Bo Wilson

Morgan Nichol fired an 81 to lead the Gainesville girls golf team on Day 1 of the Class 6A golf tournament at Cobblestone Golf Course.

Brannon Humphries is the next leader of the Spartan baseball program. West Hall Athletics Director David Wagner made the announcement Monday afternoon.

Jonny Venters, the left-hander whose comeback from his third Tommy John surgery helped him win the NL Comeback Player of the Year Award last year, has been released by the Atlanta Braves.

Junior left-handed pitcher Connor Thomas needed just 93 pitches to throw a two-hit, complete-game shutout on Friday night, powering No. 6 Georgia Tech baseball to a Coastal Division Championship with a 2-0 win over Pitt at Russ Chandler Stadium.

The seventh-ranked University of Georgia baseball team beat Alabama 12-2 for its school record-tying 20th SEC win Friday night in front of a Foley Field crowd of 3,093.

Max Fried allowed two hits in six scoreless innings, Dansby Swanson hit a drought-breaking, three-run homer and the Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers 12-8 Friday night in a matchup of second-place teams.

When Atlanta Braves utility man Charlie Culberson was called to the mound to pitch, he wasn't nervous at all.

Three area soccer teams will play for the state championship this weekend and the coaching carousel continues to turn in northeast Georgia.

Austin Riley went 3 for 4 and drove in a run, Julio Teheran pitched five-plus scoreless innings, and the Atlanta Braves won for the fifth time in six games with a 10-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.

The Atlanta Falcons announced that Scott Pioli is stepping away from his role as assistant general manager on Thursday afternoon.