March 3, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Cartersville High School track and field teams hosted the Purple Hurricane Invitational this past Saturday, with 14 boys teams and 13 girls teams participating. The Cartersville boys scored 98 points and finished runner-up to Alexander (150.5). Cherokee (63.5), Darlington (62.5), and Woodstock (55) rounded out the top five. The Woodland boys finished eleventh with 17.5 points. Woodstock (121) won the girls' title, follow

March 2, 2026 The Cartersville High School varsity gymnastics team hosted its second meet on Saturday, February 28, at Cartersville Twisters Gym, competing against strong 5A and 6A programs from Cherokee, Etowah, and Lassiter. Cartersville earned an impressive third-place overall finish with a team score of 101.750. Senior Emerie Elrod led the way, placing first on vault with a state preliminary qualifying score of 9.4. She also earned a state preliminary qualifying score of

March 2, 2026 The Cass tennis teams dropped matches to Model on Monday at the Rome Tennis Center. MODEL 4, CASS GIRLS 1 Monday at Rome Tennis Center Cass results SINGLES Line 1 — Vivienne Willingham lost 4-6, 1-6 Line 2 — Carleigh Higgins lost 0-6, 0-6 Line 3 — Bethany Batts lost 0-6, 0-6 DOUBLES Line 1 — Rainey Parham / Lindsey Chubb won 6-4, 6-4 Line 2 — Kylie Gentry / Kenzie Good lost 1-6, 2-6 MODEL 5, CASS BOYS 0 SINGLES Line 1 — Drake Brush lost 1-6, 0-6 Line 2 — Acelin

March 2, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Athletes Beyond Bartow report for the week ending March 1. MLB SPRING TRAINING MASON BARNETT — Oakland Athletics organization (5th yr. pro; Auburn; Cartersville HS) … has made two spring training starts against Milwaukee and San Diego. He has worked 4-⅓ innings, allowing two earned runs on three hits and two walks with four strikeouts. He has a 1-1 record this spring. BASKETBALL SE’NAI CAMPER — Montreat College (Fr., Car

February 28, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Adairsville Tigers won two games on Saturday at Murray County, and the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes lost to Hillgrove and host Carrollton. ADAIRSVILLE 6, MURRAY COUNTY 0 The Tigers broke a scoreless tie with a go-ahead run in the top of the fifth, then put the game away with five runs in the sixth inning in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in Chatsworth. Adairsville starting pitcher Hudson Parr tossed six

February 28, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Georgia Highlands College baseball won two of three games in a weekend home series with Chattahoochee Valley CC (AL). The visiting Pirates won the series opener on Friday, 11-5, but the Chargers swept the two games on Saturday, 18-0 and 11-1. Kaiden Krak was the Chargers’ winning pitcher in the first game on Saturday. He tossed a five-inning shutout, scattering six hits and two walks. Matthew Perkins (4.1 IP, 1ER, 6H, 0B

February 28, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com Georgia Highlands College softball split a home conference doubleheader with Georgia Military College on Saturday. The Chargers dropped the opening game 11-8, but won the second game 12-4 in five innings. Georgia Military led 6-2 in the middle of the fourth inning of the first game, but GHC scored twice in the fourth and added two more runs in the fifth inning to knot the score at 6-all.  From there, the Bulldogs outscor

February 28, 2026 The Adairsville Lady Tigers soccer team lost a 3-0 decision to visiting Model on Friday in a non-region game. The Blue Devils won a tight scramble in the box and converted for a goal in the 30th minute to lead 1-0 at the intermission. Model went up 2-0 in the 43rd minute and added another score five minutes later from a penalty kick. Model, the defending Class A-Division I state champs, improved to 5-2. Adairsville (4-1) will look to bounce back on Tuesday a

February 27, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Cass Colonels completed a two-game regular season sweep of the Sonoraville Phoenix on Friday with an 8-7 win in Gordon County. CASS 8, SONORAVILLE 7 The Colonels led 6-0 with a six-run third inning, but had to hold on down the stretch to win at Sonoraville on Friday night, 8-7. The host Phoenix narrowed the deficit to 6-3 in the fourth inning and 7-6 in the fifth.  Cass added a run in the sixth inning to lead 8-6, th

February 27, 2026 Charles Wilson / BartowSportsZone.com The Cass girls and boys soccer teams both secured shutout wins on Friday night at McEachern in Powder Springs. The Lady Colonels defeated the Lady Indians 3-0, while the Colonels claimed a 2-0 victory. CASS GIRLS 3, McEACHERN 0 Zoe Bailey scored two goals and assisted on Chloe Hunt’s opening goal in the 15th minute as the Lady Colonels earned their first win of the season at McEachern on Friday night. Bailey scored goals