Landmark Christian

The region basketball tournaments are not that far away and every sub-region and region win can help a team’s seeding. For some teams, like Fayette County's Lady Tiger, each game could have a big impact on defending their AAAA state title.

Fayette County’s boys (13-1), ranked second in Class AAAA in the latest GACA PrepCounty.com coaches poll, passed 100 points for the first time this year with a 108-56 win over Harris County on Friday.

The Fayette County Tigers (11-1) picked up their first loss of the season over the holiday break, but it was in Kentucky.

Landmark Christian’s varsity football team had won five elimination games in a row, all on the road. Their four road playoff wins had only been done one other time in Georgia High School football history. Colquitt County did it in 1991 and lost to LaGrange in the state final.

In their last three seasons, the Landmark Christian War Eagles finished with six wins. Prior to those years, Landmark was a perennial region champion and contender in the state playoffs but they never got further than the quarterfinals. That changed when they beat Aquinas and advanced to last week’s Class A semifinals against Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy. Not only has the Landmark team doubled their win output from last year, but the War Eagles are now 48 minutes from the school’s first state title in football.

You can't win them all. 

Since 2009, Sandy Creek has tried to prove otherwise. They won two state titles and 41 straight games. Their amazing run came to an end tonight in Gainesville. The Patriots lost 35-21. 

Gainesville built a 14 point lead early into the second half, but the Patriots bounced back with a 15 yard touchdown run from CJ Washington and a 2 yard touchdown run from Mike Hilton.

The Sandy Creek Patriots did not score on their first possession in their Class AAA second round state playoff game, but they did get two Mike Hilton touchdowns in the first quarter (4 yd td run and 2 yd td run) on their way to a 42-14 win over the Troup Tigers.

The Sandy Creek Patriots were in control of their state playoff game against Butler from the kickoff. Eric Swinney returned the opening kick 90 yards for a touchdown and the Patriots never trailed. They didn’t give up any points until late in the third quarter when the clock was constantly running because the Patriots were up by 55 points.

The Landmark Christian School girls won the Class A cross country championship at Carrollton last Saturday. It was their sixth cross country title in school history and their first since 2007.

Making history seems like old hat for the two-time state champion Sandy Creek Patriots, but they made some more history Friday night with their fourth straight region title, something that had never been done in the county before. The Patriots hosted Stockbridge and won 22-14.