Honoring your Wildcat hoops champions

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County High School basketball team walks onto the floor for its championship celebration on RCHS’ campus on March 26.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County head boys basketball coach David Adcock cuts down the net with his son RCHS freshman Trace Adcock at the Rabun County High School boys basketball state championship celebration on March 26 on the school’s campus. Coach Adcock played at RCHS for his father, Mike, and is now coaching a third generation of Adcocks to play at Rabun County.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County boys basketball team signs autographs for community members at the team’s state championship celebration at Rabun County High School on March 26. The Wildcat boys basketball program won its first state title on March 13 with a 52-43 Class A Division I win over Southwest in the Macon Coliseum.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. The “goons” Reeves Page (left) and Cal Burrell lead the Rabun County boys basketball team onto the floor for the Wildcats’ state championship celebration at Rabun County High School on March 26. Page, the son of assistant coach Corey Page, and Burrell, the younger brother of players Reed and Cord Burrell, joined the team on the bench throughout the season.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. David Rogers, the associate pastor of youth and ministry at Clayton Baptist Church, addresses the crowd and team as the guest speaker at RCHS’ celebration for the boys basketball state title team at Rabun County High School on March 26.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Susan Welch (left), mother-in-law of RCHS head coach David Adcock and grandmother of Trace Adcock shows The Clayton Tribune’s special state title section to Heather Wilson at the March 26 event.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County head boys basketball coach David Adcock has a laugh with the “goon” Cal Burrell and Reeves Page during the March 26 state championship celebration at the RCHS gym.