Month: October 2017

The Toombs County Bulldog senior class has been through a lot in their last five seasons of playing middle school and high school football. In 2013, as Bullpups, they lost three games all by four point margins. In their first two years of high school ball they endured some tough times in Region 1 AAA going 2-8 in back-to-back seasons. Entering their senior season these experienced Dawgs had won a…

The 2008 Toombs County Bulldogs shutout Vidalia 20-0. The 2017 Dawgs may not have blanked the Indians, but they did control the match up, at Vidalia, by excelling in all phases of the game. On offense the Bulldogs controlled the line of scrimmage, with their low pad level, allowing Keshawn Morgan to score three touchdowns. On special teams Rig Tinoco kicked two field goals in the first half from 26…

Last year the 6th Grade Toombs County Middle School football team split with Bacon County including a tough loss at home in the championship game. This year the Pups went to Alma and lost the first game to Bacon. However, in the rematch Artevias Williams scored a pair of touchdowns on runs to 50 and 37-yards in a 14-12 TCMS home win over Bacon.

The Toombs County Middle School Bullpups opened up their season with a lop sided home loss to Metter. However, these Pups kept improving and they reeled off five straight wins which sent them to ECI for the semifinals of the playoffs. In a hard-fought game the Bullpups winning streak and season came to an end with a 6-0 loss. ECI put together two drives in the first half. However, the…

For the second straight year the Toombs County Boys Cross Country team won the Region 2 Championship in Jeff Davis County. The margin of victory over the second place Jeff Davis Yellow Jackets was only two points. Ricardo Santana won the boys race with a time of 16:47.63 and his margin of victory over Hector Huerta was one minute. The Bulldogs will be competing in the GHSA State Meet in…

The calculator says the 31st meeting between the Toombs County Bulldogs and the Vidalia Indians- on Friday, October 27- could be a low scoring game. If so, will it be as low scoring as the first meeting between the two schools in 1987 when the Indians won 6-3 in Vidalia. Perhaps it will be reminiscent of TCHS’s first victory over Vidalia which occurred in 1990 when the Dawgs shutout their…

On Saturday, October 21 Jay Mosley’s dream of honoring the best of the best became a reality as 18 athletes from Lyons Industrial, Toombs Central, Lyons High, Lyons Senior and Toombs County High Schools were inducted into the inaugural class of the Toombs County Athletic Hall of Fame. Meet the Class of 2017 Jacky Jones– He was the head football and baseball coach at Lyons Senior High School and for…

The Toombs County Bulldogs were making big plays in their 44-6 home Region 2 victory over the Metter Tigers. The Bulldogs scored three first quarter touchdowns in a span of just two minutes and fifteen seconds. They scored four touchdowns on the ground, one through the air and one on defense. Four of the TD’s covered more than 35-yards. Y-101 Locker Room Show   The Bulldogs are 7-1 overall and…

The Toombs County Middle School football team opened the season with a lopsided home loss to Metter. However, since that game the Bullpups have won five in a row and they closed out their regular season with a 12-8 win at Claxton. The victory clinched a playoff birth for the Pups. In their last three wins, prior to the Claxton game, the Bullpups have fallen behind by 12 points twice…

Entering the final three weeks of the Region 2 schedule the Toombs County Bulldogs are in the same position as they were in 2016. They are 3-1 and tied for second place. Last season they were only tied with Vidalia. This season the Bulldogs, the Indians and Swainsboro are all tied for second place behind undefeated Benedictine. 2017 Season 2-AA Benedictine 4-0 7-0 Swainsboro 3-1 6-1 Toombs County 3-1 6-1…