Friday Game Night

Several northeast Georgia players took home awards as the Region 8-AA All-Region teams weres announced Tuesday.

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Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson once said,

In the end, it was just too much power, too much speed, too much old-fashioned Buford football.

Liam Welch threw two touchdown passes to Daniel Lindsay, and Augusta's Aquinas High won its first Georgia state football championship with a 27-7 victory over Savannah's Calvary Day.

Want to know what keeps Buford football coming back to the Georgia Dome year after year?

In 2007, second-year head coach Bob Sphire guided North Gwinnett practically out of nowhere to its first-ever state championship game. Six years later, Sphire and the Bulldogs are headed back to the title game. As far as Sphire is concerned, 2007 might as well have happened in an alternate universe.

Johnson High athletic director Matt Stowers announced on Friday that the Knights will continue to play a non-region schedule in football for the next two year-cycle of the GHSA schedule.

When the Georgia High School Association opted to move its football state championship games to the Georgia Dome, it had games in mind like this year