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Page 10 - Wednesday, May 4, 2022 The Sylvania Times thesy lvaniatimes .com SEX LADY GAMECOCKS NAMED 1ST TEAM ALL REGION IN SOCCER Despite losing their quarterfinal matchup to the defending Class A state champion Atlanta Classical Academy Lady Cavaliers, the SCHS Lady Gamecock soccer team of Terry Markovcic nevertheless had a big week last week as six team members were voted First Team All-Region 3 A at a meeting of region coaches. The loss ends the season for the team at 14-3 and in the Elite Eight for the third straight season. Leading the honors winners from the Red and White was junior Emma Jones who was voted the Region Offensive Player of the Year. This award comes on the heels of her winning the same honor two years running in softball. Despite missing the final two games Jones was second in the region in goals with 19 and third in points (goals times two plus assists) with 40. Madi Mc Mahan, the Region Player of the Year from MCA (also the Region 3 A cross country winner), led the way with 41 goals and 87 points. Lady Game cock freshman Kaylin Long, also a First Team All-Region honoree, was third in goals (18) and second in points (43). Joining Jones and Long in First Team honors were junior Mazlin Blessing (10 goals and seven assists) and a trio of defenders in senior Sarah Mesecher and juniors Madison Powell and Marly Moore. In region play SCHS allowed seven goals in ten games (Region runner-up Claxton was sec ond in the category, yielding 13) while putting up shutouts in six of ten games. Claxton was second in shutouts with four. Blessing, Jones, Mesecher, and Powell were also named First Team in 2021. The final outcome in their 10-0 quarterfinal loss to Atlanta Classical was very disappointing but not the effort. “I don't know what we could have done differently, they were just good. St. Vin cent’s and Greater Atlanta Christian good,” said Markovcic. “We were already down two regular starters and then lost another defender with a bloody nose and... It was 1-0 late in the half (it was 3-0 at the half).” According to Markovcic being shorthanded, the rush attack of Classical, and the heat on the artificial turf wore down the Lady Gamecocks in the second half. Julia Dews recorded eight saves in the contest. On top of the six First Team All-Region Lady Gamecocks, another five were named Honorable Mention in senior Grace Cataffo, juniors Shay Sasser and Adairis Gomez, sophomore Gracen Kullberg and freshman Julia Dews. Cataffo, Go mez, and Sasser were also Honorable Mention a season ago. SCHS will lose five seniors in Rhian- na Boddiford, Grace Cataffo, Emerson Kullberg, Emily Lariscy, and Sarah Mesecher. Four of them are four year letter winners and have helped the program record a 50-10-1 record (4-0-1 in the closed down 2020 season) and pick up a pair of region titles (the programs first two) and a region runner-up. Junior All Region midfielder Mazlin Blessing appears to be trying to go through her Atlanta Classical opponent. (Photo by Dave Quick) The ball seems to be stuck between SCHS sopho more defender MaKenzie Mitchell (6) and an Atlanta Classical player, (photo by Dave Quick) TENNIS - BOYS continued from page 9 olds and sophomore John Boswell played back and forth with Isaac Stewart/ Cole Cavin in a 7-5 first set win while number two doubles, senior Zach Thompson and junior Jer emiah Stuart, were losing their first set 3-6 to Tanish Patel and Greyson Patty. Reynolds/Boswell picked up the pace in the second set and won 6-3 to move SCHS into the Final Four. Meanwhile Thompson/ Stuart (9-6) won their second set 7-5. By the time they won their sec ond set SCHS had al ready claimed the team match and, in order to fin ish a third-set a 10-point tiebreaker was used with the Gamecock team win ning 10-3. Had the out come of the match been necessary to the outcome, a full third set would have been employed as the GHSA accepts only three set matches in the state playoffs. Gener ally living in the shadow of the Lady Gamecocks the Roost ers now sit a game away from their second con secutive state championship match. While SCHS has the identical singles lineup as the one that played in Rome a year ago to go with one doubles player on each team from the same lineup, Seminole County (if that is the op ponent this week), has several new players in their lineup. Seminole opened this playoff run with a 3-0 win over Clax ton. The Roosters defeat ed the Tigers 5-0 in the regular sea son, losing just seven games in five matches, and then 3-0 in the re gion tournament, losing no games. TENNIS - GIRLS continued from page 9 more Garyn Howard fell 0-6, 6-2, 5-7 to Lexi Bak- er/Ransleigh Lawrence and the worry of not ad vancing was setting in. Scott/ Howard had been up 5-4 in their third set but could not hang on. The duo finished with a season record of 13-8. Despite playing maybe her best match of the sea son sophomore Emma Rose Griner was unable to overcome a slow start and lost 4-6, 3-6 to Em- maleigh Gentry and the Lady Bulldogs were go ing on to the semifinals and the chance to host the Lake Oconee Academy (Region 8 #1)- Seminole County (Region 1 #1) contest. Griner had a 5-8 record which combined with the records of fresh man Kerrigan Bogart (1- 3) and junior Samantha Forehand (0-3) to give SCHS a 6-14 record at number three singles. With everything settled the second doubles match continued with junior Kathryn Davis and Fore hand succumbing to Bre- anna Lathem/ Libby Lath- em in a very tough contest 5-7, 6-7 (6) to complete the season at 12-5. Also playing at number three were the combinations of Davis and Griner at 1-1 and Davis and freshman Lilia Burch at 0-1. The loss was especially disappointing as it was the last of a six year peri od when the Lady Game cocks competed in a classification with no pri vate schools. Prior to the separation of Class A into public and private and the elimination of privates in AA in 2017 the finals of the class occupied by SCHS were played by private schools only for at least as far back as 2010. After the success of the early 21st century by Lady Gamecock teams a state championship seemed on the horizon. Only in 2017 did the team advance to the state title game before falling to Bleckley County, another purely rural school. Next season Mt. Pisgah and Darlington along with eight current AA playoff teams will drop to Class A-D1. It will get tougher. Puzzle Solution o 2 E E D G E : D 1 ij r E H SCHS senior All-Region defender Sarah Mesecher screens an Atlanta Classical player while trying to get to the ball. (Photo by Dave Quick) B E H Vi V 1 b H E * H V PM 2 K 2 Color AD C0MNGMAY18M02J Scrwen County High School GRADUATION SUPPLEMENT I % j&yltmmfi Call Today To mmmirni) IR@(Sir@sifcnii Kickball Leagues The Recreation Department is offering kickball leagues that will start games towards end of May and play through the month of June. The deadline to sign up individuals for the 12-15 league and teams for the adult league (ages 16&up) will be Friday, May 13 at the SCRD office. Ages 12-15 co-ed: Cost $25/person, players will be divided into teams just like other youth leagues, coaches will be needed, players will receive a game jersey. Adult League (ages 16&up co-ed): Cost $200/team, teams will be responsible for their own jerseys, managers must come by the SCRD office to get a team packet. Kickball Leagues will begin the week of May 23 or May 31 depending on number of teams in each league. Age control date is Sept. 1, 2022. Awards will be given to the 1st place team in each league. Must sign up by May 13! SCRD Summer Swimming The SCRD pool will open Tuesday, May 31 for the 2022 summer. Pool hours for public swim time will be Monday-Friday from 1:00p.m. until 5:00p.m. Swimming lessons will be held June 6-17. Swim classes will be Monday-Friday at 10:00a.m. and 11:00a.m. The cost for swim lessons will be $30 per child for the two week session. Registration for swimming lessons will begin May 9 at the SCRD office and online at screvenrec.com.
