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Tigers end non-region play undefeated
By Jacob Smith
jsmith@dawsonnews.com
The Dawson County Tigers
defeated the White County
Warriors on Tuesday, Feb. 25,
with a final score of 14-4 in six
innings. It was the Tigers fourth
game in a row to end in a mer
cy-rule
Senior and Ole Miss commit
Hudson Sapp led the way at the
plate, hitting three homeruns in
four at-bats. Sapp drove in
seven of the Tiger’s 14 runs.
Senior Bo Lewis went 4-4 at
the plate with two homeruns of
his own. He added an opposite
field double in his last at-bat of
the game.
Junior Andrew Burt also
went 3-3 at the plate, with all
three of his hits being singles.
The Warriors scored all of
their runs in the first two
innings of the game. But
juniors Nick Mullinax and
Carter Turkett, pitched four
scoreless innings combined.
The Tigers then traveled to
Calhoun where they played the
Gordon Central Warriors, who
they beat earlier in the season
11-0. The Tigers kept up their
red hot performance and beat
the Warriors 13-0 in five
innings.
Senior Mauricio Hernandez
went 2-2 with two doubles and
three runs batted in (RBI).
Mullinax had a double of his
own for the game and drove in
three more runs.
The win on Friday night has
the (8-0) Tigers entering region
play having outscored their
opponents 107 to 11 runs.
The Tigers will open their
first region series against the
North Hall High School
Trojans. The Trojans are ranked
first in 3-A so far this season.
Head Coach Dwayne Sapp
said that the series against the
Trojans will be the hardest
matchup that the Tigers have
seen so far this season.
“They have very good pitching
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Jacob Smith Dawson County News
Junior Molly Muenchen fights the Jackets defender for possession of the ball during Friday night's victory
against Calhoun High School.
Dawson County Lady Tigers
victorious over Calhoun Jackets
By Jacob Smith
jsmith@dawsonnews.com
Lady Tigers
The Lady Tigers came home victori
ous on Feb. 28 after a thrilling match
up against the Calhoun High School
Jackets. After 14 penalty kicks, the
Lady Tigers triumphed with a final
score of 8-7.
Going into overtime, the score was
tied at 1-1. Dawson County freshman
Daisy Vargas-Sanchez had scored her
first career goal for the Lady Tigers
during in the first half of play .
“I’m just really proud of the girls for
sticking through it,"’ Head coach
Hamby said. “They were exhausted
after regulation and then they had to
go through two overtime periods.
Then, the nerves of penalty kicks.”
The entire Lady Tiger starting lineup
got a chance to kick penalties, with
three players getting to kick twice.
Junior Molly Muenchen and twin sis
ters Maggie and Piper Wright all put
both of their penalty kicks in the back
of the net. Piper Wright ended the
game on her last attempt after a huge
save by junior goalie Addison Hoard
gave the Lady Tigers the advantage
and opportunity to end the game.
After Piper Wright threw her hands
into the air, she ran to her teammates,
who were chanting and waiting to cel
ebrate with her.
This comes after the Lady Tigers
secured their first win of the season
against the Pickens High School
Dragons, beating the Dragons 5-0.
Muenchen had her first hat trick of
the season, scoring three goals and
junior Annie Gloeckner made the other
two goals for the Lady Tigers.
“We’ve got a little bit of momentum
built up,” Hamby said. “They’re play
ing well together and communicating
even better together.”
The two victories this week have the
Lady Tigers with a record of 2-4-1
going into region play. Coach Hamby
said he thinks that his team is doing
what they need to do and hopes that
the results continue to come in their
favor.
“I think we’ve used these non-region
games the way we needed to use
them,” Hamby said. “We developed
some depth and we needed to get in
better in-game shape. Hopefully we’ll
be able to carry that into region play
and play at a high level.”
Region play began on Tuesday,
March 3, when the Lady Tigers battled
the Cherokee Bluff Bears at home.
Results were unavailable as of press
time Tuesday.
Tigers
The Tigers fell short of achieving
their first victory of the season against
the Calhoun High School Jackets, los
ing in overtime 6-5.
The Tigers went into halftime with a
lead of 5-3, but were unable to repeat
any of their offensive production for
the rest of the game.
Senior Michael Velazquez scored
two of the first half’s goals, one of
them a laser that left the Jacket’s goal
ie frozen as the ball flew past him.
Velazquez also had the assist of two
more of the Tigers goals later in the
match.
Freshman Santiago Galeano, sopho
more Jose Sandoval and junior Erick
Sanchez made up the rest of the
Tiger’s first half goals.
At halftime, the players were more
than confident that they were going to
capitalize on their early offense and
leave Calhoun with their first victory
of the season.
See Soccer|4B
Tigers tennis
begins season
with 2 wins
By Jacob Smith
jsmith@dawsonnews.com
The Dawson County Tigers Tennis
team won both of their first matches this
past week, defeating the Chestatee High
School War Eagles and the Johnson High
School Knights.
Lady Tigers
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the Lady Tigers
swept the War Eagles team at home, win
ning all five matchups against them.
Kathryn Menoche, Chloe Chameli and
Carly Sticker all won their individual sin
gles matches. Doubles team Sammi
Hafermalz and Kaylee Hamilton won
their first match. Wendy Castro and
Ashlynn Anglin came back after losing
the second set to win the third set, giving
the Lady Tigers a clean 5-0 victory
against the War Eagles.
Thursday’s match against the Johnson
Knights was back and forth throughout
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Elliott finishes
fourth after
accepting race
challenge
By Jacob Smith
jsmith@dawsonnews.com
Dawsonville native Chase Elliott fin
ished fourth at the Auto Club 400 in
Fontana, Calif, on Sunday, March 1.
Elliott and the number 9 Napa Auto
Parts car started in the 13th position and
finished just behind Kurt Busch, Kyle
Busch, and Alex Bowman, winner of the
Auto Club 400. The fourth-place finish
was Elliott’s best of the season so far and
sets him in sixth place on the Nascar Cup
Series Standings.
This comes after Elliott accepted a
$100,000 challenge to try to defeat fellow
driver Kyle Busch in the Nascar Gander
RV & Outdoors Truck. Kevin Harvick
posted the challenge on his twitter page
for $50,000 and businessman Marcus
Lemonis matched it saying that nobody
could beat Busch in a truck.
The Outdoors Truck match will happen
at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday,
March 14 at 1:30 p.m. The Fold of Honor
QuikTrip 500 will follow on Sunday at
2 p.m.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Hudson Sapp
Hudson Sapp, a senior Ole Miss commit,
went 4-7 on the week with 3 home runs
and 7 runs batted in and a walk. All
three of Sapp’s home runs came during
the 14-4 victory over White County on
Tuesday, Feb. 25th.
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