McIntosh

This past weekend gave local basketball fans a chance to revisit what is one of the great rivalries in Fayette County high school athletics.

Today, Wednesday, Feb. 3, is National Signing Day and area schools will be buzzing with activity as numerous scholar atheltes will sign letters of intent to attend certain colleges and universities and represent them on the athletic fields as well as in the classrooms.

There wasn’t much in between in basketball games played over the weekend. If a team won, it was a solid win and if it was a loss, it got kind of ugly.

The Whitewater boys won the county swim meet last Friday for the first time in the school’s history.

Whitewater hosted the Southside Brawl last Friday and Saturday and placed sixth, the highest finish of any of the local teams participating. Following the Wildcats were McIntosh is seventh, Starr’s Mill in 12th and Landmark in 15th.

From here on out, the games have lots of importance in region standings and the Fayette County basketball teams are in a very heated race.

Four of the five girls basketball teams from Fayette County schools will participate in the second annual Girls Night Out at Starr’s Mill this Saturday.

The McIntosh Junior Varsity wrestling team had a productive Christmas break successfully participating in two challenging tournaments with many quality teams and opponents.

Multiple medalists include Justin Durden who won the 160 pound weight class at both the Pike County Tournament at Pike County High School on December 19th and South Metro JV tournament on January 2nd at Henry County High School.

McIntosh’s Lady Chiefs put it on Villa Rica on Tuesday, winning 55-14 and invoking the mercy rule in the fourth quarter.

The Copperhead Lacrosse Club, Rising Star (HS Juniors) Lacrosse Team competed in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions recently in Tampa, Fla.  The invitational tournament featured 53 championship teams from across the country for Select Teams from the summer and fall of 2009.