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Page 4 - Wednesday, April 24, 2024 The Sylvania Times thesy lvaniatimes .com First Team All Region defender Annaston Dotschay (10) pashes the ball upfield (photo by Dana Doss) Yes, she did save this shot by East Laurens' Jayla Givens. Julia Dews records one of her 18 saves at East Laurens (photo by Dana Doss) Freshman First Team All Region forward Anna Kate Withrow (2) tries to get away from the "arm bar" of East Laurens defender Anna Betha (photo by Dana Doss) SOCCER SEASON ENDS, PAIR NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL REGION The 2024 season came to an end for the SCHS soccer Lady Gamecocks on April 16 with a 7-0 playoff loss to East Laurens in the beautiful confines of the Lady Falcons new home stadium. With a final overall record of 8-7, the Red and White took a fourth seed from their 3-ADI and boasted a 6-0 nonregion record that included wins over Area 2-A D2 champion Portal, Region 3-AAA runner-up SEB, and Johnson County, each of whom advanced to the second round of state last week. At week’s end the region coaches met to pick the All- Region team with freshman forward Anna Kate Withrow and sophomore defender Annaston Dotschay being named First Team. Senior Gracen Kullberg, junior Kaylin Long, and sophomores Maddison Mitchell and Sadie Beth Sell were each Honorable Mention. Withrow’s 20 goals and five assists were both leaders in those categories. Long, who was second on the team with 12 goals while also recording five assists, was First Team in 2022 and 2023 while Kullberg and Sell were Honorable Mention for the second consecutive season. Long now has 46 career goals which ranks fourth all time. Just a year ago SCHS and ELHS met at Kelly Memorial Stadium in a Sweet-16 matchup. In that contest two horrible defensive miscues directly led to a pair of Lady Falcon goals as the visitors took home a 2-1 win over the Red and White. It was not so close in 2024. East Laurens, with a tremendous speed advantage and a much more physical game, took a 3-0 halftime lead and scored a pair of goals late to make the final score look worse than it maybe was. While Julia Dews recorded 18 saves, the Lady Gamecocks managed but four shots. It is noteworthy that ELHS has three players set to sign to play in college. While the Lady Gamecocks were a very young team this past season, so were the remainder of the current 3-A Dl. The Player of the Year, Claxton’s Conner Miller, is a junior as is the Defensive Player of the Year, Metter’s Amiya Walker. Bryan County has four underclassmen on the First Team, Claxton three, and Metter three. From the Honorable Mention list Bryan County has two, Claxton three, and Metter five. No one is going away. The region championship middle school team had ten eight graders, the hope is that most, if not all, of them will continue to play the sport. Kemp Signs Reforms to Health Care Bills -Dave Williams. Special Contributor Gov. Brian Kemp signed a package of health-care bills last week, including the most significant reforms in decades to Georgia’s law governing hospital construction and new medical services. Most of the measures include provisions aimed at increasing access to quality medical care in rural Georgia, an issue gaining urgency as economic developments efforts continue to pay off in job creation in rural communities. “The need for health care is all parts of our state is only going to increase,” Kemp said during a bill signing ceremony on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. “We’re creating problems because we’re growing so much. Since the General Assembly enacted Georgia’s Certificate of Need (CON) law in 1979, applicants wishing to build a new health-care facility or provide a new medical service have been required to demonstrate the facility or service is needed in that community. The law’s opponents have long argued the CON process is so time-consuming, cumbersome, and expensive that it delays and sometimes blocks efforts to bring more health-care services to rural counties where they have been in short supply. “It was prohibiting small communities from improving access to health care,” said Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who has made CON reform a major priority. House Bill 1339 exempts proposals to build hospitals in rural counties from having to obtain a CON if they plan to have a full-time emergency room, accept psychiatric and substance-abuse patients, participate in Medicaid, provide indigent care, and offer a training program. “[It] ... will streamline Certificate of Need processes for hospitals, especially in the areas of new equipment, infrastructure improvements, and behavioral health,” said Monty Veazey, president and CEO of the Tifton-based Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals. “We hope this bill will be allowed to take effect for several years before being revisited, to see how it affects health care and patient outcomes.” The legislation also will raise the annual cap on the state’s rural hospital tax credit from $75 million to $100 million and create a state commission to look for additional ways Georgia could improve health-care access. Other bills in the health-care package Kemp signed Friday will: • create a new state income tax credit to physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, and physicians assistants committed to practicing in rural communities. • expand Georgia’s service-cancelable loan program to include dental students committed to practicing in rural communities. • provide student-loan repayments to mental- health and substance-abuse professionals. • allow non-physicians to serve as heads of local public health boards. • expand the availability of residential mental- health treatment programs for children. 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Tybee Island aims to disrupt Orange Crush Thousands of black students expected for the annual spring bash will be greeted by extra law enforcement and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open. For the past several years, complaints have intensified as over 100k people descended on the island leaving police scrambling to handle a flood of emergency calls, drug overdoses, traffic jams, and fist fights. Man gets 4 death sentences for kidnapping, rape, and murder of 5-year-old Jeremy Williams, who murdered, raped, and brutalized Kamarie Holland in 2021 has been sentenced to 4 life sentences. Holland’s mother told police that when she woke up at 5:50 a.m. on Dec. 13, 2021, her daughter was gone and the front door of their Columbus, Georgia, home was open, Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told reporters. The girl’s body was found late that night at an abandoned home in nearby Phenix City, Alabama where Williams once lived. Missing man trapped under GA highway Calls for help along a north Georgia highway led to the discovery of a man stuck in a 24” drainpipe under the road. It’s suspected the 22 year old may have been trapped for more than a day before he was rescued around midnight last Tuesday. Firefighters spent 9 hours trying to pry him from the partially clogged storm drain in Fort Oglethorpe. Georgia wife found guilty in husband’s murder A wife in Georgia was found guilty on multiple counts associated with killing her husband, according to court documents. Constance Virgina Dean was originally charged with malice murder, felony mu refer, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The charges stem back to Sept. 12, 2017, when Taylor County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a “suicide call” on Railroad Street sometime before 7:30 p.m. The GBI was called in to investigate. Court documents accused Constance Dean of fatally shooting her husband, Frederick Dean. The case was tried by Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit Acting District Attorney W. Don Kelly. The jury selection began on April 8. Closing arguments were held on Wednesday. The jury did find Constance Dean guilty on all counts on Thursday morning. Three Georgia communities to split more than $6.3 million in grants Fouisville, Fyons, and Savannah will receive infrastructure grants to provide housing, improve water, sewer, street, and drainage. Fouisville will see more than $2.2million to provide much needed repairs in the Chestnut Subdivision. Fyons will get $1.6million for various 14-acre new subdivisions and Savannah will see more than $2.5million to finish the 66 acre Fegacy Development which will support single family homes and townhomes. Georgia Southwestern University names interim president University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue announced Teresa MacCartney as interim president, succeeding President Neal Weaver who is set to depart this May. MacCartney’s current role is the USG’s Chief Operating Officer. She oversees the system’s overall operations for all 26 of USG’s public colleges and universities. MacCartney has held other roles within the USG, such as executive vice chancellor for administration from 2019 to 2021 and acting chancellor from 2021 to 2022.
