Playing in their first real road game of the season, the Toombs County Bulldogs yielded 23 points in the first quarter at Long County. However, the Bulldogs tallied 24 points in the fourth quarter in an 81-77 win. Two Bulldog seniors each scored 24 points and provided key points in the final period. L.J. Simms played his best all around game. The first year Dawg handled the ball against a…
The Toombs County High School basketball teams opened up their home schedule of 11 dates with a pair of double-digit wins. The Lady Bulldogs outscored Jenkins County 13-2 in the first quarter in route to a 39-26 decision over Jenkins County and then L.J. Sims scored 10 of his career high 31 points in the first quarter in the Bulldogs 74-58 win over Jenkins County. Toombs County Basketball Page The…
Coach Laberton Sims said after the Toombs County Bulldogs opened up their season holding West Laurens to 42 points that after game 10, 11 or 12 the Bulldogs would really be hitting their stride on defense. In only game two of the season, against East Laurens in the Highway 280 Tip Off Tournament at Vidalia, the Bulldogs limited the Falcons to single digits in all four quarters in a 65-25…
Former Toombs County Bulldog Jamar Smith has earned two big individual honors and his Holmes Community College Bulldogs received a bowl bid. For the second straight season Jamar led Holmes in tackles and the sophomore linebacker was named All-Region XXIII and First Team All-State (Mississippi). Smith tallied 82 total tackles (9.5 per game)- tops on his team- and his 59 solo stops were the 19th best in the NJCAA. Jamar…
The Toombs County Bulldogs opened up a 21-9 second quarter lead over West Laurens and they never trailed in a 57-42 victory over West Laurens in the Highway 280 Tip Off Tournament at Vidalia High School. This was the first regular season game for new head coach Laberton Sims. Coach Sims is the fourth straight TCHS Bulldog basketball head coach to debut with a victory. Coincidentally, Chuck Hill, the coach…
D.R. Meadows has been playing baseball since he was four years old and the Toombs County High School senior has been very dedicated to the sport. When he isn’t playing in games for the Bulldogs and in the the past the Toombs County Middle School Bullpups, the Lyons All Stars, the Chain and Game On, the shortstop and pitcher is in the cage or on the diamond working on his…
The Toombs County wrestling team opened the season with a sixth place finish in the Gator Duals in Waycross. However, the Bulldogs competed in that event without a full roster on the day after the Bulldog football team lost to Screven County in the playoffs. In their second event Toombs played host to Brantley County in a pair of duals and the Dawgs won the junior varsity match up 45-12…
The Toombs County High School basketball teams both won their home scrimmage games against McIntosh County Academy by double-digits. The Lady Bulldogs opened the evening with a 39-29 victory and then the Bulldogs followed with a 69-39 win. Jocelyn Walker, who has an inside and outside offensive game, scored a majority of her points in the paint and she finished with a game-high 18. JoAnn Gomez added 9 points, Christine…
On the eve of the start of the 2016-17 Toombs County High School basketball season, former Lady Bulldogs and Bulldogs returned for an evening of competitve basketball in a gym where they never got to play. Toya Rogers led the white women’s team to a 16-13 victory by hitting two big 3-pointers in the second half and then in the men’s game the white team broke open a close game…
The Screven County Gamecocks put together a 98-yard scoring drive to open up the game and then threw three third quarter touchdowns to end the Toombs County Bulldogs’ turnaround season with a 35-9 win in the first round of the GHSA State Playoffs in Sylvania. The Bulldogs, making their first trip to the post season since 2008, wrap up coach Richie Marsh’s first season in Lyons with a 6-5 record….