The 3A Toombs County Bulldog wrestling team beat four 6A teams and one 4A in route to a second place finish in the Packer Duals in Moultrie. TCHS knocked off 6A Colquitt Counry 48-31, 6A Lowndes County 49-25 and 4A Crisp County 65-11 before losing to 6A Tift County 45-27. The Bulldogs wrapped up second place with a come-from-behind win over 6A Valdosta. With the Dawgs trailing by 11 points, Carson…
In a match up of unbeaten teams in Lyons, the Jeff Davis Lady Yellow Jackets remained perfect with a 60-35 victory over Toombs County. JD won it’s first three games over Appling County, Irwin County and Brantley County by an average of 39 points. The closest margin of victory was 25 (53-28 over Brantley). The same differential as the Lady Bulldog game. TCHS falls to 4-1. Jeff Davis won three…
For the second time in 10 days the Toombs County Lady Bulldogs beat Montgomery County despite trailing 12-2 after the opening quarter. They defeated the Lady Eagles by eight (59-51) in Lyons on November 17 and 34-29, in Mount Vernon, on the day after Thanksgiving. JoAnn Gomez helped the Lady Bulldogs overcome a 24-14 halftime deficit by scoring nine points in the third quarter and four in the fourth. She…
She isn’t old enough to drive a car by herself, but fifteen year old Emma Bacon is mature enough to make music on her own. The sophomore at Tattnall County High School works 70 dates a year and she routinely travels to Nashville to work with country music professionals. Emma is planning on releasing a five song EP consisting of pieces she has written. She sang two of those songs…
It was an amazing hour of music and conversation as Craig Campbell dropped by Y-101 Radio. Craig headlined a benefit at Southeastern Tech for Jefferey Carey, who is battling cancer. Craig borrowed a guitar from the EmmyLou Harris Fan and did an acoustic set of music which featured a song that just might be his next single. “Outskirts of Heaven” is a song which Craig co-wrote and is working on…
The first wrestling event staged in the new Toombs County High School Gym was a USA Kids Tournament featuring 77 competitors. Toombs County fielded a team consisting of kids and middle school wrestlers.
In a scrimmage game at Long County the Toombs County Lady Bulldogs were beaten by 50 points. However, one week later the Lady Dawgs are 2-0 in the regular season. They opened up with an eight point home victory over Montgomery County on Tuesday and followed that up on Friday with a 37-21 win over Bacon County in Lyons. Watch a slideshow Both teams got off to a slow start in…
For the third time since 2013 the Toombs County Bulldogs are seeking a new head football coach. On Friday morning (November 20) the Toombs County Board of Education, by a unanimous vote, accepted the resignation Lyman Guy as head coach of the Bulldogs after two 2-8 seasons. Guy accepted the TCHS job early in 2014 and in his first season won two of his first three games defeating Johnson…
The Toombs County Middle School wrestling team beat Swainsboro 92-10 and lost to Jeff Davis 71-57 in season opening action in the TCMS Gym.
Toombs County High School athletics spent 18 consecutive seasons in class AA in GHSA- from the 1996 football season through 2014 spring season. For the 2014-15 school year TCHS was reclassified as a AAA school and was one of the smallest with 831 students. The competition for all the sports teams was very challenging against larger schools in Region 1 like Pierce County (1085 students), Appling County (1005) and Brantley…