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RCHS hoops get non-region tests with Towns, Lassiter

Wade Cheek
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Rabun County High School boys and girls basketball teams both got a couple early non-region tests this previous week.  The Wildcats and Lady Cats hosted Towns County on Tuesday, Nov. 19, and both came out with victories.
TFS Athletics. Three-time state champion swimmer Madison Dampier recently signed to continue her swimming career at the University of Cincinnati.

TFS Athletics. Three-time state champion swimmer Madison Dampier recently signed to continue her swimming career at the University of Cincinnati.

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3-time state champion Dampier signs on dotted line with Cincinnati

News Staff
Friday, November 22, 2024
With multiple state championships – and hopefully more to come soon, Madison Dampier has now made the obvious next choice of where she’ll be attending to compete after her time at Tallulah Falls School is up.
TFS Athletics. Top returning Tallulah Falls pitcher Cole Bonitatibus signed his national letter of intent to continue playing baseball at Gordon State College. Bonitatibus helped lead the Indians to a Georgia Class A-Division I state title game last season and looks to do the same this season in Tallulah Falls’ new association of the GIAA.

TFS Athletics. Top returning Tallulah Falls pitcher Cole Bonitatibus signed his national letter of intent to continue playing baseball at Gordon State College. Bonitatibus helped lead the Indians to a Georgia Class A-Division I state title game last season and looks to do the same this season in Tallulah Falls’ new association of the GIAA.

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Bonitatibus signs with Gordon State

News Staff
Friday, November 22, 2024
Tallulah Falls School star baseball pitcher Cole Bonitatibus officially signed his national letter of intent with Gordon State College to continue his baseball and academic career in Barnesville, Ga.
Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS sophomore guard Huey Blalock scored 22 points in the Wildcats season-opening win over Highlands School on Nov. 14. The Rabun boys are currently 2-0 and ranked eighth in Class 1A-Division I.

Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS sophomore guard Huey Blalock scored 22 points in the Wildcats season-opening win over Highlands School on Nov. 14. The Rabun boys are currently 2-0 and ranked eighth in Class 1A-Division I.

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Rabun boys basketball opens season with 78-37 victory over Highlands

Wade Cheek
Friday, November 22, 2024
The Rabun County High School boys basketball team tipped off their season in a big way with a 78-37 road victory over Highlands School on Thursday, Nov. 14.  Playing without multiple players and one returning starter due to crossover with football, the No.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Junior Wildcat running back Lake Evans scores his first of two touchdowns on the road in the first round of the state football playoffs in Fitzgerald. The Purple Hurricane would prevail, 42-21.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Junior Wildcat running back Lake Evans scores his first of two touchdowns on the road in the first round of the state football playoffs in Fitzgerald. The Purple Hurricane would prevail, 42-21.

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‘Cane storms past Wildcats in playoffs

Enoch Autry - Publisher
Friday, November 22, 2024
A trip to deep South Georgia ended Rabun County’s football season as the Purple Hurricane of Fitzgerald build a lead the Wildcats could not overcome in the first round of the Class A Division I state playoffs on Nov. 11.
Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS senior and three-sport athlete Arabella Kitchens signs her national letter of intent to compete in volleyball and track and field at William Penn University on Nov. 15. Kitchens (third from left) is joined by (from left) club volleyball coach David Provine, mother Tambrie Kitchens, and head varsity coach April Jones.

Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS senior and three-sport athlete Arabella Kitchens signs her national letter of intent to compete in volleyball and track and field at William Penn University on Nov. 15. Kitchens (third from left) is joined by (from left) club volleyball coach David Provine, mother Tambrie Kitchens, and head varsity coach April Jones.

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Kitchens signs LOI with William Penn University to be two-sport athlete

Wade Cheek
Friday, November 22, 2024
Rabun County High School 2025 senior and three-sport athlete Arabella Kitchens signed her national letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at the college level with William Penn University on Friday, Nov. 15.
Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School football team claims its first-ever state title after defeating Providence Day 42-39 in the NCISAA 4A state championship game on Friday, Nov. 15.

Wade Cheek/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School football team claims its first-ever state title after defeating Providence Day 42-39 in the NCISAA 4A state championship game on Friday, Nov. 15.

LOOKING DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP

Wade Cheek
Friday, November 22, 2024
“For the last year we’ve been in the valley, and we’ve been gathering up supplies and everything before going to the mountaintop … when you get to the mountaintop, you want to stay there for as long as you can.