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L Hart, Nate Landon, Aidan Ellis, and Nathan Britton.
Brewton-Parker Women’s Wrestling competed at the Tornado Open hosted by NCAA Division II King (Tenn.) on Sunday. Jorie Richardson highlights the Lady Barons’ lineupasshecaptured ith136poundweight
Courtesy of Toombs County High School The first competi-tion of the New Year for the MatDawgs had them traveling to Brunswick High Schooltocompete in the Port City Nigel Hamilton Memorial Tournament. The tour-nament is an annual tournament held in honor of Nigel Hamil-ton. Nigel was a stand-out wrestler under now Brunswick head coach Tommy Bartolotta while coaching at Glynn Academy and thentransferred to Camden County. The MatDawgs were abletosecure a 4th place finish as a team, placing 11 of the 14 wrestlers entered intothetop5.The top 3 teams at the tourna-ment were powerhouse CamdenCounty in first place, Glynn Acad-emy insecond place, and Richmond Hill in thirdplace. “I knew with the teams attend-ing that we would have somebattles. These teams are some of the bestinthestate andI was proud of our team for thefight they had.”, said Coach Allenofthe tournament. The MatDawgs head to Vidalia on Fri-day, January12,2024 for the Area Duals. Thiswill beinthe old Vidalia gym and wres-tling begins at 3: 30 pm. Comeout andsupport the MatDawgs as they begintheir journeyto the State Dual Champi-onships! IndividualResults: 113 – Jahir Lopez placed5th 132 –Dylan Vetter placed5th 138 –TysonBrant-ley placed 4th 144– DabvnWad-ley
Courtesy of BPC placed 4th 150– SladeLan-drum placed 6th 157–MichaleJones placed 4th 165 –Gailan Wilds placed4th 165 – Alex Otero placed5th 175 – Levi Worth placed5th 190–Hayden Roy placed 5th 285–BrockNobles placed 2nd Courtetsyof VHVSH
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On Saturday, January 27, 2024, four members of the Vi-dalia High School Chess Team competed at the East Georgia State College Chess Tourna-ment, which involved 31 play-ers from schools in Emanuel,
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Toombs, Bulloch, and Rich-mond counties. VHS sophomore Nathan Britton won Individual First Place with 5 wins and no losses. Ethan Hart, another sophomore, was the champion Mike Branch Sports Editor sports1advance@ gmail. com
It was a good week for the Viking basketball teams of Treutlen County High School as they swept Tel-fair County and Jenkins The Vidalia High School tennis teams kicked of their season at Southeast Bulloch last week with the boys coming away with a big win. The Lady Indians fell in their season opener. The Lady Indians dropped their opener to Southeast Bulloch by the score of 5- 0. The boys came out on top 4- 1 in their first matches of the year. Boys won at 1st Doubles Jame-son Rollen and Sukumar Paidi; 2nd Singles, Danny Richardson; 3rd Singles, Larsen Carter; and 2nd Doubles, Ryker Hutto and Stone Smith. Vidalia was at Savan-nah Arts on Tuesday of this week after presstime, and will be back in action on Thursday at Screven County at 4: 00 p. m.
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County last week. Girls vs. Telfair The Lady Vikings took the win over the Lady Tro-jans on Tuesday at home. They held a 1413 lead at the end of the first quarter
