnson qualified for the national event, which is the last week in July, with two top-four finishes at the District 6 finals. He finished first in the 100-meter dash, clocking in ...
First-year baseball coach Andy Yanzetich congratulated his senior players after First Presbyterian Christian Academy closed the season Wednesday with a 3-1 win over Coastal Home School at St. James Field.
Two members of the Long County High School boys' track team finished in the top 10 of their events at the Class 2-AA state track and field meet, held May 2-4 in Jefferson.
One hundred athletes from the Liberty County, Long County and Fort Stewart school systems competed in the annual Special Olympics last weekend on post.
The Hinesville Hurricanes will play the Georgia Pirates at 7 p.m. Saturday in Augusta for the United Spring League Football Association championship.
Football season is three months away, but one couldn't tell by watching the players at Liberty County High School go at each other Monday during their first day of spring practice.
STATESBORO - Kevin Corless, who joined the Georgia Southern Football program as the assistant coach for linebackers, has been promoted to co-defensive coordinator, head coach Jeff Monken announced.
All five track athletes representing First Presbyterian Christian Academy at the Georgia Independent School Association state track meet placed well last weekend in Albany.
The Blue Tide baseball team recently held its annual Recreation Night in Long County. Around 50 players and coaches who are participating in the T-ball, softball and baseball programs came out for the night. Recreation department Director Michelle Rogers said more than 400 children will be playing this year.