State basketball tourney trivia: 14 teams are making their first appearance; Effingham boys break 28-year drought
Six boys teams and seven girls teams are making their schools’ first appearances in the GHSA state basketball tournament this week. That includes George Walton Academy’s girls, who were playing in the Georgia Independent School Association until 2010-11.
On the flipside, Dodge County’s girls are in for the 22nd straight season, longest streak in the state.
Check out these lists courtesy of Becky Taylor of the Georgia Basketball Project:
FIRST APPEARANCES
BOYS
- Alpharetta
- Hebron Christian
- Mount Pisgah Christian
- New Manchester
- North Murray
- Veterans
- Walnut Grove
GIRLS
- Archer
- George Walton Academy
- Howard
- Kell
- Lambert
- Strong Rock Christian
- West Forsyth
DROUGHT-BREAKERS (at least 10 years since an appearance)
BOYS
- Effingham County (1984; never won a tournament game)
- LaFayette (1999)
- Bradwell Institute (2001; last state win in 1959)
GIRLS
- Riverwood (2000)
- Habersham Central (2002; never won tournament game)
- Harrison (2002; never won tournament game)
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Big Time
February 20th, 2012
3:11 pm
Todd :
Dodge County girls are in the state tournament. They are the 3 seed from Region 3-AA and travel to Putnam County on Friday. Now a big story to me is Dublin boys ( a perennial powerhouse ) did not make the state tournament.
Diggs9
February 20th, 2012
3:32 pm
Correction – This will be the Alpharetta Girls third straight trip to the State playoffs. The Boys are making their first trip in school history.
Todd Holcomb
February 20th, 2012
5:07 pm
Sorry, I misunderstood Becky’s information. Dodge County has the longest active streak of making the state playoffs (not the longest one that was ended). And Alpharetta is in.
Check out the website – http://www.ghsbp.com/
Has tournament brackets back to 1922.
Chad Smith
February 20th, 2012
10:23 pm
Actually the Dodge County Girls Basketball team has been the state tournament 28 of the past 29 years including 21 straight years since 1992 and 41 times in the schools 54 year history….. including 22 region championships, six state runner-ups finishes, seven final four finishes and four state championships and all under just three head coaches in school history, Bob Davis, Dick Kelly and Carol Smith…..
Benjamin Mitchell
February 21st, 2012
6:09 am
Effingham high boys has a real good team and will make it far in the state tournment. with standout player Jakeene Grant a 6′8 sophmore who is already ranked in the top 5 in his class its going to be a good run for them but they are young so you will be seeing a lot more of this team.
bully jumper
February 21st, 2012
6:21 pm
Enter your comments here Effingham boys might be good in the future, but they just got a bad draw,Bainbridge will run them silly,then out the gym, Bearcats by double digits.
John Wooden
February 22nd, 2012
7:19 pm
Congratulations to West Forsyth girls. They are #4 in Region 6 AAAAA, but they are building a program under Seth Chadwick. A team to watch next year for sure. Seth played at Marist and is doing an incredible job at WF.
Slinger
February 23rd, 2012
11:27 pm
Dodge’s Bob Davis was one of the most outstanding coaches in GA HS history. Most of his best work was prior to Title IX and he left the cupboard in outstanding order for Dick Kelly. Great to see Davis mentioned here.